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PPM Highlights
PPM IV
$1.5m victory for Michael Gracz
On March 19, 2005, 735 of the world’s finest online poker players and professionals met aboard a luxury cruise ship in the Pacific to compete for a $7.4 million prize fund in the PartyPoker.com Million IV Tournament – the biggest in WPT history and the highlight of the poker playing year.
The huge prize fund and the high level of skill in the player pool guaranteed that the six-day 2005 PartyPoker.com Million IV Tournament would deliver dramatic action.
The contest ended in a gripping battle between Michael Gracz, a 24-year-old finance graduate, and Lt. Colonel David Minto, a military rocket scientist 30 years his senior. Gracz emerged the victor, but both players walked away millionaires.
PPM III
Erick Lindgren won $1,000,000 in the 2004 PartyPoker.com Million III! PartyPoker.com chartered the entire Holland America cruise ship ms Ryndam for this record-breaking, world-class event.
PPM II
The 2003 PartyPoker.com Million II took place against the backdrop of a Caribbean paradise. 177 players (134 of whom qualified online) played exciting Limit Hold'em in the opportunity of a lifetime, competing for a prize pool of over one million dollars! The action at the final table was fast, furious, and aggressive. By the end of the night, with the chips going back and forth, Howard Lederer emerged as the winner. At midnight, he exhausted Chip Jett’s stack to win the 2003 PartyPoker.com Million II, taking home $263,850! Second place winner Jett received $175,900.
PPM I
Poker history was made the week of March 10-17, 2002 in the first PartyPoker.com Million tournament when Kathy Liebert became the first woman in poker history to win $1,000,000. This tournament also marked several other important milestones: It was the first Hold'em tournament to offer a first prize of $1,000,000; it was the first to combine online qualifiers with offline buy-ins; and it was the first to host the finals aboard a week-long cruise.
One hundred players qualified online (for only $22), while 39 bought their way in for $8,000 each.
The final came down to superstar and former World Champion, Phil Hellmuth, poker veteran Kathy Liebert and online qualifier Berj Kacherian (a database administrator from Los Angeles, California) playing for a cool $1,000,000.
When the cruise ship docked back in Los Angeles, CA, Kathy Liebert was $1 million richer and there was a new page in the book of poker history!
The PartyPoker.com Million made several marks on the poker world this week. Not only was it the biggest online poker tournament, but also the largest prize pool for any Limit Hold'em tournament in the history of poker. To top that off, the distinction as the being the first major poker tournament won by a woman was also achieved. Kathy Liebert became the first woman to ever win $1,000,000 in a poker tournament.
