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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43 Entries for Level 5
Level: 5 (300/500/500) Entries: 25/43 Prizes: $24,510 ($15,910 prizes, $8,600 bounties) The field is up to 43 entries with 25 players still at the felt today with about 5 minutes to play in Level 5. Deven Lane was a recent late entry, while Ryan Smith was a name I neglected to mention on my last list.
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First Break
Level: 5 (300/500/500) Entries: 22/34 Prizes: $19,380 ($12,850 prizes, $6,800 bounties) The PLO players are on their first break of the day now with 34 entries on the board. That puts the combined prizes at just shy of $20k with almost $13k of that reserved for prizes at the end of the night.
Level 5 will be underway in a bit less than 10 minutes
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31 Entries in Level 4
Level: 4 (200/400/400) Entries: 24/31 Prizes: $17,670 ($11,470 prizes, $6,200 bounties) There are about 20 minutes to play in Level 4 as I got started a bit late today. The field is relatively small so far with 31 entries and 24 players at the felt, but it’s a pretty stacked field here with faces like Tony Comely, Brett Worton, Justin Pennell, Kris Steinbach, Leo Zhang, Mylse Budd (who was 3rd in the MIx last night), Dylan Descheneaux, Alex Liu, Nick Milkovich, Johnny Dalphond, Ryan Comely, Maddie Sharma, Colten Yamagishi, and Preston Stevenson.
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Daniel Hicks Wins NLH/PLO Mix for $6,691 After Deal
Daniel Hicks, Winner of E4 NLH/PLO MIx It took more than 12 hours to settle the score in Event #4 Mix and almost four of those hours were spent at the final table. In the end, Daniel Hicks took down the game after playing the big stack for most of the final table.
Hicks dominated through the early part of the FT with things really only evening out more when they got three-handed. Hicks retained the lead through most of it, and it was only when he got heads-up with Benny Sarnelli that things got really close.
In the final hand, the two players were nearly even when the stacks were counted down with Hicks on about 15k more than Sarnelli. Sarnelli got his money in on the flop holding the top three cards of a straight to the five-four on the flop. Hicks was on ace-queen-queen-ten and Sarnelli bricked out his straight draw. He rivered a pair of tens, but it wasn’t enough to overtake the queens for Hicks.
This was Hicks first win in just his third recorded live cash. He bagged 10th place in this Mixed game in the summer PPT as well as 33rd in a PLO Bounty game at the last WSOP-C in Calgary, but today’s win dwarfs both of those scores.
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Benny Sarnelli Out in 2nd Place for $6,000 After Deal
Benny Sarnelli The game ended shortly after they cut the deal and about 10 minutes to play in Level 22. The money went in on a flop of 4♥3♠J♦ with Sarnelli on a straight draw with 10♥7♠6♥5♣ against A♦Q♥Q♦10♣ for Daniel Hicks. The 9♣10♠ turn and river did connect slightly with Sarnelli, but not enough to top the pocket queens for Hicks. Hicks had Sarnelli covered by about 15k and took it down for his first tournament win.
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Heads Up Deal
Level: 22 (15,000/25,000/25,000 PLO) Entries: 2/84 Prizes: $23,940 The final two players agreed to a chop that will let each player make $6,000 guaranteed leaving $691 and the trophy left to play for.
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Myles Budd Out in 3rd Place for $3,351
Level: 22 (15,000/25,000/25,000 PLO) Entries: 2/84 Prizes: $23,940 
Myles Budd It turns out this was Myles Budd’s first tournament that featured PLO and he did pretty well in it. Most of the damage happened when he got it in dominated against Benny Sarnelli, but he managed to double back again.
It all came to an end in a limped family pot when the flop came 4♣K♠5♠. Sarnelli checked, Budd potted to force Daniel Hicks out of the hand, but Sarnelli was laying the trap and shoved over Budd, who had almost nothing left behind.
Budd called but it was a brutal spot where both players flopped two pair, but the king-five for Sarnelli was slightly better than the king-four for Budd and the runout didn’t change anything.
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Budd on Fumes
Level: 21 (10,000/20,000/20,000 NLH) Entries: 3/84 Prizes: $23,940 Benny Sarnelli just got another double after he shoved the small blind and Myles Budd called from the big. Budd was dominated with A♥7♥ against A♠8♦ for Sarnelli. Sarnelli hit his eight on the flop and held to win it and leave Budd on less than 100k.
Budd then doubled up on the next hand and is still alive as they move in the four-card Level 22.
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Sarnelli Doubles
Level: 21 (10,000/20,000/20,000 NLH) Entries: 3/84 Prizes: $23,940 Daniel Hicks raised the small blind to 50k, then called it off when Benny Sarnelli shoved 155k from the big. Sarnelli was ahead with A♣10♦ against K♠4♣. There were two clubs on the flop, making Sarnelli sweat a bit, but the turn and river were safe and he got the double.
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Hicks Takes it Nut Low Flush
Level: 21 (10,000/20,000/20,000 NLH) Entries: 3/84 Prizes: $23,940 It was a family pot when Daniel Hicks raised the button to 40k and got calls from Benny Sarnelli in the small and Myles Budd in the big. Budd fired a bet on the turn, but there was a lot of checking on a board that ran out with four hearts.
“Any heart will take it,” Sarnelli said.
“I have the deuce,” replied Hicks as he showed it down. That was enough to make the others muck and send the pot to Hicks.
