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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Day 1b is On Deck with Daniel Hicks Leading the 1a Counts
Event: Event #7: $1,100 Main Event ($990 + $110) Date: Day 1a; Oct 18, Noon
Day 1b: Oct 19, Noon
Day 2: Oct 20, 1 pm
Day 3: Oct 21, TBA if requiredBlinds: 40/60 Min Starting Stack: 30,000 Late Entry: 9 Levels (~7:15 pm) Day 1 Ends: 12.5% of the field plus 1 The second and final chance to bag a stack for Day 2 of the Main Event kicks off on Saturday at noon. Day 1b players will all be eyeing the big stack of NLH/PLO Mix champion Daniel Hicks who bagged nearly 400k at the end of Day 1a. There are also three other stacks from 1a in the 300k range including local McDonald’s magnate DJ Sharma. Seniors Champ Kim Graham also bagged a top five stack on 1a.
Day 1b is a redo of of 1a with a start stack of 30k, 40-minute blinds, and 9 levels of late entry. Day 1b will end when they get to 12.5%+1 of the field.
I will most likely be a little late to the floor for Saturday, but once I am set up, Day 1b will be my main focus until they bag.
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Deven Lane Wins Turbo for $5,339
Deven Lane, winner of the NLH Turbo As the name suggested, this was very much a turbo, going through 110 entries in about 7 hours of play. I wasn’t able to watch much of this until the final table was set, but after that it was an interesting run.
One big hand for Lane came in a limped pot preflop that went a bit crazy on the flop. With two treys and an ace on board, Lane check-raised from 50k to 125k. Georgios Gializis spidey sense was tingling, and he clicked it back to 250k. After a bit of thought, Lane reclicked back, making it 375k to go. Gializis mucked his hand face up, showing seven-six and Lane rolled over a worse 7 with seven-three suited for the epic bluff.
This was Lane’s 7th career win and should push his lifetime earnings over $410k. This is Lane’s second trophy from the PPT after winning his first in 2022, and he also has two rings from series in Regina.
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Georgios Gializis Out in 2nd Place for $3,678
Level: 25 (25,000/50,000/50,000) Entries: 1/110 Prizes: $18,810 
Georgios Gializis In the final hand, Deven Lane limped, then called off when Georgios Gializis shoved. Gializis had king-jack but Lane woke up with pocket queens. He flopped a queen for a massive lead and held to take down the game and send Gializis out in 2nd place.
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Lane Takes it With Trash
Level: 25 (25,000/50,000/50,000) Entries: 2/110 Prizes: $18,810 It was a bit of a crazy hand that started out with a limped pot to the 3♥A♦3♣ flop. Things took a turn on the flop when Deven Lane checked, Georgios Gializi bet 50k, Lane raised to 125k, Gializi clicked it back to 250k, and Lane reclicked to 375k.
Gializi mucked his seven-six face up, and Lane showed seven-four suited.
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Andy Wong Out in 3rd Place for $2,391
Level: 24 (20,000/40,000/40,000) Entries: 2/110 Prizes: $18,810 
Andy Wong They are down to heads up now after Deven Lane got there with a dominated ten to send Andy Wong to the rail for 3rd place.
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Rodica Fatol Out in 4th Place for $1,839
Level: 23 (15,000/30,000/30,000) Entries: 3/110 Prizes: $18,810 
Rodica Fatol Rodica Fatol shoved her big blind after Georgios Gializi opened under the gun and Gailizi called it off with more. Fatol was ahead with A♦9♦ but it was close as Gializi had J♠10♠. Gializi flopped a jack and held to take it down.
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Michael Vickerman Out in 5th Place for $1,416
Level: 23 (15,000/30,000/30,000) Entries: 4/110 Prizes: $18,810 
Michael Vicker They are down to four now after Deven Lane shoved the button and Michael Vickerman called off his stack from the small blind. Lane was on K♠7♠ against A♦8♣ for Vicker. Lane smashed the 6♥2♥K♣7♥9♠ board to send Vickerman to the rail.
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Leo Brouwer Out in 6th Place for $1,121
Level: 22 (15,000/25,000/25,000) Entries: 5/110 Prizes: $18,810 
Leo Brouwer They are down to 5 now after Leo Brouwer woke up with a suited ace in the cutoff and shoved his stack. Unfortunately for him, he ran into ace-king suited for Rodica Fatol. The ace-king held and Brouwer was off to collect 6th place money.
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Brouwer Doubles with Dominated Hand
Level: 22 (15,000/25,000/25,000) Entries: 6/110 Prizes: $18,810 Leo Brouwer shoved under the gun for the short stack worth 43k. It folded around to big blind Michael Vicker who called it off. Vicker had A♠4♣ against 10♣4♦ for Brouwer but he turned open-ended and rivered a pair of tens on the J♦3♣8♠9♦10♥ board for the big double.
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Jessy Farmer Out in 7th Place for $882
Level: 22 (15,000/25,000/25,000) Entries: 6/110 Prizes: $18,810 
Jessy Farmer Jessy Farmer was left short after he doubled up Michael Vicker a few hands ago, but he managed to ladder one spot to seventh tonight from his short stack.
