Event #5 - Day 1A Archives | MILLIONS North America 2018

Chips in the bag

2018/04/30 - 21:32 by Playground Poker

The first starting flight of the MILLIONS Turbo, Day 1A, lived up to its title with fast-paced action from beginning to end. By the time the late registration and re-entry period ended at the end of level 10, 387 entries made it into the fray today including 88 re-entries.

The action was fast and loose throughout the afternoon. One illustrative example was when two players moved all-in from the first two positions to act before even receiving cards, happy to take their chances to run up a stack. It’s not often that you see two players move all-in before the dealer even finishes shuffling!

After the first break in the action, the gap between the big and small stacks had widened significantly, and the all-ins were happening at a frantic pace. In general, the big stacks benefited, sending a steady flow of players to the rail. Play tightened up later in the day as the stacks got deeper, giving the players more opportunities to grind it out.

When it was time to bag chips at the end of the day, Griffin Benger emerged as the chip leader with a little more than 20M in chips ready for Day 2. While he had maintained a healthy stack for most of the day, he managed to get a huge double-up through Ryan Yu in level 17 to jump to the top of the leader board. In all, 56 players survived this flight and will return for Day 2 on Wednesday at noon.

Day 1B begins tomorrow at noon, and it is likely to be even more popular than today’s starting flight. There will be sit’n go’s and flip’n go’s running throughout the day, and the late registration and re-entry period will be open until the end of level 10, providing lots of avenues and opportunities to get in on the action.

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Huge double up for Benger

Level: 17
Small Blind: 70K
Big Blind: 140K
Button Ante: 140K
Chip Average: 6.8M
Remaining: 57
Entries: 387

2018/04/30 - 21:04 by Playground Poker

Griffin Benger just got a huge double up through Ryan Yu in the final level of play on Day 1A.

The board read when Yu checked the turn to Benger, who fired a big bet of 1.2M. Yu quickly made the call, and the two players watched the fall on the river. Yu checked once again, and Benger moved all-in for 6.3M. After a few moments in the tank, a frustrated Yu slammed a stack of chips on the felt and Benger rolled over . The nut flush was good, letting Benger collect a pot of over 20M in chips. He will likely emerge as the chip leader at the end of the day.

Patterson scoops big

Level: 17
Small Blind: 70K
Big Blind: 140K
Button Ante: 140K
Chip Average: 6.1M
Remaining: 63
Entries: 387

2018/04/30 - 20:58 by Playground Poker

Two big stacks got involved in a huge hand. We didn’t get to see the entire action but there was already over 2M in the pot when the turn came out. On the turn, Gurpreet Lubana made a 2M bet, which Tyler Clayton Patterson called. On the river Lubana pushed his entire stack in and Patterson made the call. They both showed full houses – Patterson hit his on the turn and Lubana hit the lower one on the river. He was left with just a few chips, which he lost two hands later.

Patterson:

Lubana:

Board:

Chip leaders after 14 levels

Level: 15
Small Blind: 50K
Big Blind: 100K
Button Ante: 100K
Chip Average: 4.35M
Remaining: 90
Entries: 387

2018/04/30 - 19:47 by Shawn McCrory

The field has shrunk quickly on Day 1A of the Turbo, with only 90 of the 387 entries still in contention. The play has tightened up recently, as the big stacks have gobbled up the short stacks, allowing for much deeper play in the late levels.

Here are the current chip leaders:

First name \| Prénom	Last name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Mukul	Pahuja	12,010,000
Ryan	Godson	10,775,000
James	Van Staveren	10,000,000
Rajeev	Dhiri	9,745,000
Ryan	Yu	9,740,000
Konstantin	Shukhman	9,725,000
Henning	Wendlandt	9,390,000
Douglas	Lee	9,105,000
Alex	Fortin Demers	9,055,000

Top two are good to Wendlandt

Level: 14
Small Blind: 40K
Big Blind: 80K
Button Ante: 80K
Chip Average: 4.3M
Remaining: 90
Entries: 387

2018/04/30 - 19:24 by Playground Poker

We got to the table after the flop and turn were exposed but that’s when all the action happened anyways.

Board:

Jared Griener bets 400K, but Henning Wendlandt raises to 1.6M. Griener decides to get it over with and pushes all-in. Wendlandt makes the call and shows top two . Bad timing for Griener, who also had two pair but not big enough to keep him in the game.

River:

Griener:

Three way all in

Level: 13
Small Blind: 35K
Big Blind: 70K
Button Ante: 70K
Chip Average: 3.7M
Remaining: 105
Entries: 387

2018/04/30 - 18:54 by Playground Poker

Players are falling like flies at that table – first it was Michaelis, and now it’s Mike Sexton. In this three way all in before the flop, Mike Sexton showed , Trent Hopper and Alexander Bylicki showed . Bylicki flopped a set and took all of Sexton’s stack and a big chunk of Hopper’s.

Board: