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:

Players in Day 1D of the MILLIONS North America Main Event are heading out for their second break of the day, and have 4 more levels to complete before bagging their chips onto Day 2.

Photographs taken during levels 3 and 4:

Players that had a ordinary start are actively trying to build back up. Some of them do, while others have their last few green chips taken away.

Hagop Ketendjian is one of them. His last 400K went in against Reza K., who was drawing to a good portion of the deck:

Ketendjian:
Kamali:

Board:

The least expected out came in, but a win is win. Kamali passes the average. Meanwhile, on another table, Malik King found a way to get it in pre-flop against Thomas Paul Ruel. This time, the leading hand held:

King:
Ruel:

Board:

Fortunately, players can re-enter once today. They can also try again in tonight’s last of the flights, the turbo starting at 8pm. They can also shoot, in each Day 2, a qualified stack plus two money entries.