2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona

Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
€1,700,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,300
Prize Pool
€11,397,500
Entries
1,175
Level Info
Level
42
Blinds
6,000,000 / 12,000,000
Ante
12,000,000

Lefrancois Leads After Day 2 in Barcelona; French Singer Bruel in Second Place

Level 22 : 175,000/350,000, 350,000 ante
Pascal Lefrancois
Pascal Lefrancois

The record-setting 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona €10,300 Main Event at the Casino Barcelona is one step closer to crowning three new millionaires in one of the hotbeds of Europe's poker circuit. The lion's share of the €11,397,500 prize pool is still up for grabs.

What started with 329 hopefuls out of a field of 1,175 entries has been whittled down all the way to just 58 players after 10 levels of 60 minutes each, and Canada's Pascal Lefrancois, who started into the day as one of the short stacks with just 1.2 million, has taken over the lead after bagging up 66.525 million in chips.

The money bubble burst at the end of the sixth level of the day and secured all remaining players a payday of €25,000, while all survivors of Day 2 have already €35,000 locked up for their efforts. Day 3 will recommence on Saturday April 14th, 2018, as of 1 p.m. local time with blinds of 200,000/400,000 and a button ante of 400,000.

Patrick Bruel
French Singer Patrick Bruel is 2nd in chips after Day 2

Second in Chips for Day 3 is well-known French singer and poker enthusiast Patrick Bruel with 48.45 million in chips, while Sergey Lebedev follows in third place with 40.925 million. Other notables in the top 10 include Jan-Eric Schwippert (38 million), Julian Stuer (31.5 million), Balazs Botond (31.5 million) and Ognyan Dimov (29.45 million. A string of double ups, a double knockout and a big double with aces against the ace-king of Jonathan Clark lifted Bruel from short stack to contender.

A host of big names remains in contention for the title and €1,700,000 first-place payout. Stephen Chidwick (29.375 million), who finished second in the €101,000 Super High Roller, and Sam Greenwood (23.735 million), who won the €51,000 Super High Roller, already scored seven-figure scores during the festival and bagged up above-average stacks. Same also applies for Sean Winter (27.4 million), Mikhail Rudoy (27.05 million), Upeshka De Silva (26.15 million) and team partypoker's Philipp Gruissem (22.875 million). His team mates Johnny Lodden (12.75 million) and Sam Trickett (10 million) will also return for Day 3.

Tournament DayDateFurther Information
Day 1aWednesday, April 11, 2018 @ 12:0093 out of 338 players advanced to Day 2
Day 1bWednesday, April 11, 2018 @ 17:0040 out of 150 players advanced to Day 2
Day 1cThursday, April 12, 2018 @ 12:00110 out of 383 players advanced to Day 2
Day 1dThursday, April 12, 2018 @ 17:0086 out of 304 players advanced to Day 2
Day 2Friday, April 13, 2018 @ 13:00329 of 1,175 entries upon restart, 60 min Levels, 10 levels played
Day 3Saturday, April 14, 2018 @ 13:0058 of 1,175 entries remain upon restart, play 10 Levels or Down to Final Table
Day 4Sunday, April 15, 2018 @ 12:0060 min Levels, Play Down to a Winner

In the first four levels the eliminations kept coming at an electric pace and among those to depart without anything to show for were Kenny Hallaert, Gus Hansen, 2017 MILLIONS Russia champion Aleksandr Gofman, Alex Foxen, Erik Seidel, and Niall Farrell to name just a few. The partypoker team was also reduced rapidly as Kristen Bicknell, Anatoly Filatov, Joao Simao, team online's Josip Simunic, Isaac Haxton and Roberto Romanello were all felted before the money bubble. Romanello was involved in a three-way all in with pocket tens against the pocket nines of Georgios Vrakas and Upeshka De Silva's pocket aces in the big blind.

When almost all players were already gone into the dinner break after the end of the sixth level and the additional hand on their tables, the bubble burst. Patrik Korsar was the last player to leave empty-handed when he four-bet shoved pocket queens into the pocket aces of Preben Stokkan. Once all other hopefuls returned to their seats and were given the good news, the applause started and the chips went flying with around 40 casualties in one hour.

Patrik Korsar Bubbles the €10,300 Main Event
Patrik Korsar Bubbles the €10,300 Main Event

Ryan Riess was gone way earlier than he'd hoped for after his pocket sixes on a five-high turn ended up second best to the pocket sevens of Sam Greenwood. Dominik Panka, Maria Ho, Matthias De Meulder, [Removed:17] and Nick Maimone were just some of the big names that busted outside of the top 100.

They were followed by Paul Newey, Chris Brammer, Anthony Zinno, €2,700 Warm Up runner-up Bartlomiej Machon and 2017 MILLIONS Russia runner-up David Laka. Viktor "Isildur1" Blom's bid to claim the second Main Event title of the tour ended in 68th place. The Swede check-raised a nine-high flop with ace-nine for top pair and called the shove of Aymon Hata, but failed to improve against pocket kings.

Viktor Blom
No back-to-back partypoker LIVE MILLIONS titles for Viktor \"Isildur1\" Blom

All remaining 58 players bagged up around 2 a.m. local time and will aim to play down to a final table on the penultimate tournament day. As usual the PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to cover all the action until a champion is crowned.

Day 3 Seat Draw

TableSeatPlayerCountryChip CountBig Blinds
581Jan-Eric SchwippertGermany38,000,00095
582Vitalii PankovRussia33,150,00083
583Henrik HecklenDenmark6,075,00015
584Vicent Bosca RamonSpain8,575,00021
585Sergey LebedevRussia40,925,000102
586Davidi KitaiBelgium11,975,00030
587Adam OwenUnited Kingdom24,025,00060
588Joe SerockUnited States15,450,00039
      
591Roberto DuekBrazil16,500,00041
592Sirzat HissouGermany17,500,00044
593Anton WiggSweden13,400,00034
594Pierre CalamusaFrance18,600,00047
595Johnny LoddenNorway12,750,00032
596Kenneth SmaronUnited States25,375,00063
597Luuk GielesNetherlands4,375,00011
598Diogo VeigaPortugal21,375,00053
      
601Paul Vas NunesUnited Kingdom10,275,00026
603Anson TsangHong Kong12,750,00032
604Mustapha KanitItaly8,475,00021
605Thomas BoivinBelgium19,300,00048
606Julian ThomasGermany9,325,00023
607Ramin HajiyevAzerbaijan21,850,00055
608Oliver PriceUnited Kingdom14,150,00035
      
611Alexander IvarssonSweden21,650,00054
612Pascal LefrancoisCanada66,525,000166
613Patrick BruelFrance48,450,000121
614Ben FarrellUnited Kingdom13,450,00034
615Thomas MuehloeckerAustria10,625,00027
617Julian StuerAustria31,500,00079
618Philipp GruissemGermany22,875,00057
      
621Amir ToumaLebanon8,675,00022
622Aymon HataUnited Kingdom28,300,00071
623Sam TrickettUnited Kingdom10,000,00025
624Stephen ChidwickUnited Kingdom29,375,00073
626Honglin JiangNew Zealand14,975,00037
627Sam GreenwoodCanada23,735,00059
628Mikhail RudoyRussia27,050,00068
      
661Dominik NitscheGermany14,125,00035
662Tomas JozonisLithuania16,200,00041
663Pawel BrzeskiPoland9,475,00024
665Israel Oliver CarriazoSpain12,525,00031
666Andrei KonopelkoBelarus12,125,00030
667Michael BaileyCanada19,100,00048
668Marton CzuczorHungary30,775,00077
      
671Ognyan DimovBulgaria29,450,00074
672Martin KusCanada38,975,00097
673Balazs BotondHungary31,500,00079
674Marco FontanellaItaly7,625,00019
676Jonathan ClarkUnited Kingdom7,000,00018
677Sean WinterUnited States27,400,00069
678Jack SalterUnited Kingdom10,175,00025
      
1002Byron KavermanUnited States17,150,00043
1003Morten MortensenDenmark22,550,00056
1004Mikita BadziakouskiBelarus5,700,00014
1005Upeshka De SilvaUnited States26,150,00065
1006Manuel Martinez SolsonaSpain24,275,00061
1007Zhong ChenNetherlands21,750,00054
1008Bart LybaertBelgium25,425,00064

Tags: Pascal LefrancoisPatrick BruelPreben StokkanPatrik KorsarSergey LebedevJulian StuerBalazs BotondOgnyan DimovStephen ChidwickSam GreenwoodPhilipp GruissemJohnny LoddenSam Trickett