You have one more chance to enter the 500k guaranteed #MILLIONSUK Finale this morning at 10 am with late reg until 12:10 pm. Currently, the event has received 738 entries across the fields in this £500+50 tournament so don't miss out on this chance to win a share of half a million!
The players who have progressed from all six starting flights will come together to do battle on Day 2 at 2 pm today!
The Finale event of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK festival got underway on Thursday, October, 4 and over the past three days five starting flights have taken place with players looking to turn £500 into their share of a massive £500,000 guaranteed prize pool.
At 2 pm today, and after the final Day 1F turbo flight finishes having begun at 10 am, the field will merge for the first time as a winner is played down to on Day 2.
The first level of the day will be Level 19 with a small blind of 100,000, big blind of 200,000 and button ante of 100,000. Levels will continue being 30-minutes long and will be reduced to 15 minutes each once play reaches Heads-Up. A 15-minute break is scheduled after every four levels.
Nick Secker and Fredrik Bergmann have just been eliminated short of the money.
In the first hand, Secker was all in with and up against . The board ran out , and Secker was eliminated.
Next up, Frederik Bermann held and was at risk against Konstantinos Nanos' . The flop was not good for Bergmann as it fell to give Nanos top pair and the lead. The turn and river were no good for Bergmann, and he also departed the Finale.
There was a crowd at the table after Pim de Goede had moved all in for around 13m against Charlie Godwin with the flop down . The action preflop was retold to us. De Goede had raised from under the gun, the small blind called and Godwin three-bet from the big blind. De Goede called before the small blind folded.
All the chips then went into the middle on the flop, and Godwin thought for a minute before she called.
Godwin tabled and was ahead against De Goede who held an over-card and a flush draw with .
The turn gave De Goede the lead with top pair, and he held on the river. De Goede moved up to 30m while Godwin was left with 4.5m.
Tamer Kamel has just become the Finale Bubble Boy after he saw his pocket kings lose against ace-seven. Konstantinos Nanos, who had just eliminated Fredrik Bergmann, was the man to score the blow to Kamel after the board ran out .
Kamel departed in 108th place with the remaining 107 players now in the money.
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The completed board was down and there was around 10m in the pot. Simon Brooks was in the big blind and moved all in for 16m. Charles Akadiri was on the player and the player facing the decision.
30 seconds past and Akadiri used his final time bank card.
He was contemplating what to do and as the clock ran down he folded at the final moment.
The cards were on their backs at the table with Catalin Dumitrascu, Van Le, and Kevin Frame all-in.
One player at the table retold us the preflop action.
Van Le moved all in from under the gun for around 33m and Catalin Dumitrascu moved all in from the cutoff. Kevin Frame was in the small blind and called.
Van Le:
Catalin Dumitrascu:
Kevin Frame:
Board:
Dumitrascu held his lead on the flop and improved to a set on the turn. The river improved his hand to a full house and once the stacks were counted Dumitrascu had both players covered and won a massive 150m pot and both Le and Frame were eliminated.
Simon Brooks has just lost two hands back-to-back to be eliminated in 14th place.
In the first hand, Garinder Purewal moved all in from the small blind for 25m and Brooks called.
Garinder Purewal:
Simon Brooks:
Board:
Brooks had woken up with pocket aces and had a big preflop lead but when Purewal hit trip fours on the flop and held as the board completed to secure a very unlikely double up.
In the very next hand, Charles Akadiri raised to 4m from the cutoff, and Simon Brooks moved all in for eight big blinds the small blind and announced to the table he had not looked at his cards. James Golder reshoved from the big blind and Akadiri folded.
Simon Brooks:
James Golder:
Board:
It was Brooks' turn to come from behind and took the lead on the flop when he hit two pair. But the river card was revealed to be the king of clubs, and Golder regained the lead with a higher two pair to eliminate Brooks.