MILLIONS North Cyprus $5,300 Main Event Jour 1a | 2021 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North Cyprus

2021-09-22 12:53 UTC+3

Azar First Casualty of the Day

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Niveau 1 : 300/600, 600 ante

Bertrand Grospellier and Arunas Sapitavicius

With plenty of chips already in the middle, the turn showed and that's when the chips went in between Arunas Sapitavicius and Georgio Azar.

Georgio Azar:
Arunas Sapitavicius:

The river was a blank and Azar vanished, as his remaining 51,100 were covered by the table neighbour.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Arunas Sapitavicius	205,000 110,000	110,000
Georgio Azar	Eliminé

Tags: Arunas Sapitavicius Georgio Azar

2021-09-22 12:30 UTC+3

The $10,500 High Roller Plays Down to a Winner

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Niveau 1 : 300/600, 600 ante

While the $5,300 Main Event concurrently takes place, two high-stakes competitions will play down to a winner in the poker room of the five-star Merit Crystal Cove Hotel Casino & Spa in Girne, North Cyprus. The $10,500 High Roller is down to the final nine players out of a field of 107 unique entries and 50-entries and they will be playing for the lion's share of the $1,444,400 prize pool.

Fahredin Mustafov late registered in the first level of Day 3 after finishing runner-up in the $2,200 Warm Up and made it to yet another final table where he is joined by the likes of Boris Kolev, Tobias Duthweiler, and Askar Bekbayev.

Swissman Christophe Panetti leads the final table line-up and was also responsible for bursting the bubble. He held with aces against the of Ahadpur Khangah when the businessman got it in with second pair on a king-queen high flop.

Final Table Line-Up $10,500 High Roller

Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Halil Kezen	Turkey	2,515,000	50
2	Boris Kolev	Bulgaria	1,065,000	21
3	Timur Ercan	Turkey	1,275,000	26
4	Fahredin Mustafov	Bulgaria	1,000,000	20
5	Tobias Duthweiler	Germany	1,385,000	28
6	James Romero	United States	2,420,000	48
7	Askar Bekbayev	Kazakhstan	1,320,000	26
8	Christophe Panetti	Switzerland	2,765,000	55
9	Iakov Onuchin	Russia	1,925,000	39

They will continue with 37 seconds left at blinds of 25,000/50,000 and a big blind ante of 50,000. The final table gets underway at 1pm local time and the action will be streamed on a delay of one hour on the partypoker Twitch and YouTube channels.

Among the players to cash were Roland Rokita, Lachezar Petkov, Anatolii Zyrin and the 2019 WSOP Main Event champion Hossein Ensan, the latter of which bubbled the final table.

Payouts and Players in the Money so Far

Place	Winner	Country	Prize (in USD)
1			$377,115
2			$265,995
3			$173,120
4			$124,075
5			$93,020
6			$74,385
7			$61,820
8			$49,545
9			$37,120
10	Hossein Ensan	Germany	$27,010
11	Anatolii Zyrin	Russia	$27,010
12	Lachezar Petkov	Bulgaria	$27,010
13	Audrius Stakelis	Lithuania	$22,245
14	Erdal Gulseven	Turkey	$22,245
15	Alexey Losev	Russia	$22,245
16	[Removed:324]	United Kingdom	$20,220
17	Roland Rokita	Austria	$20,220

Tags: Ahadpur Khangah Anatolii Zyrin Boris Kolev Christophe Panetti Fahredin Mustafov Hossein Ensan Lachezar Petkov Roland Rokita Tobias Duthweiler

2021-09-22 11:15 UTC+3

Welcome to Day 1a of the 2021 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North Cyprus $5,300 Main Event

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At noon local time, the flagship event of the 2021 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North Cyprus festival will get underway at the five-star Merit Crystal Cove Hotel Casino & Spa in Girne, North Cyprus. With a guaranteed prize pool of $3 million, the $5,300 Main Event is the crown jewel of the series and offers a total of four starting days.

The first two of them will feature a level duration of 60 minutes each whereas Day 1c has a 40-minute clock, the final turbo heat 1d comes with a reduced level duration of 25 minutes each. All Day 1 will play a total of nine levels without any dinner break, giving the participants enough time to enjoy the free evening buffet at the five-star location.

All players receive 100,000 in chips and the blinds commence with blinds of 300-600 and a big blind ante of 600. Re-entries are allowed during the registration period, which will be available until the end of level 12 and following break on Day 2.

Main Event Day 1 Schedule

Starting Day	Date	Time	Level Duration	Levels
Day 1a	Wed September 22	12pm local time	60 minutes	9 levels
Day 1b	Thu September 23	12pm local time	60 minutes	9 levels
Day 1c	Fri September 24	12pm local time	40 minutes	9 levels
Day 1d	Fri September 24	8pm local time	25 minutes	9 levels

Among the confirmed participants will also be partypoker ambassadors Jeff Gross and Joni Jouhkimainen, while the rumour on the street is that partypoker LIVE president John Duthie will also enter the fray as well.

The PokerNews team will provide live updates for the first three starting days and the chip counts for Day 1b before continuing the coverage as of Day 2 and until the final river card. As of Day 2 on Saturday, September 25, the action will also be broadcasted on the partypoker Twitch and YouTube channels and the $5,300 Main Event will play down to a winner on September 27.

Tags: Jeff Gross John Duthie Joni Jouhkimainen