58 Players Remain for Day 3 of the 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona €10,300 Main Event
After four starting days and ten levels on Day 2, the record-setting 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona €10,300 Main Event at Casino Barcelona has seen a field of 1,175 entries reduced to all but 58 hopefuls in contention for the lion's share of the €11,397,500 prize pool. They all have €35,000 guaranteed, but a first-place payout of €1,700,000 awaits for the eventual champion.
Leading the survivors is Canada's Pascal Lefrancois, who had a stellar day at the tables and turned 1.2 million into 66.525 million in chips. French singer Patrick Bruel follows in second place with 48.45 million in chips, while Sergey Lebedev rounds up the overnight podium with 40.925 million. Further big names in the top upon restart include Jan-Eric Schwippert (38 million), Julian Stuer (31.5 million), Balazs Botond (31.5 million) and Ognyan Dimov (29.45 million).
Team partypoker will be represented by Philipp Gruissem (22.875 million), Johnny Lodden (12.75 million) and Sam Trickett, while Stephen Chidwick (29.375 million) and Sam Greenwood (23.735 million) (10 million) are vying for their second seven-figure payday of the festival in one of Europe's favorite poker destinations.
Plenty of other notables remain in contention such as Sean Winter (27.4 million), Mikhail Rudoy (27.05 million), Upeshka De Silva (26.15 million), Pierre Calamusa (18.6 million), Anton Wigg (13.4 million), €25,500 Super High Roller II champion Davidi Kitai (11.975 million) and Mustapha Kanit (8.475 million). The Italian is among the shorter stacks for upcoming blinds of 200,000/400,000 and a button ante of 400,000.
Goal of the day are up to 10 levels of 60 minutes each or down to the final table, whichever of the two comes first. Action is set to resume at 1 p.m. local time with live updates right here on PokerNews, and the action of the live stream table is broadcasted on a security delay of 30 minutes.