LIVE Reporting: Pure Poker Tour Series #6

Garry Sandhu opened to 40k and Ali Razzaq called. The flop came K♥A♦A♥ and Razzaq check-called for 40k. The K♠ turn brought another check-call from Razzaq, this time for 100k. They both checked the 3♠ river, and the king-ten of diamonds for Razzaq was good with the turned boat.

They are heads up now between Garry Sandhu and Ali Razzaq after Daniel Lefebvre busted out in 3rd place. He was pre-registered in the High Roller for the reduced rake (along with about 14 others so far) so he won’t have long to wait to get back into the action.

Graham Lupton shoved under the gun for 105k and Gary Sandhu called him off from the small blind. Lupton had a pair of threes and was racing against ace-five for Sandhu. Sandhu smashed the flop on the A♣Q♥A♥10♥10♠ board to take the lead and hold for the win.

GRaham Lupton shoved his button after taking blinds and antes in a previous hand to get himself up to 70k. It folded to big blind Garry Sandhu and he decided to “give it a try.”

Sandhu has the offsuit eight-six against ace-jack off for Lupton, and Sandhu turned best before losing it on the river of the 5♣2♠2♣8♥J♦ board. Lupton is now back to about 170k while Sandhu is still the big stack at the table.

Graham Lupton raised to 30k under the gun and Daniel Lefebvre re-popped it to 120k from the button. Lupton made the call to the 5♦5♠5♥ flop where he shoved a covering stack. Lefebvre snapped it off with pocket sevens against the king-queen overs for Lupton. The A♣2♦ runout kept Lefebvre ahead to give him about 200k now while Lupton was left with just 40k behind.

They are down to four remaining now after Stephen Dauphinais busted out for 5th place today.

Ali Razzaq limped from the small blind, then called when big blind Graham Lupton raised to 42k. They checked it all the way to the river on a board of 7♦J♠10♦K♥3♠ where Razzaq led out for 30k. Lupton called, but mucked when Razzaq showed king-three for the turned top pair and rivered two pair.

Garry Sandhu has a pretty big lead on the first break of Day 2.

Final Table Stacks for 6-Max

It was the perfect flop for Garry Sandhu. DJ Sharma opened the action to 36k from the button, and Garry Sandhu, in the small blind, checked out Sharma’s stack, then shoved the covering stack.

Sharma called it off with jacks while Sandhu showed up with ace-jack. The A♥A♦J♦ was massive, giving both players the flopped boat, but Sandhu’s aces-full was best. The 7♦10♣ were irrelevant and Sharma hit the rail for 6th place tonight.

Garry Sandhu and Ali Razzaq are still the big stacks out there and they just got into a decent-sized confrontation. Razzaq raised to 20k under the gun and both DJ Sharma (small) and Garry Sandhu (big) called to see 3♥8♠8♦ on the flop. It checked to Razzaq who put out a bet of 25k.

Sharma got out of the way, but Sandhu smooth-called to the A♠ turn. Sandhu checked again but elected for the check-raise to 100k after Razzaq tossed in 35k. Razzaq thought about it for a minute or so before sliding his hand into the muck.

Sandhu has about 715k to Razzaq’s 660k after the hand.

Mike Malm was the first off the final table tonight. He shoved with ace-deuce and Stephen Dauphinais called with ace-five and the bigger stack. Malm flopped a deuce to take the lead but by the river, Dauphinais found himself on the wheel for the win.

Here is a look at the final seven players on the final table today.

They are down to 7 players at the final table now after Colten Yamagishi (9th) and Michael “Berny” Bernstein (8th) hit the cage for early payouts today. I’ll grab some FT pics shortly.

The final nine players are back in action in the 6-Max and they’ll be playing down to a winner today. Last night’s bubble was a true marathon with more than an hour of hand-for-hand play so there are some short stacks out there as a result so it should be a relatively quick trip to the final table of 7 players.

Day 2 is now set with Garry Sandhu leading with 569k and Ali Razzaq on his heels with 544k. They’ll return with 17 minutes remaining in Level 17 and all players in the money

Day 2 gets going at 1 pm and they’ll play until there’s a winner tomorrow.

Day 2 Chips & Seats

Day 2 Prizes

It was a long bubble tonight as they played a couple of hands in Level 15, the entire Level 16, and part of Level 17 without losing a player. In the end, one of the bigger stacks at the start of hand-for-hand, Rhett Stensrud, was the bubble.

Garry Sandhu and Ali Razzaq are leading the way with more than 500k each. See below for the final 9 stacks in the money with players coming back to the same seats until the redraw for the final table at 7 players.

It’s definitely Sharma Time tonight. DJ Sharma just shoved the short stack under the gun and Ali Razzaq reshoved from the button. Sharma was live with six-four of clubs but needed to find outs against the ace-king for Razzaq. Most of the J♠8♠10♥4♠6♥ board was clean for Razzaq, but he sunk on the river to double Sharma up.

They are still hand-for-hand with 10 left after Michael “Berny” Bernstein survived by doubling through Rhett Stensrud. He shoved with king-ten of diamonds and Stensrud called with queen-jack off. Berny hit his king on the river and doubled.

Michael Bernstein survived and all-in shove from the small blind after a tank-fold from Rhett Stensrud in the big blind. On the other table, Mike Malm raised preflop to 17.5k and got a call from big blind Ali Razzaq. I missed the flop and turn action while watching Berny’s all in, but by the 8♠3♥2♣5♠2♦ Malm was twisting a bit as he faced a 35k bet from Razzaq.

“Can we get a different river?” he joked at one point during his tank before he finally called, showing ace-jack against Razzaq’s queen-jack.

Shortly after, DJ Sharma doubled up with ace-king over ace-queen against Ali Razzaq. They are now on the break.