$1,100 MILLIONS Open ($1 Million Gtd.) Day 3 | 2017 Caribbean Poker Party Festival

$1,100 MILLIONS Open ($1 Million Gtd.)

Day 3 Completed

11-21-2017 01:07 UTC-3

Konstas Leads 26 Remaining Players after Day 3; Kempe and Boatman Still in the Hunt

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Level 24 : 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante

At the beginning of Day 3, 135 players took their seats in the $1,100 MILLIONS Open at the Caribbean Poker Party Festival, but just 26 bagged chips at the conclusion of play. Greek player Ioannis Angelou-Konstas is leading the way with 71,800,000, and nipping at his heels are Germans Paul Michaelis (68,100,000) and Rainer Kempe (66,500,000). Pavel Plesuv (63,200,000) currently sits in fourth position, and Vincent Tremblay (63,000,000) rounds out the top five. Beloved Brit Barny Boatman is also still in the hunt with a stack of 19,000,000. The remaining 26 players are all guaranteed at least $6,000, but all eyes are on the $200,000 top prize.

A total of 95 places were paid and money bubble burst near the end of level 19. Several well-known players who fell before the day's end made the money, including Mike Leah (32nd), partypoker Sponsored Pro Natalia Breviglieri (33rd), Michael Watson (44th), Stefan Schillhabel (55th), Tom Marchese (76th), and partypoker Sponsored Pro Kristen Bicknell (84th). Manig Loeser, Iaron Lightbourne, Dylan Wilkerson, and team partypoker online pro Louise Butler all made their exits on Day 3 before the bubble broke.

The remainder of the field is scheduled to play down to a winner Tuesday on Day 4, which will begin at noon local time. Blinds will be 400,000/800,000 when play resumes. As with previous days in this event, each level will be one hour long and there will be a 20-minute break every two levels. Once heads-up play is reached, the levels will be shortened to 30 minutes.

The Day 4 seat draw can be found below.

Keep it here for continuing coverage of the MILLIONS Open and the rest of the Caribbean Poker Party Festival from the PokerNews Live Reporting team.

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
12	1	Cristina Ilie	Romania	18,800,000	24
12	2	Andrei-Lucian Boghean	Romania	33,000,000	41
12	3	Luis Alfonso Perez Marrero	Venezuela	10,000,000	13
12	4	Florian-Dimitrie Duta	Romania	30,300,000	38
12	6	Philippe D'Auteuil	Canada	39,000,000	49
12	7	Paul Michaelis	Austria	68,100,000	85
12	8	Paul Hockin	New Zealand	21,700,000	27

13	1	Claudio Di Giacomo	Italy	41,000,000	51
13	2	Kelly Saxby	United States	15,900,000	20
13	3	Barny Boatman	England	19,000,000	24
13	4	Jason James	Canada	16,700,000	21
13	5	Ioannis Angelou-Konstas	Greece	71,800,000	90
13	7	Sergio Aido	Spain	16,400,000	21
13	8	Anastasija Sivaka	Latvia	30,200,000	38

14	1	Vincent Tremblay	Canada	63,000,000	79
14	3	Nicholas Nemis	Canada	7,100,000	9
14	5	Pavel Plesuv	Moldova	63,200,000	79
14	6	Michael Sklenicka	Czech Republic	41,200,000	52
14	7	William Blais	Canada	31,400,000	39
14	8	Vitalijs Zavorotnijs	Latvia	12,700,000	16

15	1	Manuel Martinez	Spain	16,400,000	21
15	3	Jimmy Lee	Canada	14,100,000	18
15	4	Vojtech Ruzicka	Czech Republic	12,400,000	16
15	5	Volodymyr Kernytskyi	Russia	37,500,000	47
15	6	Rainer Kempe	Germany	66,500,000	83
15	7	Sreyleap Prom	Canada	13,000,000	16

Tags: Barny Boatman Dylan Wilkerson Iaron Lightbourne Kristen Bicknell Louise Butler Manig Loeser Michael Sklenicka Michael Watson Mike Leah Natalia Breviglieri Paul Michaelis Rainer Kempe Stefan Schillhabel Tom Marchese

11-20-2017 22:44 UTC-3

End of Day Chip Counts (full)

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Level 24 : 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ioannis Angelou-Konstas	71,800,000	-5,700,000
Paul Michaelis	68,100,000	62,445,000
Rainer Kempe	66,500,000	2,300,000
Pavel Plesuv	63,200,000	57,595,000
Vincent Tremblay	63,000,000	11,200,000
Michael Sklenicka	41,200,000	-1,300,000
Claudio Di Giacomo	41,000,000	19,200,000
Philippe D'Auteuil	39,000,000	30,955,000
Volodymyr Kernytskyi	37,500,000
Andrei-Lucian Boghean	33,000,000	-7,800,000
William Blais	31,400,000	-7,200,000
Florian-Dimitrie Duta	30,300,000	12,300,000
Anastasija Sivaka	30,200,000	27,230,000
Paul Hockin	21,700,000	-33,300,000
Barny Boatman	19,000,000	-7,800,000
Cristina Ilie	18,800,000	-19,000,000
Jason James	16,700,000	9,035,000
Sergio Aido	16,400,000	16,400,000
Manuel Martinez	16,400,000	11,285,000
Kelly Saxby	15,900,000	7,100,000
Jimmy Lee	14,100,000	14,100,000
Sreyleap Prom	13,000,000	8,790,000
Vitalijs Zavorotnijs	12,700,000	6,415,000
Vojtech Ruzicka	12,400,000	10,110,000
Luis Alfonso Perez Marrero	10,000,000	4,950,000

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11-20-2017 22:15 UTC-3

End of Day 3

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Level 24 : 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante

Day 3 play has concluded. A recap of the day's action will be posted shortly.

11-20-2017 22:01 UTC-3

Gomez Eliminated by Kempe

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Level 24 : 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante

Andrei-Lucian Boghean raised to 2,250,000 from the cutoff and Diego Gomez three-bet shoved from the button for 8,025,000. After brief consideration, Rainer Kempe called from the small blind. The big blind folded and Boghean did the same.

Gomez:
Kempe:

Gomez had the preflop advantage and Kempe needed help from the deck in order to eliminate his opponent. Kempe caught up when the flop fell and neither the turn nor river were any help to Gomez, so Kempe took the pot to send him to the cage.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rainer Kempe	64,200,000	8,400,000
Diego Gomez	Busted

Tags: Andrei-Lucian Boghean Diego Gomez Rainer Kempe

11-20-2017 21:52 UTC-3

Sklenicka Applies Pressure

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Level 24 : 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante

With about 2,800,000 already in the middle and the board reading Kelly Saxby bet 1,625,000 from the big blind and Michael Sklenicka called from the hijack.

The fell on the river and Saxby checked. Sklenicka bet 1,600,000 and Saxby went into the tank for nearly a minute. She eventually folded and Sklenicka took the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Sklenicka	42,500,000	-2,300,000
Kelly Saxby	8,800,000	-5,400,000

Tags: Kelly Saxby Michael Sklenicka

11-20-2017 21:42 UTC-3

Kempe Gets a Fold

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Level 24 : 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante

When we got to the table after a flurry of activity on the flop, there were about 8,000,000 chips in the middle and the board read . Rainer Kempe was in the big blind and heads-up against the player under the gun, who had about 4,000,000 chips remaining. Kempe shoved to put his opponent to a decision for his stack and he went into the tank. After about a minute, he folded, and the dealer pushed the pot to Kempe.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rainer Kempe	55,800,000	4,400,000

Tags: Rainer Kempe

11-20-2017 21:29 UTC-3

Some Updated Chip Counts

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Level 24 : 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ioannis Angelou-Konstas	77,500,000	7,700,000
Paul Hockin	55,000,000	52,450,000
Rainer Kempe	51,400,000	-12,100,000
Andrei-Lucian Boghean	40,800,000	10,400,000
Cristina Ilie	37,800,000	-9,000,000
Volodymyr Kernytskyi	37,500,000	6,000,000
Claudio Di Giacomo	21,800,000	300,000
Kelly Saxby	14,200,000	-7,100,000
Terry Green	11,200,000	2,300,000
Mike Leah	Busted

11-20-2017 21:20 UTC-3

Boatman's Bluff Works

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Level 24 : 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante

Barny Boatman and Vincent Tremblay recently told the PokerNews Live Reporting team about a pot they played a few minutes before the end of the previous level. Boatman raised to 1,000,000 from under the gun and Tremblay three-bet to 3,200,000 from the big blind. Boatman called.

The flop came and Tremblay checked. Boatman bet 2,800,000 and Tremblay called.

The turn brought the and both players checked.

The fell on the river and Tremblay bet 2,500,000. Boatman jammed for about 11,000,000 and Tremblay folded. Boatman said he held with no diamond and Tremblay said he had a higher pocket pair with a diamond.

Player	Chips	Progress
Barny Boatman	26,800,000	10,200,000

Tags: Barny Boatman Vincent Tremblay

Level: 24

Blinds: 300,000/600,000

Ante: 600,000