PartyPoker Million VI

The first PartyPoker.com Million to visit the Mediterranean is underway! It set sail on May 3 from Venice in Italy and will stop at ports in Bari, Italy; Olympia/Katakolon, Greece; Izmir, Turkey; Istanbul, Turkey; and Dubrovnik, Croatia. The final day of the cruise is May 10 this Saturday.

You may remember that PartyPoker Million was the event that skyrocketed NC resident Michael Gracz to the upper echelon of poker phenoms only a few short years ago.

The final table starts today and I believe that PartyPoker.Com is providing a blog to track the events and players.

The Final Table Chip Counts and Payouts are as follows:

Final Table Chip Counts:
1 Dominik Stopka, Germany, 327,000
2 Alexander Jung, Germany, 326,000
3 Mika Paasonen, Finland, 236,000
4 Raymond Estall, UK, 187,000
5 Andreas Jorbeck, Sweden, 182,000
5 Johannes Strassmann, Germany, 182,000
7 Peter Steinlesberger, Austria, 132,000
8 Cory Albertson, USA, 90,000
9 Kenneth Gregersen, Denmark, 44,000

Other results:
10 Mikael Erixon, $21,230
11 Fredrik Keitel, $17,250
12 Samir Shakhtoor, $17,250
13 Victor Sazonkin, $17,250
14 Paul Testud, $13,270
15 Florian Langmann, $13,270
16 Alexey Yuzikov, $13,270
17 Marcel Finnema, $11,280
18 Julian Lenz, $11,280
19 Allan Forsyth, $11,280
20 Matthew Dobbins, $11,280
21 Joseph Myles, $11,280
22 Christoph Haller, $11,280
23 Heinrich Mayr, $11, 280
24 Nicholas Bower, $11,280
25 Keith McGrath
26 Simon Munz
27 Christoph Niesert
28 Thomas Bihl
29 Epifanio Armando Licon
30 Ralph Rudd
31 Christian Schafer
32 George Dunst
33 Philip Hulse

Final Table Payouts:
1 $358,280
2 $285,583
3 $159,235
4 $119,425
5 $92, 883
6 $67,675
7 $47,770
8 $31,845
9 $21,230

The winner of the event will join a short but exclusive list: Kathy Liebert, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, Michael Gracz and Mike Schneider were the previous winners of the PartyPoker Million.

It's PartyPoker.... so the suck outs have already begun!