Party Poker Main Event Live
In 2011 PartyGaming merged with bwin to form Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment. As of 2017, it remains among the largest online poker card rooms. The site is endorsed by Mike Sexton, the host of the World Poker Tour television show. The domain partypoker.com attracted at least 3.6 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com study. Partypoker is stopping operations in your country. You can no longer deposit, but you can still play until. The MILLIONS, partypoker LIVE’s flagship poker series, heads next to South America with a stop at Punta Del Este, in what is known as the St. Tropez of Uruguay. The $10,300 Main Event will again feature online flights on the 2nd and 4th of February, 2020, the live tournament running February 11th-15th.
Do you like news about partypoker? Well, you are about to get more news about partypoker. The online poker room has announced that it will begin allowing players who wish to compete in the partypoker LIVE events the opportunity to begin the tournaments on the internet.
It sounds a little weird, but the structure is quite simple. Those who start the tournament online will compete during the first two days on partypoker and then join the live tournament on Day 3. Those playing at the live venue will just play poker as normal through the first two days.
Everyone who makes it to Day 3, whether they start online or live, will be in the money.
On the partypoker blog, partypoker Managing Director Tom Waters said:
This is a great concept and the fact that players will not have to travel to a live event until they are in the money is brilliant.
It means more flexibility for players and will save them on travel and expenses.
We’re trying to make our tournaments more accessible and I really hope this idea is a success, helping those players that find it difficult to take time off work, as well as reducing costs for everyone.
In a short video introducing the idea, partypoker LIVE founder and owner of the Dusk Till Dawn poker club Rob Yong said that he hopes that giving more players the opportunity to participate will bring more people out to the partypoker LIVE Main Events.
He added that this is in experimental mode right now and that if it’s a hit then partypoker will continue with it, but if players don’t like it, then they will ditch the concept.
There is no mention on the partypoker website of there being any break between Day 2 and Day 3, so one would assume that players who survive Day 2 online will still have to make it over to the partypoker LIVE venue for the tournament the next day. Thus, the players will still need to be within a reasonable travel distance. That said, it will definitely allow people to save time and money if they are knocked out in either of the first two days.
While different, the online-to-live format is not a completely foreign concept in poker. When the World Series of Poker introduced its first online bracelet event, it was scheduled to pause after the final table was determined and then moved to the Rio the next day to finish it up live. Players complained that those who lived several hours away would have a rough go of it if they made the final table and then immediately had to drive to Las Vegas, so a one-day gap was inserted.
After the first two years of online bracelet events, the World Series of Poker scrapped the live final table idea and kept all of the events completely online.
The next partypoker LIVE event is MILLIONS Vegas @ Aria from June 28th to July 2nd.
| Public | |
| Industry | Online poker |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | Ruth Parasol, Anurag Dikshit, Vikrant Bhargava |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Tom Waters, Head of Poker | |
| Owner | GVC Holdings |
| Website | www.partypoker.com |
partypoker (formerly stylized PartyPoker) is an online poker card room. Launched in 2001 by PartyGaming, the site has had up to 80,000 players logged-in and was the largest online card room until 2006. In 2011 PartyGaming merged with bwin to form Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment. As of 2017, it remains among the largest online poker card rooms. The site is endorsed by Mike Sexton, the host of the World Poker Tourtelevision show. The domain partypoker.com attracted at least 3.6 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com study.[1] In 2016, after a protracted bidding process between 888 Holdings and GVC Holdings, Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment accepted GVC Holdings' bid for £1.1 billion. Today, the site is run by GVC Holdings and is available in 14 different languages. In addition to partypoker.com, partypoker also offers dedicated networks for French and Italian based players via partypoker.fr and partypoker.it, respectively. GVC Holdings also acquired Partycasino during the 2011 merger of Party Gaming.
partypoker offers a wide variety of different tournaments with different prize levels for single-table tournaments as well as multi-table tournaments. partypoker's Sit & Go tournaments run 24 hours a day and players can register for tournaments with entry fees starting at $1, and ranging in size from 2 to 50 players.
Cash games[edit]
The games include Texas Hold 'em (No Limit and Fixed), Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo, 7 Card Stud and 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo. The stakes can range from .01/.02 to 100/200. In 2012 partypoker removed its high-stakes cash games with the highest stakes at $10/$20.[2][3][4]
Party Poker formerly offered a bad beat jackpot.
partypoker also offers FastForward cash game format. Every player is automatically re-seated to another random table immediately after they fold their hand or after the hand is over. This format is very popular by players and poker rooms. It is faster and offers a higher level of security as it is a lot more difficult for two or more players to participate in collusion.
Tournaments[edit]
The site offers a variety of tournaments, ranging from 10 to thousands of participants. Single-table and multi-table sit n' go tournaments are offered as well as scheduled tournaments.
partypoker hosts the partypoker Million. This tournament begins with online qualifiers, but the final stages are held at actual poker tables aboard a cruise ship. The winners of previous Party Poker Million events were Kathy Liebert, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, and Michael Gracz.
History[edit]
partypoker was the largest online card room until 2006 when it left the US market due to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. PokerStars has since claimed the title.[5]
In 2014, partypoker plans on returning to the US market for real money players, but on March 1, 2017, it still does not accept US players except for the state of New Jersey.[6]
In 2015, partypoker partnered with Dusk Till Dawn and later hosted 'The partypoker Grand Prix'.[7][8]
In 2017, the casino hosted the partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Dusk Till Dawn festival. The £5,300 main event generated a prize pool of £6,017,395. Maria Lampropulos won the main event earning £1,000,000.[9] The £10,300 High Roller event was won by Vojtech Ruzicka, earning him US$363,135.[10]
In February 2018, partypoker relaunched their Team Online, with Matthew Staples first to be signed.[11] Fellow Twitch Streamers Jamie Staples, Hristivoje Pavlovic, Travis Darroch, Patrick Tardif, Alan Widmann, Ryan Schoonbaert, Courtney Gee, Monika Zukowicz and Jeff Gross all followed, joining the already established ElkY.[12]
Televised events[edit]
partypoker hosts two televised events:
A cash game known as the partypoker The Big Game and the partypoker Premier League a tournament structure league.
References[edit]
Party Poker Main Event Live Updates
- ^partypoker attracts almost 4m visitors online yearly
- ^Matthew Pitt (2012-07-19). 'partypoker Remove High Stakes Cash Games In Unprecedented Step'. PokerNews Global. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
- ^Rebecca McAdam (2012-07-20). 'partypoker.com Disables High Stakes Cash Games'. cardplayer.com. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
- ^Dan Katz (2012-07-24). 'partypoker Eliminates High Stakes Cash Games'. pokernewsdaily.com. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
- ^'History of Party Poker Part of Partygaming'. Gambling Sites. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
- ^'US Party Poker to Return Soon'. uspokersites.us. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
- ^'UK poker growth on the cards with DTD/partypoker partnership'. partypoker. 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
- ^'Dusk till Dawn Info'. partypoker.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^zedmaster84 (2017-04-23). 'Maria Lampropulos Wins the 2017 partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Dusk Till Dawn Main Event (£1,000,000)'. PokerNews. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^Zetzsche, Christian (2017-04-19). 'Vojtech Ruzicka Wins the 2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Dusk Till Dawn £10,300 High Roller'. PokerNews. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^https://www.instagram.com/p/BuB2I9EggH7/?hl=en
- ^https://poker.partypoker.com/en/p/team-partypoker/index