O’Connor Shines in MILLIONS Online Main Event Day 1C

Day 1C of the $5 million guaranteed MILLIONS Online Main Event took place on December 26, better known as Boxing Day. While people around the world were tucking into their Christmas dinner leftovers, 237 partypoker players exchanged $5,300 for 1,000,000 chips in the MILLIONS Online Main Event. Thirty-six of those progressed to Day 2, but nobody did so with more chips than Jamie O’Connor.

O’Connor is a British pro who has more than $4 million in online poker tournament cashes plus another $1 million from his live poker grind. The popular Yorkshireman excelled on Day 1C, turning his 1,000,000 starting stack into 20,280,565 chips. This colossal stack not only earned O’Connor the title of Day 1C chip leader, but places him second overall. Only Andras Nemeth, with 27,425,305 chips, has more than O’Connor.

There were plenty of household names who punched their Day 2 tickets from this flight. Kevin Rabichow and Bujtas Laszlo bagged up 15,481,601 and 14,992,202 chips respectively, placing them second and third from this flight.

Also in the top 10 were the likes of New Zealand’s Joshua McCully (13,362,081), Orpen Kisacikoglu (9,825,062), and Bulgarian star Fahredin Mustafov (9,304,367).

Slightly down the chip counts but still with a legitimate chance of becoming the latest MILLIONS Online Main Event champion are superstars such as Steven Van Zadelhoff (8,100,826), Stephen Chidwick (6,564,743), Michael Addamo (6,042,203), and our very own Patrick Leonard (5,792,738) and Mikita Badziakouski (3,735,887).

MILLIONS Online Main Event Day 1C Top 10 Chip Counts

Place | Player | Country | Chips
1 | Jamie O’Connor | United Kingdom | 20,280,565
2 | Kevin Rabichow | Canada | 15,481,601
3 | Bujtas Laszlo | Hungary | 14,992,202
4 | Joshua McCully | New Zealand | 13,362,081
5 | Bertil Andreas Samuelsson | Sweden | 11,296,068
6 | Tamas Cserepes | Hungary | 10,936,029
7 | Michail Manolakis | Greece | 10,454,836
8 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | United Kingdom | 9,825,062
9 | Kevin Macdonald | Canada | 9,424,080
10 | Fahredin Mustafov | Bulgaria | 9,304,367

Final Two Main Event Flights Run December 27

Time is rapidly running out if you want to join O’Connor and the other 125 players who are through to Day 2 of the MILLIONS Online Main Event.

The penultimate flight shuffles up and deals at 16:05 GMT on December 27 with a turbo-structured flight commencing at 18:05 GMT, which is the final Day 1.

Dozens of satellites are running throughout the day, giving you the chance to win your way into this $5 million guaranteed event. Do not forget out the MILLIONS Online edition of our exciting SPINS, which give you the opportunity to turn $20 into MILLIONS Online tickets worth up to $5,300.

MILLIONS Online Events on December 27

It is not only the Main Event running on December 27 because there are a whole host of MILLIONS Online tournaments waiting for you to enter. The table below has all the juicy details.

Time (GMT) | Tournament | Buy-in
16:05 | MILLIONS Online #04 Main Event Day 1: $5M Gtd | $5,300
16:05 | MILLIONS Online #05 partypoker Championship Day 1: $1M Gtd | $1,050
16:05 | MILLIONS Online #07 Super 500 PKO Day 1: $500K Gtd | $530
16:05 | MILLIONS Online #08 Grand Prix PKO Day 1: $300K Gtd | $109
18:05 | MILLIONS Online #04 Main Event Day 1 Turbo: $5M Gtd | $5,300
18:05 | MILLIONS Online #05 partypoker Championship Day 1 Turbo: $1M Gtd | $1,050
18:05 | MILLIONS Online #07 Super 500 PKO Day 1: $500K Gtd | $530
18:05 | MILLIONS Online #08 Grand Prix PKO Day 1: $300K Gtd | $109
20:05 | MILLIONS Online #04 Main Event Day 2: $5M Gtd |
20:05 | MILLIONS Online #05 partypoker Championship Day 2: $1M Gtd |
20:05 | MILLIONS Online #07 Super 500 PKO Day 2: $500K Gtd |
20:05 | MILLIONS Online #08 Grand Prix PKO Day 2: $300K Gtd |
20:05 | MILLIONS Online #09 6-Max PKO Championship Day 1: $1M Gtd | $2,100
20:05 | MILLIONS Online #10 Closer Day 1: $250K Gtd | $320
21:35 | MILLIONS Online #11 Second Chance Turbo: $200K Gtd | $2,100
21:35 | MILLIONS Online #12 Mini Second Chance Turbo: $50K Gtd | $320