Day 2 of partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North America Main Event Sees Sandy Lam, Manig Loeser, and Will Givens Leading; 258 Players Remain
Welcome back to the 2019 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North America, and the Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada, for Day 2 of the CA$10,300 Main Event.
Featuring a CA$5,000,000 guarantee, over the course of the two Day 1 starting flights, that guarantee has been smashed as 521-entrants took a seat to create a prize pool of CA$5,210,000 that will see the top 63 players finish in-the-money with CA$1,000,000 awaiting the eventual winner in a few days time.
Day 1A attracted 304 entrants, while Day 1B saw just 217 players join the field. Once the dust settled on play in the opening flights a total of 151 players from Day 1A, and 107 players from Day 1B would remain, and here on Day 2, they will combine into one to continue action in the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North America Main Event.
The overall chip leader Sandy Lam bagged an impressive 6,840,000 on Day 1A, while right behind her is Day 1B chip leader Will Givens who finished with 6,285,000. Recent EPT Monte Carlo Champion Manig Loeser separates those two as he finished Day 1A with 6,620,000 in chips to cap off the only players over six million in chips.. Some of the others sitting with healthy chip stacks include Sergio Aido, partypoker pro Ludovic Geilich, last year's third-place finisher Tony Ruberto, and WSOP Big One for One Drop Champion Antonio Esfandiari.
Others reaching Day 2 include partypoker Chairman Mike Sexton, partypoker pros Anatoly Filatov, Bertrand Grospellier, and Kristen Bicknell, along with several partypoker Online Qualifiers.
Blinds for Day 2 will begin at 15,000-30,000 and a big blind ante of 30,000, and there will ten levels of 60-minutes with a dinner break following the completion of level 16; approximately 6:30 p.m. (EDT).
The stage is now set for the Day 2 of the 2019 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North America CA$10,300 Main Event beginning at 12 p.m. (EDT). So stay tuned to PokerNews.com as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team provide continuous live updates of all the CA$10,300 Main Event action, along with extensive coverage of the 2019 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North America from the Playground Poker Club.