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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Andy Wong Out in 5th Place for $11,100
Level: 25 (25,000/50,000/50,000) Entries: 5/226 Prizes: $212,553 
Andy Wong Andy Wong has been the short stack for all of five-handed play, but he’s been surviving. He’s shoved multiple times, but no one had woken up with a hand at the right time to call him.
It finally happened though when Ed Zurawell shoved with pocket sevens. It folded around to big blind Wong and he reshoved with pocket sixes. The board ran clean for both pairs leaving Zurawell’s sevens best. Kevin Lee said he folded eights, meaning it could have been three ways..
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Graham Sets Up Zurawell
Level: 24 (20,000/50,000/50,000) Entries: 5/226 Prizes: $212,553 Kim Graham limp-called preflop from the cutoff after Ed Zurawell raised the button to 120k. Graham check-called for 80k on the 5♥4♣J♦ flop and they both checked the 2♣ turn. Graham bet 80k on the 10♥ river and Zurawell called.
Graham had pocket fours for the flopped set against queen-ten for the rivered pair.
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Boat over Boat
Level: 24 (20,000/40,000/40,000) Entries: 5/226 Prizes: $212,553 It was limped preflop between small blind Kim Graham and big blind Ed Zurawell. They both checked the 2♠6♠2♦ flop and Graham fired 50k on the 6♥ turn. Zurawell called to the K♥ river and Graham slid out 150k. Zurawell called quickly.
“I have the six,” Graham said, showing jack-six.
“I had the deuce,” Zurawell said, showing queen-deuce as he mucked.
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Zurawell in the Lead
Level: 24 (20,000/40,000/40,000) Entries: 5/226 Prizes: $212,553 The remaining five players have moved the break up a bit with the hard stop at 1 am. They are on a 15 minute break now with 30 minutes remaining in Level 24, and they’ll skip the scheduled break following this level to play it out until the end of Level 25. Below is a look at how they stack up right now.
Seat Player Home Chips 2 Kevin Lee Vancouver, BC 1,200,000 5 Johnny Dalphond Edmonton, AB 1,690,000 6 Andy Wong Fort McMurray, AB 555,000 8 Kim Graham Millet, AB 1,420,000 9 Ed Zurawell Sherwood Park, AB 1,910,000 -
Hard Stop at 1am
Level: 24 (20,000/40,000/40,000) Entries: 5/226 Prizes: $212,553 They’ve been five-handed for quite a while now, and the decision has been made to stop the game at 1 am and bring the remaining players back tomorrow to finish it out. They’ll finish out this level, take a break, then play one more level before they bag up for the night.
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12 Players Bag for Day 2 of Series Saver
Level: 9 (1,000/1,500/1,500) Entries: 12/23 Prizes: $39,330 Deven Lane leads the way into Day 2 with more than double the next biggest stack. Entries are still open until the start of play tomorrow (noon) so the numbers are likely to increase before the end. Also, that means we don’t have any payouts until tomorrow. However, the 12 bagging players with chips and new seats for tomorrow are below — if they don’t fill the 3rd table tomorrow, they’ll break it immediately.
Seat Table 7 Chips Table 9 Chips Table 12 Chips 1 Nu Teliani 97,000 2 Jolnar Teliani 97,500 3 Alex Liu 118,000 4 Deven Lane 267,500 5 Eric Wasylenko 39,000 6 DJ Sharma 62,500 Colten Yamagishi 103,000 7 Weston Pring 56,500 Garett Maybery 68,000 8 Michael Bernstein 88,000 9 Dave McLeod 104,000 Daniel Lefebvre 51,000 -
Lee Has It
Level: 23 (15,000/30,000/30,000) Entries: 5/226 Prizes: $212,553 Kevin Lee raised the button to 70k and Johnny Dalphond called from the small blind. They both checked the 9♦3♦5♦7♦ flop and turn, but Dalphond elected to lead out for 135k on the 8♣ river.
Lee repopped it to 300k and Dalphond made a quick call but mucked when Lee rolled over the stone nuts with A♦6♦.
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92 Entries for Final Event
Level: 10 (1,000/1,500/1,500) Entries: 31/92 Prizes: $17,840 ($12,880 prizes, $4,600 bounties) The entries are closed for Event #11 and they ended up with 92 total. There are 31 players still alive battling for 9 paid spots later tonight. The winner will pocket $4,125 with the min-cash set at $334. Full prizes will be in the backend Payouts tab shortly.
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Final Level of Day 1
Level: 9 (1,000/1,500/1,500) Entries: 12/22 Prizes: $37,620 There are about 25 minutes remaining in Day 1 of the Series Saver tonight with 22 entries and 12 players still in action. Entries are still open until the start of the day tomorrow, so there will be no prizes posted tonight, but hopefully I can get the qualifying players and chip counts up.
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Break Chips
Level: 23 (15,000/30,000/30,000) Entries: 5/226 Prizes: $212,553 Johnny Dalphond is the big leader with five players left.
Table Player Home Chips 2 Kevin Lee Vancouver, BC 1,310,000 5 Johnny Dalphond Edmonton, AB 2,655,000 6 Andy Wong Fort McMurray, AB 560,000 8 Kim Graham Millet, AB 910,000 9 Ed Zurawell Sherwood Park, AB 1,420,000
