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.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Philippe | D'Auteuil | 46,450,000 |
| Scott | Montgomery | 38,850,000 |
| Michael | Addamo | 35,775,000 |
| Joseph | Sicko | 33,775,000 |
| Michel-Claude | Baroud | 32,500,000 |
| James | Romero | 29,975,000 |
| Jean-Pascal | Savard | 29,500,000 |
| Julian | Milliard-Feral | 27,350,000 |
| Viet Van | Vo | 26,725,000 |
| Ema | Zajmovic | 25,250,000 |
| Upeshka | De Silva | 24,825,000 |
| Vlad | Mezheritsky | 24,350,000 |
| Aaron | Mermelstein | 24,325,000 |
| Yuzhou | Chu | 23,275,000 |
| Sam | Trickett | 22,200,000 |
| Marc | Guerbilsky | 21,050,000 |
| Ari | Engel | 20,850,000 |
| Jimmy | Lee | 20,675,000 |
| Karim | Abdelhamid | 20,050,000 |
| Sasan | Mehrabian | 19,450,000 |
| Austin | Peck | 18,925,000 |
The fourth level of Day 3 is coming to a close, and the remaining players will then have a 45-minute dinner break during we will publish an update on the leaderboard.
Photographs from level 22:
Hand-for-hand began with 121 players remaining in level 21, and the first player eliminated was November-Niner Griffin Benger.
James Romero opened to 470,000 and David Eldridge flat-called next to act. Griffin then placed a 3bet to 4,800,000, which represented most of his stack as he only had around 800,000 behind. James tanked a moment before making the call and David let his hand go. James bet enough to put Griffin all-in before the board was out, and Griffin made the call.
James tabled 
and was up against the 
. The 
board brought no danger to James’s Kings and Griffin was knocked out in 121st place.
Scott Montgomery found a full double-up to over 25 million on the following hand, by flopping a set of Deuces and getting 3 streets of value versus Francois Billard’s pocket Jacks.
As all of this was happening, Steven Warburton was slowly blinding out on table 68. On the 6th hand of hand-for-hand, he forfeited his 100K in the small blind leaving him with only 20K behind. He was automatically all-in on the next hand, and his 
was up against the 
of Timothy West. Steven couldn’t find help on the board and was eliminated on the bubble. There were two other all-in / calls at the same time on other tables, but both at-risk players survived the hand, leaving Steven as the sole bubble elimination.
The remaining players have now locked in a min-cash of $10,000 as they progress towards the $1,000,000 grand prize.
Congratulations to the players who have cashed in this event!
Level 21 photos:
For the second time today, we saw Upeshka De Silva win a huge pot as the aggressor, and in both cases he started barrelling with air and backed into a straight.
On the most recent hand, Jordan Saccucci opened to 525,000 from middle position, and Upeshka 3bet to 1,675,000 from the button. Jordan made the call and the two tangoed to the flop.
Jordan check-called a bet of 1,200,000 on the flop, then check called 5,200,000 when the turn brought the 
. He checked-called a third time on the 
river, this time for 8,475,000, and was rattled when he saw Upeshka table 
for a runner-runner straight. Jordan was left with around 10 million after the hand, while Upeshka jumped up to over 40 million.