Welcome to Day 3 of the $5,300 MILLIONS Main Event
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There are 222 players returning for Day 3 of the $5,300 MILLIONS Main Event at the 2017 Poker Party Festival. The Canadian poker pro, Troy Quenneville leads them all after bagging a whopping 19,060,000 chips.
Quenneville has plenty of success here at the Melia Caribe Tropical Resort in Punta Cana, Republic, having finished second in this same event in 2016. He also took down the $2,500 event in 2016 for his largest cash of $400,000 to date. Quenneville is welcomed at the top of the leaderboard by some fellow Canadians, Kevin Rivest and Francois Billard. Rivest has a history of running deep in these large fields, finishing 15th at the partypoker MILLIONS Main Event in Montreal, Canada back in April. He also recently won the World Cup of Cards $2,200 Main Event for $276,140.
This year, there is a lot more money to play for as first place will be taking home $1,000,000. With just 222 players remaining, half of the field will need to be eliminated before the money is reached. A total of 111 places will get paid with a min-cash being worth $10,000.
The action will resume at 12:00 P.M. local time with the blinds kicking off at 50,000/100,000 and a button ante of 100,000. The schedule is to play a complete seven levels, with the blinds increasing every 75 minutes. There will be a 20-minute break at the end of every two levels with play expected to conclude around 9:30 P.M. this evening.
Follow along with the PokerNews live reporting team as we bring you all of the action from the tournament floor.