Big poker tournament has just ended near Montreal

There is no need to travel to Las Vegas, Macau or to visit any other famous gambling centre to get the feeling of true poker emotions. The best and most prestigious live tournaments will do that for you, and those are happening all over the world. Canada is no different here. One has just been concluded around Montreal, called LIVE MILLIONS North America, and it did not fail to deliver.

As far as looking for poker action goes, residents of Québec, or virtually any other part of the globe, are nowadays equipped with a bundle of online options that serve that purpose very well. For every true admirer of poker art however, nothing beats the live experience. And speaking of those, highly competitive and packed with skillful opposition big live games are the ultimate goal in terms of climbing up the career rungs of the proverbial ladder. It’s hard to imagine a better opportunity than LIVE MILLIONS North America. Initiated by Partypoker, the tournament was held at Playground Poker Club situated in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, just across the St. Lawrence River from Montreal.

The whole series started back in April 17^th with a little taste of the action at Deerfoot Casino in Calgary, Alberta. The playing at Playground Club began on April 21st with MILLIONS Open Day 1A, although a few satellites took place before that. Plus, No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha cash games with various stakes levels were also run daily throughout the festival. It amounted to the total number of six events with the guaranteed prize pool of CAD $15 million. The last of those finished on Wednesday May 2^nd, including the eagerly anticipated MILLIONS Main Event.

The guaranteed prize pool for this one has been set at CAD $10 million, and the buy-in was CAD $5,300, although there were plenty of satellite steps with smaller entry fees, even as little as 50 cents. Over the period of six long days players were competing against each other for the big payday.

The final glory has been claimed by American player from Santa Cruz, California. Taylor Black doubled his previous overall live earnings by taking home for the first place a handsome sum of CAD $1,400,000, which is over a million US dollars. To achieve that, he had to defeat a well-known professional, Darryll Fish, who certainly gave him a good run for his money. Their heads-up clash lasted over two hours and wasn’t lacking emotions. Chips were changing hands from time to time, but in the end, Black’s pocket aces turned out to be more than enough to claim victory over Fish.

He did however, take away equally significant amount of CAD $1,200,000. Third place occupied Anthony Ruberto who earned a round million. That fact made the tournament podium consist entirely of American players. After Markus Prinz from Germany secured the spot number 4, the rest of paid positions at the final table fell on the Canadian nationals, respectively: Charles La Boissonniere, Demosthenes Kiriopoulos, George Lagos and Tommy Nguyen.