Event #5 - Day 2 Archives | Page 5 of 7 | MILLIONS North America 2018

Benger miles ahead of the field

Level: 23
Small Blind: 200K
Big Blind: 400K
Button Ante: 400K
Chip Average: 11.03M
Remaining: 77
Entries: 849

2018/05/02 - 15:06 by Playground Poker

Griffin Benger has been accumulating chips throughout the five first levels of the day and is now way ahead of the rest of the field with 48,625,000 in chips. The 79 players that are now left in the Turbo just came back from the first break of the day.

Here is a list of the current leaders:

First name \| Prénom	Last name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Griffin	Benger	48,625,000
Ruben	Percival	28,625,000
Michael	Khan	27,925,000
David	Shao	27,050,000
Jonas	Mackoff	26,125,000
Antti	Halme	26,100,000
Shaun	Deeb	23,750,000
Lily	Kornik	23,450,000

Maille-Thibault takes two players down

Level: 22
Small Blind: 175K
Big Blind: 350K
Button Ante: 350K
Chip Average: 10.75M
Remaining: 79
Entries: 849

2018/05/02 - 14:40 by Playground Poker

Two more players just got eliminated at the same time, in the same hand. Matt Ranger went all-in before the flop, Dylan Maille-Thibault pushed all-in as well for more, and François Goulet called.

Maille-Thibault was ahead by a bit with his .

Ranger:

Goulet:

Board:

None of them hit the board, so Maille-Thibault won it all with a full house.

Post-bubble photos

Level: 22
Small Blind: 175K
Big Blind: 350K
Button Ante: 350K
Chip Average: 10.2M
Remaining: 83
Entries: 849

2018/05/02 - 14:33 by Playground Poker

Photographs from levels 21-22:

Benger bursts the bubble

Level: 22
Small Blind: 175K
Big Blind: 350K
Button Ante: 350K
Chip Average: 8.67M
Remaining: 98
Entries: 849

2018/05/02 - 14:15 by Playground Poker

As the tournament was played hand for hand, Benger eliminated the bubble, Andrew Neeme, who was 4th biggest stack to start the day. We got to the table after the flop was revealed . Benger made a 800K bet and Neeme called.

Turn: 8s

Benger made it 2.2M this time but again, Neeme called.

River: 1h

This time, Benger pushed all-in after using one of his time cards. Neeme called again.

Benger:

Neeme:

Benger is now comfortably sitting on over 40M chips.

Halme has super powers

Level: 20
Small Blind: 125K
Big Blind: 250K
Button Ante: 250K
Chip Average: 7.93M
Remaining: 107
Entries: 849

2018/05/02 - 13:34 by Playground Poker

Antti Halme just made an incredible move on Henning Wendlandt. Halme opened pre-flop to 550K, Wendlandt raised to 1.3M and Halme instantly pushed all-in as he was holding a monster. Wendlandt called with . They both opened their cards and Halme showed with lots of confidence as if he knew he was going to hit big… And he was right, not only did he hit his king on the flop but he also rivered a flush, scooping a pot of over 17M chips.

Board:

Time for shot clock

Level: 20
Small Blind: 125K
Big Blind: 250K
Button Ante: 250K
Chip Average: 7.65M
Remaining: 111
Entries: 849

2018/05/02 - 13:26 by Playground Poker

The tournament director just paused the clock and dealers are finishing the last hand before the announcement of the shot clock. That means that every decision has to be made in 30 seconds. If a player needs more time to think, he can use one of his time cards. Each player starts with 6 time cards, giving the player an extra 30 seconds to act, and can use them however he wants to.