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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Lefebvre Flops It
Level: 16 (4,000/8,0000/8,000) Entries: 5/27 Prizes: $46,170 It was blind on blind when Deven Lane raised the small to 28k and Daniel Lefebvre called the big. The flop was 3♣5♦3♠ and Lane check-called for 17k.
Lane checked again on the K♠ turn and Lefebvre sized up to 90k, forcing a fold from Lane. Lefebvre showed 3♦ as he collected the pot.
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Five Left in Series Saver
Level: 16 (4,000/8,000/8,000) Entries: 5/27 Prizes: $46,170 There are five players left in the Series Saver battling for 4 paid spots. Below is a look at 4 of the 5 remaining players with Jo Teliani not included as she prefers not to have her picture used. Deven Lane is the current leader, with Daniel Lefebvre not too far behind. Full chip counts are below the photos.
Colten Yamagishi 
Alec Liu 1 2 3 Colten Yamagishi 182,000 4 Deven Lane 486,000 5 6 Daniel Lefebvre 378,000 7 Jolnar Teliani 142,000 8 9 Alex Liu 183,000 -
Kevin Lee Wins Main Event
Kevin Lee, Winner of the Main Event for $35,804 after deal Kevin Lee brought the big stack into Day 3 and when they started talking deal just before the action began today, he secured the biggest guaranteed payout of $24,768. They left a bit more than $11k on the table, along with the trophy, to play for so Lee picked up $35,804 for his win today.
This was Lee’s second recorded win according to Hendon Mob, with his previous win coming in 2015 at the PlayNow Poker Championships in Winnipeg. This will slot in at #3 for his biggest cashes, behind that win and a $66k (USD) 2nd place finish in the Phamous Poker Series at Goliath, Las Vegas and should put his lifetime earnings very close to the $200k mark, if not over, once the exchange rate is factored in.
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Kim Graham Out in 2nd Place for $20,000
Level: 27 (40,000/80,000/80,000) Entries: 1/226 Prizes: $212,553 
Kim Graham It was a spirited battle heads up, but in the end, Kim Graham couldn’t find the cards he needed to stay alive. Kevin Lee raised the button, then called off with more when Graham shoved.
“Oh Oh,” Graham said when Lee called it off with pocket tens. Graham was playing nine-eight off-suit and he flopped a nine to give him some hope. The rest of board ran out paired sevens though and the tens held for the big win for Lee.
Graham had a pretty good week here, however, winning the Seniors event at the start of the series, and taking the second spot in the Main. He secured $20k in the deal at the start of today.
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Roughly Even
Level: 27 (40000/80,000/80,000) Entries: 2/226 Prizes: $212,553 They’ve been trading chips back and forth heads up for most of this level, with a small lead moving back and forth between the players, but they are till roughly even with about 25 minutes left in Level 27.
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Graham to the Lead
Level: 27 (40,000/80,000/80,000) Entries: 2/226 Prizes: $212,553 Kevin Lee raised to 190k, then called with more when Kim Graham shoved. Lee had pocket queens against king-ten for Graham.
Graham called for the king, but got a ten on the flop instead. It was the ten on the turn that sealed the deal for him as he improved to trips and the river bricked for Lee. Graham now has a bit more than 4 million with 6.8 million in play.
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Lee Leads Heads Up
Level: 26 (30,000/60,000/60,000) Entries: 2/226 Prizes: $212,553 Kevin Lee has the lead two ways now with 4.23 million to Kim Graham’s 2.46 million. They are now on a break with action expected to resume in about 12 minutes with blinds at 40k/80k/80k.
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Ed Zurawell Out in 3rd Place for $21,799
Level: 26 (30,000/60,000/60,000) Entries: 2/226 Prizes: $212,553 
Ed Zurawell They are heads up now after Ed Zurawell couldn’t find his outs with ace-seven into pocket eights for Kevin Lee. Zurawell hit his seven on the river, but that also gave the pockets eights a straight and the win.
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Johnny Dalphond Out in 4th Place for $20,910
Level: 26 (30,000/60,000/60,000) Entries: 3/226 Prizes: $212,553 
Johnny Dalphond It was a two-outer that sent Johnny Dalphond out in 4th after he raised the small blind with jacks and then called when Kim Graham shoved the big with more. Graham was on pocket deuces against jacks for Dalphond and the board looked clean for Dalphond until the duck on the river sent him to the cage. He made $20,910 from the ICM deal.
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Modified Prizes
Level: 12 (1,500/3,000/3,000) Entries: 9/27 Prizes: $46,170 There was a bit of a miscalculation in the prizes as there was a double entry that wasn’t caught until after the original prizes were calculated. First place hasn’t changed, but 2nd is down to $13,290 with $8k for 3rd and $4k for 4th. The actual number of entries was 27 instead of 28 for $46,170 in prizes.
Meanwhile they are now at the final table but I’m still watching the 4-way battle to end the Main Event.
