While millions of people worldwide downed tools for the festive period, hundreds of PartyPoker players used their spare time to hit the online poker tables with renewed vigour and battled it out in the PartyPoker Championship (PPC) Winter Edition events.
The biggest buy-in event of the PPC Winter edition took place on New Year's Day, the $1,050 buy-in The Grand. Some 95 players bought in and fought for a slice of the $100,000 prize pool.
Everyone at the nine-handed final table secured a payout of at least $3,281, the sum that found its way into the PartyPoker account of ninth-place finish Luke Jones of the United Kingdom.