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:
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Daniel Lefebvre Wins High Roller (Again!) for $20,880
Daniel Lefebvre, Winner of the High Roller He took a bit of a hiatus from the winner’s circle, but with his fourth win in the last two seasons, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the PPT High Roller needs to be renamed to the Daniel Lefebvre Classic. After winning the final three High Rollers of the 2023 season, Lefebvre added a 4th High Roller trophy to his growing collection today after taking down Alex Liu heads up.
Lefebvre won the SIGA Poker Championship in 2018, so with the three High Roller wins from last year, this makes for his 5th live win and the prize money should push his lifetime earnings to around $325k USD.
Place Player Home Prize 1 Daniel Lefebvre Vanscoy, SK $20,880 2 Alex Liu Calgary, AB $13,290 3 Deven Lane Regina, SK $8,000 4 Colten Yamagishi Edmonton, AB $4,000 Final Results from the High Roller -
Alex Liu Out in 2nd Place for $13,290
Alec Liu Daniel Lefebvre raised to 80k, then called when Alex Liu shoved the short stack. Liu was on jack-ten against ace-nine for Lefebvre. Liu hit a jack on the flop, but Lefebvre hit his ace as well, then rivered a third ace for the big win.
Liu is fresh off his big Main Event win in Calgary a couple of months ago and this makes for another decent score this year.
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Lefebvre Doubles to Lead
Level: 20 (10,000/20,000/20,000) Entries: 2/27 Prizes: $46,170 Daniel Lefebvre raised to 80k, then called when Alex Liu shoved the big stack. Lefebvre was on ace-five against queen-jack for Liu, and he hit his ace on the flop and held for the double.
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Liu Finds Trips
Level: 20 (10,000/20,000/20,000) Entries: 2/27 Prizes: $46,170 Daniel Lefebvre limped and Alex Liu checked his option to the 10♥K♠6♠ flop. They both checked the flop and the 6♥ turn. On the 2♠ river, Liu led for 40k and Lefebvre called, but mucked when Liu showed [invalid notations]6c4h[/]cn] for turned trips.
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Close to Even Stacks
Level: 20 (10,000/20,000/20,000) Entries: 2/27 Prizes: $46,170 Alex Liu has a slight lead with 720k to 625k for Daniel Lefebvre. The two players agreed to bump the blinds up an extra level to 10k/20k to speed things up.
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Deven Lane Out in 3rd Place for $8,000
Level: 18 (6,000/12,000/12,000) Entries: 2/27 Prizes: $46,170 
Deven Lane They are heads up now after Deven Lane lost his short stack. He shoved the button with a suited ace-eight and Alex Liu called the big blind with king-queen off.
Liu spiked a king on the flop, but Lane flopped a backdoor straight draw and turned to the front door, but then paired his eight on the river, not enough to best the flopped king for Liu.
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Liu Hits Trips
Level: 17 (5,000/10,000/10,000) Entries: 3/27 Prizes: $46,170 Daniel Levebvre raised the small blind to 25k and Alex Liu called from the big. Lefebvre fired 15k on the 6♠6♥J♠ flop and lIu called to the Q♠ turn. Both players checked to the A♣ river where Lefebvre fired 65k. Liu called and his eight-six was good for the pot.
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Lefebvre Calls it Down
Level: 17 (5,000/10,000/10,000) Entries: 3/27 Prizes: $46,170 Daniel Lefebvre raised the button to 20k and Deven Lane called from the big blind. Both players checked the 3♠J♠6♦ flop and Lane led out for 35k on the J♥ turn.
Lefebvre called to the [invalid notations] river and Lane slid out 55k for a bet. “I have a full house,” Lefebvre said as he was thinking about the bet, “But I think you might have a bigger one.” He eventually put in the call, and Lane mucked his hand for Lefebvre to reveal king-three of hearts for jacks full of threes.
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Colten Yamagishi Out in 4th Place for $4,000
Level: 17 (5,000/10,000/10,000O Entries: 3/27 Prizes: $46,170 
Colten Yamagishi They are down to three now after Colten Yamagishi’s queens were cracked to send him home in 4th place. Yamagishi raised the small blind to 22k and Deven Lane called from the big.
Yamagishi fired 12k on the 4♠J♣6♣ flop and Lane called to the J♠ turn. Yaagishi fired 40k, leaving just 1k behind, and Lane flatted. The 10♠ river completed the board and Yamagishi put his last 1k into the middle and Lane called.
Yamagishi showed pocket queens, but the jack-ten for Lane hit the riverboat for a huge win, sending Yamagishi to the rail for 4th place.
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Jolnar Teliani Bubbles High Roller
Level: 16 (4,000/8,000/8,000) Entries: 4/27 Prizes: $46,170 Alex Liu flopped the world after he raised under the gun to 21k and Jo Teliani called from the big blind. Teliani check-shoved the [invalid notations] flop after Liu made it 13k to go. Liu snapped it off with the bigger stack and ace-king for two pair against ten-nine for Teliani. It just got worse for Teliani as the runout was A♣K♥ for aces full to Liu.
