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It is back. The PartyPoker MILLIONS Online debuted several years ago. It didn’t happen in 2020 because, well, coronavirus. PartyPoker became the go-to site for many tours that took their live events online because of pandemic-related cancellations and closures. PartyPoker hosted numerous World Poker Tour series, along with the Irish Poker Open, Super High Roller Bowl and Poker Masters.
PartyPoker did fit some of its own series in throughout the year, but it saved the PartyPoker MILLIONS Online for the beginning of 2021.
The tournament will kick off on February 21 and play through the final table on March 3. Multiple reentries, two starting days, and many satellites will give players the chance to get in on the $5 million guarantee.
MILLIONS Online 2021 Details
The Main Event of the MILLIONS Online will require a $5,300 buy-in and guarantee a prize pool of $5 million. There will be two starting days, and players will be able to reenter once if they choose.
Players will start with one million chips and blinds at 2,500/5K with a 625 ante. Levels will be 25 minutes long, and late registration will remain open on each of the starting days until the end of Level 9. Each starting day will play until only 15% of the field remains.
It should be noted that players will be required to use their real names.
–Sunday, February 21: $5,300 buy-in Main Event Day 1A
–Sunday, February 28: $5,300 buy-in Main Event Day 1B
–Monday, March 1: Main Event Day 2
–Tuesday, March 2: Main Event Day 3
–Wednesday, March 3: Main Event Final Table
Note that levels increase to 30 minutes each on Day 2 and 40 minutes each for the remainder of the tournament.
The #MILLIONSOnline Festival is coming in February 2021 with a $5m Guaranteed main event. 10 x $5,300 Main Event Seats GTD every Sunday with no direct buy in to the satellite final, qualify in via the $0.01, $5.50 and $55 satellite phases
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— partypoker (@partypoker) December 23, 2020
For those who can’t afford or don’t satellite into the Main Event, there will be a mini version with a $1,100 buy-in and $1 million guarantee. Players will receive one million starting chips in this one, along with 25-minute levels to start and late registration until the end of Level 9. This tournament will also allow one reentry and play its starting days down to 15% of the original field.
That event starts earlier in February and will play out as follows:
–Saturday, February 13: $1,100 buy-in Mini Main Event Day 1A
–Sunday, February 14: $1,100 buy-in Mini Main Event Day 1B
–Monday, February 15: Mini Main Event Day 2
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–Tuesday, February 16: Mini Main Event Day 3
–Wednesday, February 17: Mini Main Event Final Table
Ways to Win Seats
There are satellites running for both of the events already on PartyPoker. There is no shortage of chances to get into one or both tournaments at a discount. They start at just $0.01.
PartyPoker will host massive satellites on January 24 and 31. There will be no direct buy-ins, as they are phased events that lead up to the big satellites. The Mini satellite will guarantee 20 seats for the $1,100 buy-in Mini Main, while the bigger satellite will promise 10 seats to the $5,300 buy-in Main Event.
Phase 1 action started this weekend, but Phase 2 events begin this week. Buy-ins to those events start at just $11 for the Mini Main and $55 for the Main Event.
You love the #MILLIONSOnline Mini Main satellites so much that we've decided to up the guarantee on them AGAIN! There's now 20 x $1,100 seats guaranteed every Sunday and the maximum buy-in satellite to qualify for the final is just $11! https://t.co/VrYRtjV2p2pic.twitter.com/fstJyBshDn
— partypokerLIVE (@partypokerlive) January 16, 2021
Keep the PartyPoker social media pages open for information on more qualifiers to the MILLIONS Online.
Massive 2018 and 2019 Fields
The two previous iterations of this tournament were substantially larger than this one is anticipated to be.
The 2018 inaugural MILLIONS Online ran from the end of November to the beginning of December that year. The $5,300 buy-in event allowed reentries and put a $20 million guarantee on the prize pool. When all was said and done, there were 4,367 entries to surpass that guarantee and create a prize pool of $21,385,000.
The top two finishers agreed to a payout deal, and when it all finished, Manuel Ruivo of the Netherlands won it for $2,329,944, just slightly more than Pim de Goede of Malta, who won $2,309,995.
In 2019, PartyPoker ran a follow-up MILLIONS Online in December. That one required a $10,300 buy-in but kept the $20 million guarantee. From four starting days, the final board showed 2,109 entries and a $21.09 million prize pool.
That one also ended with a deal, with Benjamin Chalot taking first place for $2,259,113 and “Lucio” finishing second for $2,222,511.
Why, you might ask, would this year’s guarantee be so much smaller?
The answer is market saturation. While online poker numbers skyrocketed during the pandemic, so did the tournament options. PokerStars increased its series options, and GGPoker substantially broadened its presence and offered almost constant tournament options. Therefore, the bright lights of the MILLIONS Online don’t draw players as they did in past years.
Is it still a good tournament with great value? Of course! PartyPoker simply had to adjust to the 2020 market conditions.
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The satellite framework this year has been designed with a view to make both the Main Event and Mini Main Event even more accessible.
Partypoker flagship brand MILLIONS Online returns to the dot-com market this February after a year’s hiatus.
Running February 13 to March 9, MILLIONS this time around has a buy-in of $5,300 and a guarantee of $5 million. The Main Event will have two Day 1s, each of which will allow only a single re-entry.
Day 1A begins on Sunday, February 21 with a direct buy-in of $5,300. Day 1B will be held the following Sunday on February 28. These two flights will need to attract 1000 total entrants to cover the guarantee. The final table takes place on March 3.
This time around there will be an additional 27 events to bolster the schedule. In total almost $18 million will be guaranteed across the entire series.
“We’re extremely proud to be hosting yet another online leg of the world-renowned MILLIONS tour,” Chris Donnachie, partypoker Head of Poker Room Management, said via press release. “The satellite framework this year has been designed with a view to make both the Main Event and Mini Main Event even more accessible to players of all buy-in levels.”
“With opportunities for players to get their hands on a $5,300 Main Event ticket for just one cent, we expect this year’s field to be one of the most diverse ever,” Donnachie concluded.
Satellites are available now in the client, starting with cent-rolls (one-cent buy-in tournaments) awarding seats into a stepped satellite system.
Other events on the schedule include a Mini Main Event for $1 million, a $500,000 guaranteed PKO event and a $3 million guaranteed Mega High Roller which features an eye-watering buy-in of $102,000.
20 seats to the Mini Main are being offered in satellite finals running on Sundays. The cent-rolls feed into $1.10 and $11 phases with no direct buy-in to the final, ensuring a recreational-heavy field.
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Partypoker MILLIONS Online History
2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | |
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Month | Dec | Nov – Dec | Nov – Dec | Feb – Mar |
Buy-in | $5,300 | $5,300 | $10,300 | $5,300 |
GTD | $5,000,000 | $20,000,000 | $20,000,000 | $5,000,000 |
Prize Pool | $5,135,000 | $21,835,000 | $21,090,000 | |
Surpassed | 2.70% | 9.18% | 5.45% | |
Entries Required | 1000 | 4000 | 2000 | |
Entries Received | 1027 | 4367 | 2109 | |
First Place Prize | $1,027,000 | $2,329,943 | $2,259,113 | |
No. of Millionaires | 1 | 4 | 4 |
With the MILLIONS debut in 2017, party attracted 1027 players to the event, just meeting its $5 million guarantee. But what followed in 2018 was historic: partypoker ran a tournament four times the size of its predecessor, with a guarantee of $20 million and a buy-in of $5,300.
It would become at the time the largest online poker tournament ever held. The 2018 event would go on to attract 4367 players, surpassing the guarantee by almost 10%. However, it did take a year of promotions and giveaways from the operator to achieve this, so it was no picnic. It paid out a first-place prize of $2.3 million, at the time the largest single prize in online poker history.
In 2019, another $20 million was guaranteed but this time the buy-in was doubled to $10,300 and the number of Day 1s dropped to four. 2000 total entries were required; it attracted 2109, covering by 5.5%.
Partypoker held on to this record for largest single online poker tournament until last year. GGPoker came along with their GG WSOP Main Event, which attracted 5,802 to create a prize pool of over $27 million.
Understandably, partypoker has decided not to try and outdo GGPoker this year. Instead, it has returned to the original 2017 format, with a $5k buy-in and $5 million guarantee. It is building the brand into more of a festival with multiple standout tournaments rather than a single spectacle event.
2020 Skipped
Originally, MILLIONS had been slated to run in 2020, with partypoker teasing dates of it running in July before it got pushed back into September, then December, until it finally settled on a date in early 2021.
The reason the date kept on getting pushed back was in part due to party’s own $100 million-guaranteed WPT World Online Championships that kept on getting extended. It ultimately stretched over ten weeks.
Pushing the date into 2021 gives partypoker—and its players—some breathing space before running another big event.
The MILLIONS Series will run February 13 to March 9, 2021.
partypoker MILLIONS 2021 Schedule
Event | Guarantee | Buyin |
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MILLIONS Online #01 Mini Main Event Day 2: $1M Gtd [3-Day Event + FT Wednesday] | $1,000,000 | $1000 + $100 |
MILLIONS Online #02 Mini Second Chance: $50K Gtd [1-Day Event] | $50,000 | $500 + $30 |
MILLIONS Online #03 6-Max High Roller: $500K Gtd [1-Day Event] | $500,000 | $10000 + $300 |
MILLIONS Online #04 6-Max High Roller Turbo: $200K Gtd [1-Day Event] | $200,000 | $5000 + $200 |
MILLIONS Online #05 6-Max Knockout: $250K Gtd [PKO, 2-Day Event] | $250,000 | $1500 + $100 |
MILLIONS Online #06 Omaha High Roller: $150K Gtd [1-Day Event] | $150,000 | $3000 + $200 |
MILLIONS Online #07 Opener Day 2: $500K Gtd [PKO, 2-Day Event] | $500,000 | $1000 + $50 |
MILLIONS Online #08 Main Event Day 2: $5M Gtd [3-Day Event + FT Wednesday] | $5,000,000 | $5000 + $300 |
MILLIONS Online #09 High Roller Turbo: $100K Gtd [1-Day Event] | $100,000 | $2000 + $100 |
MILLIONS Online #10 Omaha: $200K Gtd [2-Day Event] | $200,000 | $2000 + $100 |
MILLIONS Online #11 6-Max Super High Roller: $1M Gtd [2-Day Event] | $1,000,000 | $25000 + $500 |
MILLIONS Online #12 6-Max High Roller Turbo: $200K Gtd [1-Day Event] | $200,000 | $5000 + $200 |
MILLIONS Online #13 Knockout: $250K Gtd [PKO, 2-Day Event] | $250,000 | $1500 + $100 |
MILLIONS Online #14 6-Max: $300K Gtd [2-Day Event] | $300,000 | $3000 + $200 |
MILLIONS Online #15 Omaha High Roller: $200K Gtd [1-Day Event] | $200,000 | $5000 + $200 |
MILLIONS Online #16 Warm Up Day 2: $500K Gtd [PKO, 2-Day Event] | $500,000 | $1000 + $50 |
MILLIONS Online #17 High Roller Turbo: $100K Gtd [1-Day Event] | $100,000 | $2000 + $100 |
MILLIONS Online #18 Second Chance: $250K Gtd [2-Day Event] | $250,000 | $2500 + $100 |
MILLIONS Online #19 Omaha Knockout: $200K Gtd [PKO, 2-Day Event] | $200,000 | $2000 + $100 |
MILLIONS Online #20 Super High Roller: $1M Gtd [2-Day Event] | $1,000,000 | $25000 + $500 |
MILLIONS Online #21 High Roller Turbo: $200K Gtd [1-Day Event] | $200,000 | $5000 + $200 |
MILLIONS Online #22 Turbo Knockout: $200K Gtd [PKO, 1-Day Event] | $200,000 | $1500 + $100 |
MILLIONS Online #23 Mix-Max: $300K Gtd [2-Day Event] | $300,000 | $3000 + $200 |
MILLIONS Online #24 6-Max Omaha High Roller: $200K Gtd [1-Day Event] | $200,000 | $5000 + $200 |
MILLIONS Online #25 Closer Day 2: $500K Gtd [PKO, 2-Day Event] | $500,000 | $1000 + $50 |
MILLIONS Online #26 High Roller: $1M Gtd [2-Day Event] | $1,000,000 | $10000 + $300 |
MILLIONS Online #27 High Roller Turbo: $200K Gtd [1-Day Event] | $200,000 | $5000 + $200 |
MILLIONS Online #28 Mega High Roller: $3M Gtd [2-Day Event] | $3,000,000 | $100000 + $2000 |