Jean-Pascal Savard Wins partypoker MILLIONS North America Main Event For CA$956,050

Jean-Pascal Savard
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  • PG News May 12, 2017
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Canada-based Jean-Pascal Savard (cover image) took down the partypoker MILLIONS North America Main Event on his home turf outlasting the tough 1,168-entry field for his career’s largest cash of CA$956,050 and the partypoker trophy.

The event got underway through several stages i.e. Phase 1 and Day 1 were held both online and live respectively with the latter being hosted at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada. For the next stage of the event i.e. Day 2 onwards, players were summoned to the venue to play down to a winner.

Some notable players who couldn’t survive till the final day but made it in the money include Scott Montgomery (13th place – CA$45,000), Michael Addamo (24th place – $35,000), Sam Greenwood (27th place – CA$32,500), Joseph Sicko (30th place – CA$32,500), Carlos Mortensen (38th place – CA$30,000), Benny Chen (43rd place – CA$27,500), Anthony Zinno (54th place – CA$25,000), Jason Koon (56th place – CA$25,000), Cate Hall (63rd place – CA$22,500), Xuan Liu (71st place – CA$20,000), Upeshka De Silva (81st place – CA$15,000), Darren Elias (101st place – CA$12,500), Mike McDonald (109th place – CA$10,000), and Ryan Riess (119th place – CA$10,000).

 

Final Table Recap

The event’s final table was played on Day 5 where eight finalists (six Canadians) battled for the title with Ari Engel leading the pack at the beginning of play.

It took over ten hours of grueling action till the play finally got down to the heads-up battle.

The first elimination of the night was Canadian Rayan Chamas followed by Matthew Waxman in seventh place. Niall Farrell, who eliminated Waxman couldn’t sustain much longer and was the next to fall in sixth place.

Ari Engel failed to continue his good run too and hit the rails in fifth place.

The final four players, all from Quebec, kept their friendship aside with the title in sight. Short stacked Louis Boutin managed to crack Waxman’s queens once to slightly improve his stack but couldn’t manage further and was eliminated in fourth place followed by Philippe D’Auteuil who took third place.

The heads-up match was then set between two close friends with Savard leading with a 2-to-1 chip advantage over Jonathan Bussieres. Soon a deal was agreed upon even before heads-up play could begin.

The players agreed to decrease blinds to just 20 minutes and to skip a level. After just 30 minutes of heads-up battle, Bussieres shoved queen-jack suited into Savard’s ace-jack and couldn’t improve on the board.

This was Savard’s first title that also fetched him his career-best finish and the local got great crowd support throughout the final table with his rail chanting “Jean, Jean, Jean!” with every pot he took down.

Jean-Pascal Savard
Jean-Pascal Savard

Final Table Results (CAD)

1. Jean-Pascal Savard – CA$956,050*

2. Jonathan Bussieres – CA$693,950*

3. Philippe D’Auteuil – CA$450,000

4. Louis Boutin – CA$335,000

5. Ari Engel – CA$238,500

6. Naill Farrell – CA$160,000

7. Matthew Waxman – CA$110,000

8. Rayan Chamas – CA$80,000

*denotes heads-up deal

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