Event #5 - MILLIONS Turbo Archives | Page 11 of 12

Chip leaders after 10 levels

2018/04/30 - 17:43 by Shawn McCrory

The players have returned to their seats following the latest break. At the end of the late registration and re-entry period for today, 299 players took a shot at Day 1A, and the 88 re-entries brought the total number of entries to 387.

At this stage in level 11, only 167 players remain in contention. The 220 bust outs show just how fast and loose the action was this afternoon.

First name \| Prénom	Last name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Arnaud	Bonhomme-Lemieux	8,225,000
Nghi Van	Tran	7,250,000
Jamie	Sequeira	7,100,000
Lawrence	Ma	7,000,000
Anthony	Dalpra	6,875,000
Ian	Tang	6,000,000
Jean-Pierre	Hetu	6,000,000

Marvelous timing for Massey

Level: 10
Small Blind: 20K
Big Blind: 40K
Button Ante: 40K
Chip Average: 2.1M
Remaining: 179
Entries: 373

2018/04/30 - 16:49 by Shawn McCrory

Aaron Massey just had a wonderful spot to wake up with aces.

With the blinds at 15K/35K, William Blais moved his short stack all-in from under the gun. Blais’ neighbour, Michael O’brien re-shoved to isolate, and the action moved to Nghi van Tran, the big stack at the table, who cut out calling chips and went deep into the tank. This was a beautiful sight to Massey, who was waiting in the small blind with pockets aces. Van Tran found the fold button after a few minutes, and Massey quickly moved his 1,050,000 chip stack into the middle.

Blais:

O’brien:

Massey:

Board:

The three-way pre-flop all-in sent Blais to the rail, put a big dent in O’brien’s stack and let Massey more than double his chips.

Photos from the early levels

Level: 8
Small Blind: 15K
Big Blind: 30K
Button Ante: 30K
Chip Average: 1.7M
Remaining: 209
Entries: 353

2018/04/30 - 16:04 by Shawn McCrory

The Turbo has already drawn 350 entries through the first seven levels of play.

With sit’n go’s and flip’n go’s running all afternoon, there has been a steady stream of entries since the first card was pitched. There remains nearly 90 minutes of late registration and re-entries to go, we expect many more to get in on the action.

Here’s a look at the field so far:

All-in blind

Level: 7
Small Blind: 10K
Big Blind: 25K
Button Ante: 25K
Chip Average: 1.6M
Remaining: 215
Entries: 339

2018/04/30 - 15:42 by Playground Poker

Action is getting wild in the Turbo this afternoon. Two players, Alexander Lynskey (utg) and Rubens Tarzia (utg+1), just decided to go all-in blind to spice up things a little. Everybody else folded and when came time to open cards, guess what… they both had the same hand in different suits.

Lynskey:

Tarzia:

Board:

To make things even more interesting, the river gave Tarzia a flush!

George leads the field

Level: 6
Small Blind: 10K
Big Blind: 20K
Button Ante: 20K
Chip Average: 1.4M
Remaining: 217
Entries: 293

2018/04/30 - 14:57 by Playground Poker

Players are back from their first break of the day. The numbers keep going up, with 289 entries accounted so far. There is a lot of action at the tables, and some impressive stacks were noticed dur George is actually our leader with 3,800,000 chips.

Here is our current leaderboard:

First name \| Prénom	Last name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
George	C	3,800,000
Gianluca	Cedolia	3,660,000
Robert	Cowen	3,600,000
Arnaud	Bonhomme-Lemieux	3,375,000
Baron	Ha	3,300,000
Jeosafat	Cruz	3,300,000
Alexander	Bylicki	3,250,000
Alain	Zarka	3,125,000

Taghvizadeh flops a set

Level: 5
Small Blind: 8K
Big Blind: 16K
Button Ante: 16K
Chip Average: 1.3M
Remaining: 211
Entries: 283

2018/04/30 - 14:33 by Playground Poker

As we are getting closer to the first break, some big hands are already being played. Shahram Taghvizadeh flopped a set with his in a hand against Donald Somers and scooped a pot of over 1.6M chips. Taghvizadeh opened at 35K before the flop, but Somers raised to 85K and got a call. On the flop, Taghvizadeh checked and Somers bet 108K. Taghvizadeh called. On the turn, the bet was 225K and it was Somers’s turn to make the call. On the river, Taghvizadeh initiated a bet of 400K this time, and again, Somers called.

We didn’t get to see Somers’s cards because he mucked as soon as he saw his opponent’s cards.

Board: