When play resumed around 16:00 local time at the Casino Barcelona, a total of 224 players were returning for Day 2 of the €720+80 Mega Poker Series Main Event in the Spanish hotbed. Previously busted participants had the opportunity to re-enter again before the first card was dealt and 22 hopefuls did so to boost the overall field of the tournament to 440 entries.
After more than nine-and-a-half 60-minute levels and 12 hours in total, the bubble burst with the elimination of Julian Herold and the remaining players were bagging and tagging the chips with knowing to have at least €1,600 locked up for their efforts. The German had only five big blinds remaining when three-bet shoving with 
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The day started with a big bang when overnight chip leader Joao Santos and Pedro Lamarca banged heads in a half-million chip pot, the Spaniard doubled up with versus pocket sixes but still bowed out within the first two levels. Leo Margets then fell in the third level and the eliminations kept pouring in. Just before dinner, Isabel Baltazar completed a backdoor full house against a flopped set to score a massive three-way pot and by then, the field was reduced to 136 players.
Ka Kwan Lau had dominated the action early in the day but ran into the pocket aces of Sebastian Sommer, Jens Kerper’s run also came to an end with his aces getting cracked and then losing a flip to the very same player for the rest of it. World Series of Poker bracelet winner Adrian Apmann disappeared after dinner and so did Kilian Kramer while Day 1a chip leader Sviatoslav Shturyn and Mikael Juhani Koistinen were atop the leader board with more than a million chips. The Finn had re-entered before the start and ran over his tables, same applied for the Ukrainian.
2015 MPS Vienna champion Andelo Bozic had also purchased another fresh stack before the first card was dealt on Day 2 and the Croat was a riot at the tables. Without too much drama he climbed up the leader board and then vaulted into the top spot before taking the top spot with a double elimination that included Tillmann Raschke. Within the next two hours the field was reduced to 57 when the stalling began. It was decided to start hand-for-hand mode two off the money as a result to give everyone the same chance and Paco “El Tren” Torres then tripled up his short-stack.
A dozen all in showdowns later Herold was gone eventually and the clock was stopped with 21:57 left in level 19 at blinds 10,000-20,000 and a running ante of 3,000. This will be the starting point for Day 3 as of 16:00 local time and the early action with plenty of short stacks shall kick off fast and furious. Leading the field is Bozic with 2,383,000 closely followed by Shturyn (2,325,000) while Denis Vladimirov (2,218,000) takes the last spot on the overnight podium.
Other big stacks and notables include Santiago Lopez Barros (1,881,000), Koistinen (1,345,000), Vladimir Troyanovskiy (1,223,000), Adan Soler Fernandez (1,072,000), Baltazar (756,000), Josep Maria Galindo Lopez (677,000), Daniel Burkart (554,000), Alain Roy (540,000), Sascha Ranzinger (468,000) and 1b chip leader Santos (364,000).
MPS Barcelona 2015: Day 3 Seat Draw by Chips
MPS Barcelona 2015: Day 3 Seat Draw by Name
MPS Barcelona 2015: Day 3 Seat Draw by Tables
Yesterday also saw the first day of the €300+30 Side Event with 30,000 chips and 30 minute levels. A field of 146 entries emerged and 38 of them bagged up chips with the top 15 spots getting paid. The chip counts and redraw will be available before the restart at 18:00 local time. Two hours later, the two-day €400+40 Side Event gets underway with 40,000 chips and levels of 30 minutes as well.
