The Bubble Bursts Late on Day 2; Joao Simao Among Big Stacks
The partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Germany €5,300 Main Event saw 324 hopefuls out of a 1,022 entry strong field, including eight no shows, return to their seats for Day 2 in Europe's biggest poker arena at the King's Casino in Rozvadov. The money bubble burst late on before three dozen players headed to the payout desk before bagging and tagging, reducing the field of survivors for the penultimate tournament day to 91 players.
Best-positioned for the first-place payout of €1,000,000 is Aristeidis Moschonas with 36.55 million in chips. Moschonas claimed the top spot after Day 1c and returned to the spotlight after a lengthy bubble period. Other big stacks and notables at the end of level 20 include Pavel Plesuv (28.725 million), Oliver Price (28 million), Abdelhakim Zoufri (27.5 million), Artan Dedusha (25.125 million), Jan Mach (22.675 million), Norson Saho (22.4 million), Gianluca Speranza (20.45 million), Viktor Blom (18.3 million), Florian Duta (17.2 million), Vojtech Ruzicka (16.9 million), Robert Bickley (15.475 million) and Jack Sinclair (14.4 million).. Especially Speranza and Bickley have fond memories here in Rozvadov after finishing 2nd and 4th respectively in the 2017 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event a few months ago.
Four partypoker representatives bagged up and will be back in action for Day 3: The ambassadors Joao Simao (22.1 million) and Patrick Leonard (11.35 million), team partypoker member Philipp Gruissem (10.75 million), and team online's Josip Simunic (2.6 million). Simao is enjoying a very successful thus far after a 2nd and 4th place finish in the two €25,000 Super High Rollers, and the Brazilian is in prime position for another big payday. Renato Nomura, Roberto Romanello and Dzmitry Urbanovich were less fortunate and all busted well before the money.
Among the big names that missed out on a payday of at least €10,300 were Orpen Kisacikoglu, Andrei Boghean, Steve O'Dwyer, Martin Finger, Manig Loeser, Dominik Nitsche, Michael Tureniec, Barny Boatman, Bertrand Grospellier, Dietrich Fast, Paul Newey, Viliyan Petleshkov, Samantha Cohen and Jan-Peter Jachtmann to name just a few. Boghean was among the early casualties after running an ill-timed bluff, while Romanello lost most of his stack with nines against the pocket queens of Boatman. The latter failed to run up a stack, though, and ended up second-best with ace-seven against the ace-ten suited of David Urban.
Team partypoker was heavily involved in the money bubble process that lasted for more than two hours. The tournament switched to hand-for-hand mode five off the money bubble and Patrick Leonard scored a big double through Dominik Panka with ace-nine suited versus king-queen to leave the former PCA champion very short, and fellow partypoker ambassador Joao Simao finished off Panka as last player without anything to show for. Panka was forced all in with the button ante and his jack-seven suited ended up second-best to the king-five of Simao.
One final level was to be played after the minimum cash was locked up and the eliminations kept coming at an electric pace. Among those to bow out were Sander van Wesemael (126th, €10,300), Julian Thomas (123rd, €10,300), €50,000 Super High Roller champion Chi Zhang (122nd, €10,300), Ihar Soika (115th, €10,300), Ole Schemion (107th, €12,500), Sergio Castelluccio (106th, €12,500), and Mike Leah (102nd, €12,500). Castelluccio three-bet shoved out of the small blind with pocket fours only for initial raiser Andreas Walnum to snap-call with pocket aces.
All remaining 91 players have at least €12,500 guaranteed and aim for a spot on the final table. Action resumes on Saturday, February 17th 2018, at 12 p.m. noon local time with blinds of 150,000/30,000 and a button ante of 300,000. The live stream feature table with hole cards will be broadcasted on the partypokertv Twitch channel on a security delay of 30 minutes and the PokerNews team will bring you all the action from the tables until a winner is crowned.
2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Germany €5,300 Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 | 1 | Arne Ruge | Germany | 15,325,000 | 51 |
| 123 | 2 | Michal Lubas | Poland | 16,400,000 | 55 |
| 123 | 3 | Kiryl Radzivonau | Belarus | 9,000,000 | 30 |
| 123 | 4 | Norson Saho | Brazil | 22,400,000 | 75 |
| 123 | 5 | Prezes | Poland | 4,250,000 | 14 |
| 123 | 6 | Hollywood | Germany | 4,100,000 | 14 |
| 123 | 7 | Ercan Olgun | Turkey | 5,475,000 | 18 |
| 123 | 8 | Christian Christner | Germany | 6,525,000 | 22 |
| 124 | 1 | Vitalii Pankov | Russian Federation | 17,235,000 | 57 |
| 124 | 2 | Oliver Heidel | Germany | 7,500,000 | 25 |
| 124 | 3 | Kubala | Germany | 7,000,000 | 23 |
| 124 | 4 | Rifat Gegic | Germany | 9,750,000 | 33 |
| 124 | 5 | Ivo Donev | Austria | 13,400,000 | 45 |
| 124 | 6 | Adriano Luzzi | United Kingdom | 11,000,000 | 37 |
| 124 | 7 | Neil Ryder | United Kingdom | 8,750,000 | 29 |
| 124 | 8 | Robert Kokoška | Czech Republic | 11,700,000 | 39 |
| 129 | 1 | Andreas Ahrer | Austria | 10,325,000 | 34 |
| 129 | 2 | Vu-Van Yiann | France | 6,175,000 | 21 |
| 129 | 3 | Martin Staszko | Czech Republic | 4,500,000 | 15 |
| 129 | 4 | Viktor Blom | Sweden | 18,300,000 | 61 |
| 129 | 5 | Stephen Shayler | United Kingdom | 21,625,000 | 72 |
| 129 | 6 | James Akenhead | United Kingdom | 6,850,000 | 23 |
| 129 | 7 | Alexander Tschernych | Israel | 3,650,000 | 12 |
| 129 | 8 | Petr Šíma | Czech Republic | 6,500,000 | 22 |
| 130 | 1 | Raketák | Czech Republic | 6,375,000 | 21 |
| 130 | 2 | Stanislav Koleno | Slovakia | 2,650,000 | 9 |
| 130 | 3 | Josip Šimunic | Austria | 2,600,000 | 9 |
| 130 | 4 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 6,525,000 | 22 |
| 130 | 5 | Emma Fullarton | United Kingdom | 5,050,000 | 17 |
| 130 | 6 | Andreas Walnum | Norway | 18,625,000 | 62 |
| 130 | 7 | Mohammed Ladak | United Kingdom | 6,100,000 | 20 |
| 130 | 8 | Florian Duta | Romania | 17,200,000 | 57 |
| 135 | 1 | Philipp Gruissem | Germany | 10,750,000 | 36 |
| 135 | 2 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 4,525,000 | 15 |
| 135 | 3 | Anton Wigg | Sweden | 2,250,000 | 7 |
| 135 | 4 | Ionut Voinea | Romania | 9,725,000 | 32 |
| 135 | 5 | Robert Bickley | United Kingdom | 15,475,000 | 52 |
| 135 | 6 | Jack Sinclair | United Kingdom | 14,400,000 | 48 |
| 135 | 7 | Abdelhakim Zoufri | Netherlands | 27,500,000 | 92 |
| 135 | 8 | Patrick Leonard | United Kingdom | 11,350,000 | 38 |
| 136 | 1 | Ondrej Drozd | Czech Republic | 9,150,000 | 31 |
| 136 | 2 | Tibor | Slovakia | 4,600,000 | 15 |
| 136 | 3 | Vishal Maini | United Kingdom | 8,550,000 | 29 |
| 136 | 4 | Grzegorz Idziak | Poland | 9,875,000 | 33 |
| 136 | 5 | Radoslaw Wesierski | Poland | 10,550,000 | 35 |
| 136 | 6 | Sandro Pitzanti | Netherlands | 21,000,000 | 70 |
| 136 | 7 | Niko Wieland | Germany | 8,625,000 | 29 |
| 136 | 8 | ggbn | Germany | 11,075,000 | 37 |
| 141 | 1 | Gianluca Speranza | Italy | 20,450,000 | 68 |
| 141 | 2 | Ludovic Geilich | United Kingdom | 12,300,000 | 41 |
| 141 | 3 | [Removed:244] | Austria | 22,125,000 | 74 |
| 141 | 4 | Aliaskei Boika | Belarus | 4,900,000 | 16 |
| 141 | 5 | Fahredin Mustafov | Bulgaria | 15,000,000 | 50 |
| 141 | 6 | Thomas Hueber | Austria | 12,700,000 | 42 |
| 141 | 7 | Rostislav Stejskal | Czech Republic | 4,000,050 | 13 |
| 141 | 8 | Jessica Pilkington | United Kingdom | 5,275,000 | 18 |
| 142 | 1 | Pascal Hartmann | Germany | 3,850,000 | 13 |
| 142 | 2 | Yiannis Liperis | United Kingdom | 14,925,000 | 50 |
| 142 | 3 | Aristeidis Moschonas | Greece | 36,550,000 | 122 |
| 142 | 4 | Oliver Price | United Kingdom | 28,000,000 | 93 |
| 142 | 6 | Vlado Banicevic | Montenegro | 10,600,000 | 35 |
| 142 | 7 | Milan Šimko | Czech Republic | 2,300,000 | 8 |
| 142 | 8 | Pavel Plesuv | Moldova | 28,725,000 | 96 |
| 147 | 1 | Oleg Suntsov | Russian Federation | 12,650,000 | 42 |
| 147 | 2 | Imad Fakhro | Germany | 11,650,000 | 39 |
| 147 | 4 | Artur Wasek | Poland | 18,250,000 | 61 |
| 147 | 5 | Alexander Lakhov | Russian Federation | 2,375,000 | 8 |
| 147 | 6 | Chrispher Schmidt | Germany | 8,300,000 | 28 |
| 147 | 7 | Carlos Rodriguez | United States | 3,800,000 | 13 |
| 147 | 8 | Lander Lijo | Spain | 7,875,000 | 26 |
| 148 | 2 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 7,900,000 | 26 |
| 148 | 3 | David Urban | Slovakia | 10,800,000 | 36 |
| 148 | 4 | Rehman Kassam | United Kingdom | 9,175,000 | 31 |
| 148 | 5 | Gerald Karlic | Austria | 3,500,000 | 12 |
| 148 | 6 | Vasyl Penteliuk | Russian Federation | 10,625,000 | 35 |
| 148 | 7 | Jan Mach | Czech Republic | 22,675,000 | 76 |
| 148 | 8 | Niall Farrell | United Kingdom | 5,600,000 | 19 |
| 153 | 1 | Bernd Gleissner | Germany | 6,300,000 | 21 |
| 153 | 3 | Nicholas Kearns | United Kingdom | 3,550,000 | 12 |
| 153 | 4 | Rickie Silcock | United Kingdom | 13,625,000 | 45 |
| 153 | 5 | Joseph Parsons | United Kingdom | 6,575,000 | 22 |
| 153 | 6 | Maria Lampropulos | Argentina | 6,150,000 | 21 |
| 153 | 7 | Vladimír Burstein | Czech Republic | 14,850,000 | 50 |
| 153 | 8 | Pierre Neuville | Belgium | 3,500,000 | 12 |
| 154 | 1 | Christopher Andler | Sweden | 21,150,000 | 71 |
| 154 | 2 | Leo Nash | Ireland | 13,950,000 | 47 |
| 154 | 4 | Artan Dedusha | United Kingdom | 25,125,000 | 84 |
| 154 | 5 | Jason Wheeler | United States | 8,100,000 | 27 |
| 154 | 6 | Vojtech Ružicka | Czech Republic | 16,900,000 | 56 |
| 154 | 7 | Werner Oberbauer | Germany | 2,300,000 | 8 |
| 154 | 8 | Joao Simao | Brazil | 22,100,000 | 74 |
brought no help for Castelluccio and Walnum scored the knockout with a full house.
and Panka failed to improve, the money bubble burst after some two hours and the blinds will move up shortly to play the last level of the night.
let Leonard double while Panka had 550,000 remaining, of which 200,000 vanished the very next hand due to the button ante.
flop improved Liperis to a pair of queens and the 
river saw the 13.5 million pot shipped over to the Brit.
gave Zoufri top pair and that was it for Durnegger.
, Tomas Fara called from mid-position with 
. Jason Wheeler three-bet to 815,000 from the hijack with 
in the small blind and shoved for 2,640,000 in total. Conroy and Fara folded. Wheeler asked for a count. Wheeler looked at Lepore again and then called.
and Andrea Piazza went into the showdown as shortest stack with the 
.
of Vasyl Penteliuk and check-shoved the flop with a flush draw only for the Russian with the inferior flush draw to get there.
