Day 2 Is Set to Get Underway in the $5,300 MILLIONS Main Event
After three flights of Day 1 action, the cards are ready to get in the air on Day 2 of the $5,300 MILLIONS Main Event at the 2017 Caribbean Poker Party Festival. There will be 521 players returning to the felt and one of the contenders at the top of the leaderboard is partypoker sponsored pro, Johnny Lodden.
The Norwegian poker pro bagged a top five chip stack with an impressive 5,625,000. Lodden might not be playing as much tournament poker as he once did, but he is always a recognizable face at these partypoker LIVE festivals. Not to mention Lodden also has over $2.7 million in live tournament earnings.
He will be contending with two-time WSOP Main Event final tablist, Antoine Saout, who will come in with 4,922,000. Daniel Dvoress (4,889,000), Stephen Chidwick (4,824,000) and partypoker sponsored pro, Richard Dubini (4,660,000), also have top-ten stacks to start the day.
The action is slated to resume at 12:00 P.M. local time with a total of 521 players returning from the three Day 1 flights. Late registration will remain open for another 4 levels. A whopping $5,000,000 prizepool is guaranteed for this event and the final numbers with payouts will be posted when they become available. The blind levels will be increased to 75 minutes today, starting at 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 button ante. A total of seven levels are tap for today's schedule, at which point players will bag and tag to return on Day 3.
A winner is expected to be crowned by the end of Day 5 and the PokerNews live reporting team will be with you through it all.