The tournament director has announced "Shuffle Up and Deal" and the cards are in the air as the action gets underway on Day 3. Follow along with PokerNews to stay updated throughout the day.
Level: 19
Blinds: 60,000/120,000
Ante: 10,000
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
19,655,000 | |
|
18,525,000 | |
|
17,970,000 | |
|
17,270,000 | |
|
15,735,000 | |
|
15,475,000 | |
|
15,100,000 | |
|
15,060,000 | |
|
14,745,000 | |
|
14,130,000 | |
|
13,285,000 | |
|
13,015,000 | |
|
12,845,000 | |
|
12,845,000 | |
|
12,810,000 | |
|
12,725,000 | |
|
12,200,000 | |
|
12,035,000 | |
|
12,000,000 | |
|
11,850,000 | |
|
11,800,000 | |
|
11,695,000 | |
|
11,665,000 | |
|
11,425,000 | |
|
11,375,000 |
Main Event
Day 3 Started
