Simao Busts in First Attempt; Back for More
The field size for Day 1A of the 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona €10,300 Main Event has grown to 335 entries, of which some 230 remained at the second break after the end of level six. Many familiar names were eliminated, such as Barny Boatman, Adrian Mateos (twice), Benjamin Pollak, Christoph Vogelsang, Steve O'Dwyer, Juha Helppi, partypoker chairman Mike Sexton, Chino Rheem and many more.
Joao Simao was also felted just before the break, but has bought back in for attempt number two. Simao was involved in a two million chip pot to the 
river. Ahmed Abdella moved all in for half of the pot, 1.137 million to be exact, and Simao gave it plenty of thought before calling. Abdella turned over 
and Simao mucked 
to be left with crumbs, the remaining chips were gone shortly after, while Abdella jumped up to 4.25 million.
Juan Pardo Dominguez is back to his heater from the two €25,500 Super High Rollers and knocked out Timothy Adams to climb up to 4.5 million. Other bigger stacks include Jan-Eric Schwippert (4.0 million), Alessio Isaia (3.2 million), Claas Segebrecht (3.2 million), Justin Bonomo (3.0) Dietrich Fast (2.9 million), Andrew Chen (2.45 million) and partypoker sponsored pro Johnny Lodden (2.2 million). On Lodden's table are Bonomo and Byron Kaverman, who doubled just before the break for 304,000 after winning a flip with pocket fives against the 
of Georgios Karakousis.
The tables are filled with plenty of pros from all over the world. You can find the likes of Taiwan's James Chen, Singapore's Wayne Yap, 2017 WSOPE Main Event champion Marti Roca de Torres, Australia's Jason Gray, almost all German regulars of the European circuit and old school Russian grinder Oleg Titov spread all over the 99-table big tournament room.