It wasn’t only the No-Limit Hold’em Main Event of the 2023 PartyPoker MILLIONS Online KO that crowned its champion on May 30 because the $215 buy-in $100,000 guaranteed Pot-Limit Omaha Main Event did the same.
Hungarian grinder Benjamin Juhasz is the man who outlasted 504 opponents to bank $18,417 of the $101,000 prize pool.
MILLIONS Online KO #04 PLO Main Event Final Table Results
- Entrants: 505
- Prize Pool: $101,000
- Places Paid: 72
| Place | Player | Bounties | Prize | Total Prize | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benjamin Juhasz | Hungary | $11,257 | $7,160 | $18,417 |
| 2 | Mathias Siljander | Finland | $1,023 | $7,149 | $8,172 |
| 3 | Pavlos Xanthopoulos | Malta | $465 | $4,875 | $5,340 |
| 4 | Saulo Mazarin | Brazil | $1,356 | $3,231 | $4,587 |
| 5 | Carlo Heinze | Germany | $931 | $2,222 | $3,153 |
| 6 | Erik Bystrom | Sweden | $1,900 | $1,731 | $3,631 |
| 7 | Ivan Denev | Bulgaria | $100 | $1,251 | $1,351 |
Seventy-two of the 505 starts progressed from the various Day 1s, including Tomas Geleziunas, Brunno Botteon, and Joshua McCully. However, none of that trio made it to the seven-handed final table.
Ivan Denev did make it all the way to the final table, but he was the first to head for the showers, doing so with a $1,351 score for his seventh-place exit.
Erik Bystrom ($3,631) and Germany’s Carlo Heinze ($3,153) joined the ever-growing list of busted players before the eliminations of Saulo Mazarin ($4,587) and Pavlos Xanthopoulos ($5,340) sent the PLO Main Event into the heads-up stage.
Juhasz found himself heads-up against Finland’s Mathias Siljander, a player with several solid results online at PartyPoker and PartyPoker LIVE events. Siljander enjoyed another great result here, but it was a second-place finish this time. The Finn banked $8,172 while Juhasz helped himself to an $18,417 payday thanks, partly, to $11,257 worth of bounties.
Sweden Has a Sunday Party Champion
The final MILLIONS Online KO edition of the popular Sunday Party drew in a 1,887-strong crowd, leaving us with an overlay of $11,300; great news for those 327 players that finished in the money places!
That $200,000 in prize money resulted in nobody at the final table taking home less than $2,054 for their vast efforts when you include bounty payments.
Ludvig Lindstrom ($2,054), Steven Evans ($2,803), and Eduardo Escada ($2,538) exited stage left, leaving the final table short-handed, a situation where the more aggressive players usually thrive.
Fifth place went to Eduardo Cardigo ($3,943), fourth to Luciano Hollanda ($7,824), and third to Jorge Dinis ($8,544) of Malta.
Both Niklas Kley-Lundborg of Sweden and Alexandru Baron of Canada locked horns heads-up for the title of champion and the largest slice of the $200,000 prize pool. Both locked-in More than $11,600 from the main prize pool, but the final bounty payments were almost as large as those prizes.
Kley-Lundborg gained the upper hand and never looked back, eventually leaving Baron in his wake. The runner-up padded their PartyPoker bankroll with $14,603, leaving Kely-Lundborg to capture a $22,060 prize.
MILLIONS Online KO #10 The Sunday Party Final Table Results
- Entrants: 1,887
- Prize Pool: $200,000
- Places Paid: 327
| Place | Player | Country | Bounties | Prize | Total Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Niklas Kley-Lundborg | Sweden | $10,370 | $11,690 | $22,060 |
| 2 | Alexandru Baron | Canada | $2,934 | $11,669 | $14,603 |
| 3 | Jorge Dinis | Malta | $1,021 | $7,523 | $8,544 |
| 4 | Luciano Hollanda | Brazil | $2,869 | $4,955 | $7,824 |
| 5 | Eduardo Cardigo | Malta | $582 | $3,361 | $3,943 |
| 6 | Stephen Muller | Germany | $1,229 | $2,560 | $3,789 |
| 7 | Eduardo Escada | Brazil | $680 | $1,858 | $2,538 |
| 8 | Steven Evans | United Kingdom | $1,324 | $1,479 | $2,803 |
| 9 | Ludvig Lindstrom | Sweden | $895 | $1,159 | $2,054 |
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