Main Event
Dia 1b Começado
2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona
Main Event
Dias: 1b
Event Info
Resultados Finais
Event Info
Informações do Nível
2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona
Buy-in
€10,300
Premiação
€11,397,500
Entries
1,175
Nível
42
Blinds
6,000,000 / 12,000,000
Ante
12,000,000
Day 1b of the €10,300 Main Event Underway
The field size of Day 1b in level one has climbed up to around 80 entries and there aren't that many tables available to fill with new players as the mega satellite with 50 seats is ongoing and Day 1A takes up a lot of space with 210 players out of 338 entries remaining.
All those that were unfortunate enough to bust in the first flight of the day are almost certain to take another shot, among those are Paul Newey, Stefan Huber, Thomas Muehloecker and Brian Piccioli. The latter shares a starting table with fellow American grinder Anthony Spinella and Uruguay's Fabrizio Gonzalez, who denied partypoker ambassador Joao Simao the trophy in the partypoker Latin American Poker Championship $5,300 High Roller at Punta del Este.
€10,300 Main Event Day 1 level structure
| Level | Small blind | Big blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 5,000 |
| 2 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| 3 | 6,000 | 12,000 | 12,000 |
| 4 | 7,000 | 14,000 | 14,000 |
| 5 | 8,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 |
| 6 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
| 7 | 10,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 |
| 8 | 15,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 |
| 9 | 15,000 | 35,000 | 35,000 |
| 10 | 20,000 | 40,000 | 40,000 |
| 11 | 25,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 |
| 12 | 30,000 | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Other notables that jumped into the second of four starting days with a fresh stack of 1,000,000 include Oliver Price, Pierre Calamusa, Johan Guilbert, Pedro Oliveira, Sergio Castelluccio and Anthony Zinno.
Day 1b is Growing
Unlike the first starting day of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona €10,300 Main Event, there are barely any eliminations within the first three levels and the only notables to run out of chips were Andras Nemeth and Luc Greenwood. There are 114/118 players remaining and they are currently playing at blinds of 6,000/12,000.
Some of the pros that jumped in for another shot at glory here in Barcelona were Rainer Kempe, Anthony Zinno, Bryn Kenney, Erik Seidel and Adrian Mateos for his third bullet of the day. Seidel is on a table with JC Alvarado, Anthony Spinella and Oliver Weis to make for well-known names all bunched together.
Elusive Field Emerges on Day 1B
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Yiannis Liperis, Sergio Castelluccio, David Peters, Ioannis-Angelou Konstas, Darryll Fish and Ali Reza Fatehi were all part of Day 1B but eventually bowed out before the second break at the end of level six emerged. Some hot shots and big names that were gaining ground include MILLIONS Germany champion Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, who moved up to 2.2 million and aims for back-to-back victories.
Mustapha Kanit played for roughly two levels before he ran out of chips and was joined on the rail by Juha Helppi, Franz-Xaver Ditz, Mikalai Vaskaboinikau.
Team partypoker's Philipp Gruissem was facing a decision for his tournament life on the river of a paired six-high board. He eventually called with ace.king high and his opponent tabled only 
for the inferior kicker. That sent Gruissem's stack up to 2.3 million, just above the average with 80 of 145 players remaining. Compared to Day 1A, the casualties still come at a slower place, though.
Another Chance; Another Entry
Justin Bonomo was eliminated and re-entered, while also applies for Mikalai Vaskaboinikau and Alexandros Kolonias. The latter two have around 2.4 million in chips and were more successful than such familiar faces as Ema Zajmovic, Guillaume Nolet, Pedro Oliveira and Jonathan Concepcion.
Oliveira had a flip for his last 410,000 with 
against the 
of Ryan Riess and the board of 
left the 11th place finisher of the 2017 WSOP Main Event empty-handed on the turn already.
Albert Daher is only on his first bullet thus far, while Concepcion was on his second bullet. The duo clashed on a flop of 
and when the Spaniard saw the cards of his opponent, he had a sour expression on the face. Concepcion may have been marginally ahead percentage-wise with 
, but Daher had a ton of outs with 
. The 
turn gave Daher a straight, while Concepcion needed the board to pair. That wasn't the case, and Concepcion had to foefeit 1,010,000. His last few chips were sent into the same direction soon after, giving Daher a healthy stack of 2.9 million.
Max Silver, who rapidly fired two bullets on Day 1A without any success, is doing much better on Day 1B with some 3.5 million as of right now with 75 of 146 players remaining. Late registration will end at the end of level nine in roughly one hour from now.
Gabrieli and Serock Lead the Field
The third and final break of the day shows a total of 150 entries with 61 players remaining, and the registration for Day 1B of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona €10,300 Main Event will close when cards are get back in the air with blinds of 20,000/40,000. That's still 25 big blinds for anyone willing to take a late shot ar running up a stack.
Among those that are back in are Justin Bonomo and Mikalai Vaskaboinikau. Mikhail Rudoy, the partypoker representatives Isaac Haxton and Joao Simao took a break after busting out of Day 1A. Simao sent Stefan Huber to the rail and sits on 1.9 million. Same applies for Adrian Mateos, who managed to spin up his stack to 3.0 million already.
That's still far from the current massive stacks of Ivan Gabrieli (8.7 million), Joe Serock (8.2 million) and Sofian Benaissa (6.1 million). Both would easily be top five stacks after Day 1a. Dan Shak is stuck next to Serock and one table over is Preben Stokkan on around 5. million. Other big names to highlight the second flight include Martin Jacobson, Ryan Riess and Thomas Muehloecker.
On Gabrieli's table, an argument broke out in between the double up of Amir Touma. Paul Dando had raised to 75,000 and Touma shoved for his last 435,000. Erik Friberg called out of the big blind, tossed in four T-100,000 chips. Dando moved all in over the top and Friberg hated his life as per table chat before folding.
Dando showed 
and Touma turned over 
, which ended up as best hand on a board of 
. Dando still has some 2.5 million left, though, which is spot on the average for the last quarter of the night.
Next Batch of Pictures for Day 1B
More Late Pictures of Day 1B
The field is set with 150 entries as the registration has closed and below are some further shots of the big names in the field.
Quads for Isildur1; Game Over for Nitsche; Bad Beat for Metalidi
The chips have been flying in the last level while the blinds moved up to 25,000/50,000 since for the penultimate level of Day 1B.
Max Silver has been eliminated and other notables in the rail include Felipe Ramos, Ema Zajmovic, Thi Nguyen, Yan Shing Tsang, Marty Mathis, Dominik Nitsche and Artem Metalidi.
Tsang first doubled for ten big blinds with 
against Stephen Chidwick's 
thanks to four diamonds until the turn, but then lost all his chips back to Chidwick just to make up for it. Erik Friberg benefited from a setup hand to double with versus 
when the flop fell , the turn and 
river were both blanks and the kicker played.
The elimination of Florin Tirtea largely came from a big "aces cracked story" against the one and only Viktor "Isildur1" Blom. After just calling from the big blind, Tirtea check-raised from 125,000 to 250,000 on the 
flop and Blom reraised to 675,000. Tirtea shoved and Blom called for 1.52 million.
Viktor Blom: 
Florin Tirtea:
The turn and river run out was an overkill with the quads for the Swede, and Tirtea's remaining few chips vanished soon after.
As for Metalidi, he got it in with against Sofian Benaissa's 
, and as you may have guessed it, the aces were no good again. A board of 
gave the Frenchman a winninr straight, he moved up to 7.2 million. Preben Stokkan has even more than that with 7.5 million, sending Dominik Nitsche to the rail when the German got 15 big blinds in with ace-nine versus ace-king.
Table of Death Times Two; Piccioli has Aces Cracked
There's those €10,300 buy-in Main Events and that partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona one, and especially Day 1B with a plethora of professional poker players bunched together that one would assume this is a Super High Roller field.
Let's take a look at this ridiculous table, for example:
Seat 1: Philipp Gruissem - moved and replaced by Erik Seidel
Seat 2: Mikalai Vaskaboinikau
Seat 3: Mikhail Rudoy
Seat 4: Pierre Calamusa
Seat 5: Alexandros Kolonias
Seat 6: Marty Mathis (busted soon after)
Seat 7: Adrian Mateos
Seat 8: Joe Serock
Mateos and Serock clashed in a bigger pot when the former check-raised the 
turn from 275,000 to 1.0 million and Serock called. Mateos checked the river and folded to a bet of 1.7 million. The table broke after and a new table formed with the likes of Martin Jacobson, Joao Simao, Justin Bonomo, Seidel, Mateos, Sebastian von Toperzer (eliminated after), Oliver Weis and Viktor Blom. "Oh, that's like a Super High Roller table, nice," Mateos joked when he arrived.
Preben Stokkan has crossed 9.0 million in chips after bad-beating Bryan Piccioli. Stokkan had raised to 110,000 and Jan-Eric Schwippert called. Piccioli shoved for 1.265 million and Stokkan reshoved to isolate with 
. Piccioli was in great shape with , but the 
board gave Stokkan a set of jacks.
Before the end of level 11, the following familiar names on the international poker circuit busted. Joris Ruijs, Manig Loeser, Paul Newey, Timothy Adams. They will all be back for tomorrow's remaining two starting days.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
9,200,000 | 9,200,000 |
|
7,200,000 | 7,200,000 |
|
4,200,000 | 4,200,000 |
|
4,000,000 | 4,000,000 |
|
4,000,000 | 4,000,000 |
|
3,900,000 | 3,900,000 |
|
3,200,000 | 3,200,000 |
|
3,200,000 | 3,200,000 |
|
3,100,000 | 3,100,000 |
|
2,500,000 | 2,500,000 |
|
2,350,000 | 2,350,000 |
|
2,300,000 | 2,300,000 |
|
1,500,000 | 1,500,000 |
|
1,300,000 | 1,300,000 |
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