2025 Summer Super Stack – Event #11: $1,000 NLH 6Max

Jerry Li usually has four cards in front of him when he gets his winner’s photo taken, as he’s a ring and bracelet winner in pot limit Omaha. But he can play the game with two cards pretty well, too, as evidenced by his win in the 6-Max tonight.

While he battled a bit with runner-up Eric Wasylenko late in the game, Li was the chip leader for most of the endgame tonight. It was only when play got three ways that Wasylenko took the lead for a bit, but whether he was leader or short, Li was dialed into the game with his usual aggression.

After Wasylenko sent Ramaz Haymour home in 3rd place, Li found his top gear. He took two huge pots heads up by flopping the goods, and that gave him a big chip lead. In the final hand, he called off a shove from Wasy for a race with his ace-five over the ducks for Wasylenko.

The 7♠9♣7♠7♦A♥ was looking great for Wasy to boat up for the double until Li found a bigger boat on the river with the ace of hearts. This will be Li’s 10th live poker win, but only his 3rd with two cards. The win should push his lifetime earnings well over $830k.

Eric Wasylenko came into the final table of seven players with one of the shorter stacks, but after George Yang busted in 7th place to get them to the official 6-handed final table, he got to second after a big hand with leader Jerry Li. Wasylenko woke up with aces just before the end of Level 20, and got a huge double against Li’s jack-ten suited.

That put Wasy in second, and he never looked back. Wasy found another big spot against Scott Munro to get them five-handed, when he rivered a heart flush with the same card that gave Munro a set of queens. All credit to Monroe, he tanked for around five minutes, calling the queen of hearts the worst card in the deck before he finally called and showed down his black queens.

Wasy turned over three-four of hearts for the flush, and chipped up near even with Li. Wasy took the lead three ways and looked like he might run over the table, but 3rd place Ramaz Haymour wasn’t giving up his chips lightly. He hung around with the short stack for almost an hour. He was finally too short and shoved the small blind with king-deuce, and wasylenko called with more and an ace-seven.

An ace-seven on the flop pretty much sealed the deal, though Haymour turned some faint hope with a king. The river bricked for Haymour, the Wasy had a small advantage heads up with Li.

Li then found another run-good gear, flopping it twice in two successive hands for big pots. In the first, he flopped a wheel, and while he didn’t get paid on the river, he still picked up chips. Immediately after that, he tripped on the flop with nines and got paid on the river for a huge chip up to the lead.

In the final hand, Wasy was short and shoved deuces. Li called it down with ace-five for the win. Wasy looked good through most of the board, but an ace on the river sent him out in 2nd place.

In the first hand, I picked up the action on the flop of 4♦A♣5♥. Both players checked it to the 5♦ turn, where Jerry Li bet 100k and Eric Wasylenko called. On the 2♣ river, Li fired 275k and Wasylenko folded, but Li showed three-four for the flopped wheel.

In the next hand, they limped to the flop of 9♥9♣3♠. Both players checked the flop to the 5♦ turn. Wasylenko bet 50k, then called when Li raised it to 145k. Wasy check-called for 480k on the Q♦ river, but mucked when Li showed J♦9♦ for flopped trips.

The players are back fro a short breka to start Level 25. Eric Wasylenk has about 1.8 million to 1.6 million for Jerry Li.

This was Ramaz Haymour’s second final table of the series, and 3rd cash. He was getting very short, and shoved with king–deuce, but Eric Wasylenko called him off with ace-seven off. He flopped two pair, but Haymour turned a king for some trip outs, but the river bricked and he was done in 3rd place.

Jerry Li and Eric Wasylenko are now heads up for the title. Wasy started with a big lead, but Li just doubled up with fours over ace-seven for Wasy. Li flopped the boat, but when Wasy turned a seven, he had bigger boat outs. The river wasn’t one of them, however, and Li doubled to a small lead.

The final three players are now finishing the night out in the poker room. Eric Wasylenko is still the big leader, and Level 24 is just underway.

Eric Wasylenko opened to 80k in the last hand of Level 22, and Jerry Li raised it to 200k. Wasy called, and they both checked the 5♥6♠9♦ flop.

Wasylenko fired 130k on the 8♠ turn, and Li called to the 4♦ river. Wasy bet 450k and Li tank-called, but mucked when Wasylenko announced “straight” and showed A♠7♠ for the turned straight with a spade redraw.

Wasylenko now has the big lead with about 1.9 million, while Jerry Li and Ramaz Haymour are playing about 800k each.

Colten Yamagishi raised the button to 250k, leaving only 10k behind. Ramaz Haymor reraised the big blind to force Yamagishi in, and he called it off.

Colten Yamagishi: A♦9♣
Ramaz Haymour: 10♣8♣

Yamagishi was ahead, but Haymour flopped huge, then turned the flush on a board of [invalid notations]. Yamagishi still had outs to the bigger flush with his queen, but the river bricked and he was out for $10k.

Jerry Li is still leading with more than 1.4 million, but Eric Wasylenko is close behind with 1.375 million. Between them, they have about 2.8 million of the 3.5 million in play.

Li just picked up some chips in a hand against Ramaz Haymour. Li raised the button preflop to 40k in one of the last hands of Level 20, and got calls from Haymour in the small blind and Wasylenko in the big.

After two checks on the 10♥K♥3♠ flop, Li fired 50k. Haymour called, but Wasy got out of the way. Both remaining players checked the 9♥ turn, but Haymour fired 60k on the [invalid notations] river. Li called quickly, saying “I can only beat queen-ten” as he showed king-ten for two pair. Haymour mucked, showing an ace of hearts.

I missed the action while writing the Munro bust, but the field is now down to four left after Homan Mohammadi ended his long day in 5th place.

“Worst card in the deck.” That’s what Scott Munro was muttering when he was in the tank for about 5 minutes against Eric Wasylenko.

With the board reading 7♠2♥10♥9♦, Wasylenko check called for 55k. The river Q♥ was the “worst card” that Munro was talking about, as Wasy shoved a covering stack when it came. After about 5 minutes of tank-time, Munro slid his stack over and revealed two black queens for the rivered set, but Wasy was playing hearts with 4♥3♥ and took it down.

Just before the break at the end of Level 20, Eric Wasylenko found a great spot with aces against big stack Jerry Li, who called with jack-ten. The aces held to put Wasy in second, but Li still has the lead.

It was a brutal end for George Yang tonight. He got his money in with ace-king against ace-queen for Ramaz Haymour, but Haymour found a queen on the Q♥6♠J♦4♥6♦ board to flip the script on Yang with a dominated hand.

There are about five minutes remaining in Level 20 with a break to follow. I’ll grab a complete round of counts at the break.

In the first of the final two hands of Level 19 on Table 17, the action was blind on blind on the turn with the board reading [invalid notations] flop, but Mohammadi called.

Munro fired 36k on the 4♣ turn, and another 36k on the [invalid notations].

Meanwhile, the final table is being set after Bobby Baiton and Gryadon Kowal busted in quick succession for 9th and 8th places respectively.

Graydon Kowal was playing a short stack of about 185k when he opened the button to 24k. Scott Munro called from the big blind, and the flop was 10♥A♣J♣.

Muro checked and Kowal pushed 30k into the middle. Munro hit the tank. “You gonna put me in?” the talkative Kowal asked with a smile.

“I just might,” replied Munro as he eyeballed Kowal’s remaining stack of 130k. Kowal indicated he was “ready to die” with the hand, but Munro still took a couple of minutes to find a fold, saying he mucked a pair and a gutshot. Kowal showed an ace, and said he had two pair.

Jerry Li raised the cutoff to 24k, then snapped it off when Glenn Slater shoved the small blind. It was A♠K♣ for Slater against pocket jacks for Li, and Slater missed the 3♠2♦Q♠9♥7♠ board to end his run in 10th place.

It was a cooler that sent Sebastien Fallu to the rail tonight. He got his money in with ace-queen, but ran into the pocket kings for Homan Mohammadi. Mohammadi flopped a set just for fun, and Fallu was out for $2,250.

They are down to 11 left after Michael “Berny” made a quick exit for a min-cash. I missed the action while getting the table draw sorted out, but Berny pocketed $2,000 for 12th tonight.

Table Draw for Final 11

I don’t have a good handle on all the chips right now, but Homan Mohammadi it still leading with more than 600k, while Scott Munro is over 500K, and Eric Wasylenko looks to be just under 500k.

Daniel Lefebvre was the bubble tonight, in pretty brutal fashion. He shoved 80k on the button, and Bobby Baiton tank-called from the small blind.

Lefebvre had the off-suit slick against the suited ace-six for Baiton. Baiton was dominated, but after the 3♣6♥3♠ flop it was Lefebvre looking for a card. The 5♣5♠ runout didn’t help the 2017 SIGA champion, and Lefebvre was out on the bubble tonight.

The full board of J♣8♠A♦7♦Q♣ board was out when I got to the table. Eric Wasylenko counted out a bet of 125k from the big blind into a sizable pot against Homan Mohammadi, playing the big stack on the button. Mohammadi too about a minute to think about it, but ultimately mucked his hand to give the pot to Wasylenko.

The hand left Mohammadi still playing 600k, but Wasy is chipping up big time with more than 500k in front of him now.

They are on the money bubble now with 13 players left. Quinn Kannekens was the soft bubble tonight in 14th place. The clock is now paused with one more hand to play in Level 17. Two minutes are coming off the clock manually for each hand played until the next elimination puts them in the money. There have been no seat changes, so the remaining players are still sitting in their same spots.

One of the players still in the game with 14 left is Graydon Kowal. We don’t see Kowal out for these tournaments very often, but when he does come, he tends to figure in the endgame.

He has a pretty good reason for being too busy to play poker, however. He is the owner of Guardian Helicopters and a seasoned pilot himself. He is here for a bit of time off to enjoy the poker after spending 40 hours in the air last week fighting the wildfires in northern Manitoba.

While playing poker for tens of thousands of dollars can be stressful at times, one has to think that flying a chopper full of water over a raging wildfire gives a person a certain resistance to stress, so he’s likely the player in the room who is most equipped to stay calm under pressure.

Kowal has two live wins in his poker career and nearly $200k in earnings. A podium finish tonight will certainly push his lifetime total over that milestone, which would be a nice little poker feather in his cap before he goes back to the good work of fighting wildfires.

The field lost a couple of short stacks recently to drop to 15. I saw Debi Loomer on her way out as I was returning from a break, just in time to catch Deven Lane shoving 123k with sevens, only to run into Colten Yamagishi’s rockets. The aces held, and Lane was out in 16th tonight.

Homan Mohammadi told me at the break that he’s dead tired after getting up at 5 AM this morning to catch his flight in from Vancouver. That hasn’t stopped him from crushing the chip lead tonight, with 655k. Scott Munro is sitting on the second stack, while Bobby Baiton is third right now. The game is still pretty deep, five off the money, so I’m expecting this to be a pretty late night.

The field is now down to the final three tables with 18 players left. Mike Malm was the three-table bubble tonight, and that puts the field 6 off the money, with the entire final two tables set to get paid tonight.

There is a break coming up in about 4 minutes, and I’ll try to get a full look at the stacks at that point.

I’ve just had another wander around the room on a stack hunt, and Homan Mohammadi, who flew in from Vancouver at 8 AM this morning, is working well with limited sleep and a long day, as he’s sitting on the big stack with about 435k. Mohammadi won the High Roller ring this past January, which comes with a free entry to the Tournament of Champions freeroll, which he turned into $12,500 USD for 10th place.

Scott Munro is also rocking more than 400k right now, playing about 420k, while Bobby Baiton is playing about 350k for what looks like the 3rd biggest stack right now.

The prizes are now up and official, and the winner tonight will be pocketing $27,185. The full prize list is published under the Payouts tab, and below.

The prize pool of $100,035 is correct, but there is an issue with the complete prize list, as they are rejigging a few of the lower payouts to make the pay jumps more reasonable. Prizes should be posted soon under the Payouts tab, but it looks like the winner tonight will be pocketing 27k. Garett Maybery, Zhi Yang, and Sebastien Fallu are also among the remaining players tonight.

The field is set for the 6-Max, and it was another solid turnout with 117 entries. That put the prizes at more than $100k, with 12 players getting a piece of those prizes later tonight.

Among the players still alive tonight are Rick Mask, Eric Wasylenko, Mike Malm, Ramaz Haymour, Daniel Lefebvre, Debi Loomer, Colten Yamagishi, Micahel “Berny” Bernstein, Graydon Kowal, Jerry Li, Homan Mohammadi, Deven Lane, Scott Munro, and Stephen Dauphinais.

It looks like Mohammadi is the chip leader right now with about 350k in front of him, but it also looks like Jerry Li is playing around 200k too, while Scott Munro is playing about 250k.

The prizes are now over $90k with 109 entries on the board, and about 15 minutes to play in Level 10. There are two more levels of poker following this one, plus another break, before the end of entries in this one.

There are currently 4 packages up for grabs in the satellite game running alongside the main 6-Max game today. With 40 players in their seats, that also means there’s about $1,450 in cash for 5th place, but those numbers will only increase, as with the current pace of entry, I expect to see well over 100 entries for this one.

The prizes are more than $85k, with 100 entries on the board in the break following Level 8. That means there are a bit more than 2 hours left to enter today’s game, with the final chance to enter coming just before they sit down for Level 13.

I just had a look around for some big stacks, and I saw at least four players with 100k of more. Todd “The Rock” is holding steady at about 110k, but Rick Mask looks to be the big one now with 130k. Scott Munro has about 120k, while Colten Yamagishi looks to be playing about 115k.

Level 7 has more than 20 minutes remaining, and the field is now at 86 entries for prizes of $73,530. There are still a bit more than 3 hours left to enter the game today, so it’s still looking good for a field of 100+.

The field is now over 80 entries with Level 6 just beginning. The prizes are one entry short of $70k with just under 4 hours left to enter the game.

Among the newer faces I spotted on my last trip through the room were Jerry Li, Ramaz Haymour, Hassan Issa, Michael “Berny” Bernstein, Teo Sanchez, Chad Winnick, Tony Ma, Graham Lupton, Weston Pring, and Shane Brotherwood.

The 6-Max field is up to 73 entries after the first break of the day. It looks like Todd “The Rock” is the early chip leader. When I wandered around at the break, he looked to be playing about 120k, the only stack in the room over 100k.

The prizes are nearing $60k now with 67 entries on the board at the break following Level 4. They’ll be back in action with blinds at 300/500/500 in about 10 minutes, and there are still more than 4.5 hours to get into the game.

The field is now over 50 entries, for prizes of $46,170. Level 3 is nearly complete, and among the recent entries for this one are DJ Sharma, Julius Roque, Scott Munro, Phil Wright, Victor Ma, and Paul Sokoloff.

As expected, the action at the entry desk during Level 1 was brisk, and as Level 2 begins, there are 40 players in their seats. Among the entries during Level 1 are Colten Yamagishi, Eric Wasylenko, Mike Smith, Tyler Panas, Daniel Lefebvre, Deven Lane, Debi Loomer, Curtis Singleton, and Michael St Pierre-Porter.

The field is up to 26 entries now, and as expected, there’s fairly brisk action at the buy-in desk. Among the recent entries are Thomas Taylor, Ty Adams, Michael Malm, and Stephen Dauphinais.

The 6-Max is now underway with 17 players in their seats to start. I’m expecting a big run on entries here in the opening levels, with a final field in the range of 100 entries.

Among the players in their seats early today are Todd “The Rock”, Mehmet Siginc, Leslie Hollingworth, and Circuit ring winner Homan Mohamadi.

2025 Summer Super Stack – Event #11: $1,000 NLH 6Max ($900 + $100)

Tuesday is the day for short-handed specialists as the 6-Max game kicks off at 2 PM. Players will sit down with 30k in chips for 30-minute levels, and entries are open for 12 levels. With breaks, that should put the last entry at about 8:45 PM.

This is a one-day game, so a winner will be decided before they finish. There was no 6-Max game in the April series, so we have nothing to compare to, but I noticed today there are a few new faces in the room who haven’t been around for previous games, and who are almost certainly interested in a 6-Max game, so the field should be a solid one, especially given the series so far has blown past the April numbers in nearly every event.

This game is my only priority on Tuesday, as the only other poker on deck at Deerfoot is a satellite game in the evening. I should be on the floor pretty close to the opening hands and will be following this one until the final hand is dealt.

Jerry Li usually has four cards in front of him when he gets his winner’s photo taken, as he’s a ring and bracelet winner in pot limit Omaha. But he can play the game with two cards pretty well, too, as evidenced by his win in the 6-Max tonight.

While he battled a bit with runner-up Eric Wasylenko late in the game, Li was the chip leader for most of the endgame tonight. It was only when play got three ways that Wasylenko took the lead for a bit, but whether he was leader or short, Li was dialed into the game with his usual aggression.

After Wasylenko sent Ramaz Haymour home in 3rd place, Li found his top gear. He took two huge pots heads up by flopping the goods, and that gave him a big chip lead. In the final hand, he called off a shove from Wasy for a race with his ace-five over the ducks for Wasylenko.

The 7♠9♣7♠7♦A♥ was looking great for Wasy to boat up for the double until Li found a bigger boat on the river with the ace of hearts. This will be Li’s 10th live poker win, but only his 3rd with two cards. The win should push his lifetime earnings well over $830k.

Eric Wasylenko came into the final table of seven players with one of the shorter stacks, but after George Yang busted in 7th place to get them to the official 6-handed final table, he got to second after a big hand with leader Jerry Li. Wasylenko woke up with aces just before the end of Level 20, and got a huge double against Li’s jack-ten suited.

That put Wasy in second, and he never looked back. Wasy found another big spot against Scott Munro to get them five-handed, when he rivered a heart flush with the same card that gave Munro a set of queens. All credit to Monroe, he tanked for around five minutes, calling the queen of hearts the worst card in the deck before he finally called and showed down his black queens.

Wasy turned over three-four of hearts for the flush, and chipped up near even with Li. Wasy took the lead three ways and looked like he might run over the table, but 3rd place Ramaz Haymour wasn’t giving up his chips lightly. He hung around with the short stack for almost an hour. He was finally too short and shoved the small blind with king-deuce, and wasylenko called with more and an ace-seven.

An ace-seven on the flop pretty much sealed the deal, though Haymour turned some faint hope with a king. The river bricked for Haymour, the Wasy had a small advantage heads up with Li.

Li then found another run-good gear, flopping it twice in two successive hands for big pots. In the first, he flopped a wheel, and while he didn’t get paid on the river, he still picked up chips. Immediately after that, he tripped on the flop with nines and got paid on the river for a huge chip up to the lead.

In the final hand, Wasy was short and shoved deuces. Li called it down with ace-five for the win. Wasy looked good through most of the board, but an ace on the river sent him out in 2nd place.

In the first hand, I picked up the action on the flop of 4♦A♣5♥. Both players checked it to the 5♦ turn, where Jerry Li bet 100k and Eric Wasylenko called. On the 2♣ river, Li fired 275k and Wasylenko folded, but Li showed three-four for the flopped wheel.

In the next hand, they limped to the flop of 9♥9♣3♠. Both players checked the flop to the 5♦ turn. Wasylenko bet 50k, then called when Li raised it to 145k. Wasy check-called for 480k on the Q♦ river, but mucked when Li showed J♦9♦ for flopped trips.

The players are back fro a short breka to start Level 25. Eric Wasylenk has about 1.8 million to 1.6 million for Jerry Li.

This was Ramaz Haymour’s second final table of the series, and 3rd cash. He was getting very short, and shoved with king–deuce, but Eric Wasylenko called him off with ace-seven off. He flopped two pair, but Haymour turned a king for some trip outs, but the river bricked and he was done in 3rd place.

Jerry Li and Eric Wasylenko are now heads up for the title. Wasy started with a big lead, but Li just doubled up with fours over ace-seven for Wasy. Li flopped the boat, but when Wasy turned a seven, he had bigger boat outs. The river wasn’t one of them, however, and Li doubled to a small lead.

The final three players are now finishing the night out in the poker room. Eric Wasylenko is still the big leader, and Level 24 is just underway.

Eric Wasylenko opened to 80k in the last hand of Level 22, and Jerry Li raised it to 200k. Wasy called, and they both checked the 5♥6♠9♦ flop.

Wasylenko fired 130k on the 8♠ turn, and Li called to the 4♦ river. Wasy bet 450k and Li tank-called, but mucked when Wasylenko announced “straight” and showed A♠7♠ for the turned straight with a spade redraw.

Wasylenko now has the big lead with about 1.9 million, while Jerry Li and Ramaz Haymour are playing about 800k each.

Colten Yamagishi raised the button to 250k, leaving only 10k behind. Ramaz Haymor reraised the big blind to force Yamagishi in, and he called it off.

Colten Yamagishi: A♦9♣
Ramaz Haymour: 10♣8♣

Yamagishi was ahead, but Haymour flopped huge, then turned the flush on a board of [invalid notations]. Yamagishi still had outs to the bigger flush with his queen, but the river bricked and he was out for $10k.

Jerry Li is still leading with more than 1.4 million, but Eric Wasylenko is close behind with 1.375 million. Between them, they have about 2.8 million of the 3.5 million in play.

Li just picked up some chips in a hand against Ramaz Haymour. Li raised the button preflop to 40k in one of the last hands of Level 20, and got calls from Haymour in the small blind and Wasylenko in the big.

After two checks on the 10♥K♥3♠ flop, Li fired 50k. Haymour called, but Wasy got out of the way. Both remaining players checked the 9♥ turn, but Haymour fired 60k on the [invalid notations] river. Li called quickly, saying “I can only beat queen-ten” as he showed king-ten for two pair. Haymour mucked, showing an ace of hearts.

I missed the action while writing the Munro bust, but the field is now down to four left after Homan Mohammadi ended his long day in 5th place.

“Worst card in the deck.” That’s what Scott Munro was muttering when he was in the tank for about 5 minutes against Eric Wasylenko.

With the board reading 7♠2♥10♥9♦, Wasylenko check called for 55k. The river Q♥ was the “worst card” that Munro was talking about, as Wasy shoved a covering stack when it came. After about 5 minutes of tank-time, Munro slid his stack over and revealed two black queens for the rivered set, but Wasy was playing hearts with 4♥3♥ and took it down.

Just before the break at the end of Level 20, Eric Wasylenko found a great spot with aces against big stack Jerry Li, who called with jack-ten. The aces held to put Wasy in second, but Li still has the lead.

It was a brutal end for George Yang tonight. He got his money in with ace-king against ace-queen for Ramaz Haymour, but Haymour found a queen on the Q♥6♠J♦4♥6♦ board to flip the script on Yang with a dominated hand.

There are about five minutes remaining in Level 20 with a break to follow. I’ll grab a complete round of counts at the break.

In the first of the final two hands of Level 19 on Table 17, the action was blind on blind on the turn with the board reading [invalid notations] flop, but Mohammadi called.

Munro fired 36k on the 4♣ turn, and another 36k on the [invalid notations].

Meanwhile, the final table is being set after Bobby Baiton and Gryadon Kowal busted in quick succession for 9th and 8th places respectively.

Graydon Kowal was playing a short stack of about 185k when he opened the button to 24k. Scott Munro called from the big blind, and the flop was 10♥A♣J♣.

Muro checked and Kowal pushed 30k into the middle. Munro hit the tank. “You gonna put me in?” the talkative Kowal asked with a smile.

“I just might,” replied Munro as he eyeballed Kowal’s remaining stack of 130k. Kowal indicated he was “ready to die” with the hand, but Munro still took a couple of minutes to find a fold, saying he mucked a pair and a gutshot. Kowal showed an ace, and said he had two pair.

Jerry Li raised the cutoff to 24k, then snapped it off when Glenn Slater shoved the small blind. It was A♠K♣ for Slater against pocket jacks for Li, and Slater missed the 3♠2♦Q♠9♥7♠ board to end his run in 10th place.

It was a cooler that sent Sebastien Fallu to the rail tonight. He got his money in with ace-queen, but ran into the pocket kings for Homan Mohammadi. Mohammadi flopped a set just for fun, and Fallu was out for $2,250.

They are down to 11 left after Michael “Berny” made a quick exit for a min-cash. I missed the action while getting the table draw sorted out, but Berny pocketed $2,000 for 12th tonight.

Table Draw for Final 11

I don’t have a good handle on all the chips right now, but Homan Mohammadi it still leading with more than 600k, while Scott Munro is over 500K, and Eric Wasylenko looks to be just under 500k.

Daniel Lefebvre was the bubble tonight, in pretty brutal fashion. He shoved 80k on the button, and Bobby Baiton tank-called from the small blind.

Lefebvre had the off-suit slick against the suited ace-six for Baiton. Baiton was dominated, but after the 3♣6♥3♠ flop it was Lefebvre looking for a card. The 5♣5♠ runout didn’t help the 2017 SIGA champion, and Lefebvre was out on the bubble tonight.

The full board of J♣8♠A♦7♦Q♣ board was out when I got to the table. Eric Wasylenko counted out a bet of 125k from the big blind into a sizable pot against Homan Mohammadi, playing the big stack on the button. Mohammadi too about a minute to think about it, but ultimately mucked his hand to give the pot to Wasylenko.

The hand left Mohammadi still playing 600k, but Wasy is chipping up big time with more than 500k in front of him now.

They are on the money bubble now with 13 players left. Quinn Kannekens was the soft bubble tonight in 14th place. The clock is now paused with one more hand to play in Level 17. Two minutes are coming off the clock manually for each hand played until the next elimination puts them in the money. There have been no seat changes, so the remaining players are still sitting in their same spots.

One of the players still in the game with 14 left is Graydon Kowal. We don’t see Kowal out for these tournaments very often, but when he does come, he tends to figure in the endgame.

He has a pretty good reason for being too busy to play poker, however. He is the owner of Guardian Helicopters and a seasoned pilot himself. He is here for a bit of time off to enjoy the poker after spending 40 hours in the air last week fighting the wildfires in northern Manitoba.

While playing poker for tens of thousands of dollars can be stressful at times, one has to think that flying a chopper full of water over a raging wildfire gives a person a certain resistance to stress, so he’s likely the player in the room who is most equipped to stay calm under pressure.

Kowal has two live wins in his poker career and nearly $200k in earnings. A podium finish tonight will certainly push his lifetime total over that milestone, which would be a nice little poker feather in his cap before he goes back to the good work of fighting wildfires.

The field lost a couple of short stacks recently to drop to 15. I saw Debi Loomer on her way out as I was returning from a break, just in time to catch Deven Lane shoving 123k with sevens, only to run into Colten Yamagishi’s rockets. The aces held, and Lane was out in 16th tonight.

Homan Mohammadi told me at the break that he’s dead tired after getting up at 5 AM this morning to catch his flight in from Vancouver. That hasn’t stopped him from crushing the chip lead tonight, with 655k. Scott Munro is sitting on the second stack, while Bobby Baiton is third right now. The game is still pretty deep, five off the money, so I’m expecting this to be a pretty late night.

The field is now down to the final three tables with 18 players left. Mike Malm was the three-table bubble tonight, and that puts the field 6 off the money, with the entire final two tables set to get paid tonight.

There is a break coming up in about 4 minutes, and I’ll try to get a full look at the stacks at that point.

I’ve just had another wander around the room on a stack hunt, and Homan Mohammadi, who flew in from Vancouver at 8 AM this morning, is working well with limited sleep and a long day, as he’s sitting on the big stack with about 435k. Mohammadi won the High Roller ring this past January, which comes with a free entry to the Tournament of Champions freeroll, which he turned into $12,500 USD for 10th place.

Scott Munro is also rocking more than 400k right now, playing about 420k, while Bobby Baiton is playing about 350k for what looks like the 3rd biggest stack right now.

The prizes are now up and official, and the winner tonight will be pocketing $27,185. The full prize list is published under the Payouts tab, and below.

The prize pool of $100,035 is correct, but there is an issue with the complete prize list, as they are rejigging a few of the lower payouts to make the pay jumps more reasonable. Prizes should be posted soon under the Payouts tab, but it looks like the winner tonight will be pocketing 27k. Garett Maybery, Zhi Yang, and Sebastien Fallu are also among the remaining players tonight.

The field is set for the 6-Max, and it was another solid turnout with 117 entries. That put the prizes at more than $100k, with 12 players getting a piece of those prizes later tonight.

Among the players still alive tonight are Rick Mask, Eric Wasylenko, Mike Malm, Ramaz Haymour, Daniel Lefebvre, Debi Loomer, Colten Yamagishi, Micahel “Berny” Bernstein, Graydon Kowal, Jerry Li, Homan Mohammadi, Deven Lane, Scott Munro, and Stephen Dauphinais.

It looks like Mohammadi is the chip leader right now with about 350k in front of him, but it also looks like Jerry Li is playing around 200k too, while Scott Munro is playing about 250k.

The prizes are now over $90k with 109 entries on the board, and about 15 minutes to play in Level 10. There are two more levels of poker following this one, plus another break, before the end of entries in this one.

There are currently 4 packages up for grabs in the satellite game running alongside the main 6-Max game today. With 40 players in their seats, that also means there’s about $1,450 in cash for 5th place, but those numbers will only increase, as with the current pace of entry, I expect to see well over 100 entries for this one.

The prizes are more than $85k, with 100 entries on the board in the break following Level 8. That means there are a bit more than 2 hours left to enter today’s game, with the final chance to enter coming just before they sit down for Level 13.

I just had a look around for some big stacks, and I saw at least four players with 100k of more. Todd “The Rock” is holding steady at about 110k, but Rick Mask looks to be the big one now with 130k. Scott Munro has about 120k, while Colten Yamagishi looks to be playing about 115k.

Level 7 has more than 20 minutes remaining, and the field is now at 86 entries for prizes of $73,530. There are still a bit more than 3 hours left to enter the game today, so it’s still looking good for a field of 100+.

The field is now over 80 entries with Level 6 just beginning. The prizes are one entry short of $70k with just under 4 hours left to enter the game.

Among the newer faces I spotted on my last trip through the room were Jerry Li, Ramaz Haymour, Hassan Issa, Michael “Berny” Bernstein, Teo Sanchez, Chad Winnick, Tony Ma, Graham Lupton, Weston Pring, and Shane Brotherwood.

The 6-Max field is up to 73 entries after the first break of the day. It looks like Todd “The Rock” is the early chip leader. When I wandered around at the break, he looked to be playing about 120k, the only stack in the room over 100k.

The prizes are nearing $60k now with 67 entries on the board at the break following Level 4. They’ll be back in action with blinds at 300/500/500 in about 10 minutes, and there are still more than 4.5 hours to get into the game.

The field is now over 50 entries, for prizes of $46,170. Level 3 is nearly complete, and among the recent entries for this one are DJ Sharma, Julius Roque, Scott Munro, Phil Wright, Victor Ma, and Paul Sokoloff.

As expected, the action at the entry desk during Level 1 was brisk, and as Level 2 begins, there are 40 players in their seats. Among the entries during Level 1 are Colten Yamagishi, Eric Wasylenko, Mike Smith, Tyler Panas, Daniel Lefebvre, Deven Lane, Debi Loomer, Curtis Singleton, and Michael St Pierre-Porter.

The field is up to 26 entries now, and as expected, there’s fairly brisk action at the buy-in desk. Among the recent entries are Thomas Taylor, Ty Adams, Michael Malm, and Stephen Dauphinais.

The 6-Max is now underway with 17 players in their seats to start. I’m expecting a big run on entries here in the opening levels, with a final field in the range of 100 entries.

Among the players in their seats early today are Todd “The Rock”, Mehmet Siginc, Leslie Hollingworth, and Circuit ring winner Homan Mohamadi.

2025 Summer Super Stack – Event #11: $1,000 NLH 6Max ($900 + $100)

Tuesday is the day for short-handed specialists as the 6-Max game kicks off at 2 PM. Players will sit down with 30k in chips for 30-minute levels, and entries are open for 12 levels. With breaks, that should put the last entry at about 8:45 PM.

This is a one-day game, so a winner will be decided before they finish. There was no 6-Max game in the April series, so we have nothing to compare to, but I noticed today there are a few new faces in the room who haven’t been around for previous games, and who are almost certainly interested in a 6-Max game, so the field should be a solid one, especially given the series so far has blown past the April numbers in nearly every event.

This game is my only priority on Tuesday, as the only other poker on deck at Deerfoot is a satellite game in the evening. I should be on the floor pretty close to the opening hands and will be following this one until the final hand is dealt.