{"id":65251,"date":"2018-09-09T12:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T12:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog?p=65251"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:15:01","slug":"60-million-powerfest-day-7-patrick-leonard-wins-6-max-pko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/60-million-powerfest-day-7-patrick-leonard-wins-6-max-pko.html","title":{"rendered":"$60 million POWERFEST Day 7: Patrick Leonard Wins 6-Max PKO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 8th September saw another $1,478,986 awarded in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/powerfest\"><strong>$60 million POWERFEST<\/strong><\/a> events and Team partypoker excelled at the tables.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patrick \u201cPatrick_Leonard\u201d Leonard<\/strong> took down an event, <strong>Kristen \u201cKrissyb24\u201d Bicknell<\/strong> finished second in one and final tabled another, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/p\/team-partypoker\/renato-nomura\"><strong>Renato \u201crenatonomura\u201d Nomura<\/strong><\/a> went super deep in a $00K Gtd event.<\/p>\n<h1>$60 million POWERFEST: The story so far<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Events played: 214<\/li>\n<li>Events remaining: 456<\/li>\n<li>Prize money awarded: $19,455,784<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>$60 million POWERFEST Day 7 highlights<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>POWERFEST #042-HR: $200K Gtd 6-Max PKO<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buy-in: $530<\/li>\n<li>Entries: 379<\/li>\n<li>Prize pool: $200,000<\/li>\n<li>Places paid: 48<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/p\/team-partypoker\/patrick-leonard\"><strong>Patrick \u201cPatrick_Leonard\u201d Leonard<\/strong><\/a> turned $530 into more than $41,000 after he topped a star-studded field of 379 entries in the <strong>POWERFEST #042-HR: $200K Gtd 6-Max PKO<\/strong> event.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard claimed 13 bounties on his way to victory, including his own, so he banked $21,650 from the bounty prize pool in addition to the $20,102 that he collected for winning the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201csweet_dreammm\u201d<\/strong> was Leonard\u2019s heads-up opponent in the six-handed event. The Russian has more than $3.1 million in online poker tournament winnings and is ranked 26th in the world by the website PocketFives.com.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Player<\/th>\n<th>Prize<\/th>\n<th>Bounty payment<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Patrick \u201cPatrick_Leonard\u201d Leonard<\/td>\n<td>$20,102<\/td>\n<td>$21,650<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>sweet_dreammm<\/td>\n<td>$14,875<\/td>\n<td>$7,116<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Specter_Litt<\/td>\n<td>$10,805<\/td>\n<td>$4,700<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>adolfnitler.ftw<\/td>\n<td>$7,616<\/td>\n<td>$2,499<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>mmmmRektUWil<\/td>\n<td>$5,528<\/td>\n<td>$1,214<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>megastaestrecha<\/td>\n<td>$3,819<\/td>\n<td>$1,214<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><strong>POWERFEST #043-HR: $200K Gtd PKO<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buy-in: $1,050<\/li>\n<li>Entries: 250<\/li>\n<li>Prize pool: $255,000<\/li>\n<li>Places paid: 32<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We almost had another Team partypoker member winning a POWERFEST event on Day 7 but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/kristen-bicknells-top-5-powerfest-tips-for-success.html\"><strong>Kristen \u201cKrissyb24\u201d Bicknell<\/strong><\/a> fell at the final hurdle in the <strong>POWERFEST #043-HR: $200K Gtd PKO<\/strong> event.<\/p>\n<p>The final table of the $1,050 buy-in tournament read like a who\u2019s who of online poker with the likes of <strong>Samuel \u201cJHelppi\u201d Vousden<\/strong>, \u201cIN INFINITY\u201d and former world number one <strong>\u201cPhileasFogg\u201d<\/strong> all present and correct.<\/p>\n<p>Bicknell navigated her way to a heads-up battle against <strong>\u201cbenderbei1\u201d<\/strong> and locked up $18,500. Our heroine banked four bounties, worth $4,850, along the way but couldn\u2019t claim that fifth scalp, that of benderbei1, meaning she had to make do with second-place.<\/p>\n<p>benderbei1 collected $25,487 for their victory plus a mammoth-sized $35,059 worth of bounties thanks to eliminating 12 opponents on the way to victory; only seventh-place <strong>\u201cCatsFreakMeowt\u201d<\/strong> sent more opponents packing with 14 scalps.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Player<\/th>\n<th>Prize<\/th>\n<th>Bounty payment<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>benderbei1<\/td>\n<td>$25,487<\/td>\n<td>$35,059<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Kristen \u201cKrissyb24\u201d Bicknell<\/td>\n<td>$18,500<\/td>\n<td>$4,850<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>PhileasFogg<\/td>\n<td>$13,187<\/td>\n<td>$1,755<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>IN INFINITY<\/td>\n<td>$9,750<\/td>\n<td>$7,280<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>IamPEAKing<\/td>\n<td>$6,875<\/td>\n<td>$4,728<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Pepe_Le_Spew<\/td>\n<td>$5,250<\/td>\n<td>$4,306<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>CatsFreakMeowt<\/td>\n<td>$3,875<\/td>\n<td>$4,550<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Samuel \u201cJHelppi\u201d Vousden<\/td>\n<td>$2,875<\/td>\n<td>$1,950<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><strong>POWERFEST #045-HR: $100K Gtd Fast 6-Max<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buy-in: $530<\/li>\n<li>Entries: 195<\/li>\n<li>Prize pool: $100,000<\/li>\n<li>Places paid: 24<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Team partypoker\u2019s Kristen \u201cKrissyb24\u201d Bicknell reached another final table on Day 7 of the POWERFEST, namely the <strong>POWERFEST #045-HR: $100K Gtd Fast 6-Max<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our Canadian star came unstuck in fifth-place, a finish that netted her $6,000 to go with the $23,350 she won in the event mentioned earlier in this article.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andreas \u201cdaskalos20\u201d Christoforou<\/strong> was the man that won the event, defeating <strong>\u201cPotPotBang&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0heads-up to scoop the $24,906 top prize, resigning the runner-up to $16,000. The only other player to bank a five-figure score from this event was <strong>Steve \u201cLoSientoGrace\u201d Barshak<\/strong> who crashed out in third-place for $11,250.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Player<\/th>\n<th>Prize<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Andreas \u201cdaskalos20\u201d Christoforou<\/td>\n<td>$24,906<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>PotPotBang<\/td>\n<td>$16,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Steve \u201cLoSientoGrace\u201d Barshak<\/td>\n<td>$11,250<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>theshadowalker<\/td>\n<td>$8,150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Kristen \u201cKrissyb24\u201d Bicknell<\/td>\n<td>$6,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>BobBogdanovich<\/td>\n<td>$4,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>POWERFEST events running today<\/h3>\n<p>Another <strong>35 POWERFEST<\/strong> events are scheduled to run on <strong>Sunday 9th September<\/strong> that have combined guarantees worth $4,437,000, a massive sum helped by there being <strong>two $1 million guaranteed Championship Events<\/strong>. Check out the full schedule for Day 8 in the table below, or feast your eyes on the entire $60 million POWERFEST via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/powerfest\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Time (CET)<\/th>\n<th>Event<\/th>\n<th>Buy-in<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #047-H: $150K Gtd<\/td>\n<td>$215<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #047-M: $75K Gtd<\/td>\n<td>$55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #047-L: $25K Gtd<\/td>\n<td>$16.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #047-Mi: $5K Gtd<\/td>\n<td>$3.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #048-HR: $500K Gtd PKO<\/td>\n<td>$1,050<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #048-H: $300K Gtd PKO<\/td>\n<td>$215<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #048-M: $100K Gtd PKO<\/td>\n<td>$55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #048-L: $30K Gtd PKO<\/td>\n<td>$16.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #048-L: $10K Gtd PKO<\/td>\n<td>$5.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #048-Mi: $3K Gtd PKO<\/td>\n<td>$1.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #049-SHR: $1M Gtd Championship Event PKO<\/td>\n<td>$5,200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #050-HR: $500K Gtd<\/td>\n<td>$530<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #050-H: $250K Gtd<\/td>\n<td>$109<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #050-M: $100K Gtd<\/td>\n<td>$33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #050-L: $30K Gtd<\/td>\n<td>$11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #050-Mi: $10K Gtd<\/td>\n<td>$3.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #051-HR: $1M Gtd Championship Event PKO<\/td>\n<td>$1,050<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #051-H: $500K Gtd PKO<\/td>\n<td>$215<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #051-M: $200K Gtd PKO<\/td>\n<td>$55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #051-L: $50K Gtd PKO<\/td>\n<td>$16.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #051-Mi: $10K Gtd PKO<\/td>\n<td>$3.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20:30<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #052-HR: $100K Gtd 6-Max PLO<\/td>\n<td>$1,050<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20:30<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #052-H: $30K Gtd 6-Max PLO<\/td>\n<td>$109<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20:30<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #052-M: $10K Gtd 6-Max PLO<\/td>\n<td>$27.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20:30<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #052-L: $2K Gtd 6-Max PLO<\/td>\n<td>$5.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20:30<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #052-Mi: $500 Gtd 6-Max PLO<\/td>\n<td>$1.10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>22:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #053-HR: $200K Gtd Fast Mix-Max<\/td>\n<td>$530<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>22:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #053-H: $100K Gtd Fast Mix-Max<\/td>\n<td>$109<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>22:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #053-M: $50K Gtd Fast Mix-Max<\/td>\n<td>$27.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>22:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #053-L: $10K Gtd Fast Mix-Max<\/td>\n<td>$5.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>22:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #053-Mi: $2K Gtd Fast Mix-Max<\/td>\n<td>$1.10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>00:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #054-H: $50K Gtd PKO Turbo<\/td>\n<td>$109<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>00:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #054-M: $25K Gtd PKO Turbo<\/td>\n<td>$27.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>00:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #054-L: $7.5K Gtd PKO Turbo<\/td>\n<td>$5.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>00:00<\/td>\n<td>POWERFEST #054-Mi: $1K Gtd PKO Turbo<\/td>\n<td>$1.10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>$60 million POWERFEST promotions<\/h3>\n<p>With $60 million guaranteed across 670 events, the POWERFEST is already immense value, but we\u2019ve also created some POWERFEST promotions that are dripping with value.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/powerfest\"><strong>daily Click Card promotion<\/strong><\/a> where you can win POWERFEST tickets worth up to $5,200, then there\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/powerfest\"><strong>series-long Leaderboards<\/strong><\/a> that have $60,000 worth of MILLIONS Online tickets up for grabs each week.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, because there\u2019s more. You can win POWERFEST tickets worth up to $5,200 for only $2.50 in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/powerfest\"><strong>POWERFEST Sit &amp; Go Jackpot<\/strong><\/a> tournaments, then there\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/powerfest\"><strong>daily Power Hour<\/strong><\/a> where cash game and fastforward players earn double cashback points for an hour every day!<\/p>\n<p>And last but not least, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/powerfest\">fastforward Rake Race<\/a><\/strong> has returned with $50,000 worth of Week 3 POWERFEST tickets up for grabs!<\/p>\n<h3>Ready to join the party?<\/h3>\n<p>If you\u2019re ready to jump into the action, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>click here to download partypoker and get started<\/strong>!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you already have an account with us, click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/promo.partypoker.com\/en\/promo\/launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>open partypoker and hit the tables!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 8th September saw another $1,478,986 awarded in our $60 million POWERFEST events and Team partypoker excelled at the tables. Patrick \u201cPatrick_Leonard\u201d Leonard took down an event, Kristen \u201cKrissyb24\u201d Bicknell finished second in one and final tabled another, plus Renato \u201crenatonomura\u201d Nomura went super deep in a $00K Gtd event. $60 million POWERFEST: The story<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/60-million-powerfest-day-7-patrick-leonard-wins-6-max-pko.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":65253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1301,1219],"tags":[1259,1799,187,890,200,840,50837],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65286,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65251\/revisions\/65286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65251"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=65251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}