Upeshka De Silva Bags Big at the End of Day 2 of the partypoker MILLION North America Main Event!

ElleSriracha

Level 18 : 50,000/100,000, 10,000 ante

Just like that, Day 2 of the partypoker MILLION North America Main Event has come to an end, with 173 players finding the bottom of a bag to move on to Day 3 tomorrow at noon local time. The official chip leader going into Day 2 is James Romero, sitting on 19,655,000 chips. Close behind him is WSOP bracelet winner Upeshka De Silva (18,525,000), with Karim Abdelhamid (17,970,000) rounding out the top three.

The day began with 422 players set to start, but that number quickly grew due to the fact that registration re-opened for two more 75-minute levels. There were 42 direct Day 2 entries to begin with, but this number quickly grew to a total of 128, with an additional 33 re-entries before registration closed for good.

A total of 1,168 entries made up a prizepool of CA$5,709,750, surpassing the CA$5,000,000 guarantee by a good margin. As it turns out, this event broke the record for biggest prizepool in Canada, beating out the CA$10,000 WPT Fallsview event back in 2007, which gathered a prizepool of just over $5.1 million.

First place for this event is locked in at an even CA$1,000,000, with a min-cash of CA$10,000. A detailed breakdown of the prizepool can be found under the Payouts tab above. Here is a look at the final table payouts:

Place	Prize (CAD)
1	$1,000,000
2	$650,000
3	$450,000
4	$333,500
5	$235,000
6	$160,000
7	$110,000
8	$80,000
9	$60,000

A number of notable players have moved on to Day 3, including partypoker pros Sam Trickett (12,200,000), and Tony Dunst (1,195,000). World Poker Tour Champion, and first woman to win an open WPT event, Ema Zajmovic, bagged a hefty stack of 15,735,000, good for fifth in chips, looking to secure another title right here on her home turf.

Joseph Sicko won his seat through a Twitter contest via partypoker and bagged a healthy 14,745,000 chips. Other players who are in contention include Michael Addamo (11,375,000), Darren Elias (10,305,000), Christian Harder (10,185,000), Jason Koon (10,120,000), High Roller Champion Mike McDonald (4,910,000), Cate Hall (4,870,000), and Ryan Riess (740,000).

In addition to familiar players moving on, there was a ton of talent that made it through today but didn't manage to bag a stack, including Mike Sexton, Kristen Bicknell, Maria Ho, Kitty Kuo, Mike Leah, and Jonathan Duhamel.

With the money bubble looming, look for players to either be making big moves or staying super snug. Here is a look at the table draw for Day 3:

Table	Seat	First Name	Last Name	Chip Count
49	1	Tobias	Mathag	4,165,000
49	2	Asher	Conniff	3,755,000
49	3	Senthuran	Vijayaratnam	2,060,000
49	4	Thomas	Penza	4,270,000
49	5	Jase	Regina	9,330,000
49	6	Nipun	Java	8,015,000
49	7	Frederick	Mowatt	2,500,000
49	8	Steven	Warburton	4,700,000

50	1	Richard	Belcastro	4,995,000
50	2	Shane	Brotherwood	7,965,000
50	3	Marko	X	1,980,000
50	4	Jean-Pascal	Savard	14,130,000
50	5	Vlad	Mezheritsky	5,575,000
50	6	Scott	Montgomery	7,095,000
50	7	Andrew	Walter	8,995,000
50	8	Sam	Trickett	12,200,000

51	1	Duff	Charette	15,060,000
51	2	Lawrence	Leblanc	2,315,000
51	3	Jordan	Saccucci	12,845,000
51	4	Xuan	Liu	7,570,000
51	5	Karl David	Thorson	3,835,000
51	6	Adrian Patrick	Buckley	1,805,000
51	7	Tony	Dunst	1,195,000
51	8	Ryan	Morrell	4,370,000

52	1	Patrick	Pezzin	6,000,000
52	2	Christine	Bryant	825,000
52	3	Moritz	Dietrich	8,060,000
52	4	David	Eldridge	15,100,000
52	5	Karim	Chatur	9,490,000
52	6	Ha Van	Nguyen	4,420,000
52	7	Viet Van	Vo	11,800,000
52	8	Kyle	Hartree	4,460,000

53	1	Kenneth	Mcfarlane	1,110,000
53	2	Kauvsegan	Ehamparam	5,090,000
53	3	Thomas	Cemm	5,645,000
53	4	Rodger	Johnson	2,340,000
53	5	Eric	Levesque	2,420,000
53	6	Francois	Billard	9,500,000
53	7	Ko	Maddock	8,855,000
53	8	Denis	Ward	3,055,000

54	1	Jean-Sebastien	Dubois	2,835,000
54	2	Alexander	Greenblatt	905,000
54	3	Alexander James	Allison	6,730,000
54	4	Gabriel	Houle-Morin	5,860,000
54	5	Demosthenes	Kiriopoulos	8,300,000
54	7	Austin	Peck	12,810,000
54	8	Daniel	Colman	3,685,000

55	1	Van Nghiem	Nguy	3,725,000
55	2	Daniel	Suied	6,000,000
55	3	Michael G	Smith	7,140,000
55	4	Andreas	Olympios	10,630,000
55	5	Andrew	Decristoforo	1,305,000
55	6	Thomas	Keeper	3,700,000
55	7	Dimitri	Morcos	6,700,000
55	8	Norson	Saho	3,660,000

56	1	Jie	Gao	1,605,000
56	2	Kevin	Rivest	8,265,000
56	3	Julian	Milliard-Feral	4,270,000
56	4	Drew	Doiron	6,590,000
56	5	Sasan	Mehrabian	9,400,000
56	6	Rayan	Chamas	17,270,000
56	7	Lawrence	Whyte	1,825,000
56	8	Sean	Perry	7,400,000

57	1	Samuel	Greenwood	8,970,000
57	3	Aaron	Mermelstein	4,330,000
57	4	Christopher	Annouza	4,515,000
57	5	Yan	Poudrier	8,885,000
57	6	Hendrik Jerome Mikola	Latz	9,130,000
57	7	Jocelyn	Poirier	3,955,000
57	8	Benoit	Jean	4,295,000

58	1	Marc Andre	Ladouceur	7,835,000
58	2	Guillaume	Nolet	1,300,000
58	3	Karim	Abdelhamid	17,970,000
58	4	Darren	Elias	10,305,000
58	5	Sammy	Lafleur	5,395,000
58	6	Carlos	Mortensen	4,875,000
58	7	Presten	Cloutier	3,900,000
58	8	Philippe	D'Auteuil	4,195,000

59	1	Mingzhe	Zhang	8,465,000
59	2	Steven	Kerr	10,640,000
59	3	Marc	Guerbilsky	11,040,000
59	4	Nicolas	Le Floch	5,060,000
59	5	Christian	Harder	10,185,000
59	6	Kevin	MacDonald	13,015,000
59	7	Troy	Reardon	1,110,000
59	8	Qi	Hu	12,725,000

60	1	Robin	Hegele	9,515,000
60	2	Ryan	Riess	740,000
60	3	Ari	Engel	9,250,000
60	4	Griffin	Benger	7,540,000
60	5	Sylvain	Siebert	11,665,000
60	6	Terry	Lee	3,580,000
60	7	James	Romero	19,655,000
60	8	Jean-Louis	Cyr	2,955,000

61	1	Jonathan	Bussieres	12,035,000
61	2	Jacob	Bazeley	11,425,000
61	3	Stephan	Chartrand	9,500,000
61	4	Jimmy	Lee	11,850,000
61	5	Chun Ho	Law	9,735,000
61	6	Charles	Macdonald	5,070,000
61	7	Bob	T	4,485,000
61	8	Christopher	Dowling	9,425,000

62	1	Samuel	Chartier	6,515,000
62	2	Michael	McDonald	4,910,000
62	3	Wesley	Hickey	2,500,000
62	4	Jonathan	Kyriakides	910,000
62	5	John	Krpan	5,900,000
62	6	Jake	Schwartz	1,645,000
62	7	Yuzhou	Chu	4,800,000
62	8	Noeung	Troeung	1,700,000

63	1	Dylan	Wilkerson	5,042,000
63	2	Antonio	Maiolo	4,745,000
63	3	Michael	Noor	5,745,000
63	4	Maduka	Meragal	4,875,000
63	5	Charles	La Boissonniere	10,390,000
63	6	Alain	Chenel	3,600,000
63	7	Ryan	Rivers	3,965,000
63	8	Niall	Farrell	9,400,000

64	1	Joseph	Sicko	14,745,000
64	2	Armand	King	6,000,000
64	3	Quyen	Dao	3,165,000
64	4	Jean-Philippe	Piquette	13,285,000
64	5	Thomas	Taylor	7,360,000
64	6	Kevin	Schulz	7,850,000
64	7	Vojtech	Ruzicka	9,505,000
64	8	Carl	Diveglia	7,830,000

65	1	Buck	Ramsay	2,200,000
65	2	Carter	Swidler	1,260,000
65	3	Maxime	Flibotte-Blanchard	4,875,000
65	4	Timothy	Ulmer	6,400,000
65	5	David	Cloutier	1,685,000
65	6	Terrence Ka-Man	Chan	8,705,000
65	7	Anthony	Zinno	3,070,000
65	8	Thomas	Lefort	4,025,000

66	1	Jason	Comtois	5,940,000
66	2	Patrick	Blye	1,775,000
66	3	Michel-Claude	Baroud	11,695,000
66	4	John Paul	Tabago	1,445,000
66	5	Yuan	Jiang	1,730,000
66	6	Upeshka Manishan	De Silva	18,525,000
66	7	Santiago	Plante	12,845,000
66	8	Jason	Sagle	4,545,000

67	1	Kane	Kalas	7,325,000
67	2	Alexandre	Fournier	3,875,000
67	3	Anthony	Meli	2,225,000
67	5	Masoud	Tavangari	3,625,000
67	6	Jason	Koon	10,120,000
67	7	Matthew	Waxman	6,265,000
67	8	Michael	Addamo	11,375,000

68	1	Caitlin	Hall	4,870,000
68	2	Rodney	Ramalho	4,900,000
68	3	Nicolas	Belcourt	4,670,000
68	4	Daniel Noel	Noseworthy	4,170,000
68	5	Louis	Boutin	7,100,000
68	6	Michael	Hahn	10,100,000
68	7	Timothy	West	5,675,000
68	8	Eric	Boissonneault	3,065,000

69	1	Victor	Adams	4,855,000
69	2	John	Xenos	3,055,000
69	3	Dhaval J	Joshi	15,475,000
69	4	Pawel	Pelc	2,565,000
69	5	Joshua	Wallace	2,140,000
69	6	Ema	Zajmovic	15,735,000
69	7	Chanracy	Khun	9,375,000
69	8	Andrew	Boujaoude	4,390,000

70	1	Benny	Chen	12,000,000
70	2	Joel	Moreau	3,610,000
70	3	Eric	Place	9,200,000
70	4	Jiachen	Gong	2,800,000
70	5	Ruben	Perceval	7,790,000
70	6	Richard	Kirsch	8,500,000
70	7	Graham	Ivany	5,700,000
70	8	Elliot	Smith	6,780,000

Keep following along as PokerNews brings you all of the action on the way to crowning a champion!

Player	Chips	Progress
James Romero	19,655,000 19,655,000	19,655,000

Upeshka De Silva	18,525,000 15,025,000	15,025,000

Karim Abdelhamid	17,970,000 14,170,000	14,170,000
Rayan Chamas	17,270,000 4,770,000	4,770,000
Ema Zajmovic	15,735,000 385,000	385,000

Dhaval J Joshi	15,475,000 15,475,000	15,475,000
David Eldridge	15,100,000 9,300,000	9,300,000

Duff Charette	15,060,000 15,060,000	15,060,000
Joseph Sicko	14,745,000 4,345,000	4,345,000
Jean-Pascal Savard	14,130,000 13,130,000	13,130,000
Jean-Philippe Piquette	13,285,000 13,285,000	13,285,000
Kevin MacDonald	13,015,000 13,015,000	13,015,000
Jordan Saccucci	12,845,000 12,845,000	12,845,000

Santiago Plante	12,845,000 3,345,000	3,345,000
Austin Peck	12,810,000 7,610,000	7,610,000
Qi Hu	12,725,000 5,825,000	5,825,000
Sam Trickett	12,200,000 2,950,000	2,950,000

Jonathan Bussieres	12,035,000 12,035,000	12,035,000
Benny Chen	12,000,000 7,200,000	7,200,000

Jimmy Lee	11,850,000 -1,150,000	-1,150,000
Viet Van Vo	11,800,000 -2,200,000	-2,200,000
Michel-Claude Baroud	11,695,000 -3,705,000	-3,705,000
Sylvain Siebert	11,665,000 6,665,000	6,665,000
Jacob Bazeley	11,425,000 7,525,000	7,525,000
Michael Addamo	11,375,000 5,975,000	5,975,000

Marc Guerbilsky	11,040,000 2,740,000	2,740,000
Steven Kerr	10,640,000 10,640,000	10,640,000
Andreas Olympios	10,630,000 6,830,000	6,830,000
Charles La Boissonnière	10,390,000 10,390,000	10,390,000
Darren Elias	10,305,000 4,505,000	4,505,000

Christian Harder	10,185,000 -2,215,000	-2,215,000
Jason Koon	10,120,000 -4,680,000	-4,680,000

Michael Hahn	10,100,000 10,100,000	10,100,000
Chun Ho Law	9,735,000 9,735,000	9,735,000
Robin Hegele	9,515,000 4,215,000	4,215,000
Vojtech Ruzicka	9,505,000 1,005,000	1,005,000
Stephan Chartrand	9,500,000 9,500,000	9,500,000
Francois Billard	9,500,000 5,400,000	5,400,000
Karim Chatur	9,490,000 5,790,000	5,790,000
Christopher Dowling	9,425,000 9,425,000	9,425,000
Sasan Mehrabian	9,400,000 9,400,000	9,400,000
Niall Farrell	9,400,000 3,400,000	3,400,000

Chanracy Khun	9,375,000 9,375,000	9,375,000

Jase Regina	9,330,000 7,730,000	7,730,000
Ari Engel	9,250,000 1,450,000	1,450,000

Eric Place	9,200,000 9,200,000	9,200,000
Hendrik Jerome Mikola Latz	9,130,000 9,130,000	9,130,000
Andrew Walter	8,995,000 2,995,000	2,995,000
Sam Greenwood	8,970,000 7,450,000	7,450,000

Yan Poudrier	8,885,000 8,885,000	8,885,000
Ko Maddock	8,855,000 8,855,000	8,855,000
Terrence Ka-Man Chan (Terrence Chan)	8,705,000 8,705,000	8,705,000
Richard Kirsch	8,500,000 8,500,000	8,500,000
Mingzhe Zhang	8,465,000 8,465,000	8,465,000
Demosthenes Kiriopoulos	8,300,000 -1,900,000	-1,900,000
Kevin Rivest	8,265,000 8,265,000	8,265,000
Moritz Dietrich	8,060,000 8,060,000	8,060,000

Nipun Java	8,015,000 515,000	515,000

Shane Brotherwood	7,965,000 5,365,000	5,365,000
Kevin Schulz	7,850,000 6,750,000	6,750,000

Marc-Andre Ladouceur	7,835,000 -1,015,000	-1,015,000
Carl Diveglia	7,830,000 7,830,000	7,830,000
Ruben Perceval	7,790,000 -1,110,000	-1,110,000
Xuan Liu	7,570,000 4,970,000	4,970,000
Sean Perry	7,400,000 -2,900,000	-2,900,000
Thomas Taylor	7,360,000 1,360,000	1,360,000
Kane Kalas	7,325,000 4,325,000	4,325,000
Michael Smith	7,140,000 -1,360,000	-1,360,000
Louis Boutin	7,100,000 7,100,000	7,100,000
Scott Montgomery	7,095,000 7,095,000	7,095,000

Elliot Smith	6,780,000 6,780,000	6,780,000
Alexander James Allison	6,730,000 6,730,000	6,730,000
Dimitri Morcos	6,700,000 3,300,000	3,300,000
Drew Doiron	6,590,000 5,070,000	5,070,000
Samuel Chartier	6,515,000 6,515,000	6,515,000
Timothy Ulmer	6,400,000 6,400,000	6,400,000
Matthew Waxman	6,265,000 6,265,000	6,265,000
Armand King	6,000,000 1,900,000	1,900,000
Daniel Suied	6,000,000 6,000,000	6,000,000
Patrick Pezzin	6,000,000 6,000,000	6,000,000
Jason Comtois	5,940,000 5,940,000	5,940,000
John Krpan	5,900,000 5,160,000	5,160,000
Gabriel Houle-Morin	5,860,000 5,860,000	5,860,000
Michael Noor	5,745,000 5,745,000	5,745,000
Graham Ivany	5,700,000 5,700,000	5,700,000
Timothy West	5,675,000 5,675,000	5,675,000
Thomas Cemm	5,645,000 5,645,000	5,645,000
Vlad Mezheritsky	5,575,000 5,575,000	5,575,000
Sammy Lafleur	5,395,000 5,395,000	5,395,000
Kauvsegan Ehamparam	5,090,000 5,090,000	5,090,000
Charles Macdonald	5,070,000 5,070,000	5,070,000
Nicolas Le Floch	5,060,000 5,060,000	5,060,000
Dylan Wilkerson	5,042,000 742,000	742,000

Richard Belcastro	4,995,000 4,995,000	4,995,000
Mike McDonald	4,910,000 -1,490,000	-1,490,000

Rodney Ramalho	4,900,000 -1,300,000	-1,300,000
Maduka Meragal	4,875,000 4,875,000	4,875,000
Maxime Flibotte-Blanchard	4,875,000 4,875,000	4,875,000
Carlos Mortensen	4,875,000 1,875,000	1,875,000

Cate Hall	4,870,000 -530,000	-530,000
Victor Adams	4,855,000 -890,000	-890,000
Yuzhou Chu	4,800,000 4,800,000	4,800,000
Antonio Maiolo	4,745,000 4,745,000	4,745,000
Steven Warburton	4,700,000 4,700,000	4,700,000
Nicolas Belcourt	4,670,000 4,670,000	4,670,000
Jason Sagle	4,545,000 4,545,000	4,545,000
Christopher Annouza	4,515,000 -2,985,000	-2,985,000
Bob Taylor	4,485,000 -1,015,000	-1,015,000
Kyle Hartree	4,460,000 -640,000	-640,000
Ha Van Nguyen	4,420,000 4,420,000	4,420,000
Andrew Boujaoude	4,390,000 4,390,000	4,390,000
Ryan Morrell	4,370,000 4,370,000	4,370,000
Aaron Mermelstein	4,330,000 -1,678,000	-1,678,000

Benoit Jean	4,295,000 4,295,000	4,295,000
Thomas Penza	4,270,000 -1,230,000	-1,230,000
Julian Milliard-Feral	4,270,000 -1,530,000	-1,530,000
Philippe D'Auteuil	4,195,000 395,000	395,000
Daniel Noel Noseworthy	4,170,000 4,170,000	4,170,000
Tobias Mathag	4,165,000 4,165,000	4,165,000
Thomas Lefort	4,025,000 4,025,000	4,025,000
Ryan Rivers	3,965,000 -135,000	-135,000
Jocelyn Poirier	3,955,000 3,955,000	3,955,000
Presten Cloutier	3,900,000 3,900,000	3,900,000
Alexandre Fournier	3,875,000 3,875,000	3,875,000
Karl David Thorson	3,835,000 3,835,000	3,835,000
Asher Conniff	3,755,000 -845,000	-845,000

Van Nghiem Nguy	3,725,000 3,725,000	3,725,000
Thomas Keeper	3,700,000 3,700,000	3,700,000
Dan Colman	3,685,000 2,685,000	2,685,000
Norson Saho	3,660,000 -3,440,000	-3,440,000
Masoud Tavangari	3,625,000 3,625,000	3,625,000
Joel Moreau	3,610,000 3,610,000	3,610,000
Alain Chenel	3,600,000 3,600,000	3,600,000
Terry Lee	3,580,000 3,580,000	3,580,000
Quyen Dao	3,165,000 1,791,000	1,791,000
Anthony Zinno	3,070,000 1,704,000	1,704,000

Eric Boissonneault	3,065,000 565,000	565,000
John Xenos	3,055,000 3,055,000	3,055,000
Denis Ward	3,055,000 3,055,000	3,055,000
Jean-Louis Cyr	2,955,000 2,955,000	2,955,000
Jean-Sebastien Dubois	2,835,000 2,835,000	2,835,000
Jiachen Gong	2,800,000 -1,000,000	-1,000,000
Pawel Pelc	2,565,000 2,565,000	2,565,000
Wesley Hickey	2,500,000 -3,200,000	-3,200,000
Frederick Mowatt	2,500,000 2,500,000	2,500,000
Eric Levesque	2,420,000 2,420,000	2,420,000
Rodger Johnson	2,340,000 2,340,000	2,340,000
Lawrence Leblanc	2,315,000 2,315,000	2,315,000
Anthony Meli	2,225,000 2,225,000	2,225,000
Buck Ramsay	2,200,000 -1,400,000	-1,400,000
Josh Wallace	2,140,000 -960,000	-960,000
Senthuran Vijayaratnam	2,060,000 -2,640,000	-2,640,000
Marko X	1,980,000 1,980,000	1,980,000
Lawrence Whyte	1,825,000 1,825,000	1,825,000
Adrian Patrick Buckley	1,805,000 1,805,000	1,805,000
Patrick Blye	1,775,000 1,775,000	1,775,000
Yuan Jiang	1,730,000 1,730,000	1,730,000
Noeung Troeung	1,700,000 1,700,000	1,700,000
David Cloutier	1,685,000 1,685,000	1,685,000
Jake Schwartz	1,645,000 999,000	999,000
Jie Gao	1,605,000 1,605,000	1,605,000
John Paul Tabago	1,445,000 1,445,000	1,445,000
Andrew Decristoforo	1,305,000 1,305,000	1,305,000
Guillaume Nolet	1,300,000 -2,550,000	-2,550,000
Carter Swidler	1,260,000 260,000	260,000
Tony Dunst	1,195,000 -5,005,000	-5,005,000

Troy Reardon	1,110,000 -290,000	-290,000
Jonathan Kyriakides	910,000 910,000	910,000
Alexander Greenblatt	905,000 -1,695,000	-1,695,000
Christine Bryant	825,000 825,000	825,000
Ryan Riess	740,000 -5,860,000	-5,860,000