MILLIONS End of Day 1b Update and Chip Counts

The two starting days of the €3,000 Party Poker MILLIONS main event are now in the can. A further 89 players entered the tournament on Day 1b, adding to the 51 who played in the first flight, for a combined field of 140 players. As late registration remains open until the start of play tonight,

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Antonio Sapio
Updated · 30 September 2023
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The two starting days of the €3,000 Party Poker MILLIONS main event are now in the can. A further 89 players entered the tournament on Day 1b, adding to the 51 who played in the first flight, for a combined field of 140 players. As late registration remains open until the start of play tonight, at 5pm, the final number of entrants ands prize pool is as yet unknown.

MILLIONS Day 1B

Day 1b of the Party Poker MILLIONS main event concluded with 51 of the flight’s 89 starters making it through to today’s day2. The chip champ at this point in the proceedings is Italian Albert Cigliano on a 243k stack, with compatriot Paulo Boi sitting in second place on 215k.

Here is the full list of players who avoided the chop on day 1b and their chip counts.

Party Poker MILLIONS Day 1b End of Day Chip Counts

Position

Player

Nationality

Chips

1

Albert Cigliano

Italian

243,000

2

Paolo Boi

Italian

215,000

3

Nima Saken Shaft

German

163,900

4

Giuliano Boellis

Italian

149,200

5

Michel Glansberg

Swedish

132,900

6

Andrei Buta

Romanian

121,800

7

Raman Strakovich

Belarus

115,600

8

Matthew O’Donnel

Ireland

110,600

9

Georgios Skarparis

Cyprus

109,100

10

Michael Nagy

USA

105,500

11

Jacques Ammiel Blit

Argentinian

104,800

12

Barrera Diaz

Spanish

103,900

13

Mathias Julian Bustos

Argentinian

100,600

14

Erik Lindqwist

Swedish

87,400

15

Joaquin Matias Ruiz Travi

Argentinian

86,000

16

Thomas Powell

English

81,200

17

Ciao Capistrano Teixeira

Brazilian

73,800

18

Dominik Nitsche

German

73,700

19

Philipp Kampf

German

66,600

20

William Byrne

Irish

63,000

21

Gaspare Sposato

Italian

62,200

22

Jozsefd Fauszt

Hungarian

60,500

23

Antoine Rahal

France

60,400

24

Ettore Esposito

Italian

60,100

25

Grigori Rodin

Russian

57,400

26

Daniel Montagnolli

Austrian

57,000

27

Daniel Oliver

English

55,600

28

Zlatin Penev

Bulgarian

55,400

29

Farid Jattin

Colombian

55,000

30

Diego Santos Ferreira

Brazilian

52,400

31

Fabio Pelusa

Italian

47,600

32

Fabian Kunze

Thore Fabian Kunze

47,200

33

Andrea Radicchi

Italian

43,300

34

Jonathan Wong

English

42,900

35

Mattia Brusoni

Italian

42,100

36

Eros Nastasi

Italian

42,000

37

Gabriele Cappiello

Italian

41,200

38

Yann Benlloch

French

40,000

39

Gyorgy Mlinarik

Bulgarian

37,100

40

Santiago Esparza Duran

Spanish

36,200

41

Nicky Levene

English

31,300

42

Pavlos Xanthopoulos

Greek

30,300

43

Ioannis Konstas Angelou

Greek

28,000

44

Jason Donaldson

English

27,100

45

Alessandro Pichierri

Italian

26,900

46

Jarko Selander

Finnish

22,200

47

Martin Buur Christensen

Danish

21,700

48

Domenico Gala

Italian

21,500

49

Peter Kramer Sandberg

Danish

16,100

50

Maxime Chilaud

French

14,000

51

Daniel Lisbona

Spanish

9,200

The top ten chip counts so far from both starting days combined:

Party Poker MILLIONS Malta Top 10 Chip Leaders after Day 1

Position

Player

Nationality

Chips

1

Albert Cigliano

Italian

243,000

2

Paolo Boi

Italian

215,000

3

Sebastian Mortensen

Danish

165,100

4

Nima Saken Shaft

German

163,900

5

Jakub Wojtas

German

162,100

6

Villr Jyrki santeri Pohjalainen

Finnish

161,400

7

Thomas Clack

English

155,600

8

Giuliano Boellis

Italian

149,200

9

Michel Glansberg

Swedish

132,900

10

Mario Trattou

English

126,100

The full festival schedule of events can be found here

Photos from the event can be found here

Photography by Jean Marc Zerafa

Jonathan Raab

Party Poker MILLIONS Malta Media Coordinator

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