There were two games on Tuesday’s schedule at the 2025 Deerfoot Inn & Casino Spring Super Stack. The second multi-day event of the series, the $560 Megastack, played its Day 1a with 103 entries, while across the Chrome room, the NLH/PLO Mix single-day event was going on.
The opening flight of the Megastack proved to be a bit of a marathon, running into Level 18, and the side game threatened to finish before they bagged the Megastack. It didn’t quite work out that way, but the Half & Half was already down to heads-up before the final hand was dealt in Event #10.
Raj Sabanathan Bags Big on Day 1a of Megastack
| Event 10: | $560 Megastack ($500 + $60) |
| Date: | Day 1a: Apr 8, Noon Day 1b: Apr 9, Noon Day 2: Apr 10, Noon |
| Blinds: | 40 Minutes |
| Starting Stack: | 30k |
| Late Entry: | 12 Levels (~9:30 PM) |
| Day 1 Ends: | 10% of the Field |
| Entries: | 103 |
| Prizes: | $48,925 |
The opening flight to the Megastack landed with 10 players still on board, but it took some time to get there. They circled the runway with 11 left for more than 2 levels before it all finally came to an end with 10 stacks bagging up.
When the chips were bagged, it was Raj Sabanathan who bagged the biggest with nearly 700k. Todd “The Rock” was second with just shy of 400k, with JJ Johnstone, Antonio Ma, and Lapchi Duong also bagging 375k+ stacks.
The second and final flight to the Megastack takes off at noon on Wednesday, and the expectation is for well over $100k in prizes by the time entries close. Follow the exclusive coverage of Day 1b at poker.pro.
Teo Sanchez Crushes the NLH/PLO Mix for First Live Win
| Event 11: | $450 NLH/PLO ($400 + $50) |
| Date: | Apr 8, 4 PM |
| Blinds: | 25 Minutes |
| Starting Stack: | 25k |
| Late Entry: | 10 Levels (~8:15 PM) |
| Day 1 Ends: | One-Day Event |
| Entries: | 63 |
| Prizes: | $23,940 |
It was a dominating performance for Teo Sanchez tonight on the final table of the NLH/PLO Mix game. He had the big stack from seven-handed all the way down to the win and was the player who sent everyone home along that journey.
Sanchez is a familiar face here at Deerfoot Inn & Casino, and as I was chatting with him after the win, he mentioned that this is also his favorite game. He clearly has skills at the community board games, regardless of the number of cards he’s dealt, though he also mentioned he was more devoted to cash poker than tournaments.
That may well change after the dominating performance tonight brought him his first tournament win on the live felt. He was seventh in a higher buy-in version of this game during last May’s WSOP-C here at Deerfoot, his second-best result prior to this one, after a 5th place in a 2023 6-Max on the Pure Poker Tour.
Sanchez busted every player at the table from seventh down to the win tonight, doing all the work himself, and watching the aggressive way he played the big stack, it was clear he was on a sunrun tonight. His relentless aggression picked up multiple pots by forcing folds from ICM-aware opponents, but he was always dialed in enough to know when to raise/fold as well. He rarely gave away free chips and stole more than his share from the smaller stacks.
Get all the endgame action on the exclusive poker.pro live reporting page.
