partypoker and Playground Poker Club have smashed a 10-year old record for the largest prize pool of a live poker tournament in Canadian history. With a total of 1,168 entries, the prize pool for the 2017 partypoker Live Million North America closed at $5,709,750.
After running deep in the partypoker Grand Prix Canada last week, Karim Abdelhamid has the top Canadian stack, sitting third overall with 17,970,000. Rayan Chamas (17,270,000) and Ema Zajmovic (15,735,000) are two other Canadians among the leaders and round out the top five stacks with Americans James Romero (19,655,000) chip leading and Upeshka De Silva (18,575,000) in second.
Just 176 players remain after a long battle on Day 2. Some other Canucks moving on to Day 3 include Duff Charette (15,060,000), Jean-Pascal Savard (14,130,000), Jean-Philippe Piquette (13,285,000), Benny Chen (12,000,000), Sylvain Siebert (11,665,000), and Ari Engel (9,250,000).
The money bubble should burst around mid-day with just 119 players earning a stop at the payout desk. It is still early but the focus and sights for the majority of players will stay glued to the $1,000,000 first place prize. Anyone making the money today will earn at least a min-cash of $10,000.
The dream ended for a lot of players on Sunday. Some notable countrymen to lose all their chips include Eric Afriat, Griffin Benger, Marc-Etienne McLaughlin, Dilovan Hussein, Kristen Bicknell, Alex Difelice, Jonathan Roy, Sam Chartier, Jason Duval, Sorel Mizzi, Ami Alibay, Mark Radoja, and Pascal Lefrancois.
Day 3 gets underway at noon local time in Kahnawake, QC. Another eight 75-minute levels are on the schedule. Also slated for Monday inside Playground are Event #5 and Event #6 of the Spring Classic. The fifth event of the festival is the $2,500 NL Hold’em Second Chance with a $150,000 guarantee, kicking off at 11 a.m. The sixth event, a $330 NL Hol’dem 8-Max, takes place later on Monday with cards in the air at 8 p.m.
The following is the official seating draw for the Day 3
| NAME | Seat | Stack |
| James Romero | Table 60 – Seat 7 | 19,655,000 |
| Upeshka Manishan De Silva | Table 66 – Seat 6 | 18,525,000 |
| Karim Abdelhamid | Table 58 – Seat 3 | 17,970,000 |
| Rayan Chamas | Table 56 – Seat 6 | 17,270,000 |
| Ema Zajmovic | Table 69 – Seat 6 | 15,735,000 |
| Dhaval J Joshi | Table 69 – Seat 3 | 15,475,000 |
| David Eldridge | Table 52 – Seat 4 | 15,100,000 |
| Duff Charette | Table 51 – Seat 1 | 15,060,000 |
| Joseph Sicko | Table 64 – Seat 1 | 14,745,000 |
| Jean-Pascal Savard | Table 50 – Seat 4 | 14,130,000 |
| Jean-Philippe Piquette | Table 64 – Seat 4 | 13,285,000 |
| Kevin MacDonald | Table 59 – Seat 6 | 13,015,000 |
| Jordan Saccucci | Table 51 – Seat 3 | 12,845,000 |
| Santiago Plante | Table 66 – Seat 7 | 12,845,000 |
| Austin Peck | Table 54 – Seat 7 | 12,810,000 |
| Qi Hu | Table 59 – Seat 8 | 12,725,000 |
| Sam Trickett | Table 50 – Seat 8 | 12,200,000 |
| Jonathan Bussieres | Table 61 – Seat 1 | 12,035,000 |
| Benny Chen | Table 70 – Seat 1 | 12,000,000 |
| Jimmy Lee | Table 61 – Seat 4 | 11,850,000 |
| Viet Van Vo | Table 52 – Seat 7 | 11,800,000 |
| Michel-Claude Baroud | Table 66 – Seat 3 | 11,695,000 |
| Sylvain Siebert | Table 60 – Seat 5 | 11,665,000 |
| Jacob Bazeley | Table 61 – Seat 2 | 11,425,000 |
| Michael Addamo | Table 67 – Seat 8 | 11,375,000 |
| Marc Guerbilsky | Table 59 – Seat 3 | 11,040,000 |
| Steven Kerr | Table 59 – Seat 2 | 10,640,000 |
| Andreas Olympios | Table 55 – Seat 4 | 10,630,000 |
| Charles La Boissonniere | Table 63 – Seat 5 | 10,390,000 |
| Darren Elias | Table 58 – Seat 4 | 10,305,000 |
| Christian Harder | Table 59 – Seat 5 | 10,185,000 |
| Jason Koon | Table 67 – Seat 6 | 10,120,000 |
| Michael Hahn | Table 68 – Seat 6 | 10,100,000 |
| Chun Ho Law | Table 61 – Seat 5 | 9,735,000 |
| Robin Hegele | Table 60 – Seat 1 | 9,515,000 |
| Vojtech Ruzicka | Table 64 – Seat 7 | 9,505,000 |
| Francois Billard | Table 53 – Seat 6 | 9,500,000 |
| Stephan Chartrand | Table 61 – Seat 3 | 9,500,000 |
| Karim Chatur | Table 52 – Seat 5 | 9,490,000 |
| Christopher Dowling | Table 61 – Seat 8 | 9,425,000 |
| Sasan Mehrabian | Table 56 – Seat 5 | 9,400,000 |
| Niall Farrell | Table 63 – Seat 8 | 9,400,000 |
| Chanracy Khun | Table 69 – Seat 7 | 9,375,000 |
| Jase Regina | Table 49 – Seat 5 | 9,330,000 |
| Ari Engel | Table 60 – Seat 3 | 9,250,000 |
| Eric Place | Table 70 – Seat 3 | 9,200,000 |
| Hendrik Jerome Mikola Latz | Table 57 – Seat 6 | 9,130,000 |
| Andrew Walter | Table 50 – Seat 7 | 8,995,000 |
| Samuel Greenwood | Table 57 – Seat 1 | 8,970,000 |
| Yan Poudrier | Table 57 – Seat 5 | 8,885,000 |
| Ko Maddock | Table 53 – Seat 7 | 8,855,000 |
| Terrence Ka-Man Chan | Table 65 – Seat 6 | 8,705,000 |
| Richard Kirsch | Table 70 – Seat 6 | 8,500,000 |
| Mingzhe Zhang | Table 59 – Seat 1 | 8,465,000 |
| Demosthenes Kiriopoulos | Table 54 – Seat 5 | 8,300,000 |
| Kevin Rivest | Table 56 – Seat 2 | 8,265,000 |
| Moritz Dietrich | Table 52 – Seat 3 | 8,060,000 |
| Nipun Java | Table 49 – Seat 6 | 8,015,000 |
| Shane Brotherwood | Table 50 – Seat 2 | 7,965,000 |
| Kevin Schulz | Table 64 – Seat 6 | 7,850,000 |
| Marc Andre Ladouceur | Table 58 – Seat 1 | 7,835,000 |
| Carl Diveglia | Table 64 – Seat 8 | 7,830,000 |
| Ruben Perceval | Table 70 – Seat 5 | 7,790,000 |
| Xuan Liu | Table 51 – Seat 4 | 7,570,000 |
| Griffin Benger | Table 60 – Seat 4 | 7,540,000 |
| Sean Perry | Table 56 – Seat 8 | 7,400,000 |
| Thomas Taylor | Table 64 – Seat 5 | 7,360,000 |
| Kane Kalas | Table 67 – Seat 1 | 7,325,000 |
| Michael G | Table 55 – Seat 3 | 7,140,000 |
| Louis Boutin | Table 68 – Seat 5 | 7,100,000 |
| Scott Montgomery | Table 50 – Seat 6 | 7,095,000 |
| Elliot Smith | Table 70 – Seat 8 | 6,780,000 |
| Alexander James Allison | Table 54 – Seat 3 | 6,730,000 |
| Dimitri Morcos | Table 55 – Seat 7 | 6,700,000 |
| Drew Doiron | Table 56 – Seat 4 | 6,590,000 |
| Samuel Chartier | Table 62 – Seat 1 | 6,515,000 |
| Timothy Ulmer | Table 65 – Seat 4 | 6,400,000 |
| Matthew Waxman | Table 67 – Seat 7 | 6,265,000 |
| Patrick Pezzin | Table 52 – Seat 1 | 6,000,000 |
| Daniel Suied | Table 55 – Seat 2 | 6,000,000 |
| Armand King | Table 64 – Seat 2 | 6,000,000 |
| Jason Comtois | Table 66 – Seat 1 | 5,940,000 |
| John Krpan | Table 62 – Seat 5 | 5,900,000 |
| Gabriel Houle-Morin | Table 54 – Seat 4 | 5,860,000 |
| Michael Noor | Table 63 – Seat 3 | 5,745,000 |
| Graham Ivany | Table 70 – Seat 7 | 5,700,000 |
| Timothy West | Table 68 – Seat 7 | 5,675,000 |
| Thomas Cemm | Table 53 – Seat 3 | 5,645,000 |
| Vlad Mezheritsky | Table 50 – Seat 5 | 5,575,000 |
| Sammy Lafleur | Table 58 – Seat 5 | 5,395,000 |
| Kauvsegan Ehamparam | Table 53 – Seat 2 | 5,090,000 |
| Charles Macdonald | Table 61 – Seat 6 | 5,070,000 |
| Nicolas Le Floch | Table 59 – Seat 4 | 5,060,000 |
| Dylan Wilkerson | Table 63 – Seat 1 | 5,042,000 |
| Richard Belcastro | Table 50 – Seat 1 | 4,995,000 |
| Michael McDonald | Table 62 – Seat 2 | 4,910,000 |
| Rodney Ramalho | Table 68 – Seat 2 | 4,900,000 |
| Carlos Mortensen | Table 58 – Seat 6 | 4,875,000 |
| Maduka Meragal | Table 63 – Seat 4 | 4,875,000 |
| Maxime Flibotte-Blanchard | Table 65 – Seat 3 | 4,875,000 |
| Caitlin Hall | Table 68 – Seat 1 | 4,870,000 |
| Victor Adams | Table 69 – Seat 1 | 4,855,000 |
| Yuzhou Chu | Table 62 – Seat 7 | 4,800,000 |
| Antonio Maiolo | Table 63 – Seat 2 | 4,745,000 |
| Steven Warburton | Table 49 – Seat 8 | 4,700,000 |
| Nicolas Belcourt | Table 68 – Seat 3 | 4,670,000 |
| Jason Sagle | Table 66 – Seat 8 | 4,545,000 |
| Christopher Annouza | Table 57 – Seat 4 | 4,515,000 |
| Bob T | Table 61 – Seat 7 | 4,485,000 |
| Kyle Hartree | Table 52 – Seat 8 | 4,460,000 |
| Ha Van Nguyen | Table 52 – Seat 6 | 4,420,000 |
| Andrew Boujaoude | Table 69 – Seat 8 | 4,390,000 |
| Ryan Morrell | Table 51 – Seat 8 | 4,370,000 |
| Aaron Mermelstein | Table 57 – Seat 3 | 4,330,000 |
| Benoit Jean | Table 57 – Seat 8 | 4,295,000 |
| Thomas Penza | Table 49 – Seat 4 | 4,270,000 |
| Julian Milliard-Feral | Table 56 – Seat 3 | 4,270,000 |
| Philippe D’Auteuil | Table 58 – Seat 8 | 4,195,000 |
| Daniel Noel Noseworthy | Table 68 – Seat 4 | 4,170,000 |
| Tobias Mathag | Table 49 – Seat 1 | 4,165,000 |
| Thomas Lefort | Table 65 – Seat 8 | 4,025,000 |
| Ryan Rivers | Table 63 – Seat 7 | 3,965,000 |
| Jocelyn Poirier | Table 57 – Seat 7 | 3,955,000 |
| Presten Cloutier | Table 58 – Seat 7 | 3,900,000 |
| Alexandre Fournier | Table 67 – Seat 2 | 3,875,000 |
| Karl David Thorson | Table 51 – Seat 5 | 3,835,000 |
| Asher Conniff | Table 49 – Seat 2 | 3,755,000 |
| Van Nghiem Nguy | Table 55 – Seat 1 | 3,725,000 |
| Thomas Keeper | Table 55 – Seat 6 | 3,700,000 |
| Daniel Colman | Table 54 – Seat 8 | 3,685,000 |
| Norson Saho | Table 55 – Seat 8 | 3,660,000 |
| Masoud Tavangari | Table 67 – Seat 5 | 3,625,000 |
| Joel Moreau | Table 70 – Seat 2 | 3,610,000 |
| Alain Chenel | Table 63 – Seat 6 | 3,600,000 |
| Terry Lee | Table 60 – Seat 6 | 3,580,000 |
| Quyen Dao | Table 64 – Seat 3 | 3,165,000 |
| Anthony Zinno | Table 65 – Seat 7 | 3,070,000 |
| Eric Boissonneault | Table 68 – Seat 8 | 3,065,000 |
| Denis Ward | Table 53 – Seat 8 | 3,055,000 |
| John Xenos | Table 69 – Seat 2 | 3,055,000 |
| Jean-Louis Cyr | Table 60 – Seat 8 | 2,955,000 |
| Jean-Sebastien Dubois | Table 54 – Seat 1 | 2,835,000 |
| Jiachen Gong | Table 70 – Seat 4 | 2,800,000 |
| Pawel Pelc | Table 69 – Seat 4 | 2,565,000 |
| Frederick Mowatt | Table 49 – Seat 7 | 2,500,000 |
| Wesley Hickey | Table 62 – Seat 3 | 2,500,000 |
| Eric Levesque | Table 53 – Seat 5 | 2,420,000 |
| Rodger Johnson | Table 53 – Seat 4 | 2,340,000 |
| Lawrence Leblanc | Table 51 – Seat 2 | 2,315,000 |
| Anthony Meli | Table 67 – Seat 3 | 2,225,000 |
| Buck Ramsay | Table 65 – Seat 1 | 2,200,000 |
| Joshua Wallace | Table 69 – Seat 5 | 2,140,000 |
| Senthuran Vijayaratnam | Table 49 – Seat 3 | 2,060,000 |
| Marko X | Table 50 – Seat 3 | 1,980,000 |
| Lawrence Whyte | Table 56 – Seat 7 | 1,825,000 |
| Adrian Patrick Buckley | Table 51 – Seat 6 | 1,805,000 |
| Patrick Blye | Table 66 – Seat 2 | 1,775,000 |
| Yuan Jiang | Table 66 – Seat 5 | 1,730,000 |
| Noeung Troeung | Table 62 – Seat 8 | 1,700,000 |
| David Cloutier | Table 65 – Seat 5 | 1,685,000 |
| Jake Schwartz | Table 62 – Seat 6 | 1,645,000 |
| Jie Gao | Table 56 – Seat 1 | 1,605,000 |
| John Paul | Table 66 – Seat 4 | 1,445,000 |
| Andrew Decristoforo | Table 55 – Seat 5 | 1,305,000 |
| Guillaume | Table 58 – Seat 2 | 1,300,000 |
| Carter Swidler | Table 65 – Seat 2 | 1,260,000 |
| Tony Dunst | Table 51 – Seat 7 | 1,195,000 |
| Kenneth Mcfarlane | Table 53 – Seat 1 | 1,110,000 |
| Troy Reardon | Table 59 – Seat 7 | 1,110,000 |
| Jonathan Kyriakides | Table 62 – Seat 4 | 910,000 |
| Alexander Greenblatt | Table 54 – Seat 2 | 905,000 |
| Christine Bryant | Table 52 – Seat 2 | 825,000 |
| Ryan Riess | Table 60 – Seat 2 | 740,000 |
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