PartyPoker will be pleased with the popularity of its Euro 10,300 buy-in Live Millions Grand Final Main Event in Barcelona this weekend; as the starting flights ended it became clear that at 1,175 entries, the prize pool has soared to Euro 11,397,500, comfortably past the Euro 10 million PP put up as a guarantee.
At the close of Day 1d just 87 players remained, with US poker pro Anthony Zinno holding the chip lead with just short of 9 million chips, pursued by Kenneth Smaron (8.52 million) and Marco Fontanella (8.48 million),
Other top names in the game with healthy chip stacks include UK ace Sam Trickett, German pro Dominik Nitsche, Roberto Romanello and Jason Koon.