After two days and four starting flights, Day 2 of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona Finale is finally here! The €1,000,000 guarantee was easily reached as there were 1,163 entries in total with 214 players bagging and tagging for today. The remaining players will all come in at noon local time with two goals, first to make it into the money. Second, to take down the whole tournament to close the week off in style. The player with the best papers right now is Ashi Moshe with 19,930,000 in chips which he collected on Day 1a.
Second in the chip counts is, Day 1d chip leader, [Removed:138]. Third in the chip counts if another player from Day 1d Asker Aloev with 15,000,000 in chips. There are many players to keep an eye on like Kfir Ivgi, Paul Tedeschi, Ben Farrell, Sander van Wesemael, Muhammad Fahd Ali, Dermot Blain, Alexandre Reard, Alexander Ivarsson, Thi Nguyen, Jimmy Guerrero, David Urban, Duff Charette, Stoyan Obrehkov, Sofia Lovgren, and the sole partypoker representative in this field, Sponsored pro, Richard Dubini.
The 214 remaining players return at noon local time to play down to a winner today. The first level of the day will be Level 17 with a small blind of 70,000, big blind of 140,000 and button ante of 140,000. Levels will continue being 30-minutes long and will be reduced to 15 minutes each once play reaches Heads-Up. A 15-minute break is scheduled after every 4 levels.
Stay around to follow all the updates as the PokerNews live reporting team will be here until the final cards have been dealt.
The first 15-minute break of the day started while the hand-for-hand stage was still going on. Most people left the tournament area immediately but there were still some tables playing. After a while, almost everyone was gone except for two players at table #75.
Uri Reichenstein raised to 550,000 from the button and Michal Rudnik shoved from the small blind. Reichenstein called.
Michal Rudnik:
Uri Reichenstein:
The board ran out - no eight for Rudnik and he bubbled the Finale in 144th place.
Alessandro Borsa raised to 2,800,000 from the under-the-gun position and was called by both Pedro Cairat, on the button, and Bruno Launais in the big blind.
The flop came , Launais checked, Borsa continued with a bet of around 3,000,000. Cairat called. Launais shoved and then Borsa did the same. Cairat called, having them both covered.
Bruno Launais:
Alessandro Borsa:
Pedro Cairat:
Launais had flopped a straight draw, Bora flopped a set of sevens and Cairat flopped two pair.
The turn brought them the which now gave Cairat the full house, he only needed to avoid a seven to eliminate both of this opponents. The river completed the board with a and both Borsa and Launais have been eliminated.
Robert Heidorn raised to 5,500,000 from the cutoff and was called by Pedro Cairat on the button. GisleOlsen shoved all in for 17,000,000 from the big blind. Heidorn also shoved. Cairat asked for a count and the dealer confirmed Heidorn had 89,500,000 in total. Cairat open-folded [ajhd].
Gilse Olsen:
Robert Heidorn:
The board ran out - Heidorn flopped a straight and Olsen was out in 16th place.
Robert Schiffbauer shoved all in for 37,500,000 from the under-the-gun position and was called by Said El Yousfi on the button.
Robert Schiffbauer:
Said El Yousfi:
The board ran out - El Yousfi hit the ace on the turn and the king on the river to make Schiffbauer's pain even worse. Schiffbauer wished the table good luck and made his way to the payout desk,
- no eight for Rudnik and he bubbled the Finale in 144th place.
, Launais checked, Borsa continued with a bet of around 3,000,000. Cairat called. Launais shoved and then Borsa did the same. Cairat called, having them both covered.
which now gave Cairat the full house, he only needed to avoid a seven to eliminate both of this opponents. The river completed the board with a 
and both Borsa and Launais have been eliminated.
