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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Daniel O’Leary Out in 5th Place for $2,382
Level: 16 (3,000/6,000/6,000) Entries: 4/76 Prizes: $36,100 
Daniel O’Leary They are down to just four players left now after Daniel O’Leary hit the rail in 5th place tonight. There are just over five minutes to play in Level 16 with a break scheduled following this level and it seems unlikely they’ll play much past Level 18 or so.
O’Leary min-clicked to 12k, then called when Michael St. Pierre shoved a covering stack. It was a classic race between ace-king for St. Pierre and queens for O’Leary. St. Pierre hit his ace on the flop and nothing else changed to send O’Leary to the cage.
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Alex Liu and Jayvee Lumahan Out in 7th and 6th
Level: 16 (3,000/6,000/6,000) Entries: 5/76 Prizes: $36,100 
Jayvee Lumahan 
Alex Liu They are down to five shortly after the final table convened with Alex Liu hitting the rail in 7th place followed by Jayveen Lumahan in 6th place.I missed the action while I was outside for a minute.
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Stensrud Leads Final Table
Level: 16 (3,000/6,000/6,000) Entries: 7/76 Prizes: $36,100 
Ron Lauzon 
Rhett Stensrud 
Michael St. Pierre Jayvee Lumahan Daniel O’Leary Alex Liu 
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Colten Yamagishi Bubbles the Money; Chung Takes First Cash
Level: 15 (2,500/5,000/5,000) Entries: 7/76 Prizes: $36,100 They are setting up the final table now and I’ll grab photos shortly. Colten Yamagishi was the bubble tonight after leaving himself short from doubling up Ron Lauzon while Gerald Chung managed to ladder into the min-cash spot with his shortie.
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Down to 29
Level: 10 (1,000/1,500/1,500) Entries: 29/84 Prizes: $23,940 They are down to 29 left in the Half and Half game now with four-card action in Level 10. The average stack right now is close to 50 bigs, so they are playing pretty deep at this point.
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Chung, Lauzon Survive on Bubble
Level: 15 (2,500/5,000/5,000) Entries: 9/76 Prizes: $36,100 Gerald Chung was short after doubling up Alex Liu a while ago. He managed to get close to a triple up with ace high, however, when Rhett Stensrud raised the button and got calls from Chung in the small and Liu in the big. The players checked it through the 10♦8♥7♣3♠3♥ board and Ching showed down ace-jack. Stensrud mucked quickly but Liu showed another ace before mucking.
A couple of hands later on the other table, Colten Yamagishi shoved the button with jack-three and Ron Lauzon woke up with a call. Yamagish hit his jack on the flop, but Lauzon managed to survive with a river queen to give him the bigger pair so they are still 9-handed.
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Liu Doubles
Level: 15 (2,500/5,000/5,000) Entries: 9/76 Prizes: $36,100 Alex Liu just picked up a bubble double through Gerald Chung. It was the final hand of Level 14 and Chung limped from the small blind and Liu checked his option. Chung bet 4k on the 4♣K♥8♠ and Liu called to the 9♠ turn.
Chung sized up to 7.5k and Liu called again to see 3♣ on the river. Chung fired 11k, then shoved when Liu put in a raise. Liu snapped it off with less, but he flopped two pair with king-four and took the pot as Chung mucked his hand.
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Hand for Hand to the Money
Level: 14 (2,000/4,000/4,000) Entries: 9/76 Prizes: $36,100 They are now hand for hand to the money in the 6-Max game with 9 players left. Keith Sarnoski, Bash Ramahi, and Jimmy Lee were the casualties from the final two tables to bring it to 9 left. The clock is now paused with 2 minutes coming off for each hand played and there are 9 minutes remaining in Level 14.
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84 Entries Confirmed
Level: 9 (600/1,200/1,200) Entries: 34/84 Prizes: $23,940 The prizes are in and the field is confirmed at 84 entries for total prizes of $23,940. 9 players will get a piece of that later tonight with the winner set to take home $7,664 while the min-cash in 9th place will get $622. Full prize details are loaded under the payouts tab.
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84 Unofficial Entries
Level: 9 (600/1,200/1,200) Entries: 35/84 Prizes: $23,940 Entries are now closed on the Mix game with 84 as the final number on the board. I’ll confirm that when the prizes are posted but if it holds then 9 players will be getting a piece of $23,940 in total prizes later tonight. There are still 35 players in action including (but not limited to) DJ Sharma, Deven Lane, Maddie Sharma, Dylan Descheneaux, Angie Gelinas, Brady O’hara, Mo Alemalhuda, Justin Pennell, Benny Sarnelli, Ross Wilson, Leo Zhang, Pav Braich, Kris Steinbach, Lina Niu. and Stefan Maloney.
