Here’s a little of the Twitter buzz going into the action today:

Yes!! Good luck everyone day 2a @partypokerlive #MILLIONSNorthAmerica Main Event! Exciting day here at @PlaygroundPoker. Time to start building up a stack! 💃 https://t.co/7ngY8DTqLW

— Kristen Bicknell (@krissyb24poker) April 28, 2018

Starting day 2 @partypokerlive @PlaygroundPoker MILLIONS North America, lets have a day!

— Asher Conniff (@misterashmoney) April 28, 2018

Day 2A today at noon we are the short stack but anything can happen. Feeling good and ready to spin it up. @PlaygroundPoker @partypokerlive

— Chris Hinchcliffe (@rukidingme44) April 28, 2018

We are still in the early stages of Day 2A, and the players are putting each other to the test at every opportunity.

A hand that just played out between Jeffrey Williams and Scott Hill offers a nice example. They played a heads-up pot where Williams turned the tables on Hill on the river. Williams had turned a set in position, thanks to his , on a board of . When the river fell, Williams saw his opportunity to steal the pot and moved all-in for 775K which was roughly a pot-sized bet. The coordinated board made this a tough spot for Williams, who spent several minutes in the tank before finally making the call. Williams opened , for two overs and a missed gut-shot straight draw and Hill tabled his hand with a sigh of relief.

The entries and re-entries are continuing at a steady rate, bringing the number of entries on the day up to 420.

Day 2A of the MILLIONS Main Event is now underway! To kick things off, Mike Sexton took the microphone to address the crowd and took a moment to tip his hat to the Playground Poker Club and partypoker LIVE staff for all their hard work that helped make this event a success. He also took the time to congratulate the players who have made it this far in their attempt to score a life-changing cash from this record setting tournament.

363 Day 1 qualifiers opted to play today, and they have been join by a quickly growing number of direct buy-ins to bring the field up to 398 players. This tournament lets players enter and re-enter on Day 2 until the end of level 12 so the number of entries will continue to rise throughout the afternoon.

Good luck to all!

The first of two Day 2s is on tap for today at 12:00pm – Noon – and today is the day when this historic tournament moves into a new phase. Most of the players in the event today will begin the day with stacks they have brought forward from Day 1 – but not everyone!

Registration is still open in the event through the first four levels of play today – until the end of the break following level 12. This means two things. First, new players can still join; and second, a player who loses his or her stack in the early going can enter and re-enter. And who doesn’t want to give themselves the best chance possible at moving forward in such a value-heavy tournament?

The average stack of the players to start the day will be 2.2M in chips – and with a starting stack of 1M chips – i.e., 29bb in level 9 – new players (or re-entering players) are just one double-up from the average. The whole structure of the event provides significant support for the value of entering or re-entering during the early levels today.

The players who will be joining the event today include a who’s who of fantastic international-scale tournament pros as well as some terrific players of more local notoriety. Right at the top of the leaderboard on Day 2A is Playground Poker Club legend Sylvain Siebert, who despite having almost no other published results, has at least 2 major event final table appearances and has made deep runs in event after event here at the club.

Second on the list is another extreme – Tony Dunst is known for his dapper clothes and his “day job” with the WPT, but that just hides a prototypical tournament killer in the new model of tournament poker player. Analytical, thoughtful… and able to accumulate chips in a real hurry!

We could dig deeply into the stories of dozens of players up and down the starting list for the day – Seth Davies, who won a WPT at Playground, local player Shawn Siddiqui who won a high roller event recently, David Eldridge, who is on form having won the MILLIONS High Roller… it goes on and on.

The upshot is that today’s field is full of talent, and there are certain to be fireworks from beginning until the end! Good luck on the felts!

At 12:00pm on Saturday, play will begin in Day 2A of the MILLIONS North America Main Event. Through the 5 Day 1s that have been completed, there were 636 stacks qualified to move to Day 2, and 363 of those stacks will take to the felts tomorrow. In addition, there will be 11 new players that take their place in the tournament tomorrow, making a total (so far) of 374 players.

That number will continue to grow through the first 4 levels (plus breaks) on Day 2A, as players have until the end of the break following level 12 to enter or re-enter the tournament. Seats have been left unoccupied throughout the following table draw to accommodate new entries in the tournament.

The following is the official seating draw to start Day 2A.