Online Day 1's Day 1a | 2017 partypoker LIVE Million North America

Player	Chips	Progress
CanadianPharaoh	1,741,501 1,741,501	1,741,501

RandyB0bandy	1,618,662 1,618,662	1,618,662

Heinz_76	1,600,000 1,600,000	1,600,000

superdaq	1,324,571 1,324,571	1,324,571

yugsy1	1,095,928 1,095,928	1,095,928

TheKelster	1,000,000 1,000,000	1,000,000

tomcemm	1,000,000

Azor_Ahai	1,000,000 1,000,000	1,000,000

phenom11218	972,714 972,714	972,714

Molegian	814,000 814,000	814,000

eightenclubs	805,141 805,141	805,141

Navins9	800,242 800,242	800,242

jsdubois11	603,258 603,258	603,258

jesusneedsaces	583,092 583,092	583,092

al3x53	453,760 453,760	453,760

RiskyStar77	433,101 433,101	433,101

freshttboy88	143,540 143,540	143,540

I_rivered_U	128,412 128,412	128,412

Player

Chips

Progress

CanadianPharaoh

1,741,501

RandyB0bandy

1,618,662

Heinz_76

1,600,000

superdaq

1,324,571

yugsy1

1,095,928

TheKelster

1,000,000

tomcemm

1,000,000

Azor_Ahai

1,000,000

phenom11218

972,714

Molegian

814,000

eightenclubs

805,141

Navins9

800,242

jsdubois11

603,258

jesusneedsaces

583,092

al3x53

453,760

RiskyStar77

433,101

freshttboy88

143,540

I_rivered_U

128,412

The partypoker MILLION North America Main Event kicks off at 9 p.m. ET at partypoker with the first of its two online opening days. The tournament guarantees a huge CA$5,000,000 prize pool with at least CA$1,000,000 guaranteed to the winner for a CA$5,300/$4,000 buy-in.

The second and last online opening day will take place on April 30, followed by three live opening days on May 5-7 at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada. The tournament is guaranteed to produce the largest prize pool in Canadian live poker history.

Players buying into any of the opening days will start off with 1,000,000 chips and compete for 10 blind levels. However, those qualifying in via Phase 1 tournaments will start Day 1 with their ending chip stack from that tournament. Most of the players thus far in today's field have qualified into the tournament via this path.

Players can choose to play as many Day 1s as they wish. Any player bagging chips on multiple Day 1s will finish off the final three days of the tournament on May 8-10 with their largest stack. Players can also choose to late register on Day 2 up until the second blind level is completed.

Blinds increase every 24 minutes during the online opening days and every 60 minutes during the live opening days. The structure becomes deeper as play moves on with Day 2 and 3 featuring 75-minute blind levels and the final day featuring 90-minute blind levels.

"CanadianPharaoh" kicks off today's opening flight in the lead with 1,741,501 followed by Timothy "RandyB0bandy" Ulmer in second place with 1,618,662. Other notable players already registered include Joao "Azor_Ahai" Neves Jr, Toby "eightenclubs" Lewis and Toby "jesusneedsaces" Joyce.

The field currently stands at 17 players but stands to get bigger before the first cards are dealt with a $530 satellite currently running guaranteeing 20 seats to the event. Additionally, players can late-register up until the conclusion of the Level 6 and can reenter today's flight once.

Here is the online Day 1 level structure:

Level	Duration	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
1	24	2,500	5,000	500
2	24	3,000	6,000	500
3	24	4,000	8,000	1,000
4	24	5,000	10,000	1,000
5	24	6,000	12,000	1,000
6	24	8,000	16,000	2,000
7	24	10,000	20,000	2,000
8	24	12,000	24,000	3,000
9	24	15,000	30,000	3,000
10	24	20,000	40,000	4,000