The action folded around to James Noonan and he open-shoved for 1,364,000. It was then folded around to Dylan Honeyman in the big blind and the Aussie checked his cards, then called within a heartbeat.
James Noonan:
Dylan Honeyman:
The board of failed to improve Noonan and he was sent to the rail early into the last level of the night.
Joining the action on the flop, Sam Trickett bet 340,000 out of the big blind and Richard Pearson moved all in from the cutoff. Trickett asked the dealer to pull in his bet and then determine for how much more Pearson was all in. The shove was for another 1,432,000 on top and Trickett checked his remaining stack before eventually making the call for less than one third of his remaining stack.
Richard Pearson:
Sam Trickett:
The turn and river failed to improve Trickett to the best hand and he lost a decent portion of his stack.
David Vamplew departed the partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Main Event in dramatic circumstances after a huge hand saw him depart and one player quadruple up.
A short-stacked player moved all-in pre-flop for 962,000 and was then called. Ludovic Geilich looked down at pocket aces and moved all-in for a stack of 3.4million. David Vamplew then re-shoved for less than 2.5m in the big blind with pocket kings, and the original caller to the first shove folded. The original man who moved all-in held and was thrilled as the board came down as he quadrupled up and moved right back into contention. Vamplew was busted and Geilich improved his stack to 4.8million.
However, within an orbit, Geilich was gone too. As he admitted when he told us the hand in question, he made a bad three-bet and should have folded, but got punished. This honest appraisal came after telling us that he three-bet to 367,000 over the opening bet of 120,000 from a player in early position. That player called the three-bet and the pair saw a flop of . Geilich made it 348,000 and his opponent check-called.
On the turn of , Geilich's opponent shoved and he called, having hit top two pair. His opponent held pocket sevens and knocked Geilich out after the completed the board. Geilich was yet another bust-out player who held a golden chip...by our estimation there have been more than the expected number of those £100,000 last longer players who've been eliminated.
Another player is pushing the 20 million mark during the end of Day 2 at this partypokerLIVE Millions Main Event. Poland's Grzegorz Grochulski raised to 225,000 from the button, Lucas Reeves made it 900,000 to go from the big blind, and Grochulski called.
Reeves continued for 650,000 on the flop, Grochulski called. The turn was the , and Reeves checked his option. Grochulski cut out a mature 2,2 million chips and got the call. Reeves checked again on the and shortly after faced an all-in for his remaining 6,2 million. Ultimately Reeves reluctantly let go of his hand, and Grochulski could add the towers of chips to his already booming stack.
With the end of the day being the actual bubble, tournament director Simon Trumper has decided on a hand-for-hand mode for the last 45 minutes of level 37 - which also happens to be the last level of the day.
Thus, the dealers have just been instructed in dealing 15 more hands, and any player with chips after that 15th hand will have made the money in this partypokerLIVE Millions Main Event.
There has been barely any stalling and the last hands of the day are played with some 220 players remaining.
If there was a showdown, it would not be an all in and one of those bigger pots went to Phil Long. The Brit took a decent chunk off Marvin Rettenmaier after his bet of 800,000 on the was called. Rettenmaier was shown for a full house and the German mucked.
Walking past the tables brought several all ins, but no showdown and at least three times the other players on the table demanded that pocket aces were shown. This indeed happened at least three times, while Stephanie O'Connell showed more creativity.
Andreas Hoivold raised to 210,000 and Wai Kiat Lee called. O'Connell then shoved out of the big blind and Hoivold was taken aback. "Are you a nice person? Where are you from?" Hoivold asked with a smile on the face. The Norwegian then folded and Lee also quickly let go, O'Connell flashed .
According to the screens, there were 220 players remaining after Day 2, and they will be joined by 36 qualified players from other live venues. A selection of chip counts will follow shortly, as well as a recap of today's action.
According to players at the table, Dejan Pustoslemsek pushed with for a nine-high flush draw and Jeremy Pantin called with ace-queen for two pair to score a big double up and very likely claim the overnight lead. Below are further assorted chip counts.
failed to improve Noonan and he was sent to the rail early into the last level of the night.
turn and 
river failed to improve Trickett to the best hand and he lost a decent portion of his stack.
and was thrilled as the board came down 
. Geilich made it 348,000 and his opponent check-called. 
, and Reeves checked his option. Grochulski cut out a mature 2,2 million chips and got the call. Reeves checked again on the 
for a full house and the German mucked.
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