$10M Gtd Christmas Freeze Day 8: Final Table for Patrick Leonard

Christmas Freeze Day 8 took place on New Year’s Day and gave everyone the chance to kick off 2019 in style by becoming a partypoker champion. Fifteen partypoker players emerged victorious on Day 8 and those who reached the money places helped themselves to a share of a combined $579,211.

Team partypoker’s Patrick “Patrick_Leonard” Leonard narrowly missed out on glory on Christmas Freeze Day 8 after he reached a final table in one of the high stakes events, but which one? Let’s take a look right now.

Christmas Freeze: The Story So Far

Events completed: 124

Events remaining: 77

Prize money awarded: $6,874,582

Christmas Freeze Day 8 Recap

Christmas Freeze #28-HR: $100K Gtd PKO

Buy-in: $530

Entrants: 180

Prize pool: $100,000

Place paid: 24

A field of 180 players took to the partypoker tables in the Christmas Freeze #28-HR: $100K Gtd PKO and 24 of those starters walked away with a slice of the $100,000 pie.

Each of the eight final table members locked up more than $2,000 each, when bounties were included, with “RedDwarf9” of Germany netting a combined $3,714 for their eighth-place finish.

Seventh-place and a total of $2,108 went to another German in “skippyskip5” before our Team pro Leonard fell in sixth-place for a $2,373 score boosted by $2,280 worth of bounty payments.

Netherlands’ “jammermaat”, “PotatoLottery” of Mexico and Greece’s “value23” then fell by the wayside to leave “dean23priceI” and “GettinDaize” heads-up for the title. GettinDaize, who now resides in Costa Rica, emerged victorious to claim the $11,673 top prize and $10,504 from the bounty prize pool. The runner-up secured $8,387 plus $6,960 worth of scalps.

Place | Player | Country | Prize | Bounties
1 | GettinDaize | Costa Rica | $11,673 | $10,504
2 | dean23priceI | Netherlands | $8,387 | $6,960
3 | value23 | Greece | $6,119 | $2,821
4 | PotatoLottery | Mexico | $4,378 | $262
5 | jammermaat | Netherlands | $3,059 | $1,369
6 | Patrick_Leonard | United Kingdom | $2,373 | $2,280
7 | skippyskip5 | Germany | $1,846 | $262
8 | RedDwarf9 | Germany | $1,450 | $2,264

Christmas Freeze #28-HR: $100K Gtd PKO

Buy-in: $109

Entrants: 801

Prize pool: $100,000

Place paid: 104

England versus Argentina is always an exciting football match when the sides meet in major competitions and there was a great battle between players from these countries in the Christmas Freeze #28-HR: $100K Gtd PKO event.

“Hdawg6969” of the United Kingdom squared off against “aguachapelada” of Argentina heads-up for the title of champion and a five-figure score. It was the latter who would claim the bragging rights in this event. First-place saw $10,129 added to aguachapelada’s partypoker account, plus an additional $8,132 for the opponents they eliminated along the way. Hdawg6969 walked away with a second-place finish worth a total of $8,597.

Place | Player | Country | Prize | Bounties
1 | aguachapelada | Argentina | $10,129 | $8,132
2 | Hdawg6969 | United Kingdom | $7,206 | $1,391
3 | IWillPwnYaa | United Kingdom | $4,840 | $799
4 | BadBeat4youQQ | Austria | $3,279 | $1,097
5 | Fri6ol9n | Austria | $2,315 | $1,374
6 | jontek99 | United Kingdom | $1,668 | $290
7 | toabsen | Germany | $1,191 | $426
8 | KoksJuuice | Sweden | $828 | $81

Christmas Freeze #29-H: $100K Gtd PKO Fast

Buy-in: $1,050

Entrants: 84

Prize pool: $100,000

Place paid: 12

The biggest haul on Christmas Freeze Day 8 went to Malta’s “Paul07new” courtesy of them taking down the Christmas Freeze #29-H: $100K Gtd PKO Fast event.

This $1,050 buy-in event saw some huge bounties created and Paul07new took full advantage of them, winning $14,592 worth of bounties, only a handful of Benjamins away from the $14,924 they won from the main prize pool.

Paul07new’s bounty payment was so large because they eliminated Finland’s “rdcrsnn” heads-up. The runner-up had accumulated $6,467 worth of bounties on their way to their second-place finish, which was added to the $10,419 bridesmaid prize.

Place | Player | Country | Prize | Bounties
1 | Paul07new | Malta | $14,924 | $14,592
2 | rdcrsnn | Finland | $10,419 | $6,467
3 | RovoDice | Latvia | $7,321 | $650
4 | JimyTransaction | Costa Rica | $5,068 | $2,145
5 | Hahaha_Owned | Netherlands | $3,942 | $3,640
6 | PhilRoyal888 | United Kingdom | $2,956 | $1,170
7 | nives98 | Switzerland | $2,393 | $1,430
8 | PrivateMember | Canada | $1,971 | $520

Christmas Freeze Day 9 Schedule

Another 15 Christmas Freeze events are planned for Day 9. These 15 events have combined guarantees weighing in at an $570,750, kick off 2019 in style by becoming a Christmas Freeze champion.. Good luck at the tables!

Don’t forget that all Christmas Freeze events are freezeouts so it is game over when you bust!

Time (CET) | Event | Buy-in
18:00 | Christmas Freeze #30-HR: $100K Gtd 6-Max | $530
18:00 | Christmas Freeze #30-H: $500K Gtd 6-Max | $215
18:00 | Christmas Freeze #30-M: $30K Gtd 6-Max | $55
18:00 | Christmas Freeze #30-L: $5K Gtd 6-Max | $5.50
19:00 | Christmas Freeze #31-HR: $100K Gtd PKO 6-Max | $530
19:00 | Christmas Freeze #31-H: $100K Gtd PKO 6-Max | $109
19:00 | Christmas Freeze #31-M: $50K Gtd PKO 6-Max | $33
19:00 | Christmas Freeze #31-L: $30K Gtd PKO 6-Max | $11
19:00 | Christmas Freeze #31-Mi: $10K Gtd PKO 6-Max | $3.30
20:30 | Christmas Freeze #32-H: $5K Gtd PLO, 6-Max | $109
20:30 | Christmas Freeze #32-M: $2.5K Gtd PLO, 6-Max | $22
20:30 | Christmas Freeze #32-L: $750 Gtd PLO 6-Max, | $5.50
21:00 | Christmas Freeze #33-HR: $100K Gtd PKO 6-Max Fast | $1,050
21:00 | Christmas Freeze #33-H: $50K Gtd PKO 6-Max Fast | $215
21:00 | Christmas Freeze #33-M: $30K Gtd PKO 6-Max Fast | $55
21:00 | Christmas Freeze #33-L: $7.5K Gtd PKO 6-Max Fast | $5.50