Day 2 Begins at Noon Local Time; Hunichen Leads & Late Registration Remains Open
On Day 1, 106 entries took their seats in the $5,300 MILLIONS Finale at the Caribbean Poker Party Festival, but just 65 will return Friday for Day 2 action. At the head of the pack is Chris Hunichen, who recently shipped the $25,500 MILLIONS Super High Roller here in Punta Cana and will take 3,897,000 chips out of the bag when cards fly at noon. Diego Ventura (3,462,000), Ming Zhe Zhang (3,431,000), Vojtech Ruzicka (3,361,000), and Conor Beresford (3,155,000) round out the top five stacks and were the only other players to bag more than 3 million chips.
In addition to the current chip leaders, many more familiar faces advanced to Day 2, including partypoker Sponsored Pro Roberto Romanello (2,908,000), Steve O'Dwyer (2,820,000), Koray Aldemir (2,534,000), partypoker Sponsored Pro Natalia Breviglieri (2,502,000),John Duthie (2,361,000), partypoker Sponsored Pro Kristen Bicknell (2,299,000), partypoker Sponsored Pro Marcel Luske (1,953,000), Jonathan Little (1,806,000), partypoker Sponsored Pro Anatoly Filatov (1,530,000), Kenny Hallaert (1,228,000), Barny Boatman (1,048,000), and Adrian Mateos (737,000).
Late registration and re-entry will continue to be available until the beginning of level 13, which is scheduled to occur at approximately 4:30 p.m.
The Day 2 seat draw can be found below.
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| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1 | Christopher Oliver | United States | 1,182,000 | 49 |
| 19 | 2 | Kenny Hallaert | Belgium | 1,228,000 | 51 |
| 19 | 3 | Felipe Brasileiro | Brazil | 785,000 | 33 |
| 19 | 4 | Barny Boatman | United Kingdom | 1,048,000 | 44 |
| 19 | 6 | Jonathan Little | United States | 1,806,000 | 75 |
| 19 | 8 | Michael Addamo | Australia | 1,620,000 | 68 |
| 20 | 1 | Nikolai Prokhorskii | Russian Federation | 1,745,000 | 73 |
| 20 | 2 | Simeon Zacharias | Greece | 2,134,000 | 89 |
| 20 | 3 | Stuart Taylor | Canada | 1,946,000 | 81 |
| 20 | 4 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | 1,254,000 | 52 |
| 20 | 7 | Ioannis Angelou-Konstas | Greece | 1,871,000 | 78 |
| 20 | 8 | Viktor Ustimov | Russian Federation | 295,000 | 12 |
| 21 | 1 | David Lopez | Spain | 757,000 | 32 |
| 21 | 2 | Gal Yifrach | United States | 1,008,000 | 42 |
| 21 | 3 | Chris Hunichen | United States | 3,897,000 | 162 |
| 21 | 4 | Kristen Bicknell | Canada | 2,299,000 | 96 |
| 21 | 5 | Javier Gomez | Spain | 1,000,000 | 42 |
| 21 | 6 | Marcel Luske | Netherlands | 1,953,000 | 81 |
| 22 | 1 | Aleksejs Meless | Latvia | 1,338,000 | 56 |
| 22 | 2 | Justin Ouimette | Canada | 2,057,000 | 86 |
| 22 | 3 | Ezequiel Waigel | Argentina | 638,000 | 27 |
| 22 | 4 | Vicente Delgado | Spain | 1,230,000 | 51 |
| 22 | 6 | Koray Aldemir | Germany | 2,534,000 | 106 |
| 22 | 7 | Robert Heidorn | Germany | 2,400,000 | 100 |
| 23 | 1 | Michael Watson | Canada | 936,000 | 39 |
| 23 | 2 | Alexander Maximov | Russian Federation | 2,134,000 | 89 |
| 23 | 3 | John Duthie | United Kingdom | 2,361,000 | 98 |
| 23 | 4 | Seth Davies | United States | 1,000,000 | 42 |
| 23 | 5 | Viacheslav Goryachev | Russian Federation | 1,287,000 | 54 |
| 23 | 7 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 2,642,000 | 110 |
| 24 | 1 | Aleks Dimitrov | Bulgaria | 724,000 | 30 |
| 24 | 2 | Conor Beresford | United Kingdom | 3,155,000 | 131 |
| 24 | 3 | Dylan Linde | United States | 869,000 | 36 |
| 24 | 4 | Natalia Breviglieri | United Kingdom | 2,582,000 | 108 |
| 24 | 6 | Cassio Pisapia De Almeida Kiles | Brazil | 2,239,000 | 93 |
| 25 | 1 | Miguel Riera | United Kingdom | 1,400,000 | 58 |
| 25 | 2 | Vojtech Ruzicka | Czech Republic | 3,361,000 | 140 |
| 25 | 3 | Sergio Aido | Spain | 680,000 | 28 |
| 25 | 4 | Pavel Plesuv | Moldova | 1,696,000 | 71 |
| 25 | 8 | Qi Hu | China | 2,372,000 | 99 |
| 26 | 1 | Anatoly Filatov | Russian Federation | 1,530,000 | 64 |
| 26 | 2 | Ming Zhe Zhang | United Kingdom | 3,431,000 | 143 |
| 26 | 3 | Jan-Peter Jachtmann | Germany | 516,000 | 22 |
| 26 | 4 | Steven van Zadelhoff | Netherlands | 680,000 | 28 |
| 26 | 6 | Ivan Deyra | France | 2,048,000 | 85 |
| 27 | 1 | Waheed Ashraf | United Kingdom | 818,000 | 34 |
| 27 | 2 | Alexandru Papazian | Romania | 376,000 | 16 |
| 27 | 4 | Fabian Ortiz | Argentina | 720,000 | 30 |
| 27 | 5 | Tony Cousineau | United States | 1,575,000 | 66 |
| 27 | 8 | Rodrigo Perez | Argentina | 752,000 | 31 |
| 28 | 2 | Bryan Ruiter | Netherlands | 1,620,000 | 68 |
| 28 | 3 | Jeffrey Hakim | Lebanon | 1,499,000 | 62 |
| 28 | 4 | Renato Nomura | United States | 2,001,000 | 83 |
| 28 | 6 | Senthuran Vijayaratnam | Canada | 1,350,000 | 56 |
| 28 | 7 | David Laka | Spain | 1,107,000 | 46 |
| 30 | 1 | Roberto Romanello | United Kingdom | 2,900,000 | 121 |
| 30 | 2 | Raul Martinez Requena | Spain | 1,411,000 | 59 |
| 30 | 3 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 737,000 | 31 |
| 30 | 4 | Lander Lijo | Spain | 1,500,000 | 63 |
| 30 | 7 | Guillaume Nolet | Canada | 982,000 | 41 |
| 31 | 1 | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | 2,820,000 | 118 |
| 31 | 2 | George Richard Tatalovich | United States | 1,524,000 | 64 |
| 31 | 3 | Joseph Cheong | United States | 1,000,000 | 42 |
| 31 | 4 | Diego Ventura | Peru | 3,462,000 | 144 |
| 31 | 6 | Tom Waters | United Kingdom | 1,937,000 | 81 |