“o Paz ta ON” Warms Up For MILLIONS Online KO With Sunday Party Victory

Every poker tournament player wants to go into a major series in good form. Running well and finding yourself on the right side of variance instils confidence, and there are few PartyPoker players as confident as “o Paz ta ON” right now going into the upcoming MILLIONS Online KO series.

o Paz ta ON is brimming with confidence after navigating their way through a 1,257-strong crowd in the latest edition of the $109 Sunday Party. Our flagship weekly tournament has found itself in the headlines recently due to Team PartyPoker’s Patrick “Patrick_Leonard” Leonard taking it down in back-to-back week.

Leonard could only muster a 234th place finish during his attempt to complete his hat trick, falling close to the money bubble as 215 places were paid. Leonard’s team mate, Matt “MatthewStaples” Staples, managed to cash. Staples bowed out in 177th place for $113.34 plus $62.50 from the bounty prize pool.

Sunday Party Final Table Results

All but one of the nine finalists saw their $109 investment grow into at least four figures. “Sagious199299” came close to four figures, but their ninth-place finish weighed in at $965, including bounties.

“b1g_cohones” bowed out in eighth for $1,557 and was followed to the rail first by “fedazete” ($2,513) then “Snoop Lion” ($1,856).

Thanks, in part, to the bounty element of the Sunday Party, the differences in the payouts grew exponentially. Fifth place finisher “tingmaster77” netted $2,509 but “push_AK77” collected $3,848 for progressing one spot deeper. “ATINUG” saw their tournament dream end in a third place finish worth an impressive $5,368.

Heads-up pitted “OptibetPoker” against o Paz ta ON, with both players locking in more than $7,270 from the main prize pool. Both had been active throughout the event, and were also guaranteed at least $3,900 worth of scalps. OptibetPoker fell at the final hurdle and walked away with a total prize of $11,231, leaving o Paz ta ON to bank $14,079 and the title of champion.

The Grand Ends in a Three-Way Deal

A compact yet stellar field of 55 PartyPoker players took to the virtual this weekend in the $1,050 Grand. Those 55 fought tooth and nail to reach the top 11 finishing places where we dished out the $60,000 prize pool.

The final table read like a who’s who of the online poker world. Hans Nissen ($2,515), Dylan Rowe ($2,676), and our very own Patrick Leonard ($2,979) were the first three casualties.

Finnish star Antero Sillanpaa ($3,455), and Swedish legends Simon Mattsson ($4,151) and Niklas Astedt ($5,222) joined the ever-growing list of eliminated players.

The final three players struck a deal that concluded The Grand for another week. Samuel Vousden, who many of you may know as “€uorp€an” in online poker circles, finished third for $9,044, Thiago Taira was the runner-up and banked $12,502, leaving New Zeland’s David Yan to pad his PartyPoker bankroll with a $12,736 first-place prize.

The Grand Final Table Results

*reflects a three-handed deal

MILLIONS Online KO Runs May 4-28

MILLIONS Online KO runs from May 4-28, and we cannot wait to see which of our players become champions during the series. Everything kicks off on May 4 with the firs flights of the $162 buy-in $100,000 guaranteed Opener, an event that will draw in a massive crowd.

The first starting flights of the $530 buy-in $500,000 guaranteed MILLIONS Online KO Main Event start May 7, which is also your next chance to play in the $109 Sunday Party, which comes with $150,000 guaranteed for MILLIONS Online KO.

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