Deerfoot Inn & Casino is bringing back its signature Fall Super Stack series, kicking off on Nov 7. The series offers a diverse lineup of tournaments, including multi-day events like the $340 Deepstack, $560 Megastack, and $1,500 Main Event Superstack, as well as unique highlights like a $1,100 Heads-Up match, PLO games, and a Mystery Bounty.
Check out live updates and reporting from the Fall Super Stack by Lyle Bateman. Chose an event of your choice down below:
-
Big Numbers Early for 1c
Level: 1 (100/100/100) Entries: 62/62 (85/271) Prizes: $17,670 ($77,235) There are about 10 minutes still to play in the opening level today and the field is already over 60 entries and climbing. There is still a small line at the entry desk with Ty Adams, who was 4th in the PKO last night, as one of the recent entries to the game.
-
Nearly 40 Entries to Start 1c
Level: 1 (100/100/100) Entries: 38/38 (61/247) Prizes: $10,830 ($70,395) The final flight to Day 2 of Event #1 is now boarding with the action in Level 1. 38 players ate in their seats for the start of play, but there’s a line at the entry desk as well, so those numbers will be nearing 50 shortly. That puts the combined prizes higher than $70k but it looks like a lock that the final prizes later tonight will cap $100k.
Among the players in the game today are Ross Wilson, Jason Boyes, Reg Hampton, Don Fujita, Ali Razzaq, Calen Simmons, Derek Letourneau, Jeff “Ironman” Charlebois (minus his Ironman mask this time), and Russ Sluchinski.
-
Final Flight to Day 2 Boarding Saturday
Event: #1: $340 Deepstack ($300 + $40) Dates: Day 1a: Nov 7, 2 PM
Day 1b: Nov 8. 2 PM
Day 1c, Nov 9, 2 PM
Day 2: Nov 10, NoonBlinds: 30/40 Min Start Stack: 20k Late Entry: 10 Levels (~8:15 pm) Day 1 Ends: 16 Levels ~11:30 pm (or 10%+1 of Starting Field) After two starting flights for the Deepstack game, the field is at 209 with $59,565 in prizes so far. The big leader after two days is Dale Posein with 445k. That’s nearly 200k more than second place Patricia Kananda. Todd Oakley, who won the PLO game on opening night, bagged stack #3 worth 271k while Mike Malm, leader from 1a, in fourth now. Scott Calvank rounds out the top five counts after two starting days.
Day 1c will replicate the previous starting flights, only bigger. I’m expecting around 150 for Saturday, but the final numbers remain to be seen.
Players sit down with 20k in chips to start their day, and entries will be accepted for the first 10 levels of play. With 30-minute blinds on Day 1 (Day 2 moves to 40 minutes), that should put the final chance to enter or rebuy at about 8:15 PM on Day 1.
They’ll play a maximum of 16 levels on Day 1 with the bags coming out after Level 16 or when the field hits 10%+1, whichever comes first. If they play until the end of 16, the bags will be out around 11:30 PM.
This game will be my main focus throughout the opening weekend of the series. I’ll keep an eye on the side events and move to them at the end of the days for this event, but most of my attention will be focused here at the start of the series.
Day 1a/b Chip Stacks
T-S Player Chips 17 – 4 Dale Posein 445,000 14 – 7 Patricia Kananda 282,500 16 – 5 Todd Oakley 271,000 15 – 8 Michael Malm 261,500 15 – 3 Scott Calvank 243,000 17 – 2 Kim Pham 235,000 28 – 8 Peter Noble 225,000 16 – 6 Andy Truong 220,000 28 – 5 Jo Teliani 214,500 17 – 7 Jordan Banfield 209,500 28 – 7 Jeremy Gtaham 205,000 18 – 6 Francis Krulick 179,500 28 – 6 Lapchi Duong 177,500 15 – 4 Shane Chief 158,000 14 – 6 Bron Johnson 154,000 14 – 8 Dave Krause 132,500 18 – 3 Kory Stephenson 108,000 14 – 5 Mike St. Pierre-Porter 106,500 18 – 2 Kyle Dery 101,000 17 – 6 Debi Loomer 85,000 16 – 8 Nicholas Peterson 45,500 16 – 7 Seol Hee Kim 45,500 15 – 6 Adam Balog 43,500 
-
Francis Krulicki Out in 10th Place for $1,740
Level: 22 (15000/25000/25000) Entries: 9/370 Prizes: $105,450 
Francis Krulicki Dave Howat opened from the hijack to 50k and got calls from Francis Krulicki on the button and Bron Johnson in the big blind. Howat fired another 50k on the 6♥4♠5♦ flop after a check from Johnson. Krulicki called while Johnson mucked his hand.
The turn was 7♥ and Howat bet 100k, then snapped it off when Krulicki shoved. Howat flopped it with eight-seven for the straight, while Krulicki was dead with ace-queen.
-
Final Table Faces
Level: 21 (10000/20000/20000) Entries: 10/370 Prizes: $105,450 Here is a look at the final 10 players in Event #1.
Paul Sokoloff 
Haven Taylor 
Patricia Kananda 
Mike Malm 
Jordan Banfield 
Jackson Yang Francis Krulicki 
Dave Howat 
Bron Johnson 
Andy Truong -
Final Table
Level: 21 (10000/20000/20000) Entries: 10/370 Prizes: $105,450 They are down to 10 left on the final table now after the exits of Kim Pham, Peter Noble, and Ty Adams. I’ll grab some pictures of the FT shortly.
-
Down to 13
Level: 21 (10000/20000/20000) Entries: 13/370 Prizes: $105,450 They are down to 13 remaining after start-of-day leader Dale Posein hit the rail for 14th place shortly after the break ended. Meanwhile, on the other table, Jordan Banfield folded on a flop of J♣5♥A♦ after table leader Paul Sokoloff raised pre to 55k and Banfield called. Banfield checked the flop and Sokoloff fired 200k into the middle, enough to cover Banfield’s remaining chips. He hit the tank for more than a minute.
“I have a jack,” he said at one point.
“I figured,” replied Sokoloff. “After all this time you must have something.” Banfield eventually elected to release his hand instead of going for it to preserve his stack of about 150k.
-
Chips from Break; Howat and Malm Over 1 Million
Level: 21 (10000/20000/20000) Entries: 14/370 Prizes: $105,450 Here is a look at eh stacks with 14 left. Dave Howat is leading with Mike Malm in second. They are the only players with more than a million in front of them.
T-S Player Chips 16 – 1 Kim Pham 320,000 16 – 2 Dave Howat 1,500,000 16 – 3 Michael Malm 1,180,000 16 – 4 Patricia Kananda 685,000 16 – 6 Andy Truong 805,000 16 – 7 Bron Johnson 340,000 16 – 8 Dale Posein 525,000 17 – 3 Paul Sokoloff 590,000 17 – 4 Peter Noble 245,000 17 – 5 Francis Krulicki 395,000 17 – 6 Jackson Yang 190,000 17 – 7 Haven Taylor 280,000 17 – 8 Jordan Banfield 160,000 17 – 9 Ty Adams 360,000 -
Down to 14
Level: 20 (8000/16000/16000) Entries: 14/370 Prizes: $105,450 They are down to 14 left on Day 2 now after the recent exits of Shane Chief and Caleb Simmons. Full prizes to date are listed under the Payouts tab. There are just under 30 minutes to play in Level 20 with a break scheduled at the end of this level. I’ll grab full chip counts at the break.
-
Howat Leading Final 16
Level: 20 (8000/16000/16000) Entries: 16/370 Prizes: $105,450 David van der Torre was the most recent exit from the game to bring the field to 16 remaining. Dave Howat looks to be the clear leader right now with more than 1.1 million, but Patricia Kanada and Mike Malm aren’t too far behind in the 800k range. Start-of-day leader Dale Posein is playing just shy of 600k right now.
-
Down to 17
Level: 19 (6000/12000/12000) Entries: 17/370 Prizes: $105,450 Dale Posein opened under the gun to 30k and it folded around to big blind Kory Stephenson. He tried to go all in but failed to announce it and ended up leaving about 50k behind. Posein reshoved the bigger stack to make sure it was all in, and Stephenson called it off.
Stephenson was dominated with A♥10♦ against A♣Q♦ and the runout missed both players leaving the queen kicker to play for the win.
-
Krulicki Doubles to Stay Alive
Level: 19 (6000/12000/12000) Entries: 18/370 Prizes: $105,450 Ty Adams opened to 25k from the middle and it folded around to big blind Francis Krulicki. He shoved for 48k but got a snap-call from Adams.
Krulicki needed to hit to stay alive with J♥2♠ against A♦10♦ for Adams. Krlicki turned a deuce on a board of Q♦6♠4♥2♥9♣ and held to stay alive and double to a bit more than 100k.
-
Final Two Tables
Level: 19 (6000/12000/12000) Entries: 18/370 Prizes: $105,450 They are down to the final two tables now with Level 19 just underway. Full prizes to date are published under the Payouts tab, but below is a look at the players that busted since my last update. Debi Loomer bubbled the final two tables, but consider she came into today with less than 100k, she spun it up the ladder pretty nicely.
Place Player Prize 19 
Debi Loomer$1,160 20 Yan-Erick Coderre$1,107 21 Jonathan Chimuk$1,107 -
21 Players Left
Level: 18 (5000/10000/10000) Entries: 21/370 Prizes: $105,450 They are down to 21 players left now in Day 2 with about 10 minutes to play in Level 18. Peter Svoboda, JJ Johnstone, Mal Hagan, and Patrick Wilson were the most recent busts. The full payouts are under the Payouts tab now, but see below for the payouts to date.
Place Player Prize 22 Patrick Wilson$1,055 23 Mal Hagan$1,055 24 JJ Johnstone$1,055 25 Peter Svoboda$1,002 26 
Ben Locker$1,002 27 Michael St. Pierre-Porter$1,002 28 Jolnar Teliani$949 29 Karen Ray$949 30 Jeremy Drew$949 31 Nicholas Peterson$896 32 Scott Calvank$896 33 LapChi Duong$896 34 David Krause$844 35 Kyle Dery$844 36 Derek Letourneau$844 37 Ross Wilson$791 -
Down to 25
Level: 17 (4000/8000/8000) Entries: 25/370 Prizes: $105,450 They are down to 25 now after the exits of Jeremy Drew (Graham), Karen Ray, Jo Teliani, Michael St. Pierre-Porter, and Ben Locker. It’s worth noting that Locker came into today with the nut-low stack, so he managed to spin that up pretty well.
-
30 Left at Break
Level: 17 (4000/8000/8000) Entries: 30/370 Prizes: $105,450 They are on the first break of the day, and when they return for Level 17, the official Day 2 blinds of 40 minutes will begin. It looks like Dave Howat is the leader right now with about 760k in front of him. Mike Malm is also playing a decent stack of about 450k while Caleb Simmons is on about 475k. Patricia Kananda is on about 440k whole Paul Sokoloff looks to be playing about 330k.
-
31 Remain
Level: 16 (3000/6000/6000) Entries: 31/370 Prizes: $105,450 The first break of Day 2 is nearly upon us with the field down to 31. Kyle Dery, David Krause, LapChi Duong, and Scott Calvank are the players who have hit the rail since my last update.
-
Down to 35
Level: 15 (2500/5000/5000) Entries: 35/370 Prizes: $105,450 Once the bubble burst, there were a couple fo quick exits from Ross Wilson in 37th place ($791) and Derek Letourneau in 36th place ($844) to bring the field down to 35 remaining.
-
In the Money
Level: 15 (2500/5000/5000) Entries: 37/370 Prizes: $105,450 They are now in the money after Seol Hee Kim couldn’t find the cards she needed to crack the aces of Jonathan Chimuk. That made her the bubble player today and the remaining players are all guaranteed at least $791 now.
-
Hand for Hand to the Money
Level: 15 (2500/5000/5000) Entries: 38/370 Prizes: $105,450 They are on the money bubble now with 38 players left. Todd Oakley and Adam Balog were the early exits from Day 2 so far and the clock is now paused with 14:09 remaining in Level 15. They’ll take two minutes off the clock now for every hand played until the next elimination puts them in the money.
-
Hagan Takes One
Level: 15 (2500/5000/5000) Entries: 40/370 Prizes: $105,450 In the final hand of Level 14, Debi Loomer opened the cutoff to 8k and got calls from Jordan Banfield on the button, Kory Stephenson in the small blind and Mal Hagan in the big. The flop came 3♣7♣9♣ and all players checked it through to the J♦ turn. Stephenson checked the turn before Hagan fired out a bet of 10k.
Banfield was the only caller to the 2♦ river. Hagan checked and after about 30 seconds of thought, Banfield checked behind, showing Q♦10♦ but his queen high (with busted open-ender) was no good against the flopped pair for Hagan’s king-nine.
-
Day 2 is Nearly On
Level: 14 (2000/4000/4000) Entries: 40/370 Prizes: $105,450 The Day 2 players are now assembling and find their seats with 40 players coming back to fight for 37 paid spots. There are quite a few shorties out there today, so I expect they’ll be in the money pretty quickly.
-
Day 2 Seats
Note that Table 18 will be broken at the start of Day 2.
Day 2 Seats by Stack
T-S Name Chips 17 – 4 Dale Posein 445,000 14 – 9 Caleb Simmons 430,500 28 – 3 Ty Adams 425,000 16 – 3 Dave Howat 392,000 17 – 9 Mal Hagan 300,000 14 – 7 Patricia Kananda 282,500 16 – 5 Todd Oakley 271,000 15 – 8 Michael Malm 261,500 15 – 3 Scott Calvank 243,000 14 – 1 Paul Sokoloff 239,000 17 – 2 Kim Pham 235,000 14 – 2 David Van der Torre 232,500 28 – 8 Peter Noble 225,000 16 – 6 Andy Truong 220,000 28 – 5 Jo Teliani 214,500 17 – 5 JJ Johnstone 213,000 17 – 7 Jordan Banfield 209,500 28 – 7 Jeremy Gtaham 205,000 18 – 6 Francis Krulick 179,500 28 – 6 Lapchi Duong 177,500 15 – 4 Shane Chief 158,000 14 – 6 Bron Johnson 154,000 16 – 9 Yan-Erick Coderre 149,000 28 – 2 Haven Taylor 142,000 14 – 8 Dave Krause 132,500 15 – 2 Peter Svboda 128,000 28 – 1 Jackson Yang 119,000 18 – 3 Kory Stephenson 108,000 14 – 5 Mike St. Pierre-Porter 106,500 18 – 2 Kyle Dery 101,000 15 – 9 Karen Ray 90,000 17 – 6 Debi Loomer 85,000 16 – 1 Jonathan Chimuk 65,000 15 – 5 Ross Wilson 58,500 15 – 7 Derek Letourneau 55000 16 – 7 Seol Hee Kim 45,500 16 – 8 Nicholas Peterson 45,500 15 – 6 Adam Balog 43,500 17 – 1 Ben Locker 35,000 14 – 1 Patrick Wilson DNR Day 2 Seats by Name
T-S Player Peter Svoboda 15 – 6 Adam Balog 43,500 16 – 6 Andy Truong 220,000 17 – 1 Ben Locker 35,000 14 – 6 Bron Johnson 154,000 14 – 9 Caleb Simmons 430,500 17 – 4 Dale Posein 445,000 16 – 3 Dave Howat 392,000 14 – 8 Dave Krause 132,500 14 – 2 David Van der Torre 232,500 17 – 6 Debi Loomer 85,000 15 – 7 Derek Letourneau 55000 18 – 6 Francis Krulick 179,500 28 – 2 Haven Taylor 142,000 28 – 1 Jackson Yang 119,000 28 – 7 Jeremy Gtaham 205,000 17 – 5 JJ Johnstone 213,000 28 – 5 Jo Teliani 214,500 16 – 1 Jonathan Chimuk 65,000 17 – 7 Jordan Banfield 209,500 15 – 9 Karen Ray 90,000 17 – 2 Kim Pham 235,000 18 – 3 Kory Stephenson 108,000 18 – 2 Kyle Dery 101,000 28 – 6 Lapchi Duong 177,500 17 – 9 Mal Hagan 300,000 15 – 8 Michael Malm 261,500 14 – 5 Mike St. Pierre-Porter 106,500 16 – 8 Nicholas Peterson 45,500 14 – 7 Patricia Kananda 282,500 14 – 4 Patrick Wilson DNR 14 – 1 Paul Sokoloff 239,000 28 – 8 Peter Noble 225,000 15 – 2 Peter Svboda 128,000 15 – 5 Ross Wilson 58,500 15 – 3 Scott Calvank 243,000 16 – 7 Seol Hee Kim 45,500 15 – 4 Shane Chief 158,000 16 – 5 Todd Oakley 271,000 28 – 3 Ty Adams 425,000 16 – 9 Yan-Erick Coderre 149,000 Day 2 Seats by Table
T-S Player Chips 14 – 1 Paul Sokoloff 239,000 14 – 2 David Van der Torre 232,500 14 – 4 Patrick Wilson DNR 14 – 5 Mike St. Pierre-Porter 106,500 14 – 6 Bron Johnson 154,000 14 – 7 Patricia Kananda 282,500 14 – 8 Dave Krause 132,500 14 – 9 Caleb Simmons 430,500 15 – 2 Peter Svoboda 128,000 15 – 3 Scott Calvank 243,000 15 – 4 Shane Chief 158,000 15 – 5 Ross Wilson 58,500 15 – 6 Adam Balog 43,500 15 – 7 Derek Letourneau 55000 15 – 8 Michael Malm 261,500 15 – 9 Karen Ray 90,000 16 – 1 Jonathan Chimuk 65,000 16 – 3 Dave Howat 392,000 16 – 5 Todd Oakley 271,000 16 – 6 Andy Truong 220,000 16 – 7 Seol Hee Kim 45,500 16 – 8 Nicholas Peterson 45,500 16 – 9 Yan-Erick Coderre 149,000 17 – 1 Ben Locker 35,000 17 – 2 Kim Pham 235,000 17 – 4 Dale Posein 445,000 17 – 5 JJ Johnstone 213,000 17 – 6 Debi Loomer 85,000 17 – 7 Jordan Banfield 209,500 17 – 9 Mal Hagan 300,000 18 – 2 Kyle Dery 101,000 18 – 3 Kory Stephenson 108,000 18 – 6 Francis Krulick 179,500 28 – 1 Jackson Yang 119,000 28 – 2 Haven Taylor 142,000 28 – 3 Ty Adams 425,000 28 – 5 Jo Teliani 214,500 28 – 6 Lapchi Duong 177,500 28 – 7 Jeremy Gtaham 205,000 28 – 8 Peter Noble 225,000
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jordan Banfield | $23,199 |
| 2 | Andy Truong | $14,763 |
| 3 | Patricia Kananda | $10,018 |
| 4 | Paul Sokoloff | $7,909 |
| 5 | Dave Howat | $5,800 |
| 6 | Bron Johnson | $4,745 |
| 7 | Mike Malm | $3,691 |
| 8 | Jackson Yang | $2,636 |
| 9 | Haven Taylor | $2,109 |
| 10 | Francis Krulicki | $1,740 |
| 11 | Ty Adams | $1,476 |
| 12 | Peter Noble | $1,476 |
| 13 | Kim Pham | $1,371 |
| 14 | Dale Posein | $1,265 |
| 15 | Caleb Simmons | $1,265 |
| 16 | Shane Chief | $1,213 |
| 17 | David van der Torre | $1,213 |
| 18 | Kory Stephenson | $1,160 |
| 19 | Debi Loomer | $1,160 |
| 20 | Yan-Erick Coderre | $1,107 |
| 21 | Jonathan Chimuk | $1,107 |
| 22 | Patrick Wilson | $1,055 |
| 23 | Mal Hagan | $1,055 |
| 24 | JJ Johnstone | $1,055 |
| 25 | Peter Svoboda | $1,002 |
| 26 | Ben Locker | $1,002 |
| 27 | Michael St. Pierre-Porter | $1,002 |
| 28 | Jolnar Teliani | $949 |
| 29 | Karen Ray | $949 |
| 30 | Jeremy Drew | $949 |
| 31 | Nicholas Peterson | $896 |
| 32 | Scott Calvank | $896 |
| 33 | LapChi Duong | $896 |
| 34 | David Krause | $844 |
| 35 | Kyle Dery | $844 |
| 36 | Derek Letourneau | $844 |
| 37 | Ross Wilson | $791 |
