Playground Poker

Faced with an early position open, Jocelyn Poirier 3bet to 3,625,000 from the button. Jean-Philippe Piquette then moved all-in from the small blind, and action folded back around to Jocelyn. He moved into the tank for a few minutes before finally making the call for nearly all of his chips, as both players were close to 12 million each.

Jocelyn:
Jean-Philippe:

Jean-Philippe didn’t like the very much, and jokingly asked the dealer to slow down. The on the turn brought no change, but the pocket Tens made a straight on the river. Once the count was done, the dealer announced that Jean-Philippe was covered by a small margin, and was eliminated in 64th place for $22,500.

Xuan Liu saw her stack drop down to almost 2 million when she got her last chips in from the big blind. Her all-in was matched by two opponents, however some aggressive betting by Niall Farrel on both the flop and the turn reduced the hand to heads-up before the river was dealt.

The board was showing when the players were asked to open up, and Niall tabled for a pair of tens, while Xuan showed down for an open-ended straight draw and 1 over-card. Although Xuan was her usual calm and cool self on the outside, she was likely cheering for one of her 11 outs to hit the river in her head. Unfortunately for her, the river was a , spelling her elimination in 71st place for $20,000.

Other recent eliminations include Kane Kalas ($20,000), Steven Kerr ($20,000), Jason Comtois ($20,000) and Samuel Chartier ($17,500).

One of the remaining tournament tables in the partypoker Million North America has been moved up onto the stage, and is being live streamed on the Poker Night in America Twitch channel with cards up (on 30 minutes delay).

Some photographs of the feature table players:

The pace has picked up since the money-bubble burst, and chips are moving around quite a bit.

Daniel Suied was recently eliminated after squeezing with his last 6.65M holding  . He found a call from Alexander Allison with , who ran a flush on the board to claim the pot.

Jonathan Bussieres found a key double-up with versus , crippling online qualifier Chun Ho Law in the process. Chun was eliminated shortly after.

John Krpan was sent to the rail after seeing his get cracked by the of Thomas Cemm.

Upeshka De Silva is also out of the partypoker Million North America, and collected $15,000 for his run, as did the previously mentioned eliminations.

Photographs from level 23:

Online phenomenon Philippe “takechip” D’Auteuil is leading the final 89 players at the dinner break of the partypoker Million North America. He has amassed a battalion of 46,450,000 units through 3 days of poker with the tournament now in the money.

Scott Montgomery is second in chips after running up his stack considerably since play was hand-for-hand. He found a double up in a 25 million chip pot, and has chipped up to almost 40 million now entering level 23.

Joe Sicko is also amongst the top counts – he won his seat in the #partypokerMillionaire promotion held last month. He has already turned a free seat into a guaranteed $12,500 prize on route to potentially becoming the first millionaire crowned by Playground Poker Club.

Top counts at the dinner break are listed below. Recent in-the-money eliminations include TJ Ulmer ($12,500), Jake Schwartz ($12,500), Dylan Wilkerson ($12,500), Marc Andre Ladouceur ($12,500), Darren Elias ($12,500), Mike McDonald ($10,000), Hendrik Latz ($10,000) and Ryan Reiss ($10,000), amongst others.