Get ready for the penultimate PPT series of 2024 at Pure Casino Edmonton, featuring 11 events and culminating in the $1,100 Main Event, plus fan favorites like 6-Max, PLO Big Bounty, and the $2k High Roller!
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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Kim Graham Wins Seniors Event for $7,271
They played for a bit more than 12 hours to decide a winner in the Seniors game and after about a level of heads up play, Kim Graham took down the game over previous winner Brett Worton. Both players have a decent record here on the PPT with Worton winning this event in 2022, and Graham coming runner-up, with his twin brother Keith, in the team event in Series #1 this season. I previously reported they won the event, but I had a brain fart and Kim reminded me that they got it in good against twins Kyle and Ryan Strap, but ultimately lost when the Strap brothers got there against them
Graham had the chip lead to start the final table and held onto it pretty much the whole way through. Runner-up Worton was his main competition for the lead, but Graham always seemed a step ahead when I looked at the stacks. By the time the final hand was played, however, Worton was chipped down to around 200k. He woke up with an ace and got it in, but ran into pocket jacks for Graham. In this case, Graham’s best hand held for him to take down his second career win, but his first in over a decade.
Full prizes are under the Payouts tab and listed below.
Place Player Home Prize 1 Kim Graham Millet, AB $7,271 2 Brett Worton Edmonton, AB $4,916 3 Tim Salangsan Edmonton, AB $3,206 4 Carl Schelpe Sherwood Park, AB $2,137 5 Mick (Michael) Enzie Edmonton, AB $1,410 6 Roy Bjorklund AB, CAN $1,026 7 Ron Taylor AB, CAN $790 8 Parker Hrushka CAN $619 Final Results from 2024 PPT Series #5 Event #1 Seniors -
Brett Worton Out in 2nd Place for $4,916
Brett Worton The Seniors game is over with Brett Worton ending his day in 2nd place. He was always behind during the heads up game, though they were about 900k to 600k at one point. That was the closest Worton got, however, and he’d been chipped down to just about 200k.
He woke up with an ace-eight and got it in but unfortunately, he ran into pocket jacks for Kim Graham. Worton called for the ace but the board bricked on him and all the chips went to Graham.
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Graham Still Leads
Level: 22 (15,000/25,000/25,000) Entries: 2/75 Prizes: $21,375 Level 22 has just kicked off with Kim Graham in the lead. He has about 1.3 million in front of him to about 200k for Brett Worton.
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Worton Heroes Small Flush
Level: 21 (10,000/20,000/20,000) Entries: 2/75 Prizes: $21,375 Both players limped preflop to see 9♦9♥Q♦. They checked it again to the 3♦ turn where Graham check-raised from 30k to 100k. Worton called and the river was 4♦. Graham bet 100k and Worton called it off quickly. Graham showed a black ace-eight against Q♥5♦ for the small flush and the win.
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Graham Leads Heads Up
Level: 21 (10,000/20,000/20,000) Entries: 2/75 Prizes: $21,375 Kim Graham has 831k for the lead right now, while Brett Worton is playing 669k. They are still on the break following Level 20 and will be back in action in about 10 minutes.
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Tim Salangsan Out in 3rd Place for $3,206
Level: 20 (10,000/15,000/15,000) Entries: 2/75 Prizes: $21,375 
Tim Salangsan I missed the action while writing up the previous bust but Tim Salangsan took third place tonight to get the game heads up between Kim Graham and Brett Worton. Both players are champions here on the PPT as Worton has won this seniors game a few times while Kim Graham took down a Tag Team event earlier in the year playing with his twin brother.
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Carl Schelpe Out in 4th Place for $2,137
Level: 20 (10,000/15,000/15,000) Entries: 3/75 Prizes: $21,375 
Carl Schelpe They are down to three left now after Carl Schelpe lost his stack to table captain Kim Graham. Graham raised his button to 45k and Schelpe raised it up to 115k. Graham called and the flop was 8♠K♠2♠.
Schelpe check-called for 70k and the turn was 2♣. Schelpe checked again, then hit the tank when Graham shoved the covering stack. Eventually, Schelpe decided there wasn’t much to hand around for and he got the rest in.
Graham was on trip ducks with J♦2♦ against A♣4♠ for Schelpe. The river 3♦ bricked out for Schelpe and he was out in 3rd place.
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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.
| Level | Ante | Small Blind | Big Blind |
| 1 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | 200 | 100 | 200 |
| 3 | 300 | 200 | 300 |
| 4 | 400 | 200 | 400 |
| 15 min Break | |||
| 5 | 500 | 300 | 500 |
| 6 | 600 | 300 | 600 |
| 7 | 800 | 400 | 800 |
| 8 | 1,000 | 500 | 1,000 |
| 45 min Dinner Break – registration ends | |||
| 9 | 1,200 | 600 | 1,200 |
| 10 | 1,500 | 1,000 | 1,500 |
| 11 | 2,000 | 1,000 | 2,000 |
| 12 | 2,500 | 1,500 | 2,500 |
| 15 min Break – remove 100’s | |||
| 13 | 3,000 | 1,500 | 3,000 |
| 14 | 4,000 | 2,000 | 4,000 |
| 15 | 5,000 | 2,500 | 5,000 |
| 16 | 6,000 | 3,000 | 6,000 |
| 15 min Break – remove 500s | |||
| 17 | 8,000 | 4,000 | 8,000 |
| 18 | 10,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 |
| 19 | 12,000 | 6,000 | 12,000 |
| 20 | 15,000 | 10,000 | 15,000 |
| 15 minute break – remove 1000s | |||
| 21 | 20,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 |
| 22 | 25,000 | 15,000 | 25,000 |
| 23 | 30,000 | 15,000 | 30,000 |
| 24 | 40,000 | 20,000 | 40,000 |
| 15 Minute Break | |||
| 25 | 50,000 | 25,000 | 50,000 |
| 26 | 60,000 | 30,000 | 60,000 |
| 27 | 80,000 | 40,000 | 80,000 |
| 28 | 100,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 |
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