Upeshka De Silva Bags Big at the End of Day 2 of the partypoker MILLION North America Main Event! (full)
Just like that, Day 2 of the partypoker MILLION North America Main Event has come to an end, with 173 players finding the bottom of a bag to move on to Day 3 tomorrow at noon local time. The official chip leader going into Day 2 is James Romero, sitting on 19,655,000 chips. Close behind him is WSOP bracelet winner Upeshka De Silva (18,525,000), with Karim Abdelhamid (17,970,000) rounding out the top three.
The day began with 422 players set to start, but that number quickly grew due to the fact that registration re-opened for two more 75-minute levels. There were 42 direct Day 2 entries to begin with, but this number quickly grew to a total of 128, with an additional 33 re-entries before registration closed for good.
A total of 1,168 entries made up a prizepool of CA$5,709,750, surpassing the CA$5,000,000 guarantee by a good margin. As it turns out, this event broke the record for biggest prizepool in Canada, beating out the CA$10,000 WPT Fallsview event back in 2007, which gathered a prizepool of just over $5.1 million.
First place for this event is locked in at an even CA$1,000,000, with a min-cash of CA$10,000. A detailed breakdown of the prizepool can be found under the Payouts tab above. Here is a look at the final table payouts:
| Place | Prize (CAD) |
|---|---|
| 1 | $1,000,000 |
| 2 | $650,000 |
| 3 | $450,000 |
| 4 | $333,500 |
| 5 | $235,000 |
| 6 | $160,000 |
| 7 | $110,000 |
| 8 | $80,000 |
| 9 | $60,000 |
A number of notable players have moved on to Day 3, including partypoker pros Sam Trickett (12,200,000), and Tony Dunst (1,195,000). World Poker Tour Champion, and first woman to win an open WPT event, Ema Zajmovic, bagged a hefty stack of 15,735,000, good for fifth in chips, looking to secure another title right here on her home turf.
Joseph Sicko won his seat through a Twitter contest via partypoker and bagged a healthy 14,745,000 chips. Other players who are in contention include Michael Addamo (11,375,000), Darren Elias (10,305,000), Christian Harder (10,185,000), Jason Koon (10,120,000), High Roller Champion Mike McDonald (4,910,000), Cate Hall (4,870,000), and Ryan Riess (740,000).
In addition to familiar players moving on, there was a ton of talent that made it through today but didn't manage to bag a stack, including Mike Sexton, Kristen Bicknell, Maria Ho, Kitty Kuo, Mike Leah, and Jonathan Duhamel.
With the money bubble looming, look for players to either be making big moves or staying super snug. Here is a look at the table draw for Day 3:
| Table | Seat | First Name | Last Name | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | 1 | Tobias | Mathag | 4,165,000 |
| 49 | 2 | Asher | Conniff | 3,755,000 |
| 49 | 3 | Senthuran | Vijayaratnam | 2,060,000 |
| 49 | 4 | Thomas | Penza | 4,270,000 |
| 49 | 5 | Jase | Regina | 9,330,000 |
| 49 | 6 | Nipun | Java | 8,015,000 |
| 49 | 7 | Frederick | Mowatt | 2,500,000 |
| 49 | 8 | Steven | Warburton | 4,700,000 |
| 50 | 1 | Richard | Belcastro | 4,995,000 |
| 50 | 2 | Shane | Brotherwood | 7,965,000 |
| 50 | 3 | Marko | X | 1,980,000 |
| 50 | 4 | Jean-Pascal | Savard | 14,130,000 |
| 50 | 5 | Vlad | Mezheritsky | 5,575,000 |
| 50 | 6 | Scott | Montgomery | 7,095,000 |
| 50 | 7 | Andrew | Walter | 8,995,000 |
| 50 | 8 | Sam | Trickett | 12,200,000 |
| 51 | 1 | Duff | Charette | 15,060,000 |
| 51 | 2 | Lawrence | Leblanc | 2,315,000 |
| 51 | 3 | Jordan | Saccucci | 12,845,000 |
| 51 | 4 | Xuan | Liu | 7,570,000 |
| 51 | 5 | Karl David | Thorson | 3,835,000 |
| 51 | 6 | Adrian Patrick | Buckley | 1,805,000 |
| 51 | 7 | Tony | Dunst | 1,195,000 |
| 51 | 8 | Ryan | Morrell | 4,370,000 |
| 52 | 1 | Patrick | Pezzin | 6,000,000 |
| 52 | 2 | Christine | Bryant | 825,000 |
| 52 | 3 | Moritz | Dietrich | 8,060,000 |
| 52 | 4 | David | Eldridge | 15,100,000 |
| 52 | 5 | Karim | Chatur | 9,490,000 |
| 52 | 6 | Ha Van | Nguyen | 4,420,000 |
| 52 | 7 | Viet Van | Vo | 11,800,000 |
| 52 | 8 | Kyle | Hartree | 4,460,000 |
| 53 | 1 | Kenneth | Mcfarlane | 1,110,000 |
| 53 | 2 | Kauvsegan | Ehamparam | 5,090,000 |
| 53 | 3 | Thomas | Cemm | 5,645,000 |
| 53 | 4 | Rodger | Johnson | 2,340,000 |
| 53 | 5 | Eric | Levesque | 2,420,000 |
| 53 | 6 | Francois | Billard | 9,500,000 |
| 53 | 7 | Ko | Maddock | 8,855,000 |
| 53 | 8 | Denis | Ward | 3,055,000 |
| 54 | 1 | Jean-Sebastien | Dubois | 2,835,000 |
| 54 | 2 | Alexander | Greenblatt | 905,000 |
| 54 | 3 | Alexander James | Allison | 6,730,000 |
| 54 | 4 | Gabriel | Houle-Morin | 5,860,000 |
| 54 | 5 | Demosthenes | Kiriopoulos | 8,300,000 |
| 54 | 7 | Austin | Peck | 12,810,000 |
| 54 | 8 | Daniel | Colman | 3,685,000 |
| 55 | 1 | Van Nghiem | Nguy | 3,725,000 |
| 55 | 2 | Daniel | Suied | 6,000,000 |
| 55 | 3 | Michael G | Smith | 7,140,000 |
| 55 | 4 | Andreas | Olympios | 10,630,000 |
| 55 | 5 | Andrew | Decristoforo | 1,305,000 |
| 55 | 6 | Thomas | Keeper | 3,700,000 |
| 55 | 7 | Dimitri | Morcos | 6,700,000 |
| 55 | 8 | Norson | Saho | 3,660,000 |
| 56 | 1 | Jie | Gao | 1,605,000 |
| 56 | 2 | Kevin | Rivest | 8,265,000 |
| 56 | 3 | Julian | Milliard-Feral | 4,270,000 |
| 56 | 4 | Drew | Doiron | 6,590,000 |
| 56 | 5 | Sasan | Mehrabian | 9,400,000 |
| 56 | 6 | Rayan | Chamas | 17,270,000 |
| 56 | 7 | Lawrence | Whyte | 1,825,000 |
| 56 | 8 | Sean | Perry | 7,400,000 |
| 57 | 1 | Samuel | Greenwood | 8,970,000 |
| 57 | 3 | Aaron | Mermelstein | 4,330,000 |
| 57 | 4 | Christopher | Annouza | 4,515,000 |
| 57 | 5 | Yan | Poudrier | 8,885,000 |
| 57 | 6 | Hendrik Jerome Mikola | Latz | 9,130,000 |
| 57 | 7 | Jocelyn | Poirier | 3,955,000 |
| 57 | 8 | Benoit | Jean | 4,295,000 |
| 58 | 1 | Marc Andre | Ladouceur | 7,835,000 |
| 58 | 2 | Guillaume | Nolet | 1,300,000 |
| 58 | 3 | Karim | Abdelhamid | 17,970,000 |
| 58 | 4 | Darren | Elias | 10,305,000 |
| 58 | 5 | Sammy | Lafleur | 5,395,000 |
| 58 | 6 | Carlos | Mortensen | 4,875,000 |
| 58 | 7 | Presten | Cloutier | 3,900,000 |
| 58 | 8 | Philippe | D'Auteuil | 4,195,000 |
| 59 | 1 | Mingzhe | Zhang | 8,465,000 |
| 59 | 2 | Steven | Kerr | 10,640,000 |
| 59 | 3 | Marc | Guerbilsky | 11,040,000 |
| 59 | 4 | Nicolas | Le Floch | 5,060,000 |
| 59 | 5 | Christian | Harder | 10,185,000 |
| 59 | 6 | Kevin | MacDonald | 13,015,000 |
| 59 | 7 | Troy | Reardon | 1,110,000 |
| 59 | 8 | Qi | Hu | 12,725,000 |
| 60 | 1 | Robin | Hegele | 9,515,000 |
| 60 | 2 | Ryan | Riess | 740,000 |
| 60 | 3 | Ari | Engel | 9,250,000 |
| 60 | 4 | Griffin | Benger | 7,540,000 |
| 60 | 5 | Sylvain | Siebert | 11,665,000 |
| 60 | 6 | Terry | Lee | 3,580,000 |
| 60 | 7 | James | Romero | 19,655,000 |
| 60 | 8 | Jean-Louis | Cyr | 2,955,000 |
| 61 | 1 | Jonathan | Bussieres | 12,035,000 |
| 61 | 2 | Jacob | Bazeley | 11,425,000 |
| 61 | 3 | Stephan | Chartrand | 9,500,000 |
| 61 | 4 | Jimmy | Lee | 11,850,000 |
| 61 | 5 | Chun Ho | Law | 9,735,000 |
| 61 | 6 | Charles | Macdonald | 5,070,000 |
| 61 | 7 | Bob | T | 4,485,000 |
| 61 | 8 | Christopher | Dowling | 9,425,000 |
| 62 | 1 | Samuel | Chartier | 6,515,000 |
| 62 | 2 | Michael | McDonald | 4,910,000 |
| 62 | 3 | Wesley | Hickey | 2,500,000 |
| 62 | 4 | Jonathan | Kyriakides | 910,000 |
| 62 | 5 | John | Krpan | 5,900,000 |
| 62 | 6 | Jake | Schwartz | 1,645,000 |
| 62 | 7 | Yuzhou | Chu | 4,800,000 |
| 62 | 8 | Noeung | Troeung | 1,700,000 |
| 63 | 1 | Dylan | Wilkerson | 5,042,000 |
| 63 | 2 | Antonio | Maiolo | 4,745,000 |
| 63 | 3 | Michael | Noor | 5,745,000 |
| 63 | 4 | Maduka | Meragal | 4,875,000 |
| 63 | 5 | Charles | La Boissonniere | 10,390,000 |
| 63 | 6 | Alain | Chenel | 3,600,000 |
| 63 | 7 | Ryan | Rivers | 3,965,000 |
| 63 | 8 | Niall | Farrell | 9,400,000 |
| 64 | 1 | Joseph | Sicko | 14,745,000 |
| 64 | 2 | Armand | King | 6,000,000 |
| 64 | 3 | Quyen | Dao | 3,165,000 |
| 64 | 4 | Jean-Philippe | Piquette | 13,285,000 |
| 64 | 5 | Thomas | Taylor | 7,360,000 |
| 64 | 6 | Kevin | Schulz | 7,850,000 |
| 64 | 7 | Vojtech | Ruzicka | 9,505,000 |
| 64 | 8 | Carl | Diveglia | 7,830,000 |
| 65 | 1 | Buck | Ramsay | 2,200,000 |
| 65 | 2 | Carter | Swidler | 1,260,000 |
| 65 | 3 | Maxime | Flibotte-Blanchard | 4,875,000 |
| 65 | 4 | Timothy | Ulmer | 6,400,000 |
| 65 | 5 | David | Cloutier | 1,685,000 |
| 65 | 6 | Terrence Ka-Man | Chan | 8,705,000 |
| 65 | 7 | Anthony | Zinno | 3,070,000 |
| 65 | 8 | Thomas | Lefort | 4,025,000 |
| 66 | 1 | Jason | Comtois | 5,940,000 |
| 66 | 2 | Patrick | Blye | 1,775,000 |
| 66 | 3 | Michel-Claude | Baroud | 11,695,000 |
| 66 | 4 | John Paul | Tabago | 1,445,000 |
| 66 | 5 | Yuan | Jiang | 1,730,000 |
| 66 | 6 | Upeshka Manishan | De Silva | 18,525,000 |
| 66 | 7 | Santiago | Plante | 12,845,000 |
| 66 | 8 | Jason | Sagle | 4,545,000 |
| 67 | 1 | Kane | Kalas | 7,325,000 |
| 67 | 2 | Alexandre | Fournier | 3,875,000 |
| 67 | 3 | Anthony | Meli | 2,225,000 |
| 67 | 5 | Masoud | Tavangari | 3,625,000 |
| 67 | 6 | Jason | Koon | 10,120,000 |
| 67 | 7 | Matthew | Waxman | 6,265,000 |
| 67 | 8 | Michael | Addamo | 11,375,000 |
| 68 | 1 | Caitlin | Hall | 4,870,000 |
| 68 | 2 | Rodney | Ramalho | 4,900,000 |
| 68 | 3 | Nicolas | Belcourt | 4,670,000 |
| 68 | 4 | Daniel Noel | Noseworthy | 4,170,000 |
| 68 | 5 | Louis | Boutin | 7,100,000 |
| 68 | 6 | Michael | Hahn | 10,100,000 |
| 68 | 7 | Timothy | West | 5,675,000 |
| 68 | 8 | Eric | Boissonneault | 3,065,000 |
| 69 | 1 | Victor | Adams | 4,855,000 |
| 69 | 2 | John | Xenos | 3,055,000 |
| 69 | 3 | Dhaval J | Joshi | 15,475,000 |
| 69 | 4 | Pawel | Pelc | 2,565,000 |
| 69 | 5 | Joshua | Wallace | 2,140,000 |
| 69 | 6 | Ema | Zajmovic | 15,735,000 |
| 69 | 7 | Chanracy | Khun | 9,375,000 |
| 69 | 8 | Andrew | Boujaoude | 4,390,000 |
| 70 | 1 | Benny | Chen | 12,000,000 |
| 70 | 2 | Joel | Moreau | 3,610,000 |
| 70 | 3 | Eric | Place | 9,200,000 |
| 70 | 4 | Jiachen | Gong | 2,800,000 |
| 70 | 5 | Ruben | Perceval | 7,790,000 |
| 70 | 6 | Richard | Kirsch | 8,500,000 |
| 70 | 7 | Graham | Ivany | 5,700,000 |
| 70 | 8 | Elliot | Smith | 6,780,000 |
Keep following along as PokerNews brings you all of the action on the way to crowning a champion!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
19,655,000 | 19,655,000 |
|
18,525,000 | 15,025,000 |
|
17,970,000 | 14,170,000 |
|
17,270,000 | 4,770,000 |
|
15,735,000 | 385,000 |
|
15,475,000 | 15,475,000 |
|
15,100,000 | 9,300,000 |
|
15,060,000 | 15,060,000 |
|
14,745,000 | 4,345,000 |
|
14,130,000 | 13,130,000 |
|
13,285,000 | 13,285,000 |
|
13,015,000 | 13,015,000 |
|
12,845,000 | 12,845,000 |
|
12,845,000 | 3,345,000 |
|
12,810,000 | 7,610,000 |
|
12,725,000 | 5,825,000 |
|
12,200,000 | 2,950,000 |
|
12,035,000 | 12,035,000 |
|
12,000,000 | 7,200,000 |
|
11,850,000 | -1,150,000 |
|
11,800,000 | -2,200,000 |
|
11,695,000 | -3,705,000 |
|
11,665,000 | 6,665,000 |
|
11,425,000 | 7,525,000 |
|
11,375,000 | 5,975,000 |
, putting Vo in the lead with top two pair, but Ho also flopped an open-ended straight draw. 
and the river was the 
, ending Ho's run in this event just before the end of the day.
as her opponent tabled 
. 
and Liu looked fairly happy about it. The turn was the 
, and her opponent picked up some outs to win. 
and Liu was able to hold on.
. Her opponent tabled 
for about 700,000 chips, and had a slim chance of winning the hand when the flop came 
, giving Hall a set of nines. Hall's opponent was drawing dead when the 
hit the turn, and the insignificant 
hit the river. 
