2025 Pure Poker Tour Series #3 – Event #14: $1,100 NLH Main Event

The final numbers are in, and while I’m still waiting on confirmation, Day 1a looks like they got 149 entries for prizes of just over $140k. That bodes well for a final prize pool tomorrow of well over $300k, and it could easily be pushing $400k by the time 1b entries close.

It looks like Clayton Gaudry is leading the field at dinner. I didn’t go through every stack in the game, but after finding a few of the bigger ones and counting, Gaudry’s 285k is the biggest. Cameron Stewart, Rob Lothian, and Matthew Ouellette are also playing more than 200k.

The prize pool is now just over $130k with a bit less than an hour left to get into this opening flight. It still looks possible for a field of 150 entries before the upcoming dinner break is over, but it’s looking more like the field will settle a but below 150.

I’ll have a look around during the dinner break for the big stacks in the game, but Rob Lothian was still playing about 200k last time I went past his seat.

The Day 1 prize pool is over $125k with 133 entries on the board. Level 9 has about 35 minutes to play, which puts the end of entries about 1 hour and 20 minutes away. While it’s likely that the pace of entries will slow a bit over the next hour or so, a 1a field of 150 entries isn’t out of the question today.

The prizes are nearing $115k now with 122 entries on the board. I’ve just had a wander around the room for a look at some stacks, and it looks like Rob Lothian is leading right now. He looks to haev more than 180k in front of him, while Cameron Stewart is playing about 150k, Clayton Gaudry is on about 140k, and Matthew Ouellette and Eric Wasylenko are both on about 120k. Adam Lamers looks to be playing just shy of 100k now, with the average stack just under 55k.

The Day 1a field continues to grow with the total up to 116 now. That puts nearly $110k into the prize pool so far, with about 2.5 hours left to enter today’s flight, and a full Day 1b tomorrow.

Today’s flight is still looking on pace for $120k in prizes, making a final prize pool of more than $300k a distinct possibility.

The prize pool just capped $100k with more than 3 hours left to enter today’s opening flight to the Main Event. It seems likely today’s prizes will push toward $120k before the end of entries later tonight, making a $300k+ prize pool by the end of Day 1b a distinct possibility.

About 15 minutes remain in Level 6, and they’ll go for their second break of the day following this level. After that, they return for 3 more levels of poker with entries open, with the 1a field set by the time they sit down for Level 10 at about 7:15 PM, after the dinner break.

It’s a great turnout for Day 1a so far, with nearly 100 entries in the kitty while Level 5 is still playing and, as opposed to being full of rebuys, the field is still pretty full with 75 players still sitting with active chip stacks. That puts them less than 10 entries away from $100k in prizes in the opening flight, so this Main Event field is looking very solid early on.

Among the players in action today are the runner up from last night’s PLO game, Luteng Li, as well as Daniel Lefebvre, PokerNews reporter Adam Lamers, Kyle Ho, Michael “Berny” Bernstein, Rob Limpert, Eric Wasylenko, the winner of last night’s PLO game, Jerry LI, Bash Ramahi, Stephen Dauphinais, Rob Fediuk, Ian Alvarado, Raul Cruz, Brian Wells, Gerald Chung, Nich Peterson, and Kyle Bonazzo.

The prizes are nearly at $85k with more than 4 hours left to get into this opening flight. A 1a field of more than 100 looks like a lock at this point, and the only real question is how many more than that will buy in today.

About 30 minutes remain in Level 5, with the next break scheduled following Level 6. After that, there are still three more levels of poker, plus the dinner break, before entries close at around 7:15 PM. Another 17 entries for today’s flight will push the 1a prizes over $100k.

Among the players I’ve spotted out there today are Lilly Nguyen, Deven Lane, Ryan Cairns, Russ Sluchinski, Tony Ma, Alex Liu, and three-time runner-up this week, DJ Sharma.

It’s a great start to Day 1a of the Main Event as the field is nearing 75 entries immediately after the first break of the day. That puts the prizes at more than $68k right now, but with almost 5 hours left to enter the game, it looks like a lock for 1a to cap 100 entries, and $100k in prizes (reached when the field hits 107 entries) is certainly within sight for today’s action.

There are about 15 minutes remaining in Level 3, and the first break of the day is coming up at the end of this level. The field is currently at 59 entries with 55 players still active, and among them are George Broumas, Tyler Panas, Daniel O’Leary, and Lynne Stephenson.