Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2017 partypoker LIVE Million North America
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 partypoker LIVE Million North America
Buy-in
5,300 CAD
Prize Pool
5,709,750 CAD
Entries
1,168
Level
39
Blinds
6,000,000 / 12,000,000
Ante
1,000,000
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Level 18
: 50,000/100,000, 10,000 ante
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 |
Keep following along as PokerNews brings you all of the action on the way to crowning a champion!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
19,655,000
19,655,000
|
19,655,000 |
|
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|
18,525,000
15,025,000
|
15,025,000 |
|
||
|
17,970,000
14,170,000
|
14,170,000 |
|
17,270,000
4,770,000
|
4,770,000 |
|
15,735,000
385,000
|
385,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
15,475,000
15,475,000
|
15,475,000 |
|
15,100,000
9,300,000
|
9,300,000 |
|
||
|
15,060,000
15,060,000
|
15,060,000 |
|
14,745,000
4,345,000
|
4,345,000 |
|
14,130,000
13,130,000
|
13,130,000 |
|
13,285,000
13,285,000
|
13,285,000 |
|
13,015,000
13,015,000
|
13,015,000 |
|
12,845,000
12,845,000
|
12,845,000 |
|
||
|
12,845,000
3,345,000
|
3,345,000 |
|
12,810,000
7,610,000
|
7,610,000 |
|
12,725,000
5,825,000
|
5,825,000 |
|
12,200,000
2,950,000
|
2,950,000 |
|
||
|
12,035,000
12,035,000
|
12,035,000 |
|
12,000,000
7,200,000
|
7,200,000 |
|
||
|
11,850,000
-1,150,000
|
-1,150,000 |
|
11,800,000
-2,200,000
|
-2,200,000 |
|
11,695,000
-3,705,000
|
-3,705,000 |
|
11,665,000
6,665,000
|
6,665,000 |
|
11,425,000
7,525,000
|
7,525,000 |
|
11,375,000
5,975,000
|
5,975,000 |
|
||
Level 18
: 50,000/100,000, 10,000 ante
The tournament director has announced there will be four more hands dealt before the end of the night.
Stay tuned for a quick update on the big stacks, followed by a full recap and a table draw when it is made available to the PokerNews team!
Level 18
: 50,000/100,000, 10,000 ante
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
14,000,000 | |
|
Busted |
Level 18
: 50,000/100,000, 10,000 ante
Ever since Ema Zajmovic was moved to table 51, just before the dinner break, she has been on a mission to get all the chips. After busting several smaller stacks throughout the day she is now starting to feast on the larger stacks.
Zajmovic was three handed on the flop that read 
with around 800,000 in the middle already. The big blind checked and the initial raiser in middle position bet 425,000. Both Zajmovic and the big blind called.
The turn was a fourth heart 
and the action was checked to Zajmovic. She laid out a bet of 1,400,000 causing both of her opponents to lay their hands down.
Zajmovic now sits among the chip leaders with over 15 million chips. Can you say...mission accomplished?!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
15,350,000
2,550,000
|
2,550,000 |
|
|
||
Level 18
: 50,000/100,000, 10,000 ante
The last level of the night has begun, after which time the remaining players will bag and tag, moving on to Day 3 tomorrow for a noon start.
The first place prize is a whopping CA$1,000,000, and a min-cash will be CA$10,000.
Level: 18
Blinds: 50,000/100,000
Ante: 10,000
Level 17
: 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante
Kevin Schulz raised to 180,000 and the player in the hijack called. Jimmy Lee was in the small blind and three-bet to 530,000. Schulz thought for a moment and put in a four-bet to 1,800,000. The hijack quickly got out of the way, and the action was back on Lee. He thought for a minute before looking back at his cards, and eventually called.
The dealer fanned a flop reading 
and Lee promptly checked. Schulz fired out a bet of 1,300,000. Lee thought for a moment and check-raised all in for 4,570,000. Schulz called.
Lee tabled 
while Schulz showed 
for a classic cooler among the big stacks at the table. Another player at the table said, "Again? Same aces for the same player", clearly indicating that Lee got them in a similar spot earlier.
The turn was the 
and the river was the 
, giving Lee a massive double up to propel him towards the top of the counts.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
13,000,000
5,900,000
|
5,900,000 |
|
1,100,000
1,100,000
|
1,100,000 |
|
|
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Level 17
: 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante
Upon walking past one of the outer tables, Kitty Kuo appeared to be all in with , but to her disappointment she was up against Michael Smith's 
.
The flop came 
and Kuo had some hope with a gut shot straight draw.
The turn was the 
, and the river was the 
. Ace-high was no good for Kuo, and she was sent to the rail.
Not sure how many times I ran into AA in this month, I guess scoop tomorrow, good luck to all ladies still in main event partypoker
— kuo hui chen (@kittykuopoker)
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
8,500,000
4,050,000
|
4,050,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
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Level 17
: 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante
On a board reading 
, with about a million in chips in the middle, Griffin Benger checked from the big blind.
Vojtech Ruzicka was on the button and bet 510,000. Benger went deep into the tank before putting in a check-raise to 1,800,000.
Ruzicka, the partypoker MILLION Nottingham High Roller Champion, had a pained look on his face. He spent about a minute, clearly weighing his options in his mind. Eventually, he called.
Benger tabled for a pair of kings, and Ruzicka tabled for the king-high flush.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
8,500,000
2,300,000
|
2,300,000 |
|
2,700,000
-3,300,000
|
-3,300,000 |