With the weekend upon us, participation in the Grand Prix stepped up a notch on Saturday, with days 1F and 1G of Grand Prix positing the highest starting day participation yet. With just 1 turbo starting day left to play, there have now been 1980 entries into the €1m guaranteed Party Poker event in total. The final flight is now in play and day 2 will resume at 7pm this evening.
Day 1F
Starting at noon, day 1f was almost 50% bigger than the early flight on Friday, with 308 players taking their seats. It was a long day but around 11 hours later the bubble burst and 46 players progressed to day 2, where they are automatically in the money. Just one player Poland’s Bartlomiej crossed the 1m barrier, ending on 1,117,000 chips. Here are the full chip counts from those still in contention.
Party Poker €1m GTD Grand Prix Day 1F Survivors
Position
Player
Chips
Nationality
1
Bartlomiej Klebieko
1,117,000
Polish
2
Claudio Barone
824,000
Italian
3
Dario Porto
767,000
Italian
4
Daniel Stacey
754,000
English
5
Danut Chisu
583,000
Romanian
6
Angelo Patane
573,000
Italian
7
Massimiliano Ferro
565,000
Italian
8
Francesco Delfoco
550,000
Italian
9
Luigi Serafin
465,000
Italian
10
Georgios Efthymiadis
445,000
Greek
11
Giovanni Russo
426,000
Italian
12
Antonino Milazzo
423,000
Italian
13
Thibault Thevenet
399,000
French
14
Pavle Pecelj
365,000
Romanian
15
John Oliver
358,000
Maltese
16
Maurizio Fisicaro
357,000
Italian
17
Antonino Leotta
355,000
Italian
18
Jozsef Liszkovics
341,000
Bulgarian
19
Fabio Berti
338,000
Italian
20
Corrado Conti
328,000
Italian
21
Marco Emanuele Maggio
326,000
Italian
22
Alexander Jourdain
310,000
Canadian
23
Gergo Bodnar
308,000
Italian
24
Papapetrou Yiannakis
297,000
Cypriot
25
Andea Pavvli
296,000
Cypriot
26
Federico Galati
253,000
Italian
27
Devis Cavina
252,000
Italian
28
Pasquale Macri
248,000
Italian
29
Andrew Christoforou
233,000
English
30
Dimitrios Sfakianakis
229,000
Greek
31
Francesco Caruso
228,000
Italian
32
Marco Leonzio
215,000
Italian
33
David Quang
212,000
Canadian
34
Antonio Torrente de Pasquale
208,000
Spanish
35
Alessandro Granieri
195,000
Italian
36
Massimo Bruno
185,000
Italian
37
Mario Li Puma
158,000
Italian
38
Alessandro De Leo
143,000
Maltese
39
Joseph Etau
139,000
French
40
Jordi Ribatallada Ruiz
137,000
Spanish
41
Demetri Triantafylloi
127,000
Cypriot
42
Davide Serpe
114,000
Italian
43
Alexander Barberra
105,000
Italian
44
Francesco Berte
105,000
Italian
45
Valter Miceli
86,000
Italian
46
Hong Thi Minh Pham
75,000
English
Day 1G
The final regulator starting day was even bigger with 352 players entering and a further 52 joining the players who had already qualified for day 2. It was Italian Giuseppe Failla Valeria who topped the table and currently has the biggest stack across all starting days, lording over a 1,332,000 mountain of chips.
Party Poker €1m GTD Grand Prix Day 1F Survivors
Position
Player
Chips
Nationality
1
Giuseppe Failla Valerio
1,332,000
Italian
2
Luca Pilloni
910,000
Italian
3
Stylianos Karadaglis
805,000
Greek
4
Philipp Kampf
757,000
German
5
David Abbate
738,000
Italian
6
Mattia Ridi
645,000
Italian
7
Giuseppe Tredici
576,000
Italian
8
Marco Patane
497,000
Italian
9
Antonio Bari
494,000
Italian
10
Maryna Pashkova
480,000
Belarus
11
Julio Anzelo
462,000
Italian
12
Usman Ulhaq
438,000
English
13
Rocco Criscio
431,000
Italian
14
Mateusz Kasprzyk
425,000
Polish
15
Ciro D’Ardia
402,000
Italian
16
Carmelo Polimeni
396,000
Italian
17
Salvatore Motta
377,000
Italian
18
Santiago Espanza Duran
372,000
Spanish
19
Georgian Georgescu
364,000
Romanian
20
Franco Cozzulla
362,000
Italian
21
Ioannis Chorianopo
347,000
Greek
22
Alessandro Santini
334,000
Italian
23
Marco Luis Rodriquenz
320,000
Italian
24
Giosue Matteo Tersigni
320,000
Italian
25
Andrea Crobu
319,000
Italian
26
David Csernus
318,000
Bulgarian
27
Saverio Zangone
318,000
Italian
28
Ole Hansen
310,000
Norwegian
29
Tom Vermeulen
310,000
Dutch
30
Ioannis Koulopoulo
304,000
Greek
31
Martin Barth
302,000
Hungarian
32
Raffaele Cusmano
259,000
Italian
33
Giovanni Vescio
252,000
Italian
34
Joseph Houayek
220,000
Lebanese
35
Luca Stevanato
213,000
Italian
36
Paolo Cima
212,000
Italian
37
Ludek Safranek
189,000
Czech
38
Eftychios Georgiou
172,000
Cypriot
39
Bertrand Fages
164,000
French
40
Luis Rafael Spizzirri Ros
160,000
Spanish
41
Agostino Pecoraio
136,000
Italian
42
Kevin Yung
115,000
German
43
Davide Clodomiro
111,000
Italian
44
Alfredo Cuti
104,000
Italian
45
Salvatrice D’Urso
77,000
Italian
46
Salvatore Guglielmino
77,000
Italian
47
Krisztian Kis
70,000
Hungarian
48
Milo Zandi
52,000
Swedish
49
Mateusz Kuzuch
44,000
Polish
50
Amatore Terrafino
26,000
Italian
51
Ignazio D’Angelo
25,000
Italian
52
Pasquale Ferro
25,000
Italian
Sunday’s Schedule
We are set for another busy day here at Portomaso Casino in St Julians, with the MILLIONS reaching it conclusion and the Grand Prix moving into its second day, after one last turbo flight takes place at 11am. There is also a single day €1,100 Omaha tournament, day 1 of the €1,100 Mystery Bounty event and a side event called the Sunday Party. Speaking of parties, the player party is also on tonight from 9pm in “Twenty-Two” – the club at the top of the Portomaso Tower. Go to the welcome desk to collect your ticket.
For those at home watching the MILLIONS live stream, thee is a freeroll at 8pm this evening, tune into the live stream from 6.30pm, where the password to enter will be revealed.
Start Time
Event #
Event
Buy-In
11:00
#3
Grand Prix $1m GTD Day 1H Turbo
€500+€50
15:00
#27
Omaha Single Day
€1000+€100
15:00
#3
MILLIONS FINAL DAY
N/A
19:00
#3
Grand Prix $1m GTD Day 2
N/A
20:00
#28
Mystery Bounty Day 1
€500+€500+€100
20:00
Online #1
MILLIONS Malta LIVE Twitch Freeroll
Freeroll
22:00
#29
Sunday Party
€200+€20
The full festival schedule of events can be found here
Photos from the event can be found here
Photography by Jean Marc Zerafa and Philip Matin
Jonathan Raab
Party Poker MILLIONS Malta Media Coordinator