The remaining nine players have redrawn to the unofficial final table and once the next player busts or level 32 concludes, all chips will be bagged up, whichever of the two comes first.
Pascal Lefrancois limped the button with the and Adam Owen did so in the small blind with the . Stephen Chidwick in the big blind raised to 9 million with and Lefrancois was the only caller.
On the flop, both players checked and the turn brought no action either. On the river, Chidwick bet 12 million and Lefrancois folded.
Dominik Nitsche raised to 7 million with the from the small blind and Honglin Jiang called in the big blind with . On the flop, Nitsche checked his top pair and Jiang bet 10 million, Nitsche called.
The fell on the turn and Nitsche checked, Jiang moved all in for 24.5 million and the German called to get into showdown with the better hand. The on the river was a blank and Jiang was eliminated in 9th place for €150,000 to end Day 3 with the official final table of the last eight.
All chip counts of the finalists and a recap of today's action is to come.
After nine levels and some on Day 3 of the record-setting 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona €10,300 Main Event, the eight-handed final table has been set and all finalists have €225,000 locked up for their efforts. With the lion's share of the €11,397,500 prize pool in the 1,175-entry strong field still up for grabs, all eyes are set on the trophy and €1,700,000 payday that comes along with it.
Another record may be set at one of Europe's favorite poker destinations, as the biggest prize in a poker event to be awarded at Casino Barcelona thus far stands at €1,361,000 back in 2008. Even the second place comes with a consolation prize of hefty €1,300,000.
Pascal Lefrancois still in the lead in Barcelona
Best-positioned for the big showdown on Sunday, April 15th, 2018, is Pascal Lefrancois, who already led the field before the cards got back in the air. Lefrancois bagged up 248.4 million, but won't have an easy ride to possible victory with plenty of big names still left in contention.
Four-time WSOP bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche, who currently stands on 5th on Germany's all-time money list, follows in second place with 232.9 million and fellow countryman Jan-Eric Schwippert is in third with 216.3 million. The other finalists include Diogo Veiga (213.8 million), Triple Crown champion and €25,500 Super High Roller II winner Davidi Kitai (91.1 million), Thomas Boivin (66.5 million), €101,000 Super High Roller runner-up Stephen Chidwick (65.2 million) and mixed game specialist Adam Owen (41.6 million).
Final Table Seat Assignments
Seat
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Jan-Eric Schwippert
Germany
216,300,000
108
2
Davidi Kitai
Belgium
91,100,000
46
3
Pascal Lefrancois
Canada
248,400,000
124
4
Adam Owen
United Kingdom
41,600,000
21
5
Stephen Chidwick
United Kingdom
65,200,000
33
6
Dominik Nitsche
Germany
232,900,000
116
7
Thomas Boivin
Belgium
66,500,000
33
8
Diogo Veiga
Portugal
213,800,000
107
Action of Day 3
The early stages of the day were dominated by the run good of Dominik Nitsche and Pierre Calamusa, who sent several opponents to the rail. Among others, Calamusa claimed the stack of partypoker sponsored pro Johnny Lodden when his ace-trey outflopped Lodden's ace-king. The fortune of Calamusa came to a crashing halt when he got it in with pocket aces against the pocket queens of Anton Wigg and he departed in 45th place.
Patrick Bruel (pictured above) and Sergey Lebedev, who started the day in second and third place respectively, also bowed out much earlier than expected and hoped for. Lebedev lost one pot after the other and had to settle for 40th place, while Bruel exited soon after in 37th place. In a four-way pot, Bruel flopped a gutshot and turned a flush draw to improve on the river, only for Pascal Lefrancois to turn over a flopped full house and send the well-known French singer to the payout desk in 37th place.
Sam Trickett bowed out in 35th place and Mustapha Kanit lost a flip with ace-queen suited against the pocket aces of Davidi Kitai. Sam Greenwood, who won the €51,000 Super High Roller earlier during the festival in Barcelona, never recovered from losing with pocket tens against the pocket kings of Diogo Veiga, and was eliminated just shy of the last three tables in 26th place.
The last partypoker team member, Philipp Gruissem, had a flip with ace-king against the pocket nines of Pascal Lefrancois and was left drawing dead on the turn despite flopping top pair. Other big names such as Jack Salter, Anton Wigg, Byron Kaverman, Sean Winter and Morten Mortensen all followed to the rail while the field was trimmed down further.
Once the unofficial final table was set at the start of the last scheduled level, it was New Zealand's Honglin Jiang (pictured above) who missed out on more camera time and claimed €150,000 for his 9th place finish. In a battle of a blinds with Dominik Nitsche, Jiang flopped second pair with jack-ten and Nitsche was not in the mood of folding top pair with queen-six.
The remaining players bagged up and will return to the feature table at 12 p.m. local time with 46 minutes left in level 32 at blinds of 1,000,000/2,000,000 with a button ante of 2,000,000. The feature stream with hole cards displayed will be on a delay of 30 minutes and the PokerNews live updates will be published accordingly.
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and Adam Owen did so in the small blind with the 
. Stephen Chidwick in the big blind raised to 9 million with 
and Lefrancois was the only caller.
flop, both players checked and the 
turn brought no action either. On the 
river, Chidwick bet 12 million and Lefrancois folded.
from the small blind and Honglin Jiang called in the big blind with 
. On the 
flop, Nitsche checked his top pair and Jiang bet 10 million, Nitsche called.
on the river was a blank and Jiang was eliminated in 9th place for €150,000 to end Day 3 with the official final table of the last eight.
