Sylvain Siebert Leads at the End of Day 1a in the partypoker MILLION North America Main Event!

Adam Lamers

Level 10 : 20,000/40,000, 4,000 ante

Sylvain Siebert was the official chip leader to end the partypoker MILLION North America Main Event Live Day 1a. He started the day with just over 3,000,000 chips and finished strong, bagging 7,744,000. Second in chips is Nipun Java (7,387,000), followed by Julian Milliard-Feral (7,252,000), Dilovan Hussein (7,200,000), and Vojtech Ruzicka (7,124,000) to round out the top five stacks. There were 137 players who made it through to Day 2, and there is no shortage of notable players on that list!

The day began with just over 200 entries and jumped up to 372 at the close of registration after the dinner break following the first six levels of play. Many players came and went throughout the day, and some of the ones who didn't make it through included Mike Sexton, Jesse Sylvia, Eric Afriat, and Mark Dube. Players have the option to re-enter once per starting flight, so it is possible these same players, and many more, will be back to try again tomorrow.

This event boasts a CA$5,000,000 guarantee, with at least CA$1,000,000 awarded to the winner. In order to meet the guarantee, a total of 1,000 entries will be needed. Since the online Day 1's brought in 46 entries, and the first live Day 1 brought in 372, a combined total of 582 entries will be needed on Day 1b tomorrow and within the first two levels of Day 2 on Sunday before registration completely closes. With the many satellites running, as well as the fact that the Playground Poker Club has been full to the brim, the guarantee shouldn't be much of an issue to surpass.

Other notable players to find the bottom of a bag included Chance Kornuth (5,786,000), Benny Chen (5,482,000), Bob Taylor (5,186,000), Maria Ho (4,500,000), Ema Zajmovic (3,738,000), Ari Engel (3,239,000), Griffin Benger (3,116,000), Tony Dunst (3,058,000), Kristen Bicknell (2,144,000), and Carlos Mortensen (2,061,000).

Live Day 1b starts up at noon tomorrow, with late registration closing at the end of the dinner break after level 6. Registration will re-open on Day 2 and will close at the end of the second level of the day once blinds are rolled back to level 7.

Stick with PokerNews as we bring you updates throughout the rest of this event!

Here is a look at the chip stacks of the remaining 137 players who bagged up and are returning for Day 2 on Sunday at noon:

First Name	Last Name	Chip Count
Sylvain	Siebert	7,744,000
Nipun	Java	7,387,000
Julian	Milliard-Feral	7,252,000
Dilovan	Hussein	7,200,000
Vojtech	Ruzicka	7,124,000
Aaron	Mermelstein	6,008,000
Alexander William	Keating	5,981,000
Srinivas	Gottiparthi	5,929,000
Chance	Kornuth	5,786,000
Andrew	Walter	5,730,000
Philippe	D'Auteuil	5,698,000
Ryan	Hall	5,656,000
Sean	Perry	5,518,000
Benny	Chen	5,482,000
Martin	Raus	5,393,000
Robin	Hegele	5,328,000
Bob	T	5,186,000
Demosthenes	Kiriopoulos	5,000,000
Kyle	Hartree	4,980,000
Patrick	Eskandar	4,944,000
Andrew	Macdonald	4,775,000
Kevin	Schulz	4,635,000
Edward	Hislop	4,525,000
Maria	Ho	4,500,000
Forouzan	Sotoudeh	4,456,000
Christian	Harder	4,431,000
Richard	Seymour	4,400,000
Peter Christopher	Jetten	4,202,000
Wilson	Igwe	3,942,000
Dov	Markowich	3,924,000
Jacob	Bazeley	3,896,000
Senthuran	Vijayaratnam	3,870,000
Terrence Ka-Man	Chan	3,863,000
Ema	Zajmovic	3,738,000
Francis	Lavallee	3,568,000
Drew	Doiron	3,443,000
Andrew	Yip	3,248,000
Ari	Engel	3,239,000
Mukul	Pahuja	3,222,000
Jonathan	Garneau	3,147,000
Griffin	Benger	3,116,000
Matthew	Salsberg	3,070,000
Tony	Dunst	3,058,000
Robert	Notkin	3,025,000
Thomas	Lefort	2,955,000
Francois	Billard	2,847,000
Steven	Joudry	2,840,000
Karim	Abdelhamid	2,817,000
Vishal Singh	Maini	2,800,000
Igor	Tregoubov	2,790,000
Jase	Regina	2,777,000
Harrison Ian	Gimbel	2,738,000
Steven	Warburton	2,700,000
Marc Etienne	Mclaughlin	2,694,000
Alessio	Isaia	2,671,000
Tony	Tran	2,664,000
Mark	Klecan	2,652,000
Maduka	Meragal	2,625,000
Wesley	Wong	2,610,000
Patrick	Stacey	2,548,000
Jean-Pascal	Savard	2,468,000
Daniel	Watton	2,422,000
Vanessa	Costa	2,359,000
Daniel	Suied	2,300,000
Ronald	Eaton	2,254,000
Buck	Ramsay	2,252,000
Anthony	Dalpra	2,250,000
Duff	Charette	2,247,000
Dejuante	Alexander	2,231,000
Darryll Scott	Fish	2,227,000
Armand	King	2,200,000
Hendrik Jerome Mikola	Latz	2,185,000
Kristen	Bicknell	2,144,000
Jason	Sagle	2,126,000
Matthew	Affleck	2,093,000
Carlos	Mortensen	2,061,000
Guillaume	Nolet	2,045,000
Carter	Swidler	2,027,000
Preston	Cloutier	2,000,000
Jean-Louis	Cyr	1,985,000
Kent	Mosur	1,945,000
Charles	Macdonald	1,897,000
Tobias	Mathag	1,891,000
Eric	Levesque	1,890,000
Upeshka Manishan	De Silva	1,854,000
Joshua	Kay	1,830,000
Anh Van	Nguyen	1,826,000
Matthew	Waxman	1,785,000
Marc	Fortin	1,779,000
Timothy	Miles	1,755,000
Jacob	Snider	1,653,000
Justin	Dean	1,635,000
Rajeev	Dhiri	1,580,000
Michael	Noor	1,513,000
Yuzhou	Chu	1,450,000
Rodger	Johnson	1,386,000
Chad	Eveslage	1,324,000
Sylvain	Lepage	1,274,000
Jesse	Rockowitz	1,273,000
Paul	Trebuss	1,235,000
Aalok	Arora	1,203,000
John	Zioulas	1,200,000
Adam	Peltier	1,170,000
Ming-Jinq	Wong	1,137,000
Jonathan	Poissant	1,100,000
Joshua	Trott	1,020,000
Tam	Ho	931,000
Mac	Donnell	914,000
Peter Daniel	Weinand	908,000
Yves	Loiselle	890,000
David	Valcourt-Dube	866,000
Eric	Semel	850,000
Alexandru	Baron	844,000
Terry	Lee	784,000
Jocelyn	Poirier	758,000
Joey	Weissman	742,000
Marco	Lang	736,000
Philippe	Belley	729,000
Kevin	Andriamahefa	728,000
Daniel	Leduc	691,000
Jonathan	Roberge	684,000
Todd	Sisley	666,000
Jake	Schwartz	646,000
Toby	Lewis	645,000
Stuart	Fox	641,000
Jonathan	Jaffe	613,000
Tyler Clayton	Patterson	600,000
Russell	Thomas	585,000
Nerissa	Librea	558,000
Theodore	Doukas	550,000
Joel	Thibeault	510,000
Ilan Charlot	Boujenah	500,000
Kathy	Sawers	476,000
Jason	Duval	474,000
Derek	Gibb	406,000
Frank	Patterson	351,000
Craig	McCorkell	213,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Sylvain Siebert	7,700,000 2,400,000	2,400,000
Dilovan Hussein	7,200,000 500,000	500,000
Julian Milliard-Feral	7,200,000 2,400,000	2,400,000
Vojtech Ruzicka	7,100,000 5,900,000	5,900,000
Andrew St. Jean	5,700,000 5,700,000	5,700,000
Chance Kornuth	5,700,000 4,100,000	4,100,000

Alexander Keating	5,500,000 -600,000	-600,000
Robin Hegele	5,300,000 100,000	100,000
Bob Taylor (Bob T)	5,000,000 4,050,000	4,050,000
Patrick Eskandar	4,900,000 500,000	500,000
Kyle Hartree	4,500,000 -1,100,000	-1,100,000
Christian Harder	4,400,000 -600,000	-600,000
Jacob Bazeley	3,900,000 3,900,000	3,900,000
Terrence Chan	3,800,000 2,600,000	2,600,000

Griffin Benger	3,100,000 300,000	300,000