Wow! Patrick Leonard Wins Back-to-Back Sunday Party Titles!

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Team PartyPoker’s Patrick”Patrick_Leonard” Leonard continued his purple spot of type this weekend by removing the $109 buy-in$150,000 ensured Sunday PartyPoker. You might remember that Leonard ended up at the top of the tree in the Sunday Party recently. His most current excellent success makes Leonard not just the first-ever double Sunday Party champ however likewise the very first PartyPoker gamer to win back-to-back Sunday Party competitions!

On April 16, Leonard was among 1,354 entrants in the $150,000 ensured Sunday Party. He browsed his method to Day 2, where he discovered himself 4th from 15 in chips, and with an excellent opportunity to end up being the competition’s champ. Leonard had plenty of self-confidence entering into that Day 2, not least since he had actually previously thrived in the Super $320 for $7,983.

Leonard was best to be positive due to the fact that on April 17, he left another 14 challengers in his wake, clinching the Sunday Party title and a reward worth $18,747.

Leonard’s Title Defence Begins

Fastforward to April 23, and the Sunday Party drew in 1,237 entrants, consisting of Leonard’s colleagues Jaime “jaimestaples” Staples and Matt “MatthewStaples” Staples. While Matt busted at around the midway phase, Jaime lasted till 66th location, which netted the popular mill $265 consisting of bounties.

The drape came down on Day 1’s procedures when “DaOBountMarreco” bailed out in 17th location, leaving just 16 gamers in the hunt for the Sunday Party title. Who was the chip leader entering into Day 2? The one and just Leonard, and by a range of more than 6 million chips.

In the mix was “SixBetShove,” who ended up seventh in last week’s Sunday Party.

Sunday Party Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts

Location Gamer Chips
1 Patrick_Leonard 21,092,444
2 Belgrade1111 15,070,547
3 Dondylion5 10,973,955
4 Jack Harlow 8,569,493
5 Prehistoric 8,307,880
6 brand-new name cba 7,036,843
7 SharkNoScope 6,815,884
8 dgSam1 6,786,093
9 Pebble Brain 6,753,533
10 SixBetShove 6,233,772

Leonard might have entered into Day 2 with the chip lead however success was far from ensured due to the quality of the opposition. The gamers fell one by one up until just 9 stayed, with each of those finalists securing more than $1,500 for their efforts, when you consisted of bounty payments.

“NeoTheOne71” had the plug drew in ninth location and scooped a $1,517 rating. 8th location went to “SharkNoScope” who was shot down and got $1,870. The last table then ended up being formally short-handed when “Jack Harlow” ran out of steam in seventh, a surface helpful for $2,542.

It is a popular reality that Leonard chooses short-handed tables as it enables him to use more pressure through his hallmark aggressiveness. It was at this point that a lot of viewers and railbirds really believed that back-to-back success were possible.

The win drew more detailed after “brand-new name cba” and “Belgrade1111” bailed out and padded their PartyPoker bankrolls with $3,09 and $4,510, respectively. The removal of “Deano_T8” and “KAURAMAIT0,” leading to ratings of $4,673 and $9,798, sent out the Sunday Party into the heads-up phase.

“Primordial” was the only gamer standing in between Leonard and his 2nd Sunday Party triumph in the area of 2 weeks. For Leonard at least, Leonard got the task done, busting Primordial in 2nd location and resigning him to an $11,553 alleviation reward. A pleased Leonard attracted an $18,717 rating and Sunday Party title second in the area of 7 days!

$150,000 Gtd Sunday Party Final Table Results

Location Gamer Bounties Reward Overall Prize
1 Patrick_Leonard $8,480 $10,237 $18,717
2 Prehistoric $1,333 $10,220 $11,553
3 KAURAMAIT0 $3,038 $6,760 $9,798
4 Deano_T8 $293 $4,380 $4,673
5 Belgrade1111 $1,524 $2,986 $4,510
6 brand-new name cba $761 $2,298 $3,059
7 Jack Harlow $853 $1,689 $2,542
8 SharkNoScope $529 $1,341 $1,870
9 NeoTheOne71 $456 $1,061 $1,517