It was a case of red and black as the partypoker MILLIONS North America missed its guarantee but saw a man called Black taking down the CAD 1,400,000 first prize, and Alfred Holzer wins the Grand Prix Germany.

Taylor Black is the latest winner of a partypoker MILLIONS title. The Santa Cruz native travelled to Montreal to compete in the partypoker MILLIONS North America festival and took home the most significant score of his career.

David Eldridge, Karim Kamal, and Christopher Kruk had all finished top of the pile in the CAD 10,000 High Roller, CAD 1,000 Open and CAD 25,000 Super High Roller before 1,954 entrants punched a clock for the CAD 5,300 buy-in Main Event. The typically bullish partypoker LIVE team promised to pay CAD 10,000,000 to the players, and a few piggy banks will end up in the bin to find the CAD 300,000 overlay.

The man, Black, won’t care that partypoker ended up in the red. Speaking to the local press after his life-changing win, Black said he was ‘shell-shocked’ by the magnitude of his accomplishment. Not for the first time, Black’s bank manager will be making a personal call. Last year, he finished runner-up to Thomas Pomponio in the 18,054 entrants Colossus III at the World Series of Poker, earning $545,430.