
The Main Event of the Poker Grand Adventure Tour boasted with 887 entries that skyrocketed prize pool to $1.2 million. 133 players started the Day 2 and only 28 players survived and move to the final third day. Among them is Slovenian Andraž Menegalija, who will fight for a win on Sunday’s final.
Though, Fernando Gutiérrez will bring the biggest chip stack to Day 3 with 2,920,000, followed by Patrick Zidesk with 2,660,000, two favorites for a $250,000 first-place prize here in Sortis Casino, Panama!

Menegalija entered the Main Event on Day 1D after a success at the cash game tables, brought 80,000 chips to Day 2 and built a stack worth 405,000 chips on Saturday. Andraž is a professional cash game and NLHE tournament player and one of the best in PokerPro.cc community. We wish him all the best on the last day!
PGAT Main Event Chip Counts
Position | Player | Country | Chipstack |
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1 | FERNANDO GUTIERREZ | Colombia | 2890000 |
2 | PATRIK ZIDEK | Czech Republic | 2660000 |
3 | RAÚL PAEZ | Spain | 2305000 |
4 | STEPHEN KEHOL | Ireland | 2170000 |
5 | FYNN JAKOBI | Germany | 1800000 |
6 | CARLO VELASCO | Ecuador | 1750000 |
7 | WALTER PINEDA | Costa Rica | 1615000 |
8 | PAMELA BALZANO | Argentina | 1415000 |
9 | SHLOMI GARDI | Israel | 1390000 |
10 | JUAN MACEIRAS | Spain | 1375000 |
11 | CARLOS SOBENES | Peru | 1340000 |
12 | CRISTIAN VELASQUEZ | Colombia | 1335000 |
13 | EVGENII GAIDUKOV | Russia | 1310000 |
14 | LACHEZAR PETKOV | Bulgaria | 1275000 |
15 | URI SCHOLDERLE | Uruguay | 1243000 |
16 | KARLO LOPEZ | Puerto Rico | 1115000 |
17 | EDDIE SHOMAN | Panama | 1050000 |
18 | DEJAN GLIGORIC | Canada | 910000 |
19 | JOSHUA ABDOOL | Guyana | 800000 |
20 | IVÁN ARANGO | Colombia | 800000 |
21 | GILBERT PAUL | Dominican Republic | 710000 |
22 | VICTOR LEMOS | Panama | 710000 |
23 | JOSÉ GOMEZ | Mexico | 680000 |
24 | JORGE HOU | Panama | 585000 |
25 | GERMÁN ALZATE | Colombia | 565000 |
26 | FERNANDO SAMPIETRO | Argentina | 555000 |
27 | NÉSTOR CHAVEZ | Venezuela | 520000 |
28 | ANDRAZ MENEGALIJA | Slovenia | 405000 |