Pure Poker Tour Series #6 – Event #7: $450 NLH

Event #7 is in the books after Francis Fan and Colten Yamagishi decided on a heads-up chop of the money. They were essentially even in chips after Fan sent Bash Ramahi to the cage in 3rd place but Fan took the official win while Yamagish was second.

Fan was among the leaders for most of the final table, but Yamagishi’s trip to the podium had a more circuitous path. He was the short stack at the table until he went on a tear, catching a double through 5th place finisher Alexander Richmond when Richmond’s overcards turned a bigger pair to Yamagishi’s pocket sevens but Yamagishi hit a straight on the river.

That started a run up the counts for Yamagishi that saw him in a big lead when they were three-handed. Fan then sent Ramahi out to even things up, and the players agreed to the deal. It’s worth adding that Yamagishi jumped into this one after a brutal beat in Event #4 sent him out in ninth place with kings into aces.

Final Results from Event #7

Place	Player	Prize
1	Francis Fan	$8,557
2	Colten Yamagishi	$8,557
3	Bash Ramahi	$4,503
4	Nadav Bitton	$3,002
5	Alexander Richmond	$1,981
6	Vinayak Makkar	$1,440
7	Kirk Nilson	$1,110
8	Jerry Tria	$870

Francis Fan limped in from the button, and Colten Yamagish called from the small blind before Bash Ramahi shoved the big blind. Fan snapped it off before Yamagishi folded, and Fan’s trap was sprung. He had aces against Ramahi’s queen-jack. Ramahi hit a jack on the flop but that was all the help he got.

Colten Yamagishi is the chip leader with about 970k in front of him while Bash Ramahi and Francis Fan are both at around 500k.

There are three left now after Nadav Bitton ended his day in 4th place. I missed the action writing the previous hand up.

Colten Yamagishi is on a run. He just sent Alexander Richmond to the rail in 5th place with pocket sizes into pocket aces. Yamagishi spiked a 6 on the river for a big chip lead now.

I missed the action, but Colten Yamagishi just sent Vinayak Makkar to the rail in 6th place and in the process he’s chipped up to the lead with about 700k in front of him.

Colten Yamagishi raised the cutoff to 185k, leaving just 5k behind. Alexander Richmond shoved a bigger stack from the button and it folded back to Yamagishi who put in the extra 5k.

Yamagishi was on pocket sevens with Richmond playing the king-queen overs. When the 6♦9♣8♥K♣5♣ board was complete, Yamagishi had the nine-high straight for the double to over 400k while Richmond is down to about 200k.

Francis Fan is leading the way at the break following Level 20.

Nadav Bitton opened the button to 35k and Alexander Richmond called from the big blind. Richmond check-called on the 4♣A♠J♦ flop and they both checked the Q♥ turn. Richmond checked again on the 8♣ river, then hit the tank for a minute or two when Bitton fired 55k. Richmond finally called and Bitton immediately mucked while Richmond showed pocket kings.

Bash Ramahi raised the cutoff to 30k and Nadav Bitton defended his big blind. He checked in the dark before the J♥Q♥Q♦ flopped, and Ramahi checked behind him. Bitton fired 15k on the 7♦ turn and Ramahi called.

The river 6♣ brought a check from Bitton but Ramahi fired 70k. “Why so much?” Bitton asked when he was in the tank. He finally called and his seven-eight was good against king-nine bluff from Ramahi.

Vinayak Makkar shoved all in for 99k early and it folded around to Bash Ramahi in the big blind. He called for a race between his A♥9♠ against the pocket fives for Makkar. The 4♦2♦3♦J♥8♦ board missed Ramahi’s overcards to send the double to Makkar.

They are down to 6 left now after Kirk Nilson headed to the cage for 7th place money tonight.

They are down to 8 remaining after Jerry Tria was the first player out in the money tonight.

They are breaking down to the final table now after Biran Wells ended his run in 10th. He lost a big hand to Michael St. Pierre-Porter with ace-six into ace-seven when St. Pierre-Porter found a seven on the flop. That left him short and he was out the next hand.

They are still one away from the money.

They are down to 10 players left in the side game tonight with the action in Level 18. There are 8 paid spots tonight, but they went hand-for-hand at 10 players, just before the final table. I don’t have a good handle on the chips at the moment but below is a look at the remaining players.

Entries are now closed for Event #7 with 79 entries in the field. That means 8 players will get a piece of just over $30k in prizes later tonight.

Event #7 Payouts

I’m not able to watch this one very closely for the time being as Event #4 is still playing out their final table but the field for Event #7 is up to 61 entries for prizes of more than $23k. Level 7 has just begun and there are about 2 hours left to enter this game.

The side event field is now up to 34 entries with 32 still in play. Ryan Comely and Gerald Chung are among the new entries I’ve seen recently.

The side game today is up to 27 entries now with 26 players at the felt. There are about 15 minutes to play in Level 2.

The side game is now underway with 22 entries and 21 players still in the action. Level 1 has about 5 minutes left to play with entries open for more than 4 hours yet. Jerry Tria, JOhnny Dalphond, Cindy Grabia, Justin Pennell, Michael St. Pierre-Porter, Ali Razzaq, Nadav Bitton, Steve Chung, Kirk Nilson, Pac Braich, and Benny Sarnelli are among the players in this one so far today.

The main game on Sunday is Day 2 of Event #4, but there’s another game on the side, Event #7: $450 NLH ($200 + $30). Cards go in the air at 3 PM with entries open for a bit more than 4.5 hours so there should be plenty of time for E4 players to use their cashouts to jump into this one.

Players buy in for $450 and get 25k in chips. Levels will be 25 minutes long with entries closing at the start of Level 11. It’s a one-day event so they’ll hand out a trophy before they close down for the night.

This is the second game on Sunday, so I won’t be watching it very closely in the early levels but I expect E4 to end relatively early, so I should be on this one well before it ends.