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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Salangsan Doubles
Level: 20 (10,000/15,000/15,000) Entries: 4/75 Prizes: $21,375 In the previous hand, Tim Salangsan doubled up Brett Worton to leave himself with just 107k behind. In the next hand, it folded to Salangsan in the small blind and he raised to 40k, more than a third of his stack.
Kim Graham made the call to see K♥9♠K♠ on the flop. Salangsan shoved his remaining chips to send Graham into the tank. He verbalized that he had a gutshot and made the call after about 30 seconds.
Salangsan had pcoket aces, but Graham picked up some more equity on the Q♣ turn. He bricked the 3♥ river, however, to send the double to Salagsan. That gives Salangsan just under 250k while Graham is still doing fine with about 820k in front of him.
There is a break following this level in just over 20 minutes, and I’ll get exact chip counts for the remaining players then, but Graham has the big lead.
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“You had the ace. That’s why I got the speech.”
Level: 19 (6,000/12,000/12,000) Entries: 4/75 Prizes: $21,375 Kim Graham has been raising a lot, but after the last hand, he said “I’m going to try a limp sometime. Probably with a monster.”
That “sometime” came in the very next hand as Graham limped under the gun. Brett Worton has been battling Graham as they are side-by-side and he raised it up to 38k. Graham made the call to the all-club 6♣10♣7♣ flop where they both checked to the Q♣ turn.
Graham checked to Worton who sent out a bet of 15k. “Do you have a club? I don’t think you have the ace. Let’s find out … I’m going to raise,” Graham said as he slid out a bet of $100k. Worton mucked quickly.
“You had the ace,” he said. “That’s why I got the speech.” No cards were shown, however, so who knows where the ace was.
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Salangsan Takes it on River
Level: 19 (6,000/12,000/12,000) Entries: 4/75 Prizes: $21,375 Tim Salansan limped in from the button and both Kim Graham and Brett Worton called from the blinds. They all checked the 7♦3♣A♠ flop but after a check from Graham on the Q♥ turn, Worton fired out 15k. Both players called to the 8♦ river where it checked to Salangsan and he took it down with a bet of 65k.
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Mick Enzie Out in 5th Place for $1,410
Level: 18 (5,000/10,000/10,000) Entries: 4/75 Prizes: $21,375 
Michael Enzie They are down to 4 remaining now after Mick Enzie busted in 5th. I’ve just finished the FT pictures for Event #2 so I should be able to get back to the Seniors action now.
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Final Table
Level: 17 (4,000/8,000/8,000) Entries: 8/88 Prizes: $16,720 They are down to the final table now with 8 players left after Naleen Narayan hit the rail for the first payout of $434. Pictures of the final nine will be posted shortly, but I still won’t be watching this one very closely as the Seniors are still five-handed.
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Roy Bjorklund Out in 6th Place for $1,026
Level: 18 (5,000/10,000/10,000) Entries: 5/75 Prizes: $21,375 
Roy Bjorklund They are down to five on the Seniors FT after Roy Bjorklund took 6th place tonight. I missed the action while getting pics of the Turbo FT.
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Ron Taylor Out in 7th Place for $790
Level: 17 (4,000/8,000/8,000) Entries: 6/75 Prizes: $21,375 
Ron Taylor They are down to six left on the final table of the Seniors game after the reigning champion Ron Taylor busted out in 7th place.
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Parker Hrushka Out in 8th Place for $619
Level: 17 (4,000/8,000/8,000) Entries: 7/25 Prizes: $21,375 
Parker Hrushka They are down to seven now. Parker Hrushka woke up with king-queen early and shoved for 129k. It folded to small blind Brett Worton who reshoved a covering stack before the big blind got out of the way.
Worton was in good shape with big slick, but there was a lady on the J♣5♠Q♣ flop but it also left Worton drawing to Broadway. The 4♠ turn was a brick, but 10♥ on the river was the nuts for Worton and sent Hrushka out in 8th place.
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Kim Graham Leads In the Money
Level: 17 (4,000/8,0000/8,000) Entries: 8/75 Prizes: $21,375 
Grant Strand They are now officially in the money after Grant Strand hit the rail in 9th place. He collected some bubble cash from the other players, but missed out on the official cash list. He shoved the small blind on a flop of 10♣5♦6♥ and Kim Graham tank called from the big. Strand was on seven-eight for open-ended with a backdoor flush draw while Graham had ace-five and a flopped pair of fives. 6♦ on the turn and river bricked out for Strand and he busted in 9th place tonight.
Below is a look at how the remaining eight players stack up with Level 17 about to get underway.
Seat Player Chips 1 Brett Worton 298,000 2 Michael Enzie 154,500 3 Ron Taylor 156,000 4 Parker Hrushka 107,000 5 Roy Bjorklund 115,000 6 Carl Schelpe 207,000 7 Tim Salangsan 247,000 8 Grant Strand 0 9 Kim Graham 415,000 -
Final Table Faces
Level: 16 (3,000/6,000/6,000) Entries: 9/75 Prizes: $21,375 They are down to the final table now with nine players left. I’ll grab complete chip counts at the break in about 10 minutes, but pictures and names for the final table can be found under the Images tab.
