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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Down to 22
Level: 12 (1,500/2,500/2,500) Entries: 22/75 Prizes: $21.375 Level 12 has just begun with 22 players left in the action, 14 away from the money spots. They’ll go on a break at the end of this level and I’ll get full counts for all remaining players then. The average stack right now is a bit less than 40 big blinds.
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Final Three Tables
Level: 11 (1,000/2,000/2,000) Entries: 25/75 Prizes: $21,375 They are down to the final three tables in the Seniors game now with 25 players left alive. There are a bit more than 10 minutes to play in Level 11.
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Final Level of Entry
Level: 6 (300/600/600) Entries: 57/76 Prizes: $14,440 There are about 10 minutes ti play in Level 6 and this is the final level of entry for tonight’s side game. Entries will stay open through the break following this level but will be closed when they sit down for Level 7 in about 25 minutes.
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Clarke Gets a Double
Level: 10 (1,000/1,500/1,500) Entries: 29/75 Prizes: $21,375 Rob Lothian opened the action from under the gun with a limp and Bernard Buyar bumped it up to 4,500 from the middle. It folded around to Jeff Clarke on the big blind and he shoved for a bit more than 15k.
Lothian had a short think about it but mucked his hand before Buyar snap called it off for a race between his pocket jacks and the ace-queen for Clarke. The board of A♥4♥10♠6♦4♣ gave Clarke his ace in the window and it was all he needed to double to near 35k now.
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Down to 29 Left
Level: 10 (1,000/1,500/1,500)Entries: 29/75 Prizes: $21,375 They are nearing the final three tables of action in the Seniors game now with 29 players left alive. There are just under 15 minutes to play in Level 10 with the next break scheduled after Level 12. I’ll grab a full chip count at the break.
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$7,271 for the Winner
Level: 9 (600/1,200/1,200) Entries: 32/75 Prizes: $21,375 The prizes are now confirmed with 8 players sharing $21,375 with the winner set to pocket more than $7k at the end of the night. Full prize details are under the payouts tab.
The field is down to 32 players left now with just over 5 minutes to play in Level 9.
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Back from Dinner
Level: 9 (600/1,200/1,200) Entries: 37/75 Prizes: $21,375 Entries are now closed for the first event of PPT #5 with 75 entries on the board. That number still needs confirmation, but if it holds, 8 players will be sharing in $21,375 in prizes later tonight. I’ll get a full round of chip counts at the next break.
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44 Entries
Level: 3 (200/300/300) Entries: 42/44 Prizes: $8,360 Level 3 is just beginning with 44 entries on the board for the side event. That puts the prizes a bit higher than $8k right now with about 1.5 hours left to enter the game
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Some Dinner Stacks
Level: 8 (500/1,000/1,000) Entries: 37/75 Prizes: $21,375 The Seniors are on their dinner break now with 75 entries on the board. I had a wander around during dinner to have a look at some stacks and it looks like George Virus is the leader right now with about 170k in front of him. See below for a few more of the bigger stacks I saw.
Player Chips George Virus 170,000 Michael Palmer 110,000 Brian Fujimoto 93,000 Russ Sluchinski 83,000 Kim Graham 77,000 Bernard Buyar 55,000 -
$5k in Prizes to Start
Level: 1 (100/100/100 Entries: 29/29 Prizes: $5,510 The clock is now running for Event #2 with 29 players in their seats. That puts the prizes at just over $5.5k to start the game and a few of the faces I spotted taking their seats were Paul Meyer, who had no luck earlier in the Seniors game, Dale “Soupy” Campbell, Nadav Bitton, Ross Wilson, Benny Sarnelli, and Daniel O’Leary.
