While the number of entries has now reached 1,148, and the starting stack for a direct buy in is 1,000,000 chips, some players entered the field with less than a starting stack due to the Phase 1 qualifiers.
That being said, the number of chips in play currently sits at 1,122,500,000. That's over a billion in chips! That number is sure to grow with registration open for one more level.
Dilovan (George) Hussein, from Edmonton, Alberta, is the first player to cross the 10,000,000 chip line. Hussein came in to the day as one of the chip leaders and he has carried his momentum over from Day 1a.
Along with his large stack of chips comes a large personality. Hussein is sporting his Edmonton Oilers gear and has not let up on the chatter at the table, saying "If you can't handle the heat, then this isn't the room for you!" Hussein made the final table of the partypoker Grand Prix just last week, finishing in 8th place, and is also coming off a fourth place finish at WPT Fallsview just a few months ago, collecting over $100,000 for his biggest career cash. Look for Hussein to continue to break personal records right here at Playground Poker.
Cate Hall made a deep run in the High Roller a couple of days ago, finishing in 11th place, just a couple of spots from the final table. She looks for redemption here in the $5,300 Main Event, and has chipped up a little and held her own since the day started.
In a recent hand, Hall called an all in before the flop and she held the best of it with . 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.
Hall has now run her stack up to five million chips as the dinner break approaches.
The prizepool numbers are in, and it's official - the $5,000,000 guarantee set on this event has been surpassed, for a Canadian, live poker, record-breaking total of CA$5,709,750!
The winner has been guaranteed CA$1,000,000, along with bragging rights an some beautiful hardware.
The previous record was set back in 2007 at the World Poker Tour Fallsview in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The CA$10,000 buy-in event attracted 503 entries for a record prizepool of CA$5,133,335.
Congratulations to everyone involved in making this event such a great success!
Payouts will be posted as soon as they become available. In the meantime, it's time to get back to playing some poker!
The numbers are in, and first place in this record-breaking CA$5,300 partypoker MILLION North America Main Event is paying a cool CA$1,000,000. A min-cash is worth CA$10,000, but the end-goal is to become a millionaire!
The total prizepool surpassed the CA$5,000,000 guarantee, reaching a grand total of CA$5,709,750! This has broken the record in Canada for the biggest live tournament prizepool, surpassing the 2007 WPT Fallsview record of CA$5,133,335.
A breakdown of the prizes is posted under the 'Payouts' tab above, but in the meantime, have a look:
Xuan Liu appeared to be all in for 1,210,000 from under the gun, and her opponent in middle position had 300,000 in front of him, facing a bet of 910,000 more to call. He went into the tank and eventually called.
Liu was miles ahead with as her opponent tabled .
The flop came and Liu looked fairly happy about it. The turn was the , and her opponent picked up some outs to win.
Action folded around to Dzmitry Urbanovich in the small blind and he moved all in, already short-stacked, and Santiago Plante called from the big blind.
Plante tabled queen-jack while Urbanovich held queen-eight.
Plante flopped top two pair, and Urbanovich was unable to catch up, sending the partypoker pro to the rail towards the end of Day 2.
Action folded around to Maria Ho on the button and she moved all in for 850,000 on the button. Viet Van Vo was sitting with a mountain of chips in front of him and decided to call.
Vo:
Ho:
Ho was ahead, but not by much. The flop came , putting Vo in the lead with top two pair, but Ho also flopped an open-ended straight draw.
The turn was the and the river was the , ending Ho's run in this event just before the end of the day.
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
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