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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Mark Domitas Out in 8th Place for $698
Level: 22 (15,000/25,000/25,000) Entries: 7/110 Prizes: $18,810 
Mark Dotimas They are down to seven now after Mark Dotimas hit the rail in 8th place.
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Vicker Doubles
Level: 21 (10,000/20,000/20,000) Entries: 8/110 Prizes: $18,810 Jessy Farmer shoved from the small blind, looking to steal, but big blind Michael Vicker woke up with sevens and called off his stack. Farmer was on J♥5♠ but any hope of hitting his over faded when there was a seven in the window of the 10♣Q♦7♠A♥4♥ board. That hand left Vicker with around 300k while Farmer was down to fumes.
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Georgios Gializis Leads
Level: 21 (10,000/20,000/20,000) Entries: 8/110 Prizes: $18,810 I’ve just had a look at the stacks and it looks like Georgios Gializis is the leader now with more than 300k in front of him. Andy Wong looks to be playing more than 200k while Michael Vicker is close to the 200k mark as well.
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Final Table Faces
Level: 21 (10,000/20,000/20,000) Entries: 8/110 Prizes: $18,810 
Rodica Fatol 
Michael Vicker Mark Dotimas 
Leo Brouwer 
Jessy Farmer 
Georgios Gializis 
Deven Lane 
Dagan Maxwell 
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Dagan Maxwell Out in 9th Place for $570
Level: 21 (10,000/20,000/20,000) Entries: 8/110 Prizes: $18,810 Dagan Maxwell They are down to 8 left now after Dagan Maxwell hit the rail for 9th place shortly after they got to the final table. I missed the action while I was working on the FT pics.
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Final Table Time
Level: 20 (10,000/15,000/15,000) Entries: 9/110 Prizes: $18,810 Brennan Neville was the bubble to the final table with the field now down to 9.
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Down to 10 Left
Level: 19 (6,000/12,000/12,000) Entries: 10/110 Prizes: $18,810 Skyler Stacey was the first player out in the money tonight for a prize of $417. That puts them on the final table bubble with the average stack at 165k for about 13 big blinds.
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In the Money
Level: 19 (6,000/12,000/12,000 Entries: 11/110 Prizes: $18,810 There was a double elimination with 13 players remaining so they skipped the hand-for-hand phase and got straight into the money. The average stack now is about 15 big blinds, so it’s still very much a turbo game.
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3 Off the Money
Level: 18 (5,000/10,000/10,000) Entries: 14/110 Prizes: $18,810 They are down to 14 left in the Turbo game with action in Level 18. The average stack now is just over 100k, barely 10 big blinds, so this should be a quick one from here.
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Daniel Hicks is the Day 1a Stack to Beat
Level: 15 (2,500/5,000/5,000) Entries: 13/93 Prizes: $87,467 
Daniel Hicks Day ia is complete with 13 players advancing to Day 2 on Sunday. The biggest bag belonged to the winner of the NLH/PLO Mix earlier this week, Daniel Hicks, with 385.5k for the money day. Willie Santos, Victor Xie, and DJ Sharma also bagged 300l+ stacks while Seniors champ Kim Graham rounds out the top 5 with 265k.
Full chip stacks are posted below, but Day 2 seat assignments won’t be available until Day 1b finishes tomorrow night.
Player Chips Daniel Hicks 385,500 Willie Santos 380,500 Victor Xie 326,000 DJ Sharma 316,000 Kim Graham 265,000 Kyle Bonazzo 215,000 Ryan Smith 212,000 Jihnny Dalphond 204,500 Weston Pring 134,500 Shariq Khan 134,000 Brian Wells 86500 Chad Horseman 71,000 Alex Liu 69,000 Day 1a Qualifying Stacks
