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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Ed Zurawell Wins Event #6 for $7,868 after Deal
Ed Zurawell, winner of Event #6 The final two players agreed to an ICM chop that guaranteed Ed Zurawell $7,868 for the big stack. They then decided to flip for the trophy and, while runner-up Brian Wells won the first hand for a double, he was still the short stack when Zurawell took down the second flip, ending the game.
This was Zurawell’s second career win and first PPT trophy and should push his lifetime earnings over $85k.
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Brian Wells Out in 2nd Place for $6,172 after Deal
Brian Wells When they got heads up Brian Wells and Ed Zurawell decided it was late and they wanted to end it. They agreed to an ICM chop with Zurawell close to 1.5 million and Wells just under 400k. That gave Wells $6,172 guaranteed.
They then decided to flip for th trophy and Wells doubled up on the first hand and looked to maybe make a comeback, but Zurawell was still the leader and he took down the second hand for the win.
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Justin Pennell Out in 3rd Place for $3,710
Level: 22 (15,000/25,000/25,000) Entries: 2/93 Prizes: $26,505 
Justin Pennell They are heads up now after Ed Zurawell raised to 50k, then called when Justin Pennell shoved. Zurawell was on pocket ducks against ace-eight for Pennell, but the deuces held and they are now heads up.
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Weston Pring Out in 4th Place for $2,650
Level: 21 (10,000/20,000/20,000) Entries: 3/93 Prizes: $26,505 
Weston Pring They are down to three now after Weston Pring hit the rail in 4th place, though I missed the action while I was writing up the previous hand.
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Bash Ramahi Out in 5th Place for $1,987
Level: 21 (10,000/20,000/20,000) Entries: 4/93 Prizes: $26,505 
BashRamahi It was a cooler that sent Bash Ramahi to the rail. He shoved under the gun with pocket jacks, but small blind Ed Zurawell woke up with aces. Zurawell turned an ace to seal the deal and send Ramahi out in 5th.
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Pring Doubles
Level: 21 (10,000/20,000/20,000) Entries: 5/93 Prizes: $26,505 Bash Ramahi raised the cutoff to 40k before Weston Pring announced all in from the small blind for 120k. Ramahi got a count and called it off.
Pring was on aces against K♥J♥ for Ramahi. The aces held and Pring is now nearing 300k.
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Break Chips
Level: 21 (10,000/20,000/20,000) Entries: 5/93 Prizes: $26,505 Seat Player Chips 2 Brian Wells 185,000 3 Bash Ramahi 526,000 6 Justin Pennel 174,000 8 Weston Pring 155,000 9 Ed Zurawell 805,000 -
Zurawell Gets River Value
Level: 20 (10,000/15,0000/15,000) Entries: 5/93 Prizes: $26,505 The board was already out when I arrived at the table reading 7♥2♥9♦8♣4♦. Ed Zurawell was in the small blind and he put in a big bet of 150k, sending button Weston Pring in the tank.
He muttered to himself for a couple of minutes trying to work out the hand before finally making a one-chip call. Zurawell showed J♥10♥ for the turned straight and flush draw whole Pring sent his cards to the muck.
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Nadav Bitton Out in 6th Place for $1,431
Level: 20 (10,000/15,000/15,000) Entries: 5/93 Prizes: $26,505 
Nadav Bitton It was blind on blind when Bash Ramahi shoved the small and Nadav Bitton snap-called from the big.
Nadav Bitton: 3♣3♦
Bash Ramahi: A♣Q♣It was a race bit Ramahi sprinted to the lead on the flop when the board ran out 6♣10♦A♠10♥4♦ and Bitton couldn’t catch up.
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Holly Berry Out in 7th Place for $1,113
Level: 20 (10,000/15,000/15,000) Entries: 6/93 Prizes: $26,505 
Holly Berry They are down to six now after Holly Berry ran into a cooler on her big blind. Brian Wells raised the hijack to 40k, then called it off when Berry shoved her big blind. She was on A♥Q♠ but ran into A♠K♥ for Wells. Both players turned Broadway draws on the 4♠9♣10♦J♠3♠ board but ultimately, the Wells’ ace-high, king kicker took it down.
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Perston Stevenson, DJ Sharma Out in 9th and 8th Places
Level: 19 (6,000/12,000/12,000) Entries: 7/93 Prizes: $26,505 
DJ Sharma I wasn’t able to grab a picture of Preston Stevenson before he took 9th place earlier tonight, while DJ Sharma just hit the rail in 8th place. There are about 10 minutes left in this level and they’ll rack up the chips to move to poker when this level is complete.
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Bubble Time
Level: 17 (4,000/8,000/8,000) Entries: 10/93 Prizes: $26,505 They are on the bubble now in the side game but I’m still over watching the PLO Bounty heads-up.
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Down to 29
Level: 11 (1,000/2,000/2,000) Entries: 29/93 Prizes: $26,505 They are down to 29 players left in the side game tonight with Level 11 just underway. Among the players still in the action tonight are Ali Razzaq, Myles Budd, Brian Wells, Holly Berry, Ed Zurawell, Prestong Stevenson, DJ Sharma, Rob Lothian, Weston Pring, Tyler Panas, Stefan Maloney, Justin Pennell, Dale “Soupy” Campbell, Nadav Bitton, and Daniel O’Leary.
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93 Entries Confirmed
Level: 9 (600/1,200/1,200) Entries: 32/93 Prizes: $26,505 The prizes are in and 9 players will be sharing in about $26,500 in prizes tonight. The winner is set to pocket $8,485 while the 9th place spot pays $689. Full prize details are posted under the Payouts tab.
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93 Unofficial Entries
Level: 9 (600/1,200/1,200) Entries: 33/93 Prizes: $26,505 Entries are now closed on the side event with 93 as the final tally on the board. That will be confirmed shortly when the prizes are posted, but if it holds, then 10 players will share in $26,505 in prizes later tonight.
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Nearly 80 Entries
Level: 6 (300/600/600) Entries: 37/79 Prizes: $22,515 The side event field is up to 79 entries now for prizes of $22,515 so far. There are still 37 players in action fighting for part of those prizes later including Ali Razzaq, Myles Budd, Ed Zurawell, Bash Ramahi. Gerald Chung, Tyler Panas, DJ Sharma, Rob Lothian, Weston Pring, Daniel O’Leary, Holly Berry, Daniel Lefebvre, Dale Campbell, Justin Pennell, Stefan Maloney, Nadav Bitton, and Joe Herlein.
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Nearly $20k in Prizes
Level: 5 (300/500/500) Entries: 42/68 Prizes: $19,380 The field for the side game is up to 68 with about 15 minutes to play in Level 5. There are still about 2 hours left to get into the game today with entries shutting down at about 8:30 tonight.
There are 42 players in the action still with the average stack right now at about 60 bigs.
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First Break of the Day
Level: 5 (300/500/500) Entries: 33/60 Prizes: $17,100 The side game is on it’s first break of the day with 60 entries on the board. There are still a bit more than 2 hours to get into this one so those numbers will go up before it all closes.
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Panas Flushes Out Wilson
Level: 4 (200/400/400) Entries: 42/53 Prizes: $15,105 There was some early action on one of the tables that saw Ross Wilson hit the rail. I missed most of the action, but when I arrived at the table, Tyler Panas was collecting Wilson’s chips with [invalid notations]Ts9s[/pcn[ in front of him and a board containing [invalid notations]8sJsQs[/pcn[ for the queen-high straight flush.
Meanwhile, across the room Ron Lothian is stacking big with about 80k in front of him. A chunk of those chips came from a hand where he flopped open-ended with king-ten, then turned his straight and got paid with a river shove for a big double.
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50 Entries in Level 3
Level: 3 (200/300/300) Entries: 42/50 Prizes: $14,250 They are nearing $15k in prizes in the side event today with 50 players on the board as Level 3 ticks down. There are still 42 players in the battle for prizes and about 3 hours left to enter the game.
To be announced.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (CAD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ed Zurawell |  | $8,485 |
| 2 | Brian Wells | | $5,556 |
| 3 | Justin Pennell | | $3,710 |
| 4 | Weston Pring | | $2,650 |
| 5 | Bash Ramahi | | $1,987 |
| 6 | Nadav Bitton | | $1,431 |
| 7 | Holly Berry | | $1,113 |
| 8 | DJ Sharma | | $874 |
| 9 | Preston Stevenson | | $689 |
