Joao raised from the under-the-gun position, and was 3-bet to 125K by Lucas Greenwood on the button. After the big blind cold called, Joao committed his stack, which was a little over 1.1M.

Lucas thought for a while, and elected to push his own stack to the middle and got a fold from the big blind. Heads-up, they went to showdown:

Lucas:
Joao:

Board:

An interesting flop for these hands!

When Sean B. raised to 50K, Deborah Vanneste called, and the action was folded to Toby Lewis who was sitting in the big blind with 434K and and a nice little pair… of aces.

The initial raiser folded, but Vanneste had a good pair of her own, although drawing slim:

Lewis:
Vanneste:

Board:

Lewis got his starting stack back. 171 entries have taken place so far, yesterday’s field have already been surpassed, with another two and a half levels to go.

Level 6 is now underway in the MILLIONS North America Main Event, and players have 3 more levels to complete before calling it a day.

Photographs from levels 3-4-5:

As most of you probably know, Pascal Lefrançois was crowned champion of the MILLIONS Barcelona, the closing Event of Season 1 of the MILLIONS. Strong from this win, he is back on the felts of the MILLIONS circuit to defend his title on home turf.

Lefrançois is one of Canada’s toughest tournament players. Last week, his career took a happy turn when 1.7M Euros were sent his way, bringing his tournament earnings to over 5 million US dollars.

At Playground Poker Club, we are always happy to welcome local champions, and we wish him all the best in the MILLIONS North America.

Does luck favor the great? Parker ”Tonkaaaa” Talbot, who finished 6th in the MILLIONS High Roller earlier this week, checked the flop with a sizable pot in the middle. Gerald David also checked, and Karim Abdelhamid threw in 135K from the button position. Talbot called, and David went all-in for about 700K.

Abdelhamid folded, seemingly annoyed, and Talbot asked for a count. He realized that his 566K were covered, but he decided that it was worth it to go, maybe with the fact that he was on his first bullet in mind.

David:
Talbot:

Board:

He will not need to fire a second bullet just yet. As they say, gutter ball, corner pocket!

We are now halfway through the day, and 160 entries have taken a seat so far. Of course, the counter remains open all day, and players are still coming in as well as reloading.

Ramon Wicki has made a flashing entry into the leaderboard, having more than doubled his chips since the last break. His stack is just shy of 4 million chips, and is followed by Alex Guerrera’s, valued at 3,745,000.

We put together a middle-of-the-day top ten table: