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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22 Players Remain
Level: 13 (1,500/3,000/3,000) Entries: 22/88 Prizes: $16,720 They are down to 22 remaining now with one of the recent exits being Benny Sarnelli. He shoved a short stack with pocket fours and got called by Josie Brown with ace-ten. Brown flopped her ten to take the lead and held when Sarnelli bricked the turn and river.
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Final Table Bubble
Level: 15 (2,500/5,000/5,000) Entries: 10/75 Prizes: $21,375 They are on the bubble to the final table now with 10 players left. Wayne Withers was the most recent casualty tonight. They’ll set up the final table after the next elimination but there will still be one player to go before money starts getting handed out.
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Down to 11
They are down to 11 left now, three off the money with the recent eliminations of Harvey Johnson, Bob Jeancart, and Daniel MacNaughton. There are about 15 minutes to play in Level 15, so it looks like they’ll be in the money before the next break, or shortly after Level 17 begins.
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14 Left to Start Level 15
Level: 15 (2,500/5,000/5,000) Entries: 14/75 Prizes: $21,375 They are down to 14 remaining now after George Virus, who was leading the counts after the dinner break, hit the rail 7 spots shy of tonight’s money.
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Worton Doubles, Fujimoto Out
Level: 13 (1,500/3,000/3,000) Entries: 15/75 Prizes: $21,375 The action was complete with Brett Worton and Brian Fujimoto all in and Worton at risk. Worton had pocket sevens against pocket sixes for Fukimoto and the board didn’t change anything. Fujimoto had the slightly bigger stack but was left with less than 10k behind after sending the double across the table, but he lost that shortly after to hit the rail in 16th tonight.
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Down to 16
Level: 13 (1,500/3,000/3,000) Entries: 16/75 Prizes: $21,375 They are down to the final 16 players now after John Letts and Bradley Spencer recently hit the rail. That leaves them 8 off the money with just over 5 minutes to play in Level 13.
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Final Two Tables
Level: 13 (1,500/3,000/3,000) Entries: 18/75 Prizes: $21,375 They are down to the final two tables of play in the seniors now with 18 left after Cliff Green, who had less than 50k at the break, hit the rail shortly after Level 13 started.
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Taylor Leads
Level: 13 (1,500/3,000/3,000) Entries: 19/75 Prizes: $21,375 Ron Taylor won this event in the last series over at Casino Yellowhead a few weeks ago, and he is leading tonight as they approach the final two tables with 19 left after the break. See below for a look at all the remaining players and chips.
Seat Table 13 Chips Table 14 Chips Table 15 Chips 1 Parker Hrushka 90,000 Roy Bjorklund 50,000 2 Tim Salangsan 65,000 George Virus 71,500 Bradley Spencer 86,000 3 4 Michael Enzie 135,000 Ron Taylor 170,500 Brett Worton 85,500 5 Wayne Withers 106,000 Cliff Green 47,500 Lorne Voth 77,500 6 Carl Schelpe 164,000 Kim Graham 80,500 7 Brian Fujimoto 75,000 Grant Strand 86,000 8 Harvey Johnson 94,500 9 Daniel MacNaughton 49,500 John Letts 62,000 Bob Jeancart 153,000 -
Green Doubles in Cooler
Level: 12 (1,500/2,500/2,500) Entries: 19/75 Prizes: $21,375 There are about 10 minutes to play in Level 12 with a break following this level. Cliff Green just got a double for his short stack when his pocket eights held against the pocket sixes of the Seniors champ from Series 4 Ron Taylor. While the flop didn’t change anything, the board of 6♠A♣8♣A♦J♣ got comments from the table with Taylor commenting “Set over Set”. Taylor still had a decent stack in front of him after the hand.
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88 Confirmed Entries
Level: 7 (400/800/800) Entries: 57/88 Prizes: $16,720 Entries are now closed for the side event tonight with 88 entries on the board. That number is confirmed for $16,720 in prizes to be divided 9 ways at the end of the night. Full payout details are under the payouts tab but the winner will be pocketing $5,354 tonight.
