‘wheatforsheep’ Leads Record-Smashing partypoker MILLIONS Online After Day 2
The final numbers are in and the partypoker MILLIONS Online is now officially the largest online poker tournament in history.
A whopping 490 players registered for Day 1E early Tuesday morning, pushing the field size to 4,367 and producing a $21,780,000 prize pool.
When Day 2 action began, there were 687 players still in contention for the $2.5 million first place prize but through 18 additional levels of play just 29 survived and partypoker wasn’t the only one putting up big numbers.
Mexico-based ‘wheatforsheep‘ finished Day 2 with 566,295,824 – a staggering 68% more than the second biggest stack belonging to ‘j2805667‘. ‘Albert_77‘ finished with the third biggest stack at 299,620,916.
Christopher ‘Ad_Finem’ Kruk bagged up 258,930,640 while Chance ‘ChanceSeeYou’ Kornuth finished with 165,392,851. Kornuth was happy to survive the day and is lookin forward to Day 2.
10/30 remaining on to day 3! 165mil going to 4mil bb. In the @partypoker 20mil guarantee. $2,700,000+ for ?. @ChipLDR
— Chance Kornuth (@ChancesCards) December 5, 2018
Included in the 658 casualties on Tuesday were Fedor Holz (31st), Philipp Gruissem (37th), Sam ‘bestindabiz51’ Panzica (46th), and Kenny ‘Spacey1891’ Hallaert (99th).
The #1-ranked player in the world, ‘lena900‘ finished in 381st place.
Ronan ‘Sw33ney’ Sweeney, who qualified via a $109 Phase 1 tournament, ended up in 289th place for $16,376.25.
The final day of play begins at 2 pm EST on Wednesday.
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