2025 Pure Poker Tour Series #3 – Event #6: $560 NLH Big Bounty

They played down to the final table pretty quickly in this one, but the final few eliminations took quite a while to work through. They played for a couple of levels three-handed before Gializis sent 3rd-place John Phan to the rail. That got him heads up against DJ Sharma, who was heads up for the second time in two nights here on the PPT.

He was still at a disadvantage, however, as Sharma had largely run over the table to that point. He collected 13 bounties (Gializis had 11, including his own, at the end) and was 2:1 up on Gializis when heads up began and Gializis wasn’t able to make much headway until a huge all-in cooler saw him flop a set of fours against Sharma’s ace-queen. That gave him a huge double and left Sharma on around 200k.

He chipped back up to a million with aggressive play, but his time ran out when he blind shoved and Gializis woke up with a premium, ace-ten of hearts. The money was in, and Gializis spiked aces full to cap Sharma’s threes full.

For the second night in a row, DJ Sharma had to settle for second place. He was heads up last night against Devon Jacobs, and couldn’t quite finish it out. Tonight, in the $560 Big Bounty, he got heads up again, but this time, it was Georgios Gializis who got the better of him.

Sharma held the lead for most of heads up, but a big flip that went Gializis’ way was the difference. Gializis was playing pocket fours against Sharma’s ace-queen suited. Sharma turned a queen, but unfortunately for him, Gializis has already flopped a set. That left Sharma very short and shortly after he got it in blind with six-three and ran into ace-ten of hearts.

They both ran out to boats, but the aces full of threes for Gializis was better than the threes full of aces for Sharma, and he was out in second place for the second night in a row.

DJ Sharma raised to 80k, then snapped it off when Georgios Gializis shoved. It was a race between ace-queen for Sharma and pocket fours for Gializis, and a four on the flop sealed the deal. That put Gializis a bit over 2 million with Sharma down to about 1 million.

John Phan had been surviving on the short stack, but it all got in preflop blind on blind against Georgios Gializis. Phan had the best of it with ace-seven against king-queen for Gializis. There was a king on the flop, and it held to send Phan out in 3rd place.

They are still three-handed, and have been for almost two full levels. DJ Sharma has the lead with Georgios Gializis in second and John Phan on the short stack. The average stack right now is about 25 big blinds.

Johnny Dalphond just got coolered out in 4th place. He three-bet over an open from Georgios Gializis, then snap-called when Gializis shoved.

Dalphond had queens against nines, but Gializis spiked a nine on the flop and held. That left Dalphond on fumes, and he was out the next hand with his bounty chip going to DJ Sharma.

Jordan Panas ran into the unstoppable force of DJ Sharma. Sharma doesn’t like it when people limp his big blind, but that’s what Panas decided to do from the small blind.

“I might just shove blind,” Sharma said, before doing just that. Panas snap-called him with the best, king-queen into ten-five, but Sharma hit a five on the flop and turned a ten for two pair, leaving Panas to collect 5th place money.

Ryan Cairns shoved his button, and Jordan Panas called from the big blind. It was a race between ace-king for Cairns and pocket sixes for Panas. The sixes held despite Cairns turning straight and flush outs, and he was out in 6th place.

John Phan raised to 30k early, and DJ Sharma called from the big blind. Sharma check-called for 30k on the Q♠5♦9♠ flop, then led for 66k on the 6♦ turn. Phan came over the top with a shove that covered Sharma, and Sharma hit the tank.

“Can you really beat two pair?” Sharma asked. He finally mucked, showing nine-five for bottom two. Phan showed queen-nine for top two and a hand that would have sent Sharma to the rail with a call.

I missed the action while writing the previous hand, but Randy Logan was the 7th-place finisher tonight for $1,535. That leaves six players still fighting for the trophy.

It was a crazy hand that saw Jeff Clarke hit the rail for 8th. DJ Sharma raised to 30k before John Phan shoved 207k from the hijack. If folded to Jeff Clarke in the big blind, and he jammed for 165k.

Sharma hit the tank for a bit, but ultimately called to try to take two people out, but he was in rough shape with ace-nine against ace-ten for Clarke and king-queen for Phan. Phan spiked a queen on the 8♦Q♥10♦6♣4♠ runout, and got close to a triple up while collecting Clarke’s bounty. The hand left Sharma on around 250k while sending Phan into the 500s.

Malcolm Bolger got his final chips in with ace-king, but he ran into pocket kings for Georgios Gializis. The kings held and Bolger was out in 9th place.

They are down to the final table now with nine players left. Mike Aloneissi was the bubble to the final table in 10th place tonight. Below is a look at the players on the final table, and I’ll grab some pictures shortly.

DJ Sharma raised to 20k under the gun, and Jeff Clarke called from his left before Malcolm Bolger made it 60k to go on the button. It foded back around to Sharma, who raised enough to put Bolger all in.

“I feel like a rose between two thorns,” Clarke quipped as he mucked his hand. Bolger snapped it off, showing aces against the ten-seven of diamonds for Sharma. The aces held, and Bolger chipped up to more than 400k, while Sharma is down to arond 200k.

They are down to 10 left, on the final table bubble. Mike X was the 11th-place finisher tonight for $735.

Action is in the money in Event #6 with 11 players remaining. That means two players have already hit the cash cage. Full prizes are listed under the Payouts tab with the most recent busts below.

Place	Player	Prize
12	Wayne Halabi	$735
13	Brett Doty	$639

The side game is in the money with 11 players left. I’ll get the payouts updated shortly and, with Event #3 finally complete, I should be able to watch this one a little closer.

The side game is down to the final two tables now with 16 players left. I’m still watching the heads up battle in Event #3 between Jimmy Lee and Dallas Larson, so I’m not watching this one very closely yet, but I just had a look around at the stacks and it looks like DJ Sharma is once again on top of the world, and the chip counts, looking to do one better than his runner-up spot last night.

Wayne Halabi, Vince Lam, Jordan Panas, George Gializzi, Avery Aloneissi, Ryan Cairns, Mike X, Johnny Dalphond, Shane Hall, John Phan, Sharma, Jeff Clarke, Malcolm Bolger, Randy Logan, Brett Doty, and Colten Yamagishi are the remaining players.

The prizes were initially posted incorrectly on the board, and I eagerly grabbed them and posted them. I then resumed watching Event #3 and didn’t notice they’d been changed. The correct prizes are below and posted under the Payouts tab. Also, the structure accidentally skipped the 1500/3000/3000 level, but it has been added as Level 13.

The numbers are official, and 124 entries showed up for the Big Bounty game. Entries are now closed and the prizes are posted with the winner set to get $8,835.

Payouts for Event #6

Last night, the Social and poker rooms were full of “Sharma TIME” shouts as DJ Sharma made his way to second place in Event #5. It sounds like he might be doing the same tonight as he just sent a couple of players to the rail when his pocket nines held for a big pot and some bounty chips.

There are now about 90 minutes left to enter this one.

The Event #6 field is up to 89 entries with about 10 minutes to play in Level 5. That puts more than $42k into the combined prizes, with $17,800 reserved for bounties and $25,365 going into the payouts for the top 10% later tonight. Entries for this one are still open for more than 2 hours, so it seems like a lock to see a field of 100+. If they get to 106 entries, it will be a combined prize pool of more than $50k.

There are about 20 minutes to play in Level 3 and the field has just hit 60 entries. There are still more than 3 hours to enter this game, so it’s looking like another field of 100+. Mario Gauthier, Mike X, Brett Worton, and Lynne Stephenson are a few of the players active in this one.

The side game has nearly finished two levels of play, and the field is at 55 entries. That puts more than $26k into the combined prizes, with $11k of that reserved for bounties and the rest in the prize pool for the end of the night.

Ed Zurawell, Colten Yamagishi, Maru Somers, Ivanna Yatsiuk, Rob Lothian, Malcolm Bolger, and winner of Event #4, Tony Comely, are among the players at the felt for this one.

2025 Pure Poker Tour Series #3 – Event #6: $560 NLH Big Bounty ($300 + $200 + $60)

The side game on Sunday is the $560 Big Bounty. $200 of the buy-in goes to the bounty, while $300 drops into the prize pool.

The action starts at 2 PM and players will sit down with 25k in chips. Each level will last 30 minutes, and they’ll play 8 levels with open entries. That should put the last chance to enter at 6:45 PM.

This is a one-day event, so they’ll finish it out on Sunday. I’ll be spending my early time watching Day 2 of Event #3, but no doubt I’ll have a chance to get over to this one after E3 finishes.

They played down to the final table pretty quickly in this one, but the final few eliminations took quite a while to work through. They played for a couple of levels three-handed before Gializis sent 3rd-place John Phan to the rail. That got him heads up against DJ Sharma, who was heads up for the second time in two nights here on the PPT.

He was still at a disadvantage, however, as Sharma had largely run over the table to that point. He collected 13 bounties (Gializis had 11, including his own, at the end) and was 2:1 up on Gializis when heads up began and Gializis wasn’t able to make much headway until a huge all-in cooler saw him flop a set of fours against Sharma’s ace-queen. That gave him a huge double and left Sharma on around 200k.

He chipped back up to a million with aggressive play, but his time ran out when he blind shoved and Gializis woke up with a premium, ace-ten of hearts. The money was in, and Gializis spiked aces full to cap Sharma’s threes full.

For the second night in a row, DJ Sharma had to settle for second place. He was heads up last night against Devon Jacobs, and couldn’t quite finish it out. Tonight, in the $560 Big Bounty, he got heads up again, but this time, it was Georgios Gializis who got the better of him.

Sharma held the lead for most of heads up, but a big flip that went Gializis’ way was the difference. Gializis was playing pocket fours against Sharma’s ace-queen suited. Sharma turned a queen, but unfortunately for him, Gializis has already flopped a set. That left Sharma very short and shortly after he got it in blind with six-three and ran into ace-ten of hearts.

They both ran out to boats, but the aces full of threes for Gializis was better than the threes full of aces for Sharma, and he was out in second place for the second night in a row.

DJ Sharma raised to 80k, then snapped it off when Georgios Gializis shoved. It was a race between ace-queen for Sharma and pocket fours for Gializis, and a four on the flop sealed the deal. That put Gializis a bit over 2 million with Sharma down to about 1 million.

John Phan had been surviving on the short stack, but it all got in preflop blind on blind against Georgios Gializis. Phan had the best of it with ace-seven against king-queen for Gializis. There was a king on the flop, and it held to send Phan out in 3rd place.

They are still three-handed, and have been for almost two full levels. DJ Sharma has the lead with Georgios Gializis in second and John Phan on the short stack. The average stack right now is about 25 big blinds.

Johnny Dalphond just got coolered out in 4th place. He three-bet over an open from Georgios Gializis, then snap-called when Gializis shoved.

Dalphond had queens against nines, but Gializis spiked a nine on the flop and held. That left Dalphond on fumes, and he was out the next hand with his bounty chip going to DJ Sharma.

Jordan Panas ran into the unstoppable force of DJ Sharma. Sharma doesn’t like it when people limp his big blind, but that’s what Panas decided to do from the small blind.

“I might just shove blind,” Sharma said, before doing just that. Panas snap-called him with the best, king-queen into ten-five, but Sharma hit a five on the flop and turned a ten for two pair, leaving Panas to collect 5th place money.

Ryan Cairns shoved his button, and Jordan Panas called from the big blind. It was a race between ace-king for Cairns and pocket sixes for Panas. The sixes held despite Cairns turning straight and flush outs, and he was out in 6th place.

John Phan raised to 30k early, and DJ Sharma called from the big blind. Sharma check-called for 30k on the Q♠5♦9♠ flop, then led for 66k on the 6♦ turn. Phan came over the top with a shove that covered Sharma, and Sharma hit the tank.

“Can you really beat two pair?” Sharma asked. He finally mucked, showing nine-five for bottom two. Phan showed queen-nine for top two and a hand that would have sent Sharma to the rail with a call.

I missed the action while writing the previous hand, but Randy Logan was the 7th-place finisher tonight for $1,535. That leaves six players still fighting for the trophy.

It was a crazy hand that saw Jeff Clarke hit the rail for 8th. DJ Sharma raised to 30k before John Phan shoved 207k from the hijack. If folded to Jeff Clarke in the big blind, and he jammed for 165k.

Sharma hit the tank for a bit, but ultimately called to try to take two people out, but he was in rough shape with ace-nine against ace-ten for Clarke and king-queen for Phan. Phan spiked a queen on the 8♦Q♥10♦6♣4♠ runout, and got close to a triple up while collecting Clarke’s bounty. The hand left Sharma on around 250k while sending Phan into the 500s.

Malcolm Bolger got his final chips in with ace-king, but he ran into pocket kings for Georgios Gializis. The kings held and Bolger was out in 9th place.

They are down to the final table now with nine players left. Mike Aloneissi was the bubble to the final table in 10th place tonight. Below is a look at the players on the final table, and I’ll grab some pictures shortly.

DJ Sharma raised to 20k under the gun, and Jeff Clarke called from his left before Malcolm Bolger made it 60k to go on the button. It foded back around to Sharma, who raised enough to put Bolger all in.

“I feel like a rose between two thorns,” Clarke quipped as he mucked his hand. Bolger snapped it off, showing aces against the ten-seven of diamonds for Sharma. The aces held, and Bolger chipped up to more than 400k, while Sharma is down to arond 200k.

They are down to 10 left, on the final table bubble. Mike X was the 11th-place finisher tonight for $735.

Action is in the money in Event #6 with 11 players remaining. That means two players have already hit the cash cage. Full prizes are listed under the Payouts tab with the most recent busts below.

Place	Player	Prize
12	Wayne Halabi	$735
13	Brett Doty	$639

The side game is in the money with 11 players left. I’ll get the payouts updated shortly and, with Event #3 finally complete, I should be able to watch this one a little closer.

The side game is down to the final two tables now with 16 players left. I’m still watching the heads up battle in Event #3 between Jimmy Lee and Dallas Larson, so I’m not watching this one very closely yet, but I just had a look around at the stacks and it looks like DJ Sharma is once again on top of the world, and the chip counts, looking to do one better than his runner-up spot last night.

Wayne Halabi, Vince Lam, Jordan Panas, George Gializzi, Avery Aloneissi, Ryan Cairns, Mike X, Johnny Dalphond, Shane Hall, John Phan, Sharma, Jeff Clarke, Malcolm Bolger, Randy Logan, Brett Doty, and Colten Yamagishi are the remaining players.

The prizes were initially posted incorrectly on the board, and I eagerly grabbed them and posted them. I then resumed watching Event #3 and didn’t notice they’d been changed. The correct prizes are below and posted under the Payouts tab. Also, the structure accidentally skipped the 1500/3000/3000 level, but it has been added as Level 13.

The numbers are official, and 124 entries showed up for the Big Bounty game. Entries are now closed and the prizes are posted with the winner set to get $8,835.

Payouts for Event #6

Last night, the Social and poker rooms were full of “Sharma TIME” shouts as DJ Sharma made his way to second place in Event #5. It sounds like he might be doing the same tonight as he just sent a couple of players to the rail when his pocket nines held for a big pot and some bounty chips.

There are now about 90 minutes left to enter this one.

The Event #6 field is up to 89 entries with about 10 minutes to play in Level 5. That puts more than $42k into the combined prizes, with $17,800 reserved for bounties and $25,365 going into the payouts for the top 10% later tonight. Entries for this one are still open for more than 2 hours, so it seems like a lock to see a field of 100+. If they get to 106 entries, it will be a combined prize pool of more than $50k.

There are about 20 minutes to play in Level 3 and the field has just hit 60 entries. There are still more than 3 hours to enter this game, so it’s looking like another field of 100+. Mario Gauthier, Mike X, Brett Worton, and Lynne Stephenson are a few of the players active in this one.

The side game has nearly finished two levels of play, and the field is at 55 entries. That puts more than $26k into the combined prizes, with $11k of that reserved for bounties and the rest in the prize pool for the end of the night.

Ed Zurawell, Colten Yamagishi, Maru Somers, Ivanna Yatsiuk, Rob Lothian, Malcolm Bolger, and winner of Event #4, Tony Comely, are among the players at the felt for this one.

2025 Pure Poker Tour Series #3 – Event #6: $560 NLH Big Bounty ($300 + $200 + $60)

The side game on Sunday is the $560 Big Bounty. $200 of the buy-in goes to the bounty, while $300 drops into the prize pool.

The action starts at 2 PM and players will sit down with 25k in chips. Each level will last 30 minutes, and they’ll play 8 levels with open entries. That should put the last chance to enter at 6:45 PM.

This is a one-day event, so they’ll finish it out on Sunday. I’ll be spending my early time watching Day 2 of Event #3, but no doubt I’ll have a chance to get over to this one after E3 finishes.