Event #1

Lescadres leads heading into the final stretch

Level: 23
Small Blind: 10K
Big Blind: 20K
BB Ante: 20K
Chip Average: 491.9K
Remaining: 56
Entries: 1102

May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 | 2:11am | Playground

The battle is heating up. There are now only 56 players still in their seats, and with an average stack just around 490,000, there are now quite a few big stacks in the room. The next payout is only $650, and of course everyone wants the top prize of $36,128, or, at least a deep run into Day 3 and a final table finish, so no one wants to be the next to head to the rail.

Two players are nursing stacks above 1 million, Jean-Francois Lescadres is on top with 1,125,000, and sitting on the same table is Yirui Zhang with 1,080,000. There are many other solid stacks in play, including George Caragiorgas, a very accomplished tournament player, and a few others with solid resumes, so it will be interesting to see how the final levels play out.

Here are the top stacks in play at the final break:

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Jean-Francois	Lescadres	1,125,000
Yirui	Zhang	1,080,000
Jimmy	Setna	980,000
Harry	Chaimowiz	969,000
Pascal	Gregoire	930,000
Marc	Bourgeois	923,000
Matthew	Wilkins	870,000
George	Caragiorgas	861,000
Carlos	Gerones	723,000
Brenda	Blackburn	713,000
Tony	Lei	702,000

Some recent bustouts include: Albert Nguyen, Mingzhe Zhang, Armry Senat, Kathy Sawers, Gianfranco Giordano, and Edet Umoh.

Below are the two millionaires sitting on the same table:

Bourgeois becomes our first millionaire

Level: 21
Small Blind: 6K
Big Blind: 12K
BB Ante: 12K
Chip Average: 331.9K
Remaining: 83
Entries: 1102

May 17, 2019 | 12:38am | Playground

Marc Bourgeois, who was the chip leader of Day 1A has officially become the first millionaire, amassing an outstanding 1,042,000 chips. Marc is a confident player and likes to wait for key spots, and does not usually spew away chips , so he will try his best to hold onto his stack and to let it continue to grow.

Mathew Wilkens keeps chipping up as well and follows in second place. There are still quite a few other skilled players left in the field, including Shijaudin Daud Sha (the over all leader coming in to Day 2), as well as almost all of the players from the first break leaderboard, so the numbers are sure to keep changing.

Here are the top stacks currently in play:

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Marc	Bourgeois	1,042,000
Matthew	Wilkins	881,000
Jean-Francois	Lescadres	848,000
Carlos	Gerones	784,000

95 players remaining at 5K/10K

Level: 20
Small Blind: 5K
Big Blind: 10K
BB Ante: 10K
Chip Average: 290K
Remaining: 95
Entries: 1102

May 16, 2019 | 11:51pm | Playground

The bustouts came fast and furious once the bubble burst. Short stacks were shoving on every table, and players were seen headed to the tournament desk to collect their payout ticket and head to the cage.

Recent bustouts include: Corey Matticks, Atbin Abbasianafrapoli, Raphael Duval, Tomislav Pavkovic, Stephane Arbour, Nick Nikoletopoulos, Raphael Tran dinh, and Jason Harned, as well as many others.

The players are about to go on another fifteen minute break and we will look for the big stacks in play and update the leaderboard after the break.

Event #1 is now in the money

Level: 19
Small Blind: 4K
Big Blind: 8K
BB Ante: 8K
Chip Average: 201.9K
Remaining: 137
Entries: 1102

May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 | 11:12pm | Playground

With 140 players left in the room, and 138 scheduled to get paid, the tournament staff paused the clock and had the dealers wait to deal as the tournament went “hand-for-hand”. It took almost 25 minutes for the first bustout to take place, which happened on table 23. Tai Sum was down to 10 bigs when he looked down at , and he couldn’t have been any happier, knowing he had one of the top hands in tournament poker. Action folded to Michael Khan in the small blind, who shoved to isolate. Michael was holding , and with his 400,000+ stack, he felt pretty confident that it was the right move. The big blind folded.

Tai was stoked to see that he was out in front, at least for now. Once the floor gave the dealer the go ahead to spread out a board, the dealer fanned out the most disastrous flop possible for Sum.

Flop: , givng Michael trip Q’s. There was still hope for Sum as tournament players know, there is almost always a sweat; he just needed a 10 to make broadway.
Turn:
River:

Sum just shook his head as he exited the tournament in 140th position.

The tournament was now on the stone cold bubble. It took another five to ten minutes until the bubble hand was dealt on table 32. Sebastien Laviolette looked down at and moved his chips (about 97,000) into the middle. Action folded to Samuel Charpentier, who thought about it for a moment and then decided to flat call. Everyone else moved out of the way.

Samuel:
Flop: and Samuel had hit his ace to move out in front. The on the turn and the on the river were of no help to Sebastien, who needed a 9 to stay alive.

Sebastien exited as the Event #1 bubble boy, and just like that, the rest of the players were in the money.

Approaching the money bubble

Level: 18
Small Blind: 3K
Big Blind: 6K
BB Ante: 6K
Chip Average: 192K
Remaining: 143
Entries: 1102

May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 | 9:40pm | Playground

The bustouts have kept a steady pace and the tournament is now close to the money bubble. There are 143 players still in the running with the top 138 getting paid, so the action will most likely slow down now until the bubble is burst.

There are some nice stacks in play, but one player, Carlos Gerones, has taken the lead with 687,000 chips. Edet Umoh follows in second place, sitting on 608,000. Below are the top eight stacks currently in play:

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Carlos	Gerones	687,000
Edet	Umoh	608,000
Rasvan	Rimniceanu	568,000
George	Caragiorgas	512,000
Nicolas	Majdalani	410,000
William	Johnston	406,000
Aaron	Parsons	389,000
Matthew	Wilkins	377,000

Almost 100 players have been sent to the rail

Level: 17
Small Blind: 2.5K
Big Blind: 5K
BB Ante: 5K
Chip Average: 150.5k
Remaining: 183
Entries: 1102

May 16, 2019 | 8:37pm | Playground

The action started right from the very first hand, with many of the short stacks getting the chips into the middle, hoping for a badly needed double-up. The tournament is now down to 183 players and at this pace, with payouts starting in 138th position, the tournament should be in the money sometime in next few hours.

Some of the recent players who have been sent to the rail include: Sebastien Soares, Michael Trembley, Mitchell Besharah, Richard Figiel, Daniel Le, Andy “coach” D’Alessandro, and Mitcheal Ferguson, to just name a few.

Here are some of the players that have been grinding it out on the felt:

Day 2 of the Playground 200: Cards are in the air

Level: 15
Small Blind: 1.5K
Big Blind: 3K
BB Ante: 3K
Chip Average: 99.4K
Remaining: 277
Entries: 1102

May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 | 7:29pm | Playground

After four Day 1 starting flights in Event #1 of the MILLIONS North America, there were 1,102 entries in total, of which 277 players bagged and have returned tonight for Day 2. With the tremendous participation, the $100,000 guarantee was more than doubled, creating a total prize pool of $213,788, which will pay the top 138 positions, with a first place payout of $36,128, and a min cash in positions 136-138 paying out $290.

For the complete payout table, please click here.

To see tonight’s seating draw and chipstacks, click here.

Player’s will play through 10 levels of 40 minute each, and when it is all said and done, the the remaining finalists will return for Day 3 tomorrow night at 7:00pm to play down to a winner.

The floor has announced “Dealers, shuffle up and deal”…and the cards are in the air!

Playground 200 – Day 2 seating draw

May 16, 2019 | 11:51am | Playground

Event #1 of the MILLIONS North America, the Playground 200, kicked this festival off with a bang, attracting 1,102 entries across four starting flights. A total of 277 players bagged chips from various Day 1s, and they will return this evening at 7:00pm to compete for a share of the $213,788 prize pool. For the full prize pool breakdown, click here.

When play resumes, the Day 2 qualifiers will be seated according to the following table:

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Seat \| Siège	Stack \| Tapis
Shijaudin	Daud Sha	Table 31 - Seat 9	460,000
Marc	Bourgeois	Table 23 - Seat 4	366,000
Lucas	Braga	Table 28 - Seat 5	355,000
Yirui	Zhang	Table 30 - Seat 4	311,000
Scott David	Hite	Table 28 - Seat 4	288,000
Christopher	Pietrzak	Table 25 - Seat 1	261,500
Joseph	Abou Khalil	Table 64 - Seat 1	245,000
Aaron Roy	Parsons	Table 59 - Seat 7	235,000
Rasvan	Rimniceanu	Table 22 - Seat 2	233,000
Michael	Malouin	Table 21 - Seat 3	232,000
Michael	Carrington	Table 20 - Seat 6	231,000
Yves	Grenon	Table 33 - Seat 6	230,000
Tony	Lei	Table 59 - Seat 3	224,000
Jonathan	Jette-Prince	Table 22 - Seat 4	219,000
Albert	Nguyen	Table 22 - Seat 1	217,000
Michael	Khan	Table 23 - Seat 1	216,000
Tyrone	Baskin	Table 37 - Seat 2	215,500
Line	Desjardins	Table 33 - Seat 5	212,000
Miguel	Goncalo	Table 32 - Seat 2	206,000
Elie	Abdallah	Table 35 - Seat 1	204,000
Gregory	Flood	Table 20 - Seat 8	195,000
Jacques	Briere	Table 24 - Seat 3	195,000
Francis	Larose	Table 27 - Seat 8	193,500
Richard	Book	Table 30 - Seat 2	192,000
Matthew	Monteschio	Table 64 - Seat 3	190,500
Tae	Cha	Table 34 - Seat 1	190,000
Edet	Umoh	Table 38 - Seat 3	183,000
Grant	Pazarka	Table 62 - Seat 8	180,000
Daniel	Golea	Table 21 - Seat 8	178,000
James	Cooke	Table 27 - Seat 4	178,000
Alon	Messica	Table 57 - Seat 6	175,500
Etienne	Leduc	Table 34 - Seat 7	167,000
Jason	Harned	Table 58 - Seat 3	166,500
Eric	Miron	Table 34 - Seat 9	161,500
Dave	Dupont-Rivard	Table 29 - Seat 8	161,000
Carlos	Gerones	Table 60 - Seat 6	161,000
Maxime	Argento	Table 17 - Seat 5	160,500
Frederic	Beaudry	Table 22 - Seat 9	158,000
Nghi Van	Tran	Table 29 - Seat 9	157,500
Jimmy	Setna	Table 59 - Seat 1	157,500
Jose Nirranjan	Cruze	Table 20 - Seat 1	157,000
Harry	Chaimowiz	Table 60 - Seat 3	156,000
Costa	Babalis	Table 24 - Seat 2	155,000
Anh Dung	Nguyen	Table 37 - Seat 4	153,000
James	Pillon	Table 64 - Seat 8	150,000
Richard	Figiel	Table 38 - Seat 1	149,000
Corey	Matticks	Table 55 - Seat 5	148,000
Nicolas	Majdalani	Table 17 - Seat 6	147,500
Eric Jc	Ylagan	Table 34 - Seat 3	147,500
William Henry	Munn	Table 55 - Seat 3	145,000
Antoine	Sankari	Table 32 - Seat 6	144,500
Arkadi	Karakhanov	Table 25 - Seat 3	144,000
Neal	Freeman	Table 31 - Seat 2	144,000
Peter	Liakopoulos	Table 36 - Seat 7	143,000
Kristopher	Chartier	Table 30 - Seat 7	139,000
Paul	Manoian	Table 55 - Seat 6	138,000
Adam	Bogach	Table 56 - Seat 2	137,500
Wayne	Derouchie	Table 26 - Seat 4	135,500
Gianfranco	Giordano	Table 55 - Seat 1	135,500
Mingzhe	Zhang	Table 57 - Seat 2	135,500
Dave	Jeanneau-Cyr	Table 33 - Seat 4	133,000
Joel	Malo	Table 36 - Seat 6	131,500
Gaetan	Perreault	Table 29 - Seat 3	131,000
Christine	Park	Table 36 - Seat 4	128,500
Peter	Asskandar	Table 25 - Seat 6	127,000
Ben	Menache	Table 35 - Seat 2	126,000
Jemot Gregory	Ochoa	Table 63 - Seat 5	125,000
Kathy	Sawers	Table 62 - Seat 2	124,000
Olivier	Legendre	Table 61 - Seat 6	122,500
Sarvesh	Pershad	Table 25 - Seat 8	122,000
Shane	Gallant	Table 23 - Seat 6	121,000
Gary Allison	Irvine	Table 21 - Seat 4	120,000
Jason	Clarke	Table 63 - Seat 2	120,000
Jean-Francois	Lescadres	Table 30 - Seat 1	119,500
Matthew Graeme	Witterick	Table 58 - Seat 9	118,500
William	Couillard-Olczyk	Table 35 - Seat 9	118,000
Marc	Petit	Table 20 - Seat 2	117,000
Pascal	Gregoire	Table 20 - Seat 9	117,000
Andrii	Grynechko	Table 19 - Seat 2	116,000
Louis-Patrick	Levros	Table 33 - Seat 7	116,000
Olivier	Boyer	Table 62 - Seat 5	115,000
Kevin	Rousselle	Table 31 - Seat 4	114,000
Marc	Senechal	Table 28 - Seat 7	113,500
Marc-Olivier	Beauregard	Table 34 - Seat 5	113,000
David	Bolduc Hamel	Table 38 - Seat 9	111,000
Eric	Massie	Table 55 - Seat 9	110,500
Richard	Hamelin	Table 25 - Seat 4	109,500
Albert	Wong	Table 56 - Seat 6	109,500
Kaylen	Nichol	Table 22 - Seat 3	108,500
Sebastien	Laviolette	Table 32 - Seat 3	108,000
Brenda	Blackburn	Table 27 - Seat 1	107,000
Adam	Hamaoui	Table 63 - Seat 4	107,000
Gilbert	Charles	Table 32 - Seat 8	106,000
Steven	Martin	Table 56 - Seat 1	106,000
Raphael	Tran Dinh	Table 60 - Seat 4	105,500
Po Lien	Taing	Table 20 - Seat 3	105,000
Olivier	Lamarre	Table 25 - Seat 7	104,500
George	Caragiorgas	Table 55 - Seat 8	104,500
Marc	Saddik	Table 61 - Seat 4	103,000
Charles	Roy	Table 61 - Seat 3	102,000
Kenneth Myles	Budd	Table 59 - Seat 4	101,500
Earl	Levett	Table 31 - Seat 8	100,500
Gerard	Doire	Table 61 - Seat 7	100,500
Tai	Sum	Table 23 - Seat 7	100,000
Samuel	Charpentier	Table 32 - Seat 5	100,000
Alexis	P-Laroche	Table 62 - Seat 9	100,000
Andre	Larocque	Table 33 - Seat 9	99,500
Danielle	Bracy	Table 58 - Seat 1	99,500
Raphael	Duval	Table 26 - Seat 8	98,000
Joseph	Dadoun	Table 19 - Seat 6	97,000
Bryan	Robitaille Fequet	Table 21 - Seat 5	97,000
Grant	Ellis	Table 24 - Seat 8	97,000
Michael	Malm	Table 17 - Seat 1	95,500
Gael	Dauphinais	Table 28 - Seat 1	95,500
Arnold	Yaxley	Table 35 - Seat 3	94,500
Joshua	Gauder	Table 33 - Seat 1	93,500
Jean-Francois	Stoycheff	Table 34 - Seat 8	93,000
Derek	Hinchliffe	Table 57 - Seat 9	93,000
Marouane	Tijani	Table 29 - Seat 1	92,500
Fred	Robitaille	Table 28 - Seat 2	92,000
Ernest	Kelly	Table 28 - Seat 6	92,000
Galvin	Van Brussel	Table 28 - Seat 8	92,000
Dat	Doan	Table 35 - Seat 8	92,000
Jonathan	Bardier	Table 59 - Seat 2	92,000
Mihail	Cojocaru	Table 27 - Seat 6	91,000
Ian	Armorer	Table 34 - Seat 6	90,500
Adam	Cader	Table 60 - Seat 5	90,500
Nabil	Nahoul	Table 33 - Seat 8	90,000
Greg	Steen	Table 60 - Seat 9	90,000
Laurence-Alexis	Cote	Table 56 - Seat 7	89,500
Brandon	Quick	Table 22 - Seat 5	89,000
Christopher	Taylor	Table 37 - Seat 3	89,000
Charanjeev	Malhotra	Table 30 - Seat 3	88,000
Andrew	Molotchko	Table 17 - Seat 8	87,000
Hung	Ha	Table 36 - Seat 9	87,000
Cole Ryan	Quick	Table 28 - Seat 9	86,000
Mitchell	Besharah	Table 61 - Seat 1	86,000
Nancy	Query	Table 25 - Seat 2	85,500
Shane	Rawlins	Table 55 - Seat 2	85,000
Joshua	Frazer James	Table 56 - Seat 9	85,000
Tamlyn	Campbell	Table 57 - Seat 7	85,000
Maxime	Theroux	Table 58 - Seat 5	84,000
Atbin	Abbasianafrapoli	Table 24 - Seat 4	82,500
Andy	D' Alessandro	Table 31 - Seat 5	82,500
Karim-Olivier	Kamal	Table 58 - Seat 8	82,500
Alexandre	Bergeron-Cyr	Table 34 - Seat 4	82,000
Mitchell	Dredge	Table 38 - Seat 2	82,000
Roch	Labelle	Table 59 - Seat 6	81,500
Ghislain	Pigeon	Table 38 - Seat 6	81,000
Jonathan	Levert	Table 62 - Seat 7	81,000
William Cornelius	Johnston	Table 20 - Seat 5	80,500
Patrick	Azevedo	Table 24 - Seat 5	80,500
Brian	Flood	Table 24 - Seat 6	80,500
Joselyn	Arseneau	Table 19 - Seat 1	79,000
Breyer	Calvert	Table 63 - Seat 9	78,500
Maxime	Chartrand	Table 17 - Seat 3	77,500
Dayaly	Lim	Table 22 - Seat 6	77,500
Stephane	Arbour	Table 19 - Seat 7	77,000
Nick	Nickoletopoulos	Table 20 - Seat 4	76,000
Mike	Mirand	Table 56 - Seat 5	76,000
Eric	Richer	Table 61 - Seat 2	75,000
Daniel	Le	Table 29 - Seat 2	74,000
Bradley	Phee	Table 36 - Seat 3	74,000
Colton John	Nichol	Table 32 - Seat 1	73,500
Fady	Habashi	Table 63 - Seat 7	73,500
Simon	Marciano	Table 23 - Seat 8	73,000
Philippe	Boucher	Table 26 - Seat 5	73,000
Chawki	Fawaz	Table 37 - Seat 7	73,000
Michelle	Reyes	Table 57 - Seat 8	72,500
Matthew	Wilkins	Table 25 - Seat 9	71,500
Danny	Lauzon	Table 37 - Seat 8	71,000
Aaron	Grayer	Table 27 - Seat 7	70,500
Elaine	Rawn	Table 17 - Seat 9	70,000
Goran	Brestovac	Table 28 - Seat 3	69,500
Marc-Andre	Bisson	Table 56 - Seat 3	69,500
Joel Alain	Bisson	Table 63 - Seat 1	69,500
Moucheghe	Bamboukian	Table 19 - Seat 3	69,000
Xavier	Chayer-St-Germain	Table 64 - Seat 6	68,500
Yibiao	Liang	Table 62 - Seat 1	68,000
Daniel	Fortier	Table 24 - Seat 1	67,500
Marcel	Basset	Table 26 - Seat 3	67,000
Cindy	Campbell	Table 55 - Seat 4	66,500
Galal	Tadros	Table 57 - Seat 1	66,500
Roger	Thibault	Table 64 - Seat 2	66,500
Timmy	Richard	Table 32 - Seat 7	66,000
Enrico	Prata	Table 35 - Seat 6	65,500
Mina	Mourad	Table 37 - Seat 1	65,500
Jean-Guy	Larosiliere	Table 29 - Seat 6	64,500
Roberto	Buonocore	Table 36 - Seat 2	64,000
Duane	Sirr	Table 56 - Seat 8	64,000
Martin	Borras	Table 57 - Seat 4	64,000
Andre	Bilodeau	Table 22 - Seat 8	63,500
Adam	Strulovitch	Table 29 - Seat 7	63,500
Robert	Gosselin	Table 58 - Seat 2	63,500
Chanwoo	Lee	Table 61 - Seat 9	63,500
Lily	De Ascentiis	Table 26 - Seat 2	63,000
Dmitry	Glubochansky	Table 23 - Seat 3	62,000
Martin	Nguyen	Table 26 - Seat 9	62,000
Borislav	Angelov	Table 58 - Seat 7	62,000
Steven Kenneth	Terry	Table 60 - Seat 2	61,500
Eric	Al Halaby	Table 23 - Seat 5	61,000
John	Palmer	Table 36 - Seat 8	61,000
Gabriel	Beliveau	Table 21 - Seat 1	60,000
Tina	S	Table 64 - Seat 9	60,000
Vincent	Tremblay	Table 59 - Seat 8	59,500
Yuanli	Shi	Table 63 - Seat 8	59,500
Ian	Tang	Table 62 - Seat 6	59,000
Shawn	Daigle	Table 29 - Seat 5	58,000
Jonathan	Marrie	Table 57 - Seat 5	58,000
Abrahim	Wadhai	Table 62 - Seat 4	58,000
Sai	Lee	Table 30 - Seat 6	57,000
Christa Mae	Backlund	Table 19 - Seat 5	56,500
Fariborz	Zojaji	Table 56 - Seat 4	56,500
Andrew	Lalonde	Table 59 - Seat 5	56,500
Mustafa	Hassanzada	Table 26 - Seat 1	55,500
Tomislav	Pavkovic	Table 59 - Seat 9	55,000
Raymond Joshua	Macdonald	Table 17 - Seat 7	54,500
Patrick	Slight	Table 21 - Seat 6	54,000
Yvan	Waltzing	Table 31 - Seat 6	54,000
Alexis	Staub	Table 38 - Seat 4	54,000
Igor	Gamayunov	Table 31 - Seat 3	53,000
Jason	Guiley	Table 19 - Seat 8	52,000
Armry	Senat	Table 32 - Seat 9	52,000
Patrick	Gatfalvi	Table 55 - Seat 7	52,000
Cameron	Battikha	Table 32 - Seat 4	51,500
Michel	Bergeron	Table 26 - Seat 7	51,000
Cory	Murphy	Table 61 - Seat 8	51,000
Ronnie	Revizada	Table 24 - Seat 9	50,500
Anderson	F.	Table 35 - Seat 5	50,000
Kauvsegan	Ehamparam	Table 60 - Seat 8	49,500
Francis	Bouchard	Table 21 - Seat 7	49,000
Andrei	Gulko	Table 27 - Seat 5	49,000
Scott	Shein	Table 33 - Seat 2	49,000
Ely Jose	De Paula Filho	Table 33 - Seat 3	48,000
Sydney	Barnier	Table 60 - Seat 7	48,000
Jean Daniel	Touzin	Table 27 - Seat 2	47,500
Patrick	Braga	Table 24 - Seat 7	47,000
Michael	Korovine	Table 35 - Seat 7	47,000
Alexandre	Paquette-Leduc	Table 17 - Seat 4	46,500
Alex	Nigoghossian	Table 35 - Seat 4	46,500
Terence	Caulcutt	Table 36 - Seat 5	45,000
Alexandre	Fournier	Table 64 - Seat 5	45,000
Patrick	Dattilo	Table 21 - Seat 9	44,000
Pierre	Sirois	Table 38 - Seat 8	43,500
Robert	Turcotte	Table 17 - Seat 2	42,500
Michael	Tremblay	Table 38 - Seat 7	42,500
Kenan	Davidson	Table 25 - Seat 5	41,500
James	Bridgeman	Table 37 - Seat 9	41,500
Martin	Rombach	Table 38 - Seat 5	41,500
Sebastien	Drolet-Poitras	Table 23 - Seat 9	40,000
Sylviane	Cassini	Table 21 - Seat 2	39,500
Duy	Nguyen	Table 27 - Seat 9	39,000
David	Williams	Table 22 - Seat 7	38,500
James	Flowers	Table 29 - Seat 4	38,500
Tania Marie	Stephan	Table 19 - Seat 4	38,000
Robert Jason	Bernais	Table 34 - Seat 2	38,000
Danny	Larivee	Table 20 - Seat 7	37,000
Stephane	Faucher	Table 23 - Seat 2	36,500
Mitcheal	Ferguson	Table 58 - Seat 6	36,000
Emile	H	Table 30 - Seat 8	35,500
Louis-Philippe	Mondoux	Table 58 - Seat 4	35,000
Steven	Rosen	Table 62 - Seat 3	35,000
Dean	Nerbonne	Table 63 - Seat 6	33,500
Joseph	Sookrah	Table 64 - Seat 7	32,500
Mykyta	Kurilenko	Table 30 - Seat 9	32,000
Benjamin	Croteau	Table 64 - Seat 4	32,000
Robert	Cicchelli	Table 27 - Seat 3	31,000
Jean Luc	Joseph	Table 31 - Seat 1	30,500
Naveen	Tiruvalluri	Table 31 - Seat 7	30,500
Kim	Renaud	Table 19 - Seat 9	30,000
Sebastien	Soares	Table 30 - Seat 5	29,500
Louis	Lam	Table 26 - Seat 6	28,500
Lam	Nguyen	Table 36 - Seat 1	28,000
Jonathan	Brown	Table 57 - Seat 3	25,500
Jesse	Grill	Table 37 - Seat 6	20,500
Jamie	Baker	Table 61 - Seat 5	15,500
Mark	Kteily	Table 60 - Seat 1	14,000

Playground 200 prize pool & payout table

May 16, 2019May 23, 2019 | 11:26am | Playground

Event #1 of the MILLIONS North America, the $200 + $20 Playground 200, featured four starting flights that attracted a total of 1,102 entries. This huge turnout built a prize pool of $213,788 that will distributed to the top 138 finishers according to the following table:

Rank \| Position	Prize \| Bourse
1	$36,128
2	$25,270
3	$16,400
4	$12,140
5	$9,180
6	$7,410
7	$6,130
8	$4,860
9	$3,600
10-12	$2,790
13-15	$2,190
16-18	$1,780
19-21	$1,460
22-24	$1,200
25-27	$1,050
28-36	$920
37-45	$800
46-54	$710
55-63	$650
64-72	$600
73-81	$560
82-90	$520
91-99	$470
100-108	$430
109-117	$390
118-126	$350
127-135	$310
136-138	$290

Daud Sha bags 460,000 as Event #1 chip leader

May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 | 3:53am | Playground

Day 1D of Event #1 had the largest field of all four starting flights, with a total of 386 entries (including 77 re-entries), putting a total of 9,650,000 chips in play. All those chips in play created the perfect conditions for a new overall chip leader to emerge. The average stack at the end of the night was 111,000, and the overall chip leader, Marc Bourgeois, managed to bag an impressive 366,000, but tonight’s chip leader bagged the largest stack so far. Shijaudin Daud Sha (aka “Afghan Bruce Lee”) managed to bag 460,000 in chips, making him the overall chip leader going into Day 2. That is far ahead of the second largest stack to advance from this flight, Christopher Pietrzak, with 261,500.

In all, there were 87 players who advanced, and they will join the others from the previous flights to battle it out tomorrow night at 7:00pm on Day 2.

The smallest stack belongs to Lam Nguyen (28,000), but when play starts in level 15 tomorrow night, the blinds will be 1,500/3,000, so Lam still has a hope if he can secure an early double up.

Here are the top stacks from Day 1D:

Shijaudin Daud Sha 460,000
Christopher Pietrzak 261,500
Joseph Abou Khalil 245,000
Aaron Roy Parsons 235,000
Michael Carrington 230,000
Tony Lei 224,000

The rest of the field finished with under 200,000 chips. Late bustouts include: Arthur W., Benjamin Croteau, Vincent Reeves, Richard Berenbaum, Dany Noel, Debbie Holman, Rodney Ramalho, and Richard Sysko.

Day 1D and overall chip leader: Shijaudin Daud Sha, 460,000

Some of the other players who bagged large stacks tonight:

Abou Khalil still in front of the others

Level: 12
Small Blind: 800
Big Blind: 1.6K
BB Ante: 1.6K
Chip Average: 72K
Remaining: 134
Entries: 386

May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 | 1:42am | Playground

The players just had their final break of the evening and are now heading down the home stretch, with three levels of play before the remaining players bag and tag.

Joseph Abou Khalil, our massive chip leader at the previous break, remains in the lead, after increasing his stack to 266,200. The average stack is around 75,000, so this is still very healthy and has the potential to grow into the largest stack of all of the flights; we will be watching him closely.

Richard Book is now in second place with 170,700. Here the top seven stacks in play:

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Joseph	Abou Khalil	266,200
Richard	Brook	170,700
Shijaudin	Daud Sha	149,200
Grant	Ellis	140,400
Adam	Bogach	137,800
Pascal	Gregoire	131,300
Nicolas	Connan	125,500

The field is starting to thin

Level: 11
Small Blind: 600
Big Blind: 1.2K
BB Ante: 1.2K
Chip Average: 64.7K
Remaining: 149
Entries: 386

May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 | 1:01am | Playground

As we are now in the last four levels of play, stacks are being built as more and more players hit the rail. A break will be coming up in just a few minutes and we will then get a chance to see where the biggest stacks are among the remaining 149 players.

Some recent bustouts include: Thomas Penza, Geng Chen, Paul Brunet, Robert Gariepy, Hagay Brener, Bill Kontaratos, Jonathan Poissant, Jean-Claude Salame, and Kevin Javier.

Here are few photos taken over the last couple of levels: