One of the most experienced players remaining in the field, Ari Engel, has just eliminated Thomas Cemm and joined the chip-leaders deep in the partypoker Million North America.

Thomas opened from the cutoff, and was met with a 3bet to 6,600,000 from Ari in the big blind. He replied with a 4bet to 25,300,000, leaving himself with less than 5,000,000 behind. Ari made the call, and then moved all-in once the flop was dealt.

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Ari’s hand held on for the win and climbed up above 560 million in chips, sending Thomas out in 29th place in the process. Shortly after the hand, Ari won a pot versus Scott Montgomery, increasing his holding to nearly 90 million.

After a very quick start to the day where we saw 5 eliminations take place in the first 15 minutes of play, action slowed down a little once play reached 4 tables. A number of hands took place before we saw the next casualty, Michel-Claude Baroud, who was sent to the rail in 32nd place.

Shortly after, Alexander Allison 3bet all-in for 14,100,000 from the small blind facing an early position open to 2,000,000 from Mingzhe Zhang. After a moment in the tank, Mingzhe slammed a stack of T500,000 chips in the middle to announce a call, and hands were tabled. Alexander showed down , but was bested by on a board to finish in 31st place.

Just as the first level of play was coming to a close, Joe Sicko, who won his $5,000 + $300 entry via the #partypokerMillionaire challenge, picked up a premium hand and open-shoved his 13,800,000 stack from the cutoff. Unfortunately for him, his were crushed by the of Niall Farrell in the big blind. With no help on the board, Joe was eliminated in 30th place, earning a cool $32,500 for his free entry.

@KevinMacphee @PlaygroundPoker Thank you! Great experience and happy to have had the opportunity!! Hope to make some more headlines in the future!! Playground is the best!

— Joe Sicko Jr (@Red_Sicko) May 9, 2017

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Day 4 is off to a blistering start, and we saw 5 eliminations take place in the first 15 minutes of play.

Andrew Walter was the first to go after running his into the of Jordan Saccucci, who later went on to double up Patrick Blye. As this was happening, short-stacked Viet Van Vo failed to spin up his stack and was eliminated in 36th place, while Christopher Annouza took 35th place.

Sasan Mehrabian squeezed all-in for 15.5 million after an open from Ari Engel and two calls. Scott Montgomery elected to call after Ari let of his hand, and managed to overcome Sesan’s with by spiking and Ace on the river.

Vlad Mezheristky was the next casualty, and his elimination in 33rd place reduced the field to just 4 final tables.

All 5 of these players collected $30,000 for their finish.

The partypoker Million North America continues today with Day 4, and 37 players remain from the 1,168 entry field. So far players have already locked in a guaranteed prize of $30,000, and they are competing for a 7-figure top score as the winner of the event is set to take home a huge $1,000,000!

Leading the pack into Day 4 is Scott Montgomery who bagged 83,450,000, with Niall Farrell (79,000,000) and Philippe D’Auteuil (71,300,000) close behind. A handful of pro remain scattered in the field, including the top 2 Canadian GPI ranked players Ari Engel (44,000,000) and Sam Greenwood (20,200,000), along with Matt Waxman (23,650,000) and Patrick Blye (20,450,000), to name a few. Full counts of the final 37 are found below.

The players are in their seats and the tournament staff is currently racing off the T25,ooo chips from play, and in a few short moments cards will be in the air. Action will continue until the official 8-handed final table is reached, at which point the final tebleists will bag their chips onto tomorrow’s grand final.

There will be a live stream available later on today for the feature table – all the details will be provided shortly. Live updates, chip counts and photos will be published throughout the day on our own Playground Poker Blog, as well as on the partypoker LIVE blog, and on Pokernews.com.

Good luck to the remaining players!

Day 3 of the partypoker Million North America is now in the rear-view mirror and following a gruelling 8 levels of poker, just 37 players remain in contention in the event. All 37 have plenty of motivation to play as well as possible tomorrow, as there’s an amazing $1,000,000 up top for the eventual victor!

The Day 4 restart is scheduled for 12:00pm tomorrow, when the 37 players will spread out on 5 tables to continue play tomorrow. The order for the day is to play down to 8 players remaining, and it is sure to be a great – and possibly long – day of poker at Playground Poker Club.

The following is the official seating draw for the Day 4 restart with player-provided chip counts. Click (or tap) on any column header to sort the table, or use the search box provided to find your name and seating assignment directly.

Day 3 of the partypoker Million North America is now in the books, and 37 players have bagged chips onto Day 4, which takes place tomorrow at 12pm. They will continue play until the official 8-handed final table is reached, at which point they will go on break until the following day.

Leading the field is Scott Montgomery and he returns to the felts with 83,450,000 tomorrow. Niall Farrel bagged a second biggest 79,000,000, while Philippe D’Auteuil rounds the top 3 with 71,300,000. Jonathan Bussieres also had a big Day 3 and managed to build a stack of 62,350, and Jean-Pascal Savard closed the day with 61,000,000. Full counts of the final 37 will be made available shortly.

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