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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Just Under an Hour to Enter with $200k in Prizes
Level: 9 (600/1,200/1,200) Entries: 59/122 (73/215) Prizes: $202,208 The prize pool just capped $200k with 122 entries on the board now for 1b. That puts the combined total at 215 across both starting days, but there is still just under an hour left in late registration, so it’s likely the numbers will still climb a bit before the final numbers are in.
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19 Teams to Start Tag Team Event
Level: 1 (100/100/100) Entries: 19/19 Prizes: $3,610 The Tag Tema game is underway in the poker room now with action in Level 1 and 19 teams in the game. Entries are still open for a bit more than two hours, so there’s plenty of time for that to increase.
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$190k in Prizes
Level: 8 (500/1,000/1,000) Entries: 66/111 (79/204) Prizes: $191,862 The combined prizes are now over $190k with 111 entries on the board for Day 1b and 204 in total across both days. There are just over 10 minutes to play in Level 8 which means entries for the Main Event close in just over 90 minutes.
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Just over 2 Hours to Enter
Level: 8 (500/1,000/1,000) Entries: 67/104 (80/197) Prizes: $185,279 They are now three entries away from a combined field of 200 entries right now with 104 registered for 1b so far. That puts the combined prizes at more than $185k with just over 2 hours left to get into this Main Event.
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Break #2
Level: 7 (400/800/800) Entries: 67/96 (80/189) Prizes: $177,755 The 1b players are out for their second break of the day now with the end of Level 6. They’ll be back in action at 400/800/800 in about 10 minutes with 2 hours and 45 minutes left to enter this Main Event. That time includes three levels of poker as well as a 45-minute dinner break, with entries set to close at about 7:15 pm.
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1b Matches 1a in Level 6
Level: 6 (300/600/600) Entries: 68/93 (81/186) Prizes: $174,933 The combined prizes are now just shy of $175k with 93 entries on the board for 1b. That matches the 1a total with more than 3 hours left to enter, so a total field of 200+ with $200k+ in prizes seems like a lock at this point, but the final totals remain to be seen.
Players will be on a break at the end of this level, and when they return for Level 7 there well be three more levels of poker to play before entries close for good on this Main Event.
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$170k in Prizes
Level: 5 (300/500/500) Entries: 67/88 (80/181) Prizes: $170,231 The combined prize pool has just hit $170k with the entry of Francis Fan for 88 entries so far today. Among the other faces I’ve noticed in the action today are Alex Polkovsky, Geordi Lobe, Leo Brouwer, Justin Pennell, Bash Ramahi, Pete Fylyma, Taran Parmar, Daniel O’Leary, Jolnar Teliani, Myles Budd, and Nohad Teliani, as well as a couple of Main Event champs in Eric Wasylenko (Feb/Apr) and Michael “Berny” Bernstein (Sep).
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More than $150k
Level: 4 (200/400/400) Entries: 62/70 (75/163) Prizes: $153,302 The first break is over and the players are back in their seats for Level 4 with 70 entries on the board for today’s flight. That puts the two0day total over 160 entries for combined prizes of $153k.
A few of the new faces I spotted on the break include Curtis Singleton, Dylan Descheneaux, Quentin Sifflendeen, and Mo Alemalhuda.
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Prizes Nearing $150k
Level: 3 (200/300/300) Entries: 56/61 (69/154) Prizes: $144,837 There are still about 25 minutes to play in Level 3 and the 1b field is up to 61 for a two-day total of 154. That puts the prizes at just over $144k so far, but today’s numbers are certain to increase substantially from here.
Among the players I spotted on my last trip around the room were Holly Berry, Julius Roque, runner-up from last night’s Turbo Georgios Gializis, Leo Zhang, Joe Herlein, Darrell Moore, Zurawell (winner of the NLH the other night), Lapchi Duong, and PPT Main Event Champs Jason Tran (Sep 2023) and Ryan Cairns (Jul 2024).
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50 Entries in Level 2
Level: 2 (100/200/200) Entries: 46/50 (59/143) Prizes: $134,492 There are just under 15 minutes to play in Level 2 of Day 1b with the field at 50 entries. Among the players I spotted in the action on the way into the room were Colten Yamagishi, Ian Alvarado, Cliff Green, Garett Maybery, Michael St. Pierre-Porter, Rob Limpert, Jayvee Lumahan, and Andy Wong.
