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

Setna bags the lead

2018/05/01 - 21:47 by Playground Poker

The last Day 1 of the Turbo has come to an end, and players just bagged their chips for Day 2. A total of 140 players have made it through Day 1, 55 on Day 1A and 85 on Day 1B, and will play tomorrow until one player is crowned champion. Today, 462 entries joined the tourney, including 114 re-entries for a total of 849 for the 2 starting flights combined.

Just like every turbo tournament, play was very aggressive, allowing players to build some solid stacks right from the beginning. There was a race for the lead throughout the entire tournament between Brian Morgan, Jimmy Setna and Andrew Neeme, but at the end of level 17, Setna was the one who bagged the most chips, taking 18,425,000 to Day 2.

A complete list of players and chip counts will be posted shortly here in the results section.

Day 2 will start tomorrow at noon, when all of our qualifiers merge and battle it out until the end.

See you there!

Action

Level: 17
Small Blind: 70K
Big Blind: 140K
Button Ante: 140K
Chip Average: 5.19M
Remaining: 89
Entries: 462

2018/05/01 - 21:01 by Jôle Simard

In this hand, Gabriel Attiave opened to 260K. Jimmy Setna 3-bet to 660K, which were called by Senthuran Vijayaratnam from the blinds. Gabriel called. The flop was checked by all 3 players, but Senthuran threw in 650K on the turn, which only Gabriel called.

Board:

On the river, Senthuran fired all-in for about 4.5M. As Gabriel folded, he flashed the . Senthuran replied by tabling !!

On another table, Jordan Saccucci check raised Antti Halme all-in on a flop for 4.5M chips. Antti called, and the hands were tabled:

Antti:
Jordan:

Unlike Senthuran, Jordan was caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Run out: !! Jordan ran away with the 10-million jar.

Neeme climbs up the leaderboard

Level: 16
Small Blind: 60K
Big Blind: 120K
Button Ante: 120K
Chip Average: 4.9M
Remaining: 94
Entries: 462

2018/05/01 - 20:35 by Playground Poker

Andrew Neeme had the 3rd biggest stack at the last break. He might have climbed to second place with that big pot he just won. The hand started when Neeme opened pre flop at 225k, Ramesh Arya called but Diana Shamshoum raised to 700K. Arya folded and Neeme called.

Flop:

Neeme checked the flop, letting Diana bet 1M, and calls.

Turn:

Same pattern, Neeme check, Shamshoum bets 1M, but this time Neeme pushes all-in and Shamshoum calls.

Shamshoum shows top pair, top kicker: . Neeme opens . He had flopped a set.

The river came a . Neeme scooped the pot and is now sitting on over 16M in chips.

Setna whizzes by Morgan

Level: 15
Small Blind: 50K
Big Blind: 100K
Button Ante: 100K
Chip Average: 4.28M
Remaining: 108
Entries: 462

2018/05/01 - 19:58 by Jôle Simard

Jimmy Setna did an amazing job in the last level. Not only did he pass Brian Morgan and took the driver’s seat for himself, but doing so, he considerably softened the field by eliminating Ari Engel and claiming his 5.8M stack.

First name \| Prénom	Last name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Jimmy	Setna	17,380,000
Brian	Morgan	12,515,000
Andrew	Neeme	9,900,000
Ian	Modder	9,550,000
Carl	Martel	9,050,000
Carlo	Nini	8,865,000
Jose	Montes	8,705,000
Tony	Dunst	8,650,000
Antti	Halme	8,460,000

Arsenault doubles up

Level: 14
Small Blind: 40K
Big Blind: 80K
Button Ante: 80K
Chip Average: 3.9M
Remaining: 119
Entries: 462

2018/05/01 - 19:34 by Playground Poker

Alex Arsenault, moments before the break, doubled his 1,095,000 on Richard Berenbaum in a pre-flop showdown:

Arsenault:
Berenbaum:

Board:

It was a great flop for 7s, as the ten was no longer an out for Berenbaum. Players will now take the last break of the day.

Shamshoum knows when to fold

Level: 13
Small Blind: 35K
Big Blind: 70K
Button Ante: 70K
Chip Average: 3.2
Remaining: 144
Entries: 462

2018/05/01 - 18:43 by Playground Poker

Diana Shamshoum just saved her tournament life by folding at the right moment. The hand started five-way with Tam Ho’s raise to 160K. Shamshoum, Tomas Fara and Alex Arsenault called, but J.S. re-raised to 450K. Only Ho and Shamshoum called.

Flop:

J.S is first to act and decides to go big or go home by pushing all his chips in the middle. Ho folds and Diana takes a minute before folding.

J.S shows , and Shamshoum is happy (and proud) to see that she made such a good fold.