Another fantastic day of tournament poker is in the books at Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham, where Day 2 of the partypokerLIVE MILLIONS £5,300 Main Event kept staff, dealers and hundreds of players busy throughout the afternoon and evening.
The 1,240 entries from qualifiers and direct buy-ins along with the many buy-ins from online qualifiers and satellites hosted in partner casinos around Europe, have totaled a combined prize pool of £6,017,395, eclipsing the guaranteed £6,000,000. Every one of the remaining 220 players from today, as well as the 36 players that already advanced to Day 3 from playing in either San Remo, St. Vincent, or Vienna, are guaranteed a payout of £5,000. The final prize distribution is yet to be worked out by the number crunchers at Dusk Till Dawn and will be released on Day 3.
When Day 3 commences, local player Jeremy Pantin will be the man to beat.
When Day 3 commences, local player Jeremy Pantin will be the man to beat. Pantin managed to bag up no less than 20,915,000 chips, equating to more than 170 big blinds when the tournament clock starts its countdown with blinds at 60,000-120,000 (10,000 ante).
Other big stacks include Stephen Chidwick (13,230,000), Iaron Lightbourne (12,600,000), and Jan-Eric Schwippert (11,400,000), while at least three partypoker Ambassadors, Mike Sexton (10,050,000), Tony Dunst (2,485,000) and Anatoly Filatov (approximately 1,800,000) are still in contention for the MILLIONS title.
Also through in the very top is UK based Spaniard and online pro Vicente Delgado (15,885,000). He overtook the chip lead late in the day thanks to two big hands against Steven Warburton. In one of the biggest pots of the day, Delgado flopped a set of sixes and succeeded in getting Warburton to commit his chips on the turn with top pair and a gutshot. Delgado did lose a couple of million chips during the last level of play but is still sitting comfortably with close to three times the chips of an average stack.
| Position | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeremy Pantin | United Kingdom | 20,915,000 |
| 2 | Thomas Boivin | Belgium | 17,880,000 |
| 3 | Andreas Hoivold | Norway | 17,855,000 |
| 4 | Grzegorz Grochulski | Poland | 17,020,000 |
| 5 | Vicente Delgado | Spain | 15,885,000 |
Unfortunately, Day 2 was also the end of the road for some household poker names. Thomas Muehloecker, Martin Kabrhel, Johnny Lodden, Sam Grafton, Dominik Panka, Jason Wheeler, Niall Farrell and Charlie Carrel were all sent to the rail during the first seven levels play. Shortly before the end of the day, David Vamplew joined them after busting in spectacular fashion. The EPT London champion ran kings into the Aces of Ludovic Geilich. Despite the elimination, Geilich wasn't able to make it through either, as he failed to get away from top pair against an opponent's set shortly after.
According to the screens, there were 220 players remaining after Day 2, and they will be joined by 36 qualified players from other live venues. The recipe for tomorrow is the same as it was today - 8 levels of 75 minutes, good for a total 10 hours of play. Don't forget to tune in again tomorrow at 1 pm local time as another exciting day of poker awaits and you can follow along inthe dedicated live reporting blog. The PokerNews live reporting team will, of course, be on site to bring you all the action.
and was thrilled as the board came down 
as he quadrupled up and moved right back into contention. Vamplew was busted and Geilich improved his stack to 4.8million. 
. Geilich made it 348,000 and his opponent check-called. 
, Geilich's opponent shoved and he called, having hit top two pair. His opponent held pocket sevens and knocked Geilich out after the 
, Warburton had bet 500,000 and Delgado had made it 2,400,000 to go. Warburton committed the chips. Delgado put his opponent in on the 
turn, and Warburton had eventually made the call with 
, drawing to one of the four remaining sevens. He didn't get there, and Delgado had dragged the 15 million pot - the biggest of the tournament so far.
, Moorman called Yan's bet of 145,000 before the turn brought the 
no good against Yan's 
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, and when checked to, Firaldo fired 100,000. Kiat came over the top for 340,000 total, and the Scotsman called.
river. Kiat had flopped the gin with 
, and Farrell knocked the table in defeat, revealed the 
and proceeded to seemingly scold his holecards for getting him into trouble.
flop offered no help for the American.
river, and Wheeler's former chips were quickly merged into Mateos' stack.
and couldn't catch him across the 
and the flop came 
. We'll take it. I eventually moved all-in on the river for 400,000 with 300,000 in the pot. My opponent had 
and the ten that came on the turn potentially me whiff a bunch of draws, so it made sense. I've got 1.4 million now though, so it's going OK. I kind of hope that we're one of the first tables to break, though." 
flop gave both players a set, and the miracle one outer would not show up as the 
