Day 3 has come to an end in the partypoker MILLION North America Main Event in Montreal, Canada. When all was said and done, 37 players bagged chips and will return tomorrow for Day 4 at noon local time. The official chip leader at the conclusion of play was 2010 WSOP Bracelet winner, Scott Montgomery. The chip leader is also known for finishing in fifth place in the 2008 WSOP Main Event ($3,096,768), boasting lifetime earnings totaling $4,539,000. Montgomery finished the day with 83,450,000 chips, followed by Niall Farrell (79,000,000) and Philippe DAuteuil (71,300,000), to round out the top three stacks.
The day started with 173 players and 82 of them took home at least CA$10,000. Tim West was responsible for bursting the bubble about halfway through the day, eliminating Steven Walburton, who was down to less than a single ante. Once the players reached the money, eliminations came quickly and often. Familiar faces to finish in the money included Ryan Riess, Jason Koon, Sam Trickett, Mike McDonald, Marc-Andre Ladouceur, Darren Elias, Upeshka De Silva, and Cate Hall.
The remaining players will all be looking to reach the final table and take home the CA$1,000,000 first place prize, as they play down to the final eight players on Day 4. Here is a look at the remaining players, their chip counts, and seating assignments:
Table
Seat
Player
Chip Count
33
1
Michael Addamo
46,600,000
33
2
Michel-Claude Baroud
17,625,000
33
3
Joel Moreau
6,775,000
33
4
Stephan Chartrand
14,600,000
33
5
Sam Greenwood
20,200,000
33
6
Qi Hu
36,775,000
33
7
Kenneth Mcfarlane
22,800,000
33
8
Nicolas Le Floch
36,525,000
37
1
Ari Engel
44,000,000
37
2
Scott Montgomery
83,450,000
37
3
David Eldridge
31,000,000
37
4
Viet Van Vo
1,700,000
37
5
Christopher Annouza
10,675,000
37
6
Thomas Cemm
17,675,000
37
7
Sasan Mehrabian
15,950,000
37
8
Terry Lee
19,325,000
38
1
Louis Boutin
27,100,000
38
2
Yuzhou Chu
16,550,000
38
3
Vlad Mezheritsky
6,350,000
38
4
Patrick Blye
20,450,000
38
5
Jordan Saccucci
31,375,000
38
6
Demosthenes Kiriopoulos
27,600,000
38
7
Andrew Walter
14,400,000
39
1
Rayan Chamas
44,700,000
39
2
Jonathan Bussieres
62,350,000
39
3
Philippe D'Auteuil
71,300,000
39
4
Marc Guerbilsky
50,900,000
39
5
Kevin Rivest
58,525,000
39
6
Carl Diveglia
15,975,000
39
7
Matthew Waxman
23,650,000
40
1
Ha Van Nguyen
19,025,000
40
2
Jean-Pascal Savard
61,000,000
40
3
Alexander James Allison
19,025,000
40
4
Joseph Sicko
14,725,000
40
5
Duff Charette
23,200,000
40
6
Mingzhe Zhang
26,300,000
40
7
Niall Farrell
79,000,000
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A pot with about 7,000,000 in chips in the middle was going down, and Cate Hall was faced with a decision from the big blind.
The board read , and Hall had checked to Sasan Mehrabian who was under gun. Mehrabian moved all in for his last seven million chips, and Hall went into the tank. After several minutes, Mehrabian called the clock. The dealer counted down, and Hall ended up deciding to call with one second to go.
Mehrabian tabled for a set of sixes. Hall mucked, but the dealer quickly flashed her cards, which appeared to be for two pair, queens and nines.
Hall was left with about 3,000,000 and was seen at the payout desk just a few moments after that to pick up her 63rd place payout worth CA$22,500.
Action folded around to Cate Hall on the button, and she raised to 800,000. Sam Trickett was in the big blind and decided to three-bet to 2,400,000. Hall reached into her stack and decided to put in a four bet to 4,400,000, which was an exact min-raise.
Trickett took a look at Hall's remaining chips, which appeared to be about 6,300,000. After a few moments, he began to re-adjust himself in his seat several times, clearly agonizing over his decision. He looked back at his cards, and after about four minutes he opted to fold.
Hall flashed a smile, and took one last look at her cards before tossing them into the muck. Hall has been spinning her stack up, and now sits on a healthy stack of 14 million.
Terrence Chan moved all in for his last 4,000,000 chips and was called by Anthony Zinno.
Zinno tabled while Chan held .
The flop came and Zinno extended his lead, making a pair of aces. Chen paired his jack, but was unable to hit his king since it would give Zinno a straight. The turn was the and the river was the . Neither player held a diamond and Zinno earned the pot and the elimination.
Hailing from Boston, Zinno is no stranger to Canada. He holds a Word Poker Tour title from Niagara Falls, Canada and his other two cashes have been right here in Montreal. He made a deep run in February and looks to snag himself another title on Canadian soil.
Funny enough, Chan hails from British Columbia, Canada but the majority of his cashes come from the United States.
Upeshka De Silva was seen exiting the tournament area, and according to his table, he got his 23,000,000 chip stack in preflop with ace-king against Jordan Saccucci's pocket kings. The board ran out dry and Saccucci secured the double up.
Shortly after, De Silva got his remaining short stack in with king-nine but ran into king-jack and he was eliminated.
At one point, De Silva had 43,000,000 chips and was leading the field.
James Romero was under the gun and raised to 470,000. David Eldridge was to his immediate left and called. Griffin Benger was on the button and three-bet to 4,800,000, leaving himself about 800,000 behind.
Romero went into the tank and thought about it before deciding to call. Eldridge folded. Before the flop came down, Romero piled a stack of chips in the middle in front of him, putting Benger to the test for his remaining chips.
The flop came and the action was on Benger. The tournament clock showed 122 players, just three players away from the money. Benger went into the tank for a few minutes before one more player dropped, putting the tournament just two players from the money. After a few more minutes, the tournament director announced that hand-for-hand play was being implemented. Several minutes later, a player from another table called the clock. Benger had 60 seconds to go before he was forced to make a decision. Just a few seconds in, Benger called.
"Ace king", he said, tabling . Romero tabled , and the dealer put the on the turn, and the on the river. Benger was eliminated in 121st place, just two spots from the money.
Hand-for-hand play will continue, as all remaining players are on the bubble.
partypoker's own Tony Dunst was the first to be eliminated today, starting the day with just 1,195,000 chips. He was seen leaving the tournament area, and the table explained how he got it in good but couldn't hold.
Dunst raised it up with two queens, and Jordan Saccucci decided to defend his big blind with . The flop brought three spades, and the two players got it all in.
The turn paired the board, giving Dunst some more outs along with his lone queen of spades, but the river was a brick, sending Dunst home early.
There will be 173 players returning to the Playground Poker Club on May 8th for Day 3 of the partypoker MILLION North America Main event. The official number of entries closed yesterday with 1168 entrants, surpassing the CA$5,000,000 guaranteed prizepool. At the conclusion of Day 5, the winner will be taking home CA$1,000,000 and the largest title in Canadian live poker history.
Leading the way heading into Day 3 is James Romero, 2016 WPT Five Diamond Main Event Champion for nearly $2 million, with 19,655,000 chips. Close behind him is Upeshka De Silva (18,525,000) and Karim Abdelhamid (17,970,000).
Day 3 will start at 12:00 p.m. local time and continue for eight levels of play. Blind levels will remain at 75-minutes for the duration of the day and will start off at 60,000/120,000 with 10,000 ante. Tables will all be 8-handed now until the final table begins with 9 players.
Here is a look at the remaining players returning for Day 3, their chip stacks, and the table draw:
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
Continue to follow PokerNews for all the up-to-date action throughout Day 3.
, and Hall had checked to Sasan Mehrabian who was under gun. Mehrabian moved all in for his last seven million chips, and Hall went into the tank. After several minutes, Mehrabian called the clock. The dealer counted down, and Hall ended up deciding to call with one second to go. 
for a set of sixes. Hall mucked, but the dealer quickly flashed her cards, which appeared to be 
for two pair, queens and nines. 
while Chan held 
. 
and Zinno extended his lead, making a pair of aces. Chen paired his jack, but was unable to hit his king since it would give Zinno a straight. The turn was the 
and the river was the 
. Neither player held a diamond and Zinno earned the pot and the elimination. 
, and the dealer put the 
on the turn, and the 
on the river. Benger was eliminated in 121st place, just two spots from the money. 
. The flop brought three spades, and the two players got it all in. 
