Just 58 Players Remain Heading to Day 3 of R$25,000 Millions Championship
There will be 58 players returning to their seats for Day 3 of the R$25,000 BSOP Millions Championship being held at the WTC Sheraton in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Each player has already locked up R$47,650 thus far but the first-place prize of R$2,140,000 looms large for the remaining players who hope to navigate their way through the latter stages of the event.
It was an action-packed Day 2 to the event that saw the money bubble burst in the last level of the evening. Daniel Aziz was the unfortunate player to find himself on the outside looking in, and the overall chip leader played his part in it. Breno Drumond was seated to Aziz's right for the better part of the day and accumulated a whopping 2,630,000 chips over five levels to secure a healthy lead over the rest of the field.
Day 3 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breno Drumond | Brazil | 2,630,000 | 132 |
| 2 | Rodrigo Seiji | Brazil | 2,015,000 | 101 |
| 3 | Marcos Kenne | Brazil | 1,900,000 | 95 |
| 4 | Paulo Goncalves | Brazil | 1,900,000 | 95 |
| 5 | Claudio Pitta | Brazil | 1,875,000 | 94 |
| 6 | William Fernandes | Brazil | 1,645,000 | 83 |
| 7 | Luis Kamei | Brazil | 1,550,000 | 78 |
| 8 | Jose Carvalho | Brazil | 1,220,000 | 61 |
| 9 | Guilherme Pitta | Brazil | 1,205,000 | 60 |
| 10 | Pedro Gusmao | Brazil | 1,195,000 | 60 |
A few other familiar faces to keep an eye on heading into the middle day of the event include the most notable of them all, high stakes regular Joao Vieira (890,000), Alexandre Mantovani (880,000), Canadian sensation Santiago Plante (520,000), and second-place chip stack Rodrigo Seiji (2,015,000).
The action on Day 3 will begin on level 16 with the blinds at 10,000/20,000 and a 20,000 big blind ante. There will be another five or six 90-minute levels on the schedule for today, depending on the pace of play. There will be a 15-minute break after each level and a 75-minute dinner break after level 19.
The PokerNews team will be back on the tournament floor to bring you all of the live updates throughout the day and into the weekend.