LIVE Reporting: Pure Poker Tour Series #6

Mike Malm had the biggest stack at the end of play on Day 1b with almost 400k in his bag with Shane Sparklineyes in second bagging 365k. Full stacks are below & stay tuned for the Day 2 seats and prizes shortly.

Day 1b ended quite a bit earlier than Day 1a with 12 minutes left to play in Level 12. The final 12 players are now bagging their chips … stay tuned for the final chip counts, Day 2 prizes, and Day 2 seat assignments.

They are down to 18 with about 10 minutes to play in Level 11 now. It looks like Shane Sparklingeyes is the chip leader right now with more than 300k in front of him. They’ve just broken down to the final two tables so it looks like a reasonable bet that tonight may finish before 1a.

Entries for Event #4 are now closed with 94 recorded for Day 1b for a combined total of 160 across both days. I’m still waiting to see the final prizes, but the numbers are confirmed and Day 1b will play down to 12 players later tonight before the bags come out. That will mean 20 players will return tomorrow for Day 2 in the money.

The 1b players are now on their dinner break with entries set to close in about 40 minutes. The combined prizes are just shy of $90k right now and should push over that number with one more entry tonight.

The combined prizes are over $86k now with 151 entries on the board so far. There are just under 90 minutes left to get into this game with Weston Pring, and Michael “Berny” Bernstein among the newer faces I’ve seen in the action tonight.

Jerry Tria is among the new entries in his first event for a few years as he’s been away from the tables for personal reasons. There are 2 hours left to get into this game before entries close at the start of Level 10 and the combined prizes are up to more than $82k.

Day 1b has just capped Day 1a with more than 3 hours left to enter this flight. The combined field is up to 134 entries now, so 150 entries seems well within reach. If that happens, the combined prizes will be in the range of $85k or higher.

Deven Lane is among the new entries for today’s flight. He bagged a stack in yesterday’s 1a flight, but it was barely fumes as he only put 12k into his bag at the end of the night. He’s back in action today to try to find a bigger bag for tomorrow — if he succeeds, then his 1a stack will be awarded a min-cash and taken out of play while he plays his 1b stack for bigger money.

They are up to 46 entries on the first break of 1b now for a combined total of 112 so far. That puts the total prizes at $63,840 with about 5 hours left to enter. Zhi Jiang, Jolnar Teliani, Amanda Belanger, and Michael St. Pierre-Porter are among the new faces I’ve seen recently.

The combined prizes are over $60 now with 40 entries in play for Day 1b so far. There are about 20 minutes remaining in Level 3 with the first break of the day scheduled following this level.

Ron Lauzon, Dylan Webb, Alex Polkovsky, Jayvee Lumahan, Jay Tran, Nadav Bitton, Ali Razzaq, Shane Brotherwood, Mal Hagan, Justin Pennell, and Mike Malm are among the players in action today. Malm, Pennell, Hagan, Brotherwood, and Razzaq are all at the same table today, so that’s a pretty tough spot to be in early action.

The second flight for Event #4 is set for Saturday at 1 pm and Steve Chung is the 1a stack to beat. He bagged 385.5k at the end of 1a with two-time Main Event champ Eric Wasylenko and Skyler York also rocking 300k+ in their bags. A total of 8 players made it through the day.

Day 1b plays as a redo of 1a with 25k to start, 40-minute blinds, and 9 levels to enter the game (~8:00 pm). As with 1a, they’ll play down to 12.5% of the starting field before they bag. Day 2 will begin at the earliest Day 1 finish, so right now the latest Day 2 will start is 25:31 remaining in Level 15.

I will likely be late to the floor for this one, but I should be there before the first break, and I’ll be focused on this one until they bag.