The four starting days of the Party Poker MILLIONS main event at Irish Poker Festival are now in the can. Coupled with buy-ins prior to the start of day 2, the €700k guarantee has been surpassed. With a total of 286 entries and a prize pool of €766,840, day 2 of the event is now in progress, as the remaining contenders fight it out for a place on the final table and a crack at the €210,000 first prize. That’ll buy more Guinness than Padriag Parkinson can consume in a regular weekend, usually.  

The last 29 players standing (technically it should be sitting) will make the prize money, with the min cash being €6,000. These are the full payouts.

Irish Poker Festival MILLIONS Main Event Payouts

Finishing Position
Prize
Finishing Position
Prize

1
€210,000
9
€18,500

2
€120,000
10
€15,000

3
€75,000
11
€12,000

4
€56,500
12
€10,000

5
€44,000
13
€9,000

6
€35,000
14-17
€8,000

7
€28,000
18-24
€7,000

8
€22,840
25-29
€6,000

A high quality field has assembled for what is the first big buy-in event in Ireland for many years and while there was some pre-festival doubt about whether the guarantee would be reached, it’s been well supported by Irish and international players alike.

Friday’s Day 1c was predictably the largest starting day, with 136 entries, 75 of whom made it through to today. The overnight chip leader from this flight was Glenn Keogh on 307,100 chips, who ended over 120,000 clear of his nearest challengers. David Miscikowski (189,300) and Niall Farrell (180,800) posted the next biggest stacks.

MILLIONS Day 1c Survivor Chip Counts

Player
Chip Count
Player
Chip Count

Glenn Keogh
307,100
Michael Dwyer
72,000

David Miscikowski
189,300
Thomas Powell
71,100

Niall Farrell
180,800
Andrew Toole
69,900

Jose Rafael Mota de Silva
173,300
Micrea Rus
69,500

Scott Margereson
171,000
Yehong Luo
69,400

Weijie Zheng
159,200
Audrius Daugvilavicius
68,700

Ilan Cukrowicz
155,800
Christopher Day
68,400

Padraig O’Neil
155,300
Eugeniu Barbaros
68,200

Daryl McAleenan
152,100
David Masters
67,400

Conor O’Rourke
148,300
Orestis Kanakopoulos
65,500

Kyle Rafferty
148,200
David Graves
65,000

Thomas Gerard O’Brien
146,800
Liam Chevalier
64,600

John Dwyer
142,000
Sacha Le Breton
63,600

Colum Higgins
137,900
James Noonan
59,000

Ross Coveney
130,900
Graham Ivany
58,000

Michal Plichta
128,300
Arnaud Enselme
56,800

Jamie Brent
127,700
Darren Millar
55,600

Andrew Hedley
127,400
Gareth McMahon
54,700

Mark Reilly
122,800
Benjamin Yaniw
53,600

Simon Wilson
122,000
Justin Boyle
53,100

Sean Foley
121,500
Keith Touhey
52,800

Michal Zimani
119,200
John Farrell
52,700

Colm Tuite
112,700
Fraser Bellamy
52,200

Robert William Elkin
108,600
Johnathan Proudfoot
48,700

Tomas McNanmara
107,200
Gustavo Kogachi
47,000

Ray Wheatley
107,000
Sean O’Sullivan
46,900

Conal Prendergast
99,300
Jamie Flynn
46,100

Carl Stephen Cullen
96,000
Elie Nakache
44,000

Chris Dowling
90,800
Ray Bryant
43,700

Andy Black
90,300
Dixon Ruecker
42,400

Darren Harbinson
88,800
Graeme Watts
41,900

Frank Williams
83,300
Patrice Brandt
40,300

Nikolai Mamut
83,100
Lukas Kouril
37,600

Declan Connolly
81,000
Stephen Kavanagh
36,300

Luke Walsh
80,900
John Patten
35,500

Neil O’Reilly
78,500
David Faulkner
32,800

Ladislav Cerveny
73,000
Emmett Mullin
24200

Peter Toth
72,100

Day 1D, on a turbo clock, saw a further 17 players enter, of which 11 made it through. Legendary Irish Poker author Dara O’Kearney topped the diminutive flight’s leaderboard with a not so small 216,000 pile of chips. He also had a lead of over 100,000 in the flight, with Feargal Nealon lying in second place on 102,000. DTO training site owner Dominik Nitsche also made it through to day two via this flight, ending the day on 59,200.

MILLIONS Day 1d Survivor Chip Counts

Player
Chip Count

Dara O’Kearney
216,000

Feargal Nealon
102,000

Corey Gilmore
71,000

Domink Nitsche
59,200

Aleksi Savela
56,600

Mallory Frere
53,400

Jozsef Fauszt
50,000

Sammy Zheng
50,000

Laurynas Levinskas
49,200

Vytautas Aganauskas
40,200

Dylan Yip
39,400

Day 2 started in typical day 2 fashion with a high volume of early exits, whittling the number of remaining players down from the 159 who started the day to just under 100 by the first break. Conor Bergin, who had started the day on 89,500, has converted this into 474,000 and holds the chip lead at the time of writing, with Seamus Cahill (424,000) and Glenn Keogh (405,00) the only other stacks to have made it past the 400k mark. 

There are some interesting tables, for example, Bart Lybaert and Michel Molenaar once again found themselves on the same table. At the recent Malta MILLIONS festival they finished 1st and 2nd in the Hydra High Roller event, which Bart won. Andy Black, Niall Farrell and Richard Ashby are also sharing a table today.

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Jonathan Raab

Irish Poker Festival Media Coordinator