The day has come to an end in the partypoker MILLIONS North America $1,100 Open. The tournament is now down to 68 runners and will be playing until there is one person holding the title. The chip leader going into the final day of the tournament is Anthony Ruberto (40,175,000) and he will be looking to add to the already healthy stack in front of him.
Ruberto will be going into tomorrow with the hopes of winning the title and adding another respectable cash to his already impressive resume.The Miami, Florida native has amassed a total of $2.2 million live tournament earnings and has a long history of cashes that show this is not a fluke, with his biggest cash coming in the WPT Jacksonville $3,500 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event.
Steven Tripp (38,900,000), Jean-Francois M (37,425,000), and Andres Ojeda (37,400,000) are not far behind the chip leader and will be looking to move up the ranks. There are some well-known pros still on the leaderboard looking to take down this event and the star-studded list includes 2014 WSOP Main Event Champion Martin Jacobson (36,475,000), and WSOP bracelet winners Chris Moorman (36,000,000) and Mohsin Charania (26,400,000).
The remaining 68 players will resume play Tuesday at 12:00 PM EST for the final day of the tournament. The action will start on level 25 with the blinds at 300,000/600,000 and a button ante of 600,000. The blinds will stay at 40-minute levels until we have a winner's photo.
There is still plenty of money up for grabs tomorrow with everyone guaranteed at least $4,000. The serious pay jumps start to take place on the final table with the winner pocketing $210,000 and the title.
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The action folded to the button who raised to 1,000,000 and Martin Jacobson three-bet all in for 9,250,000 from the small blind. His opponent called and the cards were tabled.
Martin Jacobson:
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The flop came down and Jacobson was still behind. The turn came down the and the river was the . Jacobson hammered the river to make two-pair and double up through his opponent.
Alexandre Lajoie open shoved 3,175,000 from early position with and was called by the small blind who was holding . The board ran out giving Lajoie a straight, but it was not enough as his opponent flopped a full house with his jacks to burst the money bubble.
After an impressive 1231 entries throughout the Day 1's, the partypoker MILLIONS North America $1,100 Open Day 2 has 392 runners playing for the title. Canadian Jeff Cormier is the tournament leader and will be looking to add another great result to his Playground Poker Club resume. Cormier ran up a stack of 13,350,000 in Day 1B of the event.
Some other top chip stacks include Ryan Yu (11,350,000), Griffin Benger (9,850,000), Francois Goulet (9,750,000), and Ken Ramson (9,635,000). The top of the leaderboard is full of well-known Canadian poker pro's who are looking to win a major event in their home country. With many big names returning to healthy stacks it should make for an exciting day of action.
The tournament has a start time of 12:00 EST and will have 12 levels of play time before the remaining players will be bagging their chips for Day 3. The blinds will continue on level 13 at 35,000/70,000 with a button ante of 70,000. The blind levels will be 40-minutes in length with a 15-minute break every three levels. The prizepool and payouts will be announced at the beginning of the day and will be posted when made available.
The PokerNews team will be live reporting this event.