The MILLIONS Online festival has gotten off to a flying start with the Mini Main Event obliterating its $1 million guarantee. A massive crowd of 1,127 players bought in across a pair of starting flights and only 169 of those starters remain in the hunt for the $184,507 top prize.
MILLIONS Online Mini Main Event Top 10 Chip Counts
Place
Player
Country
Chips
1
Sebastian Camilo Toro Henao
Mexico
27,039,049
2
Elio Fox
Mexico
25,419,260
3
Luciano Hollanda
Brazil
23,000,730
4
Patrick Blye
Canada
22,663,403
5
Nikolai Penkin
Russia
18,426,901
6
Thomas Boivin
United Kingdom
18,388,054
7
Viteslav Cech
Czech Republic
18,020,370
8
Daria Krashennikova
Russia
17,750,348
9
Tom Macdonald
United Kingdom
17,618,322
10
Joseph Cheong
Mexico
17,118,762
Sebastian Henao finds himself in the envious position of going into Day 2 as the tournament’s chip leader. The Mexico-based grinder is armed with 27,039,049 chips and must fancy his chances of taking down this event from this position.
Victory will not be an easy task because there are some exceptional players in the chasing pack.
Elio Fox is one of those superstars. Fox, also grinding from Mexico, has 25,419,260 chips in his stack and will have a major say in where this title ends up. The two-time WSOP bracelet winner has almost $10 million in live tournament winnings and more than $4.5 million from the online poker world.
Daria Krashennikova flying high in the MILLIONS Online Mini Main Event
Slightly further down the chip counts, you find Canada’s Patrick Blye (22,663,403) who is riding the crest of a wave having won the APAT WCOAP Main Event last weekend for $27,408. He’s guaranteed another $2,105 right now but he definitely has an eye on the top prize.
Also in the top 10 chip counts at the start of Day 2 are Thomas Boivin (18,388,054) and Russian starlet Daria Krashennikova (17,750,348). As are British high stakes cash guru Tom Macdonald (17,618,322) and Joseph Cheong (17,118,762).
Stellar Names Litter The Field
Those players are joined by some of the game’s biggest names. Such luminaries as Will Kassouf (16,075,000), Dominik Nitsche (12,483,080), Tom Middleton (11,180,475), and Mike Sexton Classic champion Daniel Dvoress (7,917,694) are all still in contention for glory.
As are the likes of Justin Bonomo (6,362,236), David Peters (6,325,618), Kelly Saxby (5,313,311), David Yan (4,882,878), Ami Barer (3,473,910), Roberto Romanello (3,305,634), Hristovoje Pavlovic (2,255,971), and Mike Watson (915,478).
Play resumes at 19:05 GMT on February 15 and continues until the 169 returning players are whittled to the final table of nine. Each of those finalists will then be guaranteed $14,826 and will be eight eliminations away from a $184,507 score.
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When it’s played right, poker should inspire everyone at the table, win or lose. Of course it’s nice to walk away from the felt a winner, but it shouldn’t define your mood. If it does, maybe you’re in the wrong game.Better a rye smile and a few funny words than anything is our motto and it’s with that spirit in mind that we present to you seven final quotes from the great game to inspire your own week at the felt.Let’s get the lesson on!1. “People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.”Mary Austin makes the surprise call about a player’s beliefs at the poker table. Have you ever been all-in against an opponent and they’ve called upon ‘The Poker Gods’ to save them despite veering between only agnostic or downright atheist? This isn’t uncommon in real life, actually. In times of peril, many people will summon a higher power for help having previously never believed. We think any God might be quite busy saving the starving and hungry to assist in preventing that one-outer landing on the river, but what do we know?2. “If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.”Joe Laurie Jr. hits the nail on the head, as in poker it really is you against the world. If the world wins, then they want you back at the table as soon as possible. If you win, well you’re happy. It sounds like the easiest thing to be a winner at poker, but it is of course, very difficult. Getting to know how your table (and in microcosm, the poker world) plays, is of course, key. There’s no way around playing at the felt to do this, so stay sharp by staying at the table.3. “Even Jesus wouldn’t bet all of his chips on a Jack-three.”Phil Gordon is inclined to believe that Jesus would have been tight-aggressive or at the very least tight-passive and who are we to disagree. What would Jesus’ favourite hands be? Well it’s hard to look past the son of God set-mining with the cowboys in order to get three kings – that would be the Jesus play. It’s unlikely he’d even call the flop with pocket sixes for fear of landing the hand of the devil – 666.4. “I was tired, a little the worse for drink, jet lagged and light-headed – four out of four conditions in which one should certainly not play poker in Las Vegas.”There aren’t many people we respect more in poker than Anthony Holden, who is better health than he has enjoyed recently, spoke to us way back in 2012 at the inaugural IFP poker event at the Rotunda in London.If you haven’t read Anthony Holdens seminal poker book Big Deal, then read our review of it right here and make it your next poker purchase – it’s wonderful.5. “Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.”Jackie Robinson is bang right about one of the most important things to remember about playing poker and quitting while you’re ahead. No-one wins forever in poker, but those who learn to walk away from the table with profit on a consistent basis win the long game. In the end, the only battle is with yourself.6. “Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”Steven Wright with one of the funniest lines about poker ever written. Just the visualization of a home game with Tarot cards is enough to make us chuckle, but if you get tired of poker, you can always look at our article we published over Christmas which talks about other card games you might like to play. 7. “The next best thing about gambling and winning is gambling and losing.”Nick ‘The Greek’ Dandalos had an appetite for gambling that was insatiable and he knew that win or lose, if you’re taking part, you’re enjoying it to some extent. Poker is like that and if you’re in a chair, virtual or otherwise, you can have fun.If you’re playing poker tonight, then enjoy it! It’s enormous fun and should be enjoyed whenever you sit down to play. We hope that you’ve loved this look at some of the best quotes from the world of poker as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it together.
We are throwing a LOVE PARTY and every partypoker player is invited to join in festivities. There are sackfuls of mystery prizes to be won every day, plus weekly prizes too. Love Party? You bet you do!
We’re spreading the love from February 11 right through to March 3, that 21 days of non-stop partying. Each day sees a new LOVE PARTY mission find its way to your partypoker account. Opt-in, complete the mission and receive a mystery prize.
LOVE PARTY Missions
Missions are super simple and include tasks such as winning a hand with ace-king so you should have no worries about completing all 21 LOVE PARTY missions and bagging 21 prizes.
Mystery prizes for completing LOVE PARTY missions include $0.25 and $1 SPINS tickets, and MILLIONS Online tickets worth between $1.10 and $55. There are also tickets to the daily LOVE PARTY freerolls that have $1,000 worth of tickets guaranteed to be won. These LOVE PARTY freerolls kick off each day at 19:00 GMT.
Prize
Probability
LOVE PARTY ticket
70%
$0.25 SPINS ticket
10%
$1 SPINS ticket
13%
$1.10 MILLIONS Online ticket
4%
$5.50 MILLIONS Online ticket
1%
$11 MILLIONS Online ticket
1%
$55 MILLIONS Online ticket
1%
Reload Your Account And Receive A Weekly Prize
With MILLIONS Online right around the corner, you may be considering reloading your account so you can play in the plethora of satellites and the MILLIONS Online events. We want to give you a bonus when you make a deposit into your partypoker account.
There are three special bonus codes for you to use, one for each week of the LOVE PARTY promotion, and each one awards a mystery prize. You can use each code once, which means three guaranteed prizes finding their way to your account.
LOVE PARTY Deposit Bonus Codes
Dates
Deposit Code
February 11-17
LOVEPOKER
February 18-24
JOINPARTY
February 25 – March 3
LOVEPARTY
LOVE PARTY Deposit Bonuses
Prize
Probability
LOVE PARTY ticket
50%
$1 SPINS ticket
30%
$1.10 MILLIONS Online ticket
12%
$5 cash
5%
$11 MILLIONS Online ticket
2%
$50 cash
1%
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