Shane Currey opened the pot to 50K, and Ramesh Puradchithasan raised to 150K. Pirooz Bayat cold called, and the action came straight back to Shane, who went 480K. Ramesh thought for about 2 minutes, and pushed his stack forward. Pirooz ran, and Shane completed the bet. He had over 2M, and was covered.

Shane:
Ramesh:

Board:

Ouch! After finding himself in a very tough spot on the flop, Shane hit a non-heart ace on the turn. All he needed was for the river to come black or in diamonds, but when the heart fell, he was sent to the rail.

On a flop, Martin Nadeau checked, and another player bet 100K into a raised pot. Liza Savage bumped it to 200K, and only Nadeau called. With over half a million in the pot, Nadeau checked again, and watched Savage put out 500K, or half of her stack. Nadeau couldn’t find it in him to surrender the top pair, and called.

Nadeau:
Savage:

Board:

Nadeau was in the very unpleasant ”drawing dead” situation, and Liza Savage was happy to run it up to almost 3M chips.

In the early stages of level 6, with the blinds at 10K/20K, a three-bet from Gregory Katayama, on the button, drew two callers and built a massive three-way pot.

Kurt Jewell had made the initial opening raise and Adam Shannon called the initial raise as well as the three bet. The three players saw a flop of . Jewell and Shannon checked to the aggressor, Katayama, who continued with a bet of 300K. Jewell spent a few minutes considering his options before putting in a raise to 800K. Shannon got out of the way, and Katayama immediately moved all-in. Hands were tabled to show that Katayama had and Jewell had for a gutshot straight flush draw. Jewell got there on the turn, thanks to the , making the river a formality.

Jewell is now playing a stack of over 2,700,000.

Level has has just come to a close and another 3 levels remain before Day 1D wraps up. Once the flight is complete we will add the newly qualified stacks to the Combined End of Day 1 chip count list.

Photographs from level 5:

When Alex Arsenault open raised, Alex Fortin Demers 3bet to 125K. Action was folded back to Arsenault, and he made it 300K to go. Fortin Demers decided that Arsenault was strong enough to get him to invest everything pre-flop, so he put him all-in.

Arsenault took a very quick look back at his cards and snapped with the only hand that had Fortin Demers beat:

Alex Arsenault:
Alex Fortin Demers:

Board:

Alex Arsenault started the hand with 1,391,000 chips, and is now enjoying a very healthy stack of nearly 3M. Alex Fortin Demers was calmly watching the community cards come out, and when the last one fell, tapped the table twice, the international sign for: ”nice hand”. He lost a little over half his chips in that pot.

Francis Collins is our first player to breach the 5-million mark. He is sitting behind piles of chips, including a very tall stack of green ones (100K each). His last win before the break came from cracking Alexander Bylicki’s . Francis’ was in a vey good shape when the cards were revealed on a flop. He faded the two remaining aces, and stacked up higher.

Here is our Day 1D mid-day top 10: