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 2024 Pure Poker Tour Series #6 by Lyle Bateman. Chose an event of your choice down below:
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Yamagishi Gets the Fold; Brotherwood Out
Level: 15 (2500/5000/5000) Entries: 11/73 Prizes: $55,480 Colten Yamagishi just put his life on the line with a shove for 102.5 from the big blind after Mike Malm opened 17.5k. Malm had the bigger stack and was in the tank for a couple of minutes before he finally folded.
As I was writing this, Shane Brotherwood exited the game in 11th place, so they are now hand-for-hand with 10 players left.
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Final Table
Level: 16 (3000/6000/6000) Entries: 9/74 Prizes: $14,060 The side game is at the final table now, one off the money spots. I’m still following Day 1 of the 6-max so I don’t have eyes on the chips in this one but Amr Samy looks to have the biggest stack.
Seat Player 1 Tyler Rumpel 2 Tyler Panas 3 Daniel O’Leary 4 Sal Haji 5 Jeffery Clarke 6 Amr Samy 7 Steven Riendeau 8 Alex Twin 9 Jody Ashton -
Bolger Out, Brotherwood Short
Level: 14 (2000/4000/4000) Entries: 11/73 Prizes: $55,480 Malcolm Bolger was the first player off the final two tables when he ran a dominated ace into Garry Sandhu. On the other table, Daniel Lefebvre chipped up in a hand against Shane Brotherwood.
I picked up the action on the 6♣K♣Q♦ flop where Brotherwood check-called for 17k from the big blind. The 2♠ turn brought another check-call from Brotherwood for 21.5k. Brotherwood led for 40k, enough to put Lefebvre all in, on the 9♠ river and Lefebvre snapped called. His ace-king was well ahead of Brotherwood’s queen-three.
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Final Two Tables
Level: 14 (2000/4000/4000) Entries: 12/73 Prizes: $55,480 Ryan Smith was the most recent exit to bring them down to 12 players on the final two tables. The bags will come out when they hit 9.
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Down to 14 Left
Level: 14 (2000/4000/4000) Entries: 14/74 Prizes: $14,060 They are 6 off the money in the side event now with 14 players left in the game.
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Down to 14
Level: 14 (2000/4000/4000) Entries: 14/73 Prizes: $55,480 They are down to 15 in the 6-Max now, five off the end of the day. Eric Wasylenko, Jason Heang, Preston Stevenson, and Weston Pring are the players who hit the rail in Level 13.
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Brotherwood Leads Final 18
Level: 13 (1500/3000/3000) Entries: 18/73 Prizes: $55,480 Shane Brotherwood is leading the way right now with 282.5k. Level 13 has just begun and they are 8 eliminations away from the end of Day 1.
Player Chips Shane Brotherwood 282,500 Rhett Stensrud 216,500 Stephen Dauphinais 193,500 Ali Razzaq 190,000 Gary Sandhu 178,500 Mike Malm 164,500 Mike Kim 133,500 Daniel Lefebvre 124,000 Weston Pring 120,000 Mlcolm Bolger 84,000 Preston Stevenson 83,000 Eric Wasylenko 76,000 Colten Yamagishi 69,500 Graham Lupton 68,500 DJ Sharma 67,000 Michael Bernstein 56,000 Ryan Smith 49,000 Jason Heang 43,000 -
74 Entries for the Side
Level: 11 (1000/2000/2000) Entries: 28/74 Prizes: $14,060 The numbers are official at 74 entries for Event #9. That means 8 players will be sharing in $14,060 in prizes later tonight with the winner set to pocket $4,784.
Prizes for Event #9
Place Prize 1 $4,784 2 $3,233 3 $2,109 4 $1,406 5 $927 6 $674 7 $520 8 $407 -
Some Big Stacks
Level: 11 (1000/2000/2000) Entries: 19/73 Prizes: $55,480 They are now 10 players away from the end of the day with 19 remaining and it looks like Mike Kim and Mile Malm are leading the way right now. They are both playing around 200k while SHae Brotherwood and Daniel Lefebvre look to be on about 180k at the moment.
There are about 5 minutes to play in Level 11 with a break after Level 12. I’ll grab a full round of chip counts from the remaining players at the break.
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15 Minutes to Enter
Level: 9 (600/1200/1200) Entries: 40/72 Prizes: $13,680 I got the times wrong for late entry on this game as I had the blind length wrong. Level 9 has just finished and entries are closed in less than 15 minutes when they sit down to Level 10. The field is currently at 72 entries with 40 remaining for $13,680 in prizes.
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Entries Confirmed at 73
Level: 10 (1000/1500/1500) Entries: 24/73 Prizes: $55,480 The prizes are in and the numbers are confirmed with he official field at 73. That puts the prizes at $55,480 with 9 players getting a dip in the pool. None of those prizes will be awarded today — when they hit 9 players tonight they’ll bag up the chips and return to play it out tomorrow starting at 1 PM.
6-Max Payouts
Place Prize 1 $17,757 2 $11,650 3 $7,767 4 $5,548 5 $4,161 6 $2,995 7 $2,330 8 $1,830 9 $1,442 -
53 Entries to Start Level 7
Level: 7 (400/800/800) Entries: 41/53 Prizes: $10,070 Level 7 has just begun and the field is at 53 entries for just over $10k in prizes. Entries are still open for about two hours.
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73 (Unofficial) Entries After Dinner
Level: 10 (1000/1500/1500) Entries: 26/73 Prizes: $55,480 Entries are now closed with players in their seats for Level 10. The final number on the board was 73, but I’m still waiting on confirmation of that when the prizes are complete. It looks like either 9 or 10 players will get bags later tonight and they’ll be fighting for more than $55k in prizes on Tuesday.
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72 Entries to Start Dinner
Level: 9 (600/1200/1200) Entries: 25/72 Prizes: $54,720 The 6-Max is on the dinner break now and entries will close when they sit down for Level 10 in about 25 minutes. The field is currently at 72 entries for prizes just shy of $55k but it’s likely we’ll see a few more entries before the end of dinner. With the current numbers, it looks like 9 players will find a bag tonight, but that may still change.
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35 Entries in Level 3
Level: 3 (200/300/300) Entries: 33/35 Prizes: $6,650 There are still more than 3 hours left to enter the game with the field now at 35 entries. That puts the prizes at $6,650 with 33 players still at the felt looking for a piece. Given the low buy-in, I expect a lot of rebuys for this one so the numbers should grow quite a bit before 10:15.
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More than $50k in Prizes
Level: 8 (500/1000/1000) Entries: 33/68 Prizes: $51,680 The prizes are more than $50k now with 68 entries on the board. There are 33 players still alive at the felt with more than an hour left to enter the game.
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23 Entries in Level 1
Level: 1 (100/100/100) Entries: 23/23 Prizes: $4,370 The prize pool is closing in on $5k with Level 1 still underway. There are 23 entries on the board so far with Level 2 about to start in less than 5 minutes.
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$45k in Prizes
Level: 6 (300/600/600) Entries: 34/60 Prizes: $45,600 The field is up to 60 entries with 34 players at the felt. That puts the prizes at $45,600 with Ryan Comely, DJ Sharma, Taran Parmar, Jimmy Lee, Shane Brotherwood, Eric Wasylenko, Ed Zurawell, Colten Yamagishi, Graham Lupton, and Daniel Lefebvre among the recent entries I’ve spotted.
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More than $30k in Prizes
Level: 4 (200/400/400) Entries: 32/42 Prizes: $31,920 Level 4 is about half complete with 42 entries on the board now. That puts the prizes at nearly $32k and climbing, with entries open for about 4 hours and 20 minutes from the time of this post.
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Turbo on the Side for Monday Night
Event: Event #9: $230 NLH Turbo ($200 + $30) Date: Nov 25, 6 PM Blinds: 20 MInutes Starting Stack: 20k Late Entry: 9 Levels (~10:15 PM) Day 1 Ends: One-Day Event The side game on Monday is an NLH Turbo game that starts at 6 pm. There will be about four and a quarter hours of late entry with the desk shutting down at around 10:15 PM.
Players buy in for 20k in chips and will play 20-minute levels until a winner is decided. This is a one-day event, so they’ll hand out the trophy before play concludes late tonight.
As expected, this is the side game tonight so I won’t be watching it very closely until the 6-Max bags for the night. Once that happens, I’ll jump across to this one to finish it off.
