$10,300 High Roller | 2017 partypoker LIVE Million North America

05-05-2017 17:13 UTC-4

Chip Counts

ElleSriracha

Level 13 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Koon	760,000 420,000	420,000

Vishal Singh Maini	700,000 -20,000	-20,000
Roberto Romanello	650,000 310,000	310,000

Benoit Galland	600,000 385,000	385,000
Sorel Mizzi	530,000 70,000	70,000
Mike McDonald	510,000 230,000	230,000

Michael Addamo	500,000 180,000	180,000

Cate Hall	380,000 -100,000	-100,000
Ryan Yu	300,000 -200,000	-200,000
Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault	300,000 80,000	80,000
John Krpan	170,000 -70,000	-70,000

Level: 14

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000

05-05-2017 17:27 UTC-4

Player	Chips	Progress
Sorel Mizzi	750,000 220,000	220,000
Mike McDonald	690,000 180,000	180,000

Roberto Romanello Jams His Way to the Chip Lead

ElleSriracha

Level 14 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Action folded around to Jason Koon on the button and he raised to 25,000. Roberto Romanello was in the big blind and three-bet to 105,000. Koon stood up to count his opponent's stack, sat back down and decided to call.

The flop came and Romanello led out for 126,000. Koon called.

The turn was the . Romanello tanked for about a minute and eventually piled his stack in the middle. Koon quickly folded.

Romanello now holds the chip lead, getting closer to the million-chip mark.

Player	Chips	Progress
Roberto Romanello	900,000 250,000	250,000

Jason Koon	400,000 -360,000	-360,000

Tags: Jason Koon Roberto Romanello

05-05-2017 17:56 UTC-4

Cate Hall Eliminated by Benoit Galland

ElleSriracha

Level 14 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Benoit Galland was in the cutoff and he raised to 23,000. Sorel Mizzi called on the button, and Cate Hall decided to move all in from the small blind for her remaining 275,000 chips. Galland called, and Mizzi folded.

Galland tabled and Hall showed .

The board ran out and Hall was eliminated a couple of spots from the final table.

Just ten players remaining, and the high roller is on the final table bubble!

Player	Chips	Progress
Benoit Galland	710,000 110,000	110,000
Cate Hall	Busted

Tags: Cate Hall Sorel Mizzi

Level: 15

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 1,000

05-05-2017 18:29 UTC-4

Unofficial Final Table of Nine

ElleSriracha

Level 15 : 6,000/12,000, 1,000 ante

With the recent elimination of Michael Addamo, the unofficial final table of nine has come together. Mike McDonald called Addamo's shove preflop and held ace-queen. Addamo tabled ace-nine and couldn't catch up, sending him to the rail in 10th place.

Roberto Romanello currently leads the field with 980,000. The shortest stack belongs to John Krpan with 120,000 chips.

Here is a look at how the final nine players stack up:

Seat	Player Name	Chip Count
1	Ryan Yu	160000
2	Vishal Singh Maini	420000
3	Mike McDonald	900000
4	Roberto Romanello	980000
5	Benoit Galland	700000
6	Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault	630000
7	Jason Koon	330000
8	Sorel Mizzi	900000
9	John Krpan	120000

Player	Chips	Progress
Roberto Romanello	980,000 80,000	80,000

Mike McDonald	900,000 210,000	210,000

Sorel Mizzi	900,000 150,000	150,000
Benoit Galland	700,000 -10,000	-10,000
Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault	630,000 330,000	330,000
Vishal Singh Maini	420,000 -280,000	-280,000
Jason Koon	330,000 -70,000	-70,000

Ryan Yu	160,000 -140,000	-140,000
John Krpan	120,000 -50,000	-50,000

05-05-2017 18:34 UTC-4

Jason Koon Eliminated by Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault

ElleSriracha

Level 15 : 6,000/12,000, 1,000 ante

Jason Koon was seen exiting the tournament area, and he informed the partypoker team that he ran ace-king suited into the aces of Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault.

Koon was down to about 330,000 chips coming into the final table, and Perrault had more than double that. Koon has been eliminated in 9th place, just a few spots from the money.

Perrault is now the first player to cross the million-chip mark.