Elias Bags a Top Stack in partypoker Million North America ME Day 1b

Aleeyah Jadavji

May 07, 2017 4 min read Last updated Dec 14, 2023

Play has concluded on this final opening day of the partypoker MILLION North America Main Event!

Darren Elias, three-time World Poker Tour Champion, has bagged one of the top stacks tonight with 6,800,000. The official chip leader is Mike Vesia (8,200,000) followed by Montreal's own Rodney Ramalho with 8,100,000. Kelly Kellner bagged 7,519,000, but once had 8,300,000 for the chip lead during the last level.

$10,300 partypoker MILLION North America High Roller Champion, Mike McDonald, bagged 4,040,000 and looks to go back-to-back in his home country.

Other top stacks and notables include Timothy Deering (6,357,000), Santiago Plante (6,310,000), Jason Koon (4,622,000), Cate Hall (4,200,000), and partypoker's Sam Trickett (3,300,000), just to name a few!

The day started with a few hundred entries and grew to a total of 589 with re-entries. At the end of ten levels, 256 players bagged chips and will join the 137 players from Live Day 1a and the 17 players combined from the online Day 1's. The unofficial total number of entries across all flights is 1,005, but with registration re-opening for two levels tomorrow, the final number will not be announced until it is officially closed.

Day 2 begins tomorrow at noon and levels will increase to 75 minutes through to the end of Day 3 on Monday. Players will complete eight levels tomorrow and come back for more action at noon on Monday. Prizepool and payout information will be release soon after registration closes tomorrow afternoon.

Good luck to everyone who has made it through!

Here is a full table draw for Day 2:

Table	Seat	First Name	Last Name	Chip Count
17	1	Daniel	Gleason	1,994,000
17	2	Ki Joon	Nam	1,000,000
17	3	Patrick	Pezzin	2,950,000
17	4	Won Taek	Lim	1,000,000
17	5	Alessio	Isaia	2,671,000
17	6	Matthew	Glantz	1,000,000
17	7	Bryan	Slick	1,640,000
17	8	Santiago	Plante	6,310,000
17	9	Steven	Dahrouge	3,449,000

18	1	Anthony	Zinno	1,366,000
18	2	Austin	Peck	3,200,000
18	3	Kevin	Andriamahefa	728,000
18	4	Ryan	Godson	2,454,000
18	5	Jie	Gao	1,267,000
18	6	Jonathan	Garneau	3,147,000
18	7	Dean Allen	Baranowski	830,000
18	8	Sammy	Chao	3,240,000
18	9	Marco	Caza	4,300,000

19	1	Paul	Trebuss	1,235,000
19	2	Buck	Ramsay	2,252,000
19	3	Carl	Diveglia	1,000,000
19	4	Joelle	Parenteau	1,000,000
19	5	Alexander James	Allison	3,488,000
19	6	Patrick	Eskandar	4,944,000
19	7	Hamidreza	Kamali	1,000,000
19	8	Bob	T	5,186,000
19	9	Ioannis	Pentefountas	1,405,000

20	1	Robert	Notkin	3,025,000
20	2	Stuart	Taylor	1,528,000
20	3	Caitlin	Hall	4,227,000
20	4	Frank	Patterson	351,000
20	5	Vojtech	Ruzicka	7,124,000
20	6	Thomas	Keeper	1,239,000
20	7	Ari	Engel	3,239,000
20	8	Steven	Kerr	3,075,000
20	9	Noam	Malavsky	3,009,000

21	1	Andrew	Walter	5,730,000
21	2	Tomas	Fara	4,850,000
21	3	Steven	Warburton	2,700,000
21	4	Khaly	Dang	423,000
21	5	Jordan	Saccucci	3,100,000
21	6	Alexander William	Keating	5,981,000
21	7	Alexander	Villa	2,709,000
21	8	Darryll Scott	Fish	2,227,000
21	9	Jonathan	Poissant	1,100,000

22	1	Poorya	Nazari	1,491,000
22	2	Masoud	Tavangari	1,771,000
22	3	Maxime	Heroux	1,389,000
22	4	Dejuante	Alexander	2,231,000
22	5	William	Blais	3,082,000
22	6	Matthew	Waxman	1,785,000
22	7	Amir	Babakhani	754,000
22	8	Timothy	West	624,000
22	9	Jamie	Sequeira	1,000,000

23	1	Christian	Harder	4,431,000
23	2	Kieu Hoa	Lam	578,000
23	3	Mark	Radoja	1,500,000
23	4	Jacob	Snider	1,653,000
23	5	Etienne	Leduc	2,277,000
23	6	Dean	Murphy	651,000
23	7	Ruben	Perceval	2,642,000
23	8	Martin	Raus	5,393,000
23	9	Kyle	Janisse	1,561,000

24	1	Pirooz	Bayat	1,428,000
24	2	Justin	Dean	1,635,000
24	3	Yuan	Jiang	1,000,000
24	4	Pierre	Daigle	3,823,000
24	5	Chun Ho	Law	3,917,000
24	6	Tobias	Mathag	1,891,000
24	7	Darren	Jones	706,000
24	8	Sasan	Mehrabian	2,534,000
24	9	Toby	Joyce	617,000

25	1	Michael	Noor	1,513,000
25	2	Marco	Cannizzaro	1,300,000
25	3	Ian	O'hara	497,000
25	4	Steven	Joudry	2,840,000
25	5	Maxime	Laberge	2,092,000
25	6	Carter	Swidler	2,027,000
25	7	Tony	Dunst	3,058,000
25	8	Victor	Adams	5,745,000
25	9	Joshua	Kay	1,830,000

26	1	Joey	Weissman	742,000
26	2	Sebastien	Proulx	4,270,000
26	3	Timothy	Ulmer	1,890,000
26	4	Robert	Laurie	1,401,000
26	5	Jesse	Sylvia	1,472,000
26	6	Richard	Seymour	4,400,000
26	7	Vishal Singh	Maini	2,800,000
26	8	Samuel	Gagnon	3,452,000
26	9	Eric	Place	2,179,000

27	1	Darren	Elias	6,885,000
27	2	Terry	Lee	784,000
27	3	Thomas	Penza	5,543,000
27	4	Norson	Saho	6,394,000
27	5	Marc	Guerbilsky	3,650,000
27	6	Sebastien	Fortier	697,000
27	7	Michael	Niwinski	789,000
27	8	Christopher	Dowling	1,800,000
27	9	Omid	Shahbazian	864,000

28	1	Alexandre	Fournier	2,470,000
28	2	Demosthenes	Kiriopoulos	5,000,000
28	3	William	Molson	2,300,000
28	4	David	Peters	1,710,000
28	5	Tyler Clayton	Patterson	600,000
28	6	Ilan Charlot	Boujenah	500,000
28	7	Tony	Tran	2,664,000
28	8	Asif	Vayani	1,353,000
28	9	Adrian Patrick	Buckley	1,287,000

29	1	Raymond	Carter	2,092,000
29	2	Louis	Boutin	3,485,000
29	3	Armand	King	2,200,000
29	4	Marc Etienne	Mclaughlin	2,694,000
29	5	Joseph	Sicko	3,356,000
29	6	Andreas	Olympios	5,100,000
29	7	Andrew	Yip	3,248,000
29	8	Asher	Conniff	4,729,000
29	9	Maxime	Lejeune Hebert	838,000

30	1	Matthew	Salsberg	3,070,000
30	2	Dimitri	Morcos	2,100,000
30	3	Ahmad	Baalbaki	2,740,000
30	4	Pawel	Pelc	3,950,000
30	5	Marc Andre	Ladouceur	2,357,000
30	6	David	Valcourt-Dube	866,000
30	7	Sheraz	Nasir	1,635,000
30	8	Thomas	Taylor	3,511,000
30	9	Maria	Ho	4,500,000

31	1	Srinivas	Gottiparthi	5,929,000
31	2	Jason	Koon	4,622,000
31	3	Harrison Ian	Gimbel	2,738,000
31	4	Barry	Kruger	2,006,000
31	5	Maurizio	Lo Russo	2,116,000
31	6	Jocelyn	Poirier	758,000
31	7	Graham	Ivany	2,600,000
31	8	Jean-Louis	Cyr	1,985,000
31	9	Ho Kwan Jeremy	Yip	1,439,000

32	1	Nadir	Lalji	1,862,000
32	2	Chanracy	Khun	4,992,000
32	3	Joshua	Trott	1,020,000
32	4	Toby	Lewis	645,000
32	5	Charles	Macdonald	1,897,000
32	6	Sergio	Grosso	701,000
32	7	Peter	Chien	1,214,000
32	8	Chrishan	Sivasundaram	2,959,000
32	9	Aaron	Mermelstein	6,008,000

33	1	Timothy	Miles	1,755,000
33	2	Brady	Hinnegan	4,350,000
33	3	Kent	Mosur	1,945,000
33	4	Sammy	Lafleur	1,785,000
33	5	Mingzhe	Zhang	2,259,000
33	6	Francois	Billard	2,847,000
33	7	Sylvain	Siebert	7,744,000
33	8	Daniel	MacDonald	1,000,000
33	9	Kristen	Bicknell	2,144,000

34	1	Nikolas	Vervaik	900,000
34	2	Taran Singh	Parmar	5,769,000
34	3	Stephan	Chartrand	1,574,000
34	4	Jacob	Bazeley	3,896,000
34	5	Daniel	Charette	1,745,000
34	6	Bahman	Radjabalipour	2,120,000
34	7	Xin	Qi	1,581,000
34	8	Sorel	Mizzi	1,750,000
34	9	Ming-Jinq	Wong	1,137,000

35	1	Alexander	Greenblatt	2,229,000
35	2	Craig	McCorkell	213,000
35	3	Trieu Dung	Hong	2,035,000
35	4	Alexandru	Baron	844,000
35	5	Guillaume	Nolet	2,045,000
35	6	Conrado	Corpus	3,196,000
35	7	Jason	Sagle	2,126,000
35	8	Drew	Doiron	3,443,000
35	9	Anthony	Meli	371,000

36	1	Peter Daniel	Weinand	908,000
36	2	Igor	Tregoubov	2,790,000
36	3	Maximilian	Droege	1,098,000
36	4	Aalok	Arora	1,203,000
36	5	Patrick	Fortin	476,000
36	6	Karim	Chatur	4,339,000
36	7	Dylan	Wilkerson	1,608,000
36	8	Ryan	Rivers	2,891,000
36	9	Eric	Afriat	3,770,000

37	1	Kyle	Hartree	4,980,000
37	2	Christopher	Ferguson	1,304,000
37	3	Harley	Stoffmaker	4,235,000
37	4	Dennis	Underwood	879,000
37	5	Yuzhou	Chu	1,450,000
37	6	Rayan	Chamas	3,680,000
37	7	Ryan	Morrell	2,891,000
37	8	Shaan	Siddiqui	2,691,000
37	9	Mathieu	Aymerich	845,000

38	1	Linda	Huard	5,526,000
38	2	Samuel	Michaud	538,000
38	3	Jase	Regina	2,777,000
38	4	Robin	Hegele	5,328,000
38	5	Derek	Gibb	406,000
38	6	Patrick	Blye	882,000
38	7	George	Tharrenos	2,300,000
38	8	Michael	Addamo	2,517,000
38	9	Andre	Lettau	1,081,000

39	1	Carlos	Rivas	2,159,000
39	3	Maxime	Fortin Demers	2,091,000
39	4	Jonathan	Roberge	684,000
39	5	Mark	Leslie	933,000
39	6	Wesley	Hickey	3,775,000
39	7	Michael	Wang	1,406,000
39	8	Frank	Szlepcsenyi	2,431,000
39	9	Eric	Semel	850,000

40	1	Julian	Milliard-Feral	7,252,000
40	3	Dilovan	Hussein	7,200,000
40	4	Jonathan	Roy	962,000
40	5	Charles-Eric	Benoit	814,000
40	6	David	Eldridge	5,800,000
40	7	Keven	Stammen	546,000
40	8	Ami	Alibay	1,250,000
40	9	Chad	Eveslage	1,324,000

41	1	Jonathan	Vanfleet	502,000
41	3	Christian	Paradis	1,673,000
41	4	Carlos	Mortensen	2,061,000
41	5	Christine	Bryant	508,000
41	6	Justin	Rabba	1,468,000
41	7	Wilson	Igwe	3,942,000
41	8	Yan	Poudrier	2,149,000
41	9	Michael	Hahn	3,144,000

42	1	Russell	Thomas	585,000
42	3	Francis	Lavallee	3,568,000
42	4	Dzmitry	Urbanovich	592,000
42	5	Charles	St-Laurent	1,330,000
42	6	Presten	Cloutier	3,073,000
42	7	Joe Joseph	Godbout	2,682,000
42	8	Richard	Belcastro	1,691,000
42	9	Mark	Klecan	2,652,000

43	1	Jonathan	Kyriakides	3,200,000
43	3	Simon	Charette	1,000,000
43	4	Marco	Lang	736,000
43	5	Charles	La Boissonniere	4,048,000
43	6	Kevin	Schulz	4,635,000
43	7	Andrew	Touchette	2,218,000
43	8	Sylvain	Lepage	1,274,000
43	9	Alex	Arsenault	745,000

44	1	Vincent	Jacques	3,283,000
44	3	Jonathan	Turner	3,264,000
44	4	Philippe	D'Auteuil	5,698,000
44	5	Mukul	Pahuja	3,222,000
44	6	Quyen	Dao	2,309,000
44	7	Antonio	Maiolo	1,000,000
44	8	Kevin	Lungul	1,462,000
44	9	Philippe	Belley	729,000

49	1	Sanjay	Sivasundaram	1,065,000
49	3	Adam	Peltier	1,170,000
49	4	Andrew	Frankenberger	1,781,000
49	5	Kathy	Sawers	476,000
49	6	Michael	Del Vecchio III	3,178,000
49	7	Alexandre	Lavigne	1,987,000
49	8	Ryan	Hall	5,656,000
49	9	Steven	Clark	1,407,000

50	1	Frederick	Mowatt	2,300,000
50	3	Alain	Chenel	1,591,000
50	4	Forouzan	Sotoudeh	4,456,000
50	5	Peter Christopher	Jetten	4,202,000
50	6	Marcello	Simonetti	1,200,000
50	7	Samuel	Barre	2,447,000
50	8	Denis	Ward	1,125,000
50	9	Seth David	Davies	1,616,000

51	1	Jonathan	Bussieres	1,920,000
51	3	Shane	Brotherwood	3,632,000
51	4	Ema	Zajmovic	3,738,000
51	5	Gaetano	Di Maria	1,000,000
51	6	Roberto	Romanello	1,400,000
51	7	Yves	Loiselle	890,000
51	8	Ryan	Comely	998,000
51	9	David	Cowling	1,360,000

52	1	Patrick	M	2,393,000
52	3	Nicole	Cervenka	761,000
52	4	Patrick	Braga	671,000
52	5	Jean-Philippe	Piquette	1,084,000
52	6	Rodger	Johnson	1,386,000
52	7	Shankar	Pillai	1,135,000
52	8	Curt	Kohlberg	2,993,000
52	9	Timothy	Deering	6,357,000

53	1	Michael	Petretta	1,552,000
53	3	Leor	Wasserman	810,000
53	4	Mark	Dube	2,019,000
53	5	Cedrik	Angrove-Bernier	1,295,000
53	6	Alexandre	Henry	512,000
53	7	Grant	Ellis	1,390,000
53	8	Song	Han	4,137,000
53	9	Matthew	Wilkins	1,607,000

54	1	Bradley	Smith	656,000
54	3	Ryan	Riess	3,243,000
54	4	Lance	Steinberg	1,565,000
54	5	Rody	Khnaifes	2,185,000
54	6	Spiro	Mikrogianakis	4,100,000
54	7	Martin	Finger	2,974,000
54	8	Samuel M	Panzica	1,043,000
54	9	Kevin	Rivest	3,600,000

55	1	Noeung	Troeung	2,406,000
55	3	Jason	Duval	474,000
55	4	Jonathan	Dauphinais	1,997,000
55	5	Troy	Reardon	710,000
55	6	Alexender	Wong	1,000,000
55	7	Richard	Kirsch	3,000,000
55	8	Sam	Trickett	3,270,000
55	9	John	Zioulas	1,200,000

56	1	Joel	Moreau	1,807,000
56	3	Hendrik Jerome Mikola	Latz	2,185,000
56	4	Irtiza	Malik	2,288,000
56	5	Tam	Ho	931,000
56	6	Mike	Mirfaizy	680,000
56	7	Bill	Kontaratos	4,285,000
56	8	Brian	Altman	2,705,000
56	9	Upeshka Manishan	De Silva	1,854,000

57	1	Ronald	Eaton	2,254,000
57	3	Lawrence	Whyte	3,033,000
57	4	Matthews	Dietrich	1,997,000
57	5	Daniel	Suied	2,300,000
57	6	Jonathan	Kalmar	1,057,000
57	7	Theodore	Doukas	550,000
57	8	Benny	Chen	5,482,000
57	9	Andrew	Macdonald	4,775,000

58	1	Nipun	Java	7,387,000
58	3	Yantian	Huang	1,703,000
58	4	Azim	Popatia	1,414,000
58	5	Will	Failla	3,765,000
58	6	Jean-Pascal	Savard	2,468,000
58	7	Senthuran	Vijayaratnam	3,870,000
58	8	Jean-Sebastien	Dubois	1,507,000
58	9	Michael	McDonald	4,069,000

59	1	William	Foxen	4,007,000
59	3	Kevin	MacDonald	1,363,000
59	4	Nicky	Evans	1,000,000
59	5	Jonathan	Jaffe	613,000
59	6	Andrew	Decristoforo	3,380,000
59	7	Shyam Chandar	Srinivasan	1,090,000
59	8	Chance	Kornuth	5,786,000
59	9	Marc	Fortin	1,779,000

60	1	Danny	Boyaci	995,000
60	3	Thomas	Lefort	2,955,000
60	4	Michelle	Reyes	1,131,000
60	5	Johanssy	Joseph	2,628,000
60	6	Yan	Neiman	389,000
60	7	Gabriel	Houle-Morin	679,000
60	8	Eric	Boissonneault	3,639,000
60	9	Samuel	Bantock	1,880,000

61	1	Moritz	Dietrich	2,816,000
61	3	David	Cloutier	1,334,000
61	4	David	Arnold	719,000
61	5	Daniel	Watton	2,422,000
61	6	Terrence Ka-Man	Chan	3,863,000
61	7	Vlad	Mezheritsky	1,955,000
61	8	Mac	Donnell	914,000
61	9	Tomislav	Pavkovic	659,000

62	1	Eli	Israel	4,570,000
62	3	Mike	Vesia	8,200,000
62	4	Lukas	Soucek	820,000
62	5	Kane	Kalas	3,761,000
62	6	Matthew	Affleck	2,093,000
62	7	Wing	Seto	788,000
62	8	Jiachen	Gong	2,231,000
62	9	Eric	Levesque	1,890,000

63	1	Nektarios	Papadedes	1,459,000
63	3	George	Caragiorgas	2,406,000
63	4	Jesse	Rockowitz	1,273,000
63	5	Nicholas	St-Laurent	1,387,000
63	6	Karam	Saleh	1,235,000
63	7	Ryan Nelson	Franklin	2,266,000
63	8	Anthony	Dalpra	2,250,000
63	9	Andrew	Boujaoude	3,257,000

64	1	Etienne	Dodier	2,378,000
64	3	Shane	Currey	1,322,000
64	4	Ivan	Mamuzic	4,378,000
64	5	Rajeev	Dhiri	1,580,000
64	6	Vanessa	Costa	2,359,000
64	7	Kenneth	Mcfarlane	1,711,000
64	8	Rodney	Ramalho	8,100,000
64	9	Benoit	Jean	3,201,000

65	1	Daniel	Leduc	691,000
65	3	Kauvsegan	Ehamparam	1,203,000
65	4	Michael G	Smith	4,237,000
65	5	Mario	Lepine	882,000
65	6	Patrick	Stacey	2,548,000
65	7	Letterio	Oliva	2,007,000
65	8	Alexis	Urli	4,206,000
65	9	Joel	Thibeault	510,000

66	1	Mike	Leah	3,631,000
66	3	Karl David	Thorson	1,798,000
66	4	Dov	Markowich	3,924,000
66	5	Christopher	Annouza	2,638,000
66	6	Rami	Hammound	3,357,000
66	7	Ryan Tack	Yu	1,000,000
66	8	Stuart	Fox	641,000
66	9	Wesley	Wong	2,610,000

67	1	Maxime	Flibotte-Blanchard	4,595,000
67	3	Jonathan	Duhamel	1,000,000
67	4	Jake	Schwartz	646,000
67	5	Emanuele	Carpignano	6,650,000
67	6	Jaroslaw Zbigniew	Jaskiewicz	1,008,000
67	7	Nerissa	Librea	558,000
67	8	Medhat	Ramzy	1,732,000
67	9	Maduka	Meragal	2,625,000

68	1	Ko	Maddock	1,490,000
68	3	Yasir	Naiem Abdel Gadir	1,276,000
68	4	Duff	Charette	2,247,000
68	5	Sean	Perry	5,518,000
68	6	Kelly	Kellner	7,519,000
68	7	Laura	Farrell	780,000
68	8	Lawrence	Leblanc	1,710,000
68	9	Louis	Crete	1,838,000

69	1	Nicolas	Le Floch	4,128,000
69	3	Anh Van	Nguyen	1,826,000
69	4	Griffin	Benger	3,116,000
69	5	Thomas	Cemm	2,714,000
69	6	Alexandre	Blanc	2,171,000
69	7	Michael	Rocco	5,047,000
69	8	Qiang	Dong	1,000,000
69	9	Denis	Cyr	3,675,000

70	1	Daniel Noel	Noseworthy	5,336,000
70	3	Michael	Tieu	1,266,000
70	4	Todd	Sisley	666,000
70	5	Edward	Hislop	4,525,000
70	6	Jan-Eric	Schwippert	1,017,000
70	7	Philippe	Lauzon	1,500,000
70	8	Jean-Philippe	Goulet	482,000
70	9	Karim	Abdelhamid	2,817,000