Mantas Nanartavicius Wins the 2021 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North Cyprus The first highlight event of the 2021 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North Cyprus festival has crowned a champion at the five-star Merit Crystal Cove Hotel Casino & Spa in Girne , North Cyprus. It was a marathon day of more than 13 hours that whittled down the final 12 hopefuls out of a field of 745 entries to a winner in the $2,200 Warm Up as the biggest slice of the $1,370,800 prize pool was awarded.
In the early morning hours, Lithuania’s Mantas Nanartavicius celebrated the victory after defeating Bulgaria’s Fahredin Mustafov in heads-up. Both had been part of an ICM deal that also included eventual third-place finisher Ionel Anton and the trio left the trophy and $24,000 to play for. After a topsy-turvy heads-up duel, satellite winner Nanartavicius came out on top and earned the top prize of $210,912.
Runner-up Mustafov recorded his seventh final table in a Merit Poker Event with a buy-in above $1,000 since 2019 and had to settle for a consolation prize of $156,293 while Anton earned $158,318 for his efforts. The final day also featured French online poker streamer Johan “YoH ViraL” Guilbert and Artur Martirosian, the latter of which fell in 11th place. Final Result 2021 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North Cyprus $2,200 Warm Up
*denotes three-handed deal Guilbert Dominates the Early Stages
The final day saw 12 contenders return to their seats and two six-handed tables brought plenty of action from the start. Karolis Ciudaras became the first casualty and Johan Guilbert was on the verge of being the next player out. However, the Frenchman doubled through Jim Sue Pan and then soared into the lead after doubling through Georges Hanna with aces versus kings .
At the same time on the feature table, Silma Macalou hit a fortunate flush in a three-way all-in to escape from elimination and Artur Martirosian bowed out in 11th place after his pocket jacks ended up third-best. While Hanna was the odds on favourite to bubble the nine-handed final table with fewer than two big blinds, he got there twice […]
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