The High Roller lost another player. The top pro Niall Farrell bowed to Michael Del Vecchio, failing to run up a rather short 600K Day 2 stack. The pre-flop showdown:
Del Vecchio: 
Farrell: 
Board: 
Del Vecchio busted next, in a hand that we missed. 23 players are left, with Kevin Hobbs at about 7.5M and David Eldridge has almost 10 million.
Charania Mohsin started the day with 740K, and after passing the blinds, he pushed his remaining 655K, hoping to double up or pick up the blinds.
Sam Chartier, however, made the correct call:
Charani: 
Chartier: 
Board: 
With 25 players left, the event will shrink to a 3-table affair as soon as 1 more player busts.
Day 2 of the High Roller, although set to begin at 12h00, started with a bit of a delay, to allow the feature table to set their microphones and other streaming gear properly.
Some Day 2 qualifiers were on tgheir phones, others were chatting, maybe even trying to get a feel of their opponents.
The tournament director just announced the start of the action, and with 26 players at the tables, cards are now in the air!
At 12:00pm today, the 26 players who qualified for Day 2 in the $10,000 + $300 MILLIONS High Roller event will take their seats to resume play in this massive tournament. The players will begin the day spread across 4 tables in the Tournament Hall, but as an 8-Max event, the field will balance down to 3 tables after just two eliminations. Later on the agenda will be a full redraw at 16 players remaining, and again when the final table is put together with 9 players remaining. All of this is on tap for today, as this is a 2-day tournament that will play down to a winner.
Today’s action will also be live streamed from the get-go – meaning that starting at 12:30pm (to account for the 30 minute security delay), you’ll be able to follow all of the action on the feature table via My partypoker Live or right here on the Live page of the Playground Event Blog.
The chip leader to start the day is poker superstar Darren Elias, a player who has the distinction of having scored a 6-figure payday in a $10K event here in 2014 along with the massive success he has had all over the world during the past decade. Elias is followed on the leaderboard by Marc MacDonnell from Ireland and David Eldridge, visiting from the US. Those 3 are the only players with stacks greater than 6M in chips.
Their lead, however, is far from insurmountable, and to call the remaining field “strong” is a massive understatement. 6th on the leaderboard, for instance, with 5,285,000 chips is Chris Moorman, a player who is widely known as the greatest online tournament player of all time – and though he isn’t known for live play, nevertheless has amassed over $5.3M in lifetime earnings. Not bad for one’s “sideline” pursuit! Also in the field are superstars like Anthony Zinno, Viktor Blom, Michael Watson, Kristen Bicknell, and Martin Jacobson, to name but a few.
There are also some players still in who may enjoy a little home-table advantage – players like Sam Chartier, Ami Alibay, Shaan Siddiqui, and Louis Boutin have all had significant recent scored in Playground-hosted events – in the case of the first 3, in $10K events, while Boutin was 4th in the 2017 MILLIONS Main Event.
Action gets underway in just over 40 minutes with the live stream following at 12:30pm EDT. Good luck to all of the remaining players!
The MILLIONS High Roller is a 2-day $10,000 + $300 tournament that got underway at 12:00pm on April 21st. Players were permitted one entry and one re-entry until level 9 of the 12 that were played on Day 1. By the time registration closed, there had been 80 entries. After 12 levels of play, there were just 26 players remaining.
Play will resume on April 22nd at 12:00pm with the players seated in the following re-drawn seats.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Seat | Siège | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter | Jetten | Table 58 - Seat 1 | 2,565,000 |
| Christopher | Moorman | Table 58 - Seat 3 | 5,285,000 |
| Martin | Jacobson | Table 58 - Seat 4 | 870,000 |
| Benoit | Galland | Table 58 - Seat 5 | 3,960,000 |
| Victor | Ramdin | Table 58 - Seat 6 | 5,900,000 |
| Yuan | Jiang | Table 58 - Seat 7 | 2,300,000 |
| Christopher | Kruk | Table 58 - Seat 8 | 1,325,000 |
| Taj | Alakoozi | Table 62 - Seat 2 | 1,500,000 |
| Louis | Boutin | Table 62 - Seat 3 | 3,280,000 |
| Shaan | Siddiqui | Table 62 - Seat 5 | 3,020,000 |
| Viktor | Blom | Table 62 - Seat 6 | 2,550,000 |
| Michael | Watson | Table 62 - Seat 7 | 1,295,000 |
| Anthony | Zinno | Table 62 - Seat 8 | 3,190,000 |
| David | Eldridge | Table 66 - Seat 2 | 6,000,000 |
| Mohsin | Charania | Table 66 - Seat 4 | 740,000 |
| Niall | Farrell | Table 66 - Seat 5 | 600,000 |
| Michael | Del Vecchio | Table 66 - Seat 6 | 2,935,000 |
| Samuel | Chartier | Table 66 - Seat 7 | 2,255,000 |
| Kevin | Hobbs | Table 66 - Seat 8 | 5,890,000 |
| Gal | Yifrach | Table 70 - Seat 1 | 4,930,000 |
| Ami | Alibay | Table 70 - Seat 2 | 940,000 |
| Darren | Elias | Table 70 - Seat 3 | 6,290,000 |
| Jonathan | Vanfleet | Table 70 - Seat 5 | 2,050,000 |
| Parker | Talbot | Table 70 - Seat 6 | 2,850,000 |
| Marc | Macdonnell | Table 70 - Seat 7 | 6,135,000 |
| Kristen | Bicknell | Table 70 - Seat 8 | 1,285,000 |
Day 1 of The High Roller Event, the 2nd of 6 in the MILLIONS North America has come to a close. The event saw many poker stars battle it out for the $1M guarantee. 59 players jumped in, 21 of which re-entered, for a total of 80 entries.
Kristen Bicknell and William Foxen, Viktor ”Isildur1” Blom, former world champion Jonathan Duhamel, and Niall Farrell took part, and many more.
Twenty-six players managed to survive the 12 levels of tough world-class poker today. They bagged their chips onto Day 2 and will come back tomorrow for the completion of the event.
Here are the best results:
The full results will be posted shortly in the results section.
