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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Final Four Tables
Level: 11 (1,000/2,000/2,000) Entries: 36/93 Prizes: $87,467 They are down to 36 players on the final four tables now as Level 11 is just getting underway. They’ll be playing down to 13 players left before the bags come out, so there’s still a few more hours of poker in the night.
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93 Entries at Close of Entry
Level: 10 (1,000/1,500/1,500) Entries: 38/93 Prizes: $87,467 Entries closed after dinner with 93 on the board. That should mean a total of 13 bags at the end of the night tonight. Just as a reminder, Day 1 play will continue until the field is at 12.5% + 1 of the starting field, so they’ll play down to 13 tonight no matter how long it takes.
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53 Entries for Level 1
Level: 1 (100/100/100) Entries: 53/53 Prizes: $9,063 The opening level of the Turbo game has seen a lot of entries with 53 on the board so far. That puts the prizes a little higher tna $9k right now with about 2 hours left to enter the game. With 15k/15 minutes, I expect this one to run lightning fast today and feature a fair number of rebuys.
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Some Big Stacks from Dinner
Level: 10 (1,000/1,500/1,500) Entries: 41/91 Prizes: $85,586 There are still about five minutes left in the dinner break, but I had a look around the room while the players were away, and it looks like DJ Sharma is the chip leader right now. He’s playing 253k but Willie Santos is also in the 200k range with 210.5k. Sharnark Mohamed is playing 127k.
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25 Minutes to Enter 1a
Level: 9 (600/1,200/1,200) Entries: 40/90 Prizes: $84,645 There are about 25 minutes left in the dinner break, and when they return it will be the end of entries. The prize pool now is just shy of $85k with 90 entries on the board but there’s still time to add a few more entries to the pool.
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One Hour to Enter 1a
Level: 9 (600/1,200/1,200) Entries: 40/88 Prizes: $82,764 There are about 15 minutes to play in Level 9, and that means the end of entries is about an hour away. They’ll head out for a 45-minute dinner break following this level and when they return for Level 10 at about 7:15, entries will be closed.
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2 Hours to Enter 1a
Level: 8 (500/1,000/1,000) Entries: 46/82 Prizes: $77,121 The prize pool is now over $75k at the start of Level 8 with 82 entries on the board for Day 1a That means the end of entries is about 2 hours away, though players will still have a second shot at a bag on Saturday’s Day 1b.
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More than $65k in Prizes at Second Break
Level: 7 (400/800/800) Entries: 46/73 Prizes: $68,657 There was a bit of a rush on entries during Level 6 with 13 new entries over the level. That puts the field so far at 73 entries with 46 players still playing and prizes now approaching $70k. There are still just under 3 hours left to get into today’s flight.
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Almst $60k in Prizes
Level: 6 (300/600/600) Entries: 43/63 Prizes: $59,252 They are now one entry shy of $60k in prizes with 63 entries on the board about halfway through Level 6. There are still 43 players at the felt including Johnny Dalphind and Leonard Siebenga.
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Nearing 60 Entries
Level: 5 (300/500/500) Entries: 45/59 Prizes: $55,490 The prizes are now over $55k with 59 entries on the board for Day 1a. A few more people in the field today include Daniel Lefebvre, Sheraz Nasir, Preston Stevenson, Brian Wells (who was runner-up in the side game yesterday), Gerald Chung, DJ Sharma, Ross Wilson, Jimmy Lee, Pav Braich, and Michael St. Pierre-Porter.
