{"id":67624,"date":"2019-02-10T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog?p=67624"},"modified":"2019-02-10T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T12:19:12","slug":"15m-gtd-ko-series-day-7-ilijix133-adds-ko-series-title-to-powerfest-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/15m-gtd-ko-series-day-7-ilijix133-adds-ko-series-title-to-powerfest-win.html","title":{"rendered":"$15M Gtd KO Series Day 7: Ilijix133 Adds KO Series Title to POWERFEST Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 9th February saw 28 more <strong>KO Series<\/strong> events play out and a cool $581,676 awarded across the board. It was the perfect warm-up for Sunday\u2019s events that have more than $2.2 million guaranteed!<\/p>\n<p>It was a great day for <strong>\u201cIlijix133\u201d<\/strong> who secured a KO series title to keep the <strong>POWERFEST<\/strong> win from last year company. Keep reading to check out the Day 7 recap.<\/p>\n<h2>KO Series Story So Far<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Events completed: 194<\/li>\n<li>Events remaining: 243<\/li>\n<li>Prize money awarded: $7,647,234<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>KO Series Day 7 Recap<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>KO Series #32-HR: $75K Gtd Mix-Max<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buy-in: $530<\/li>\n<li>Entrants: 158<\/li>\n<li>Prize pool: $80,975<\/li>\n<li>Places paid: 20<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United Kingdom\u2019s <strong>\u201cIlijix133\u201d<\/strong> walked away with $64,452 last year when they triumphed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/60-million-powerfest-day-4-big-scores-for-ilijix133-and-skippyskip5.html\"><strong>$300,000 guaranteed six-max POWERFEST event<\/strong><\/a>. Now they have a KO Series title under their belt after being the last player standing in the <strong>KO Series #32-HR: $75K Gtd Mix-Max<\/strong> event.<\/p>\n<p>A field of 158 turned out for this $75,000 guaranteed event and it was Ilijix133 who excelled. The $6,973 top prize was boosted by $10,844 worth of bounties, including that on the heads of runner-up <strong>\u201cz-boooo\u201d<\/strong> of Malta who headed to bed having increased their own bankroll by a total of $8,411.<\/p>\n<p>Both the third and fourth-place finishers, <strong>\u201cjustkot\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201cIonachenko88\u201d<\/strong> played a solid aggressive game that saw them secure bounty payments of $3,757 and $2,428; only our champion won more from the bounty prize pool.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Player<\/th>\n<th>Country<\/th>\n<th>Prize<\/th>\n<th>Bounty prize<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Ilijix133<\/td>\n<td>United Kingdom<\/td>\n<td>$6,973<\/td>\n<td>$10,844<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>z-boooo<\/td>\n<td>Malta<\/td>\n<td>$6,965<\/td>\n<td>$1,476<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>justkot<\/td>\n<td>Russia<\/td>\n<td>$5,068<\/td>\n<td>$3,757<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Iomachenko88<\/td>\n<td>Ukraine<\/td>\n<td>$3,590<\/td>\n<td>$2,428<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Dark_Poker<\/td>\n<td>Malta<\/td>\n<td>$2,354<\/td>\n<td>$853<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>a8risoli<\/td>\n<td>Mexico<\/td>\n<td>$2,006<\/td>\n<td>$1,099<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><strong>KO Series #32-H: $75K Gtd Mix-Max<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buy-in: $109<\/li>\n<li>Entrants: 715<\/li>\n<li>Prize pool: $75,000<\/li>\n<li>Places paid: 104<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>KO Series #32-H: $75K Gtd Mix-Max<\/strong> event was another $75,000 guaranteed affair, despite only costing $109 to enter. Some 715 players competed for the lion\u2019s share of the prize pool and it was a Dane who scooped it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBluecollarjr\u201d<\/strong> came out on top to lock up the $5,098 first-place prize which was boosted by $4,111 worth of bounties. Our runner-up, <strong>\u201cCrash_desn692\u201d<\/strong> won $5,091 for finishing second plus $290 from the bounty prize pool, showing that you don\u2019t have to stack many opponents if you want to reach a final table, picking the right spots to commit chips and improve your stack also gets the job done.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Player<\/th>\n<th>Country<\/th>\n<th>Prize<\/th>\n<th>Bounty prize<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>bluecollarjr<\/td>\n<td>Denmark<\/td>\n<td>$5,098<\/td>\n<td>$4,411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Crash_desn692<\/td>\n<td>Russia<\/td>\n<td>$5,091<\/td>\n<td>$290<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>A23456789<\/td>\n<td>United Kingdom<\/td>\n<td>$3,421<\/td>\n<td>$1,435<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Beocanin<\/td>\n<td>Hungary<\/td>\n<td>$2,318<\/td>\n<td>$1,515<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>do or die<\/td>\n<td>Estonia<\/td>\n<td>$1,636<\/td>\n<td>$465<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>drawplayer1<\/td>\n<td>Austria<\/td>\n<td>$1,179<\/td>\n<td>$1,392<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><strong>KO Series #32-M: $50K Gtd Mix-Max<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buy-in: $33<\/li>\n<li>Entrants: 1,461<\/li>\n<li>Prize pool: $50,000<\/li>\n<li>Places paid: 184<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A cool $50,000 was guaranteed for a $33 buy-in in event <strong>KO Series #32-M: $50K Gtd Mix-Max<\/strong>. It was a tournament that saw its final table dominated by players calling Russia home, with four of the six finalists being Russian.<\/p>\n<p>It was a German, however, who walked away with the largest piece of the spoils. <strong>\u201cBPotTe6e\u201d<\/strong> defeated <strong>\u201cMo4y_neTYxoB\u201d<\/strong> heads-up for the title. BPotTe6e won a combined $6,674 for their victory with the runner-up netting $3,627.<\/p>\n<p>Russian players also finished in placed third through fifth with Greece\u2019s <strong>\u201cpl1717\u201d<\/strong> seeing their tournament end in a sixth-place finish.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Player<\/th>\n<th>Country<\/th>\n<th>Prize<\/th>\n<th>Bounty prize<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>BPotTe6e<\/td>\n<td>Germany<\/td>\n<td>$3,449<\/td>\n<td>$3,225<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Mo4y_neTYxoB<\/td>\n<td>Russia<\/td>\n<td>$3,442<\/td>\n<td>$185<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Lesandr<\/td>\n<td>Russia<\/td>\n<td>$2,240<\/td>\n<td>$322<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Antoshka960<\/td>\n<td>Russia<\/td>\n<td>$1,496<\/td>\n<td>$276<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Sanek22999<\/td>\n<td>Russia<\/td>\n<td>$1,064<\/td>\n<td>$236<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>pl1717<\/td>\n<td>Greece<\/td>\n<td>$749<\/td>\n<td>$172<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>KO Series Day 8 Schedule<\/h2>\n<p><strong>KO Series Day 8<\/strong> is jam-packed with events, 35 of them in total that have combined guaranteed prize pools weighing in at an impressive <strong>$2,204,500!<\/strong> Check out the table below to see which events you can get involved in today.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Time (CET)<\/th>\n<th>Tournament<\/th>\n<th>Buy-in<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #36-HR: $100K Gtd 8-Max<\/td>\n<td>$530<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #36-M: $40K Gtd 8-Max<\/td>\n<td>$55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #36-M: $30K Gtd 8-Max<\/td>\n<td>$22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #36-L: $10K Gtd 8-Max<\/td>\n<td>$5.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #36-Mi: $4K Gtd 8-Max<\/td>\n<td>$2.20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>17:00<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>KO Series #37-H: $300K Gtd 8-Max<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>$1,050<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>17:00<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>KO Series #37-H: $200K Gtd 8-Max<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>$215<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #37-M: $100K Gtd 8-Max<\/td>\n<td>$55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #37-M: $50K Gtd 8-Max<\/td>\n<td>$22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #37-L: $15K Gtd 8-Max<\/td>\n<td>$5.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #37-Mi: $5K Gtd 8-Max<\/td>\n<td>$2.20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>19:00<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>KO Series #38-HR: $300K Gtd 8-Max<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>$530<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>19:00<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>KO Series #38-H: $250K Gtd 8-Max<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>$109<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>19:00<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>KO Series #38-M: $100K Gtd 8-Max<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>$33<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #38-L: $50K Gtd 8-Max<\/td>\n<td>$11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #38-Mi: $15K Gtd 8-Max<\/td>\n<td>$3.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19:30<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #38A-HR: $50K Gtd 6-Max PLO PKO<\/td>\n<td>$503<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19:30<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #38A-H: $20K Gtd 6-Max PLO PKO<\/td>\n<td>$109<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19:30<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #38A-M: $10K Gtd 6-Max PLO PKO<\/td>\n<td>$33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19:30<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #38A-L: $5K Gtd 6-Max PLO PKO<\/td>\n<td>$11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19:30<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #38A-Mi: $2K Gtd 6-Max PLO PKO<\/td>\n<td>$3.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>21:00<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>KO Series #39-H: $200K Gtd 8-Max Fast<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>$1,050<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>21:00<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>KO Series #39-H: $100K Gtd 8-Max Fast<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>$109<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>21:00<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>KO Series #39-M: $75K Gtd 8-Max Fast<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>$33<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>21:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #39-L: $25K Gtd 8-Max Fast<\/td>\n<td>$11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>21:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #39-Mi: $7.5K Gtd 8-Max Fast<\/td>\n<td>$3.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>23:00<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>KO Series #40-HR: $100K Gtd 8-Max Turbo<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>$530<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>23:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #40-H: $50K Gtd 8-Max Turbo<\/td>\n<td>$109<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>23:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #40-M: $30K Gtd 8-Max Turbo<\/td>\n<td>$33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>23:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #40-L: $10K Gtd 8-Max Turbo<\/td>\n<td>$11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>23:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #40-Mi: $3K Gtd 8-Max Turbo<\/td>\n<td>$3.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>01:00<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>KO Series #41-HR: $75K Gtd 8-Max Hyper<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>$530<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #41-H: $30K Gtd 8-Max Hyper<\/td>\n<td>$109<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #41-M: $15K Gtd 8-Max Hyper<\/td>\n<td>$33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #41-L: $10K Gtd 8-Max Hyper<\/td>\n<td>$11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01:00<\/td>\n<td>KO Series #41-Mi: $2K Gtd 8-Max Hyper<\/td>\n<td>$3.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>KO Series Promotions<\/h2>\n<p>Qualify for the higher buy-in KO Series events via our Added satellites where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/ko-series\"><strong>we\u2019re adding more than $350,000 worth of KO Series seats!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fans of SPINS can get involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/ko-series\"><strong>KO Series special edition SPINS<\/strong><\/a> tournaments and potentially turn $2.50 into KO Series tickets worth up to $1,050!<\/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 9th February saw 28 more KO Series events play out and a cool $581,676 awarded across the board. It was the perfect warm-up for Sunday\u2019s events that have more than $2.2 million guaranteed! It was a great day for \u201cIlijix133\u201d who secured a KO series title to keep the POWERFEST win from last year<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/15m-gtd-ko-series-day-7-ilijix133-adds-ko-series-title-to-powerfest-win.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":67625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300],"tags":[1649,187,200,840,360],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67624"}],"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=67624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67631,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67624\/revisions\/67631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67624"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}