Main Event Day 2 | 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona

04-13-2018 16:54 UTC+1

Updated Counts

Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : 70,000/140,000, 140,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
James Chen	16,500,000 4,500,000	4,500,000

Stephen Chidwick	15,500,000 500,000	500,000

Pawel Brzeski	12,000,000 3,300,000	3,300,000
Jack Salter	10,700,000 700,000	700,000
Konstantinos Nanos	8,500,000 500,000	500,000

Artem Metalidi	7,400,000 2,100,000	2,100,000
Sergio Aido	4,100,000 485,000	485,000

Ramin Hajiyev	2,000,000 300,000	300,000
Maria Ho	1,800,000 900,000	900,000

04-13-2018 16:50 UTC+1

Winstone Can't Win Against Zinno

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : 70,000/140,000, 140,000 ante

The seat of Thomas Winstone is empty and the Brit had been among half a dozen casualties after the field had returned from the break. Anthony Zinno was kind enough to provide the details, after all it had been him that claimed the chips.

Accordint to Zinno, Winstone had shoved for 505,000 only and Zinno called, as did Mohammed Ifzail in the big blind. On an ace-high flop, Ifzail check-folded to Zinno's bet and saw the day 1d chip leader win the showdown with versus .

Player	Chips	Progress
Mohammed Ifzail	13,500,000 4,500,000	4,500,000
Anthony Zinno	11,500,000 2,550,000	2,550,000

Aliaksei Boika	Busted

Claas Segebrecht	Busted
Thomas Winstone	Busted
Peter Jaksland	Busted
Imad Derwiche	Busted
Dimitros Farmakoulis	Busted

Tags: Anthony Zinno Mohammed Ifzail Thomas Winstone

Level: 17

Blinds: 70,000/140,000

Ante: 140,000

04-13-2018 16:24 UTC+1

Slow Climb to the Money

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

Michael Bailey appears to be among the chip leaders while several other big names such as Jake Schindler, Juan Pardo Dominguez, Govert Metaal, Damian Salas and Kiryl Radzivonau all departed.

According to the screens there are only 164 players left and the top 143 spots will get paid, the remaining hopefuls have been sent into a 15-minute break.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Bailey	17,000,000 12,600,000	12,600,000
Patrick Bruel	10,500,000 4,790,000	4,790,000

Pascal Lefrancois	8,500,000 7,205,000	7,205,000

Henrik Hecklen	8,500,000 6,015,000	6,015,000
Aristeidis Moschonas	2,200,000 1,365,000	1,365,000
Lander Lijo	Busted
Michal Lubas	Busted
Jake Schindler	Busted

Ivan Gabrieli	Busted
Oscar Serradell Iscla	Busted
Chris Sly	Busted
Juan Pardo Dominguez	Busted
Damian Salas	Busted

Kiryl Radzivonau	Busted
Govert Metaal	Busted

04-13-2018 16:12 UTC+1

More Pictures from Day 2

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Christian Zetzsche

04-13-2018 16:02 UTC+1

Hemming Felted by Metalidi

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

Thomas Hemming moved all in for his last 1.38 million out of the hijack and Artem Metalidi on the button asked for a count, then reshoved with the bigger stack to isolate successfully.

Thomas Hemming:
Artem Metalidi:

The board came and the Brit failed to find any help.

Player	Chips	Progress
Artem Metalidi	5,300,000 2,995,000	2,995,000
Michael Sklenicka	Busted
Matthias Tikerpe	Busted
Christoph Vogelsang	Busted
Alexandre Reard	Busted

Albert Daher	Busted
Andreas Samuelsson	Busted
Noah Vaillancourt	Busted
Milad Jzadmousa	Busted
Jakub Michalak	Busted
Thomas Hemming	Busted

Tags: Artem Metalidi Thomas Hemming

04-13-2018 15:50 UTC+1

The Chidwick Show has Commenced

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

The €101,000 Super High Roller runner up Stephen Chidwick currently boasts a monster stack of 16 million and many of those chips came from a double knockout. According to Paul Michaelis, Raphael Wieczorek had raised, Juan Federico Villegas Bateman shoved with kings and Chidwick reshoved with pocket queens. Wieczorek snap-called with aces and a king on the river gave Chidwick a straight.

Also out: Isaac Haxton. The team partypoker member got it in for 4.0 million with ace-queen against the pocket queens of Mikhail Rudoy from what has emerged.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stephen Chidwick	16,000,000 10,700,000	10,700,000

Mikita Badziakouski	14,000,000 12,815,000	12,815,000

Mikhail Rudoy	11,000,000 6,190,000	6,190,000
Bartlomiej Machon	6,000,000 2,700,000	2,700,000
Orpen Kisacikoglu	5,000,000 1,500,000	1,500,000

Ben Heath	5,000,000 5,000,000	5,000,000

Mustapha Kanit	4,500,000 1,265,000	1,265,000
Paul Michaelis	1,700,000 2,120,000	2,120,000
Isaac Haxton	Busted

Raphael Wieczorek	Busted
Juan Federico Villegas Bateman	Busted

Tags: Juan Federico Villegas Bateman Mikhail Rudoy Paul Michaelis Raphael Wieczorek Stephen Chidwick

04-13-2018 15:36 UTC+1

Blom Bests Addamo

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

Viktor Blom is once again running up a stack at the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Main Event and may very well take a shot at defending the title after his victory at the King's Casino in Rozvadov.

On a turn of , Michael Addamo was at risk for 1.25 million and Blom called with for the combo draw. Addamo needed to dodge spases and nines, having flopped a set with , but Blom spiked the on the river to deal the final blow to the Aussie.

Player	Chips	Progress
Viktor Blom	12,000,000 8,235,000	8,235,000
Michael Addamo	Busted

Tags: Michael Addamo Viktor Blom

04-13-2018 15:30 UTC+1

More Casualties of the Last Level

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Pablo Joaquin Melogno Cabrera	Busted
Lukasz Szymon Grossmann	Busted
[Removed:414]	Busted
Pavel Zaitsev	Busted
Antonios Triantafyllakis	Busted
Raul Martinez Requena	Busted
Hong Cheong Lee	Busted
Max Silver	Busted

Luigi Knoppers	Busted
Mathias Siljander	Busted
Jason Wheeler	Busted

Dan Cates	Busted

Erik Seidel	Busted

Fadhil Farag	Busted
Ludovic Lacay	Busted

Florian Maurer	Busted
Justin Bonomo	Busted

Sylvain Loosli	Busted

David Peters	Busted

Level: 16

Blinds: 60,000/120,000

Ante: 120,000