As 2024 winds down, the Alberta poker scene is heating up with the final series of the Pure Poker Tour (PPT) season. The trophy events kick off at Pure Casino Yellowhead on November 21 with the Seniors First event, followed by 11 days of action-packed poker, and highlighted by the $1,100 Main Event starting on November 29.
Check out live updates and reporting from the Pure Poker Tour Series #6 by Lyle Bateman. Chose an event of your choice down below:
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Team RM & AG Wins the Team Game
Level: 13 (1500/3000/3000) Entries: 1/14 Prizes: $5,320 Team RM & AG, who have requested I not use their full names or pictures, took down the team game tonight for $3,299 while Ali Razzaq & Vlad Pechenkin took second for $2,021.
Ali Razzaq & Vlad Pechenkin, runners-up in the E15 Tag Team -
In the Money
Level: 13 (1500/3000/3000) Entries: 2/14 Prizes: $5,320 They are heads up in the team event with Ali Razzaq & Vlad Pechenkin versus RM & AG, who wish to remain anonymous. I won’t be posting a picture of them but team Razzaq/Pechenkin is below. RM & AG have the chip lead right now.
Ali Razzaq (L) & Vlad Pechenkin (R), one of the teams in the money in E15 -
14 Teams
Level: 11 (1000/2000/2000) Entries: 8/14 Prizes: $5,320 It was a pretty small team game tonight with 14 teams in the pool and 8 teams still in play. The prizes for the game are $5,320 with two teams expected to share that later tonight.
Team Payouts
Place Prize 1 $3,299 2 $2,021 -
10 Teams in Action
Level: 5 (300/600/600) Entries: 8/10 Prizes: $3,800 The team game is ongoing in the Poker Room with 10 teams on the board and 8 in play right now for combined prizes of $3,800. There is about 1 hour and 45 minutes left to get into the team game tonight.
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Two-Card Tag Team on Saturday Night
Event: Event #15: $440 NLH Tag Team ($400 + $40) Date: Nov 30, 6 PM Blinds: 20k Starting Stack: 20 Minutes Late Entry: 9 Levels (~9:15 PM) Day 1 Ends: One-Day Event This series had two different Team events with the Mixed version running on the opening weekend and the straight two-card version running on the final Saturday of the series at 6 PM. Teams buy in for $440 for the team and will sit down with 20k in chips.
Levels will be 20 minutes long throughout the game and the teams will have 9 levels to buy in or rebuy. That should put the cutoff for entries at about 9:15 PM.
Teams consist of two players and players will swap out every level. Each team starts the game with 5 switch tickets which can be used to swap with your won teammate during a level or to force another team at the table to swap their players. Switch tickets can only be played in between hands — if the player to swap has cards in front of them, they can’t be swapped out until that hand ends.
As this is the side game running alongside Day 1b of the Main Event it’s likely I won’t have much time to watch this one in the early running. I may well make it over to the Team game after the Main Event bags, depending on how long this one runs, but I also don’t plan to stay at the casino past about 2 AM tonight as I need to be on the floor at noon for Day 2 of the Main, so I may not be able to cover the endgame of this one depending on how long everything lasts today. I’ll do my best to keep up to date on numbers, and get the final results posted by tomorrow at the latest.
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