2018 MILLIONS North America News

The number 1 reason to travel to Montreal for the MILLIONS North America!

2018/04/24 - 17:33 by Danny Beaudry

For the last 10 weeks we have been counting down the top reasons to visit Montreal during the MILLIONS North America and we have finally reached NUMBER ONE! But before we reveal the numero uno, let’s recap the 10th through 2nd spots:

10. The Shopping Experience
9. Museums, art galleries and exhibits
8. Parks and recreation
7. Historic Sites & Landmarks
6. The Laurentians
5. Kahnawake
4. Old Montreal
3. Montreal Nightlife
2. Montreal: A foodie’s paradise!

And now for the number one reason to travel to Montreal for the MILLIONS North America… to play the MILLIONS Main Event and make the Final Table! That’s right! That itself should be reason enough to make your way down to Playground Poker Club.

With a $10,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool including $1,400,000 Guaranteed for first, $1,200,000 Guaranteed for second and $1,000,000 Guaranteed for third the MILLIONS Main Event Final Table is the place to be come May 2nd. We hope to see you there.

Leaders at the second break

Level: 5
Small Blind: 8K
Big Blind: 16K
Button Ante: 16K
Chip Average: 1.4M
Remaining: 111
Entries: 152

2018/04/24 - 16:46 by Playground Poker

The second break of the day just ended and players are back at their seats. We have made a list of some of the chip leaders after 4 levels of play and Tyler Clayton Patterson managed to stay on top of it with 4,820,000 in chips.

First name \| Prénom	Last name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Tyler Clayton	Patterson	4,820,000
Tony	Dunst	4,275,000
Joseph	Sabbah	3,160,000
Srinivas	Gottiparthi	2,975,000
Tracy Nhi	Nguyen	2,950,000
Renato	Nomura	2,825,000
Jake	Daniels	2,820,000

A few shots of the Open Day 3

2018/04/24 - 14:04 by

Here are a few photos from the MILLIONS Open this morning.

David Eldridge gets the crown!

2018/04/22 - 23:54 by Jôle Simard

After two days of high-level poker and from a field of 80 entries, David Eldridge emerged champion of Event #2, the MILLIONS High Roller. He defeated Victor Ramdin heads-up, after a long day of successful grinding.

Day 1 started with just a handful of tables, and as the day progressed, players joined in steadily; some attracted by the overlay flavor, and some simply being faithful to their late registration habits. A constant flow of poker notables were coming in, including Samuel Chartier, partypoker pro Kristen Bicknell, Michael Watson, Martin Jacobson, and just before the counter was about to close, Viktor ”Isildur” Blom.

On Day 2, many stars were still in contention. Darren Elias, who was chip leader for a long time, did not make the final table, shocked by a painful outdraw. Christopher Moorman, an online tournament destroyer, did, but he fell in 8th.

Victor Ramdin took a pretty good chip lead on that final, but slipped and left the driver’s seat to David Eldridge, the ”Steady Eddy” of the event. While other players were enduring ups and downs, his business was all about slowly moving up, unhurt by his table mates’ attacks. Stick and move, stick and move.

Ami Alibay, a local that moved from one big blind in Day 1 to 10M in Day 2, was representing the local community on the final table. He impressed many with an amazing fold against Isildur1 himself, but fell in 7th.

Isildur1 was taken out in 5th place by the champion to be. With that pot, Eldridge had a stranglehold on the tournament. However, Jonathan Vanfleet and Kevin Hobbs were both eliminated by Victor Ramdin, and that got him to the heads-up match on an equal footing. But David Eldridge went to work right away.

Eldridge was on the grind. He dodged a few of Ramdin’s all-in bets, kept coming back with incessant attacks, and soon enough he enjoyed a 2 to 1 lead. In the end, Ramdin went all-in one time too many.

David Eldridge opened to 1.9M, probably hoping for Ramdin to do the all-in thing again. If so, he got his wish. Ramdin quickly moved in with 25M, and was called.

Victor Ramdin:
David Eldridge:

Board:

Our MILLIONS High Roller Champion: David Eldridge – $300,000 and the stunning MILLIONS trophy

Runner-up: Victor Ramdin – $180,000

Chips in the bag on Day 1B

Level: 12
Small Blind: 30K
Big Blind: 60K
Button Ante: 60K
Chip Average: 3.27M
Remaining: 197
Entries: 645

2018/04/22 - 21:33 by Playground Poker

The Open has got the MILLIONS North America off to a fast start, as another massive crowd made it out for Day 1B. Day 1A was very well attended with 586 participants, and today’s flight brought out even more runners with 645 total entries.

This event permitted re-entries during the first nine levels of play, and 133 players put a second bullet into today’s flight as they tried to accumulate as much of the 645,000,000 chips in play as they could with the hope of bringing a monster stack forward to tomorrow’s Day 2. Between the two starting flights, 245 players opted to give it a second try, helping this event easily surpass it’s $1,000,000 guarantee. When the late registration and re-entry period ended at the end of level 9, there was a total of 1,231 entries from both starting flights.

As the field bagged chips at the end of level 12, the chip average hovered around 3,200,000 for the 197 players who remained. Thanks to the huge number of chips in play, many players were able to run up imposing stacks, but Jeffrey Cormier leads them all with 13,350,000 in chips ready for tomorrow.

All together, 394 players advanced through the starting flights. Day 2 starts tomorrow at noon, picking up where they left off in level 13 with blinds of 30K/60K and a 60K button ante.

Chip leaders after the second break

Level: 7
Small Blind: 10K
Big Blind: 25K
Button Ante: 25K
Chip Average: 1.5M
Remaining: 408
Entries: 596

2018/04/22 - 16:49 by Playground Poker

We are left with 3 more levels before the end of registration period and there are 596 entries so far. Players just came back from their second break of the day. Stacks are getting bigger as we go, so we went around and took note of some of the biggest stacks after 6 levels of play.

The current leader is Zakhar Galper wih 6,150,000 in chips followed closely by Peter Shonk sitting on 6,000,000 chips.

Here are a few of the other top stacks:

First name \| Prénom	Last name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Zakhar	Galper	6,150,000
Peter	Shonk	6,000,000
Carlo	Nini	5,280,000
Donald-sun	Chher	5,080,000
Nabil	Nahoul	4,785,000
Alexander	Hartung	4,205,000
Carl	Des granges	4,100,000
Gerald	David	4,005,000
Kathy	Sawers	4,000,000
Frank	Koopman	3,375,000