MILLIONS South America is in the books

March 25, 2019April 25, 2019 | Playground

MILLIONS South America, first stop of the partypoker LIVE 2019 MILLIONS tour, ended last night with the last hand of Day 5 in the Main Event, largest tournament in Latin American history, held at the world-famous Copacabana Palace Hotel in Rio, Brazil. After a 3-hour long heads-up battle, Marty Mathis defeated Bruno Volkmann to put his hands on the MILLIONS South America trophy and $873,700 USD.

The day started with 6 players at the official final table, led by a local player, Brazilian Bruno Volkmann. In second place was none other than home-grown talent Samuel Gagnon. Champion-to-be Marty Mathis was in 5th, with just about 20% of the leader’s stack.

At Playground, we remember Gagnon from his 7th place finish in the 2016 WPT Montreal, the historical tournament that was won by Mike Sexton himself. Gagnon also finished 10th in this year’s World Cup of Cards Main Event, the WPTDeepstacks. Yesterday in Rio, his fourth-place finish netted him $370,000 USD, doubling his live tournament earnings.

Gagnon is not the only player from Quebec to have had some serious success in Rio last week. The $10,300 High Roller event was won by Montrealer Guillaume Nolet, who placed 9th in last year’s MILLIONS North America Main Event. Ema Zajmovic (counts 3 WPT final tables at Playground, including a win and a runner-up finish) min-cashed that event, losing with to Nolet’s . Guillaume is having an amazing year so far, having scooped up over $300K at the 2019 Aussie Millions in Melbourne, to which were added the $300K won last week. It is always with a lot of pride that we watch our local talent excel abroad.

To look back on the full MILLIONS South America coverage, check partypoker LIVE’s blog.

There were 439 entries in the Main Event of MILLIONS South America. All these players are in contention for the Free MILLIONS UK Main Event Seat promotion, where a player needs to play all 5 MILLIONS 2019 stops to receive a free ticket to the £10,300 MILLIONS United Kingdom at Dusk Till Dawn Casino Nottingham in January 2020.

The next MILLIONS stop is at Playground, May 13-26. Be ready to make history!

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