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PPT staff have barely had time to break down the tables from PPT #4 at Pure Casino Yellowhead and it’s almost time for the penultimate series of the 2024 season. Series #5 is across town at Pure Casino Edmonton and is a shortened schedule from the full series with just one week of poker action and 11 events.
The first PPT branded action for Series #5 kicks off at 1 pm Sunday, Oct 13 with a 1 in 10 satellite game for $T equivalent to entry in all open events for the series. Buy-in for the game is $430 ($390 + $40) and players start with 25k in chips for 30-minute levels.
There is more satellite action on Oct 14 with main series action kicking off on Oct 15 with the Seniors First at noon, an open NLH game starting at 4 pm, and a satellite game at 7 pm. That kicks off seven days of PPT action that includes the ever-popular 6-Max and PLO Big Bounty games as well as the two-flight Main Event and the $2k “Series Saver” High Roller to finish it out.
Check out live updates and reporting from the Pure Poker Tour Series #5 by Lyle Bateman. Chose an event of your choice down below:
| Level: | 17 (4,000/8,000/8,000) |
| Entries: | 20/226 |
| Prizes: | $212,553 |
Shariq Khan was left on fumes just before the break after losing a big hand to Daniel Lefebvre’s aces and he came back to Level 17 with just 11k. That lasted all of one hand once he returned, so he was the 21st place finisher today.
| Level: | 17 (4,000/8,000/8,000) |
| Entries: | 21/226 |
| Prizes: | $212,553 |
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1 | Shariq Khan | 11,000 |
| 13 | 2 | Kevin Lee | 540,000 |
| 13 | 3 | Levi Stevens | 110,000 |
| 13 | 5 | Victor Xie | 452,000 |
| 13 | 6 | Johnny Dalphond | 462,000 |
| 13 | 7 | Daniel Hicks | 300,000 |
| 13 | 9 | Daniel Lefebvre | 572,000 |
| 15 | 1 | Cindy Grabia | 254,000 |
| 15 | 2 | DJ Sharma | 422,000 |
| 15 | 3 | Brendon Williams | 105,000 |
| 15 | 4 | Tim Arnold | 665,000 |
| 15 | 6 | Paul Brar | 393,000 |
| 15 | 7 | Ian Alvarado | 306,000 |
| 15 | 8 | Kim Graham | 322,000 |
| 16 | 1 | Willie Santos | 122,000 |
| 16 | 3 | Scott Thompson | 484,000 |
| 16 | 4 | Brian Wells | 108000 |
| 16 | 5 | Andy Wong | 363,000 |
| 16 | 6 | Colten Yamagishi | 323,000 |
| 16 | 7 | Jay Tran | 73,000 |
| 16 | 8 | Ed Zurawell | 263,000 |
| Level: | 16 (3,000/6,000/6,000) |
| Entries: | 21/226 |
| Prizes: | $212,553 |
They are down to 21 at the break following Level 16 after the exits of Ryan Smith (24th), Ron Lauzon (23rd), and Leo Zhang (22nd).
| Level: | 16 (3,000/6,000/6,000) |
| Entries: | 24/226 |
| Prizes: | $212,553 |
They are down to 24 now after Kyle Bonazzo and Kyle Hartree hit the rail in 26th and 25th places respectively. There are about 30 minutes left to play in Level 16.
| Level: | 16 (3,000/6,000/6,000) |
| Entries: | 26/226 |
| Prizes: | $212,553 |
They are down to 26 now after Weston Pring hit the rail shortly after the start of Level 16. They are now into the Day 2 levels at 60 minutes.
| Event: | Event #11: $230 Little Bounty ($150 + $50 + $30) |
| Date: | Oct 20, 7 pm |
| Blinds: | 20 Min |
| Starting Stack: | 20,000 |
| Late Entry: | 6 Levels (~9:15 pm) |
The final chance for a trophy in this series starts at 7 pm on Sunday night with the Little Bounty. Technically, the Series Saver trophy will be awarded after this one, but this is the final event on the schedule for this series.
Players get 20k in chips to start and play 20-minute levels all day. $150 of the buy-in goes to prizes while each player has a $50 bounty on their head. This is a straight bounty game, so there is no progressive aspect to the bounties — everytime you bust another player, you’ll get an extra $50 for your pocket,
I likely won’t have much time to focus on this one. My main focus for the day will be the Main Event followed by the Series Saver when the Main finishes. If this one is still running after both of those are done, I may make it over to cover the endgame. That said, I have an early start on Monday with the Series Saver Day 2 kicking off at noon, so this one MIGHT get ignored.
| Level: | 16 (3,000/6,000/6,000) |
| Entries: | 27/226 |
| Prizes: | $212,553 |
They are down to 27 players remaining now on the final three tables of the Main Event. Chad Horseman took 29th place followed by Christopher Lawson in 28th. Level 16 is just getting underway.
| Level: | 15 (2,500/3,000/3,000) |
| Entries: | 29/226 |
| Prizes: | $212,553 |
Day 2 is underway and they lost two short stacks early in the day. Alex Liu was the first to go in 31st place followed by Lap Chi Duong in 30th place. That leaves 29 players left battling it out. Prizes will be updated shortly under the payouts tab.
| Event: | Event #10: $2,000 Series Saver ($1,800 + $200) |
| Date: | Oct 20, 4 pm |
| Blinds: | 40 Min |
| Starting Stack: | 50,000 |
| Late Entry: | Start of Day 2 |
The second-to-last event in this PPT is set to run starting at 4 p.m. on Sunday, and it is for players looking for a big score at the end of the series. Formerly called the High Roller, the $2k Series Saver starts with 50k in chips for 40-minute levels. They’ll play 9 levels on Day 1 before the bags come out, and players can enter the game until the start of Day 2 at noon on Monday.
I won’t have too much time to cover this on Day 1 as I’ll be focused on Day 2 of the Main Event playing out across the room, but I should be on the floor for Day 2 tomorrow as my main focus.
| 13 | 2 | Kevin Lee | 515,000 |
| 13 | 3 | Levi Stevens | 27,000 |
| 13 | 4 | Ron Lauzon | 93,000 |
| 13 | 6 | Johnny Dalphond | 204,500 |
| 13 | 7 | Daniel Hicks | 385,500 |
| 13 | 8 | Alex Liu | 69,000 |
| 13 | 9 | Christopher Lawson | 102,000 |
| 14 | 1 | Shariq Khan | 134,000 |
| 14 | 2 | Ian Alvarado | 83,000 |
| 14 | 3 | Victor Xie | 326,000 |
| 14 | 4 | Brian Wells | 86500 |
| 14 | 5 | Daniel Lefebvre | 355,000 |
| 14 | 6 | Willie Santos | 380,500 |
| 14 | 7 | Leo Zhang | 159,000 |
| 14 | 8 | Ed Zurawell | 229,000 |
| 15 | 1 | Cindy Grabia | 400,000 |
| 15 | 2 | DJ Sharma | 316,000 |
| 15 | 3 | Brendon Williams | 227,000 |
| 15 | 4 | Tim Arnold | 650,000 |
| 15 | 5 | Lap Chi Duong | 93,000 |
| 15 | 6 | Paul Brar | 90,000 |
| 15 | 8 | Kim Graham | 265,000 |
| 15 | 9 | Chad Horseman | 71,000 |
| 16 | 1 | Weston Pring | 134,500 |
| 16 | 2 | Kyle Bonazzo | 215,000 |
| 16 | 3 | Scott Thompson | 332,000 |
| 16 | 4 | Kyle Hartree | 197,000 |
| 16 | 5 | Andy Wong | 243,000 |
| 16 | 6 | Colten Yamagishi | 61,000 |
| 16 | 7 | Jay Tran | 136,000 |
| 16 | 8 | Ryan Smith | 212,000 |
