2025 Summer Super Stack – Event #5: $340 NLH Progressive Knockout

The PKO game is over after about 10 hours at the felt. Once Tony Ma hit the cage for 3rd place money, the final two players looked at the equal payouts up top and decided to just call it a night, keeping their own bounties in the process. That means both players won $3,578 from the prizes, and Delic-Ibukic got $725 extra for his bounty while Smith had a whopping $2,900 in extra bounty cash.

It was a not-so-classic flip between Tony Ma’s A♦8♦ and K♦Q♣ for Ismar Delic-Ibukic. Both players missed the board as far as pairs were concerned, but when the J♣6♣5♣4♦4♣ board was complete, Delic-Ibukic had the club flush for the win. Ma added $625 in bounties to his $2,155 prize tonight.

The final three players have moved to poker, as the main casino floor shuts down at 4 AM on th weekends. Will Smith is leading with more than a million chips and only 2.3 million in play.

The preflop action was call-check, and action checked through the 6♥10♦4♠4♦ flop and turn. Tony Ma fired 50k on the 6♠ river and Ismar Delic-Ibukic called, but mucked when Ma showed 10♥4♣ for the turned trips.

I missed the action while I was writing the previous bustout, but Ryan Down took the 4th place prize of $1,539 tonight. Tony Ma was the recipient of his chips, and Down added an extra $250 in bounties to his total winnings tonight.

They are down to four left after Jamal Borhot got it in against Will Smith, with Smith on a slightly bigger stack. Borhot was dominated with king-nine against king-queen, and Smith hit his queen kicker just for insurance. In addition to the $1,077 prize, he pocketed around $1,200 in bounties tonight.

It was a bit of a brutal end for Sam Masson tonight. He limped the small blind, then hit the tank when big blind and big stack Jamal Borhot shoved.

He eventually called it off to put himself at risk, but was in good shape before the board with king-queen against a dominated queen-eight of diamonds for Borhot. The board of 7♥9♠5♣10♥8♣ was all Borhot, though as he flopped a gutty, turned open-ended, then rivered his kicker for the win.

Chandra Prawal limped under the gun, and it folded around to Sam Mason on the button. He pushed all in for 127k and, after a short tank, Prawal called.

Chandra Prawal: J♣10♣
Sam Mason: A♦10♦

The 5♣A♥9♠A♣10♥ turned the trips for Mason, but also brought a club sweat. Prawal bricked the river and was left with just 32k, which he lost in the next hand to hit the cage for 7th place. In addition to $693 for 7th, he bagged $335 in bounties tonight.

Jamal Borhot is the leader with seven players left. The remaining players are on a break for about 5 more minutes before they return for Level 19.

They are down to 7 remaining in the PKO game now with just under 10 minutes left in Level 18. See below for cashing players so far.

Place	Player	Prize
8	Nicholas Saunders	$616
9	Ramez Haimour	$539
10	Charlene Boustead	$462
11	Baowei Sun	$385

The bubble burst in the PKO game without any hand-for-hand action as they went from 13 to 11 in a single hand. All remaining players are now in the money, and I’ll grab some photos and names when they get to the final table.

They are down to 24 players left on the break following Level 13. They’ll be back in action for Level 14 in less than 5 minutes, and they are now 13 players away from the money. The average stack is 95k, which will be about 25 big blinds when they return to blinds of 2k/4k/4k.

The PKO game is now 21 off the money spots, with about 5 minutes to play in Level 12. The average stack is just shy of 30 big blinds right now, and assuming no one busts before the next level, the average stack will be down to about 22 bigs.

Paul Sokoloff is among the players still in the game, along with Trevor Argue, Allan Hobbins, Tony Ma, Chase Cromwell, Jacqueline Ray, and Amir Khan.

The prizes are in, and the field is confirmed at 114 entries for the PKO game, a significant improvement over the April total for this game. That means 11 players will share in $15,390 in prizes, with another $17,100 in bounties.

Payouts for PKO Game

Entries are now closed on the PKO side game, with 114 as the final number on the board. I’m still waiting for the prizes to be posted to verify that number, but if it holds, it should mean 11 players sharing in $15,390 in prizes later tonight, with an additional $17,100 in bounty money floating around.

The PKO game is going gangbusters with 11 entries on the board and about 25 minutes left to enter the game. Among the players active right now are Seniors winner Graham Lupton, Julius Roque, Mohsen Shafizadeh, Daniel O’Leary, Sebastien Fallu, Duane Wong, Tony Ma, Trevor Argue, Allan Hobbins, Toms Varghese, Chase Cromwell, Jacqueline Ray, Amir Khan, Anthony Casten, and Jordan Banfield.

In April’s Spring Super Stack, this game got 75 entries, so the Summer edition is already well ahead of the previous field, with entries still open for a bit more than an hour. The field is now at 100 entries exactly, and looks likely to end between 110 & 120 entries tonight.

The PKO field is at 98 entries now, with a bit more than hour left to enter the game. I misreported the end of entries on this one as 9:10, but I was working with 20-minute blinds, when the true blinds are 25 minutes long. That means the end of entries for the PKO will be around 9:50 PM tonight instead of 9:10 as I previously reported. Sorry for the error.

The side game is over 80 entries with Level 5 just beginning. There are still about 90 minutes left to enter the game tonight, with the registration set to close at about 9:10 tonight.

The current combined prizes are almost $24k, with $12,600 of that in the bounty pool. Just a reminder that I won’t be watching this game very closely until later in the evening after 1b of Event #3 bags up for the night.

2025 Summer Super Stack – Event #5: $340 NLH Progressive Knockout ($150 + $150 + $40)

The Friday side dish is the Progressive Knockout game. Players start with $150 bounties on their heads, but the “progressive” part of this game means that when a player knocks another player out, 50% of that player’s bounty goes into the winner’s pocket immediately, while the other 50% gets added to the winning player’s bounty (for example, Player A busts Player B with $150 on Player B’s head. Player A gets $75 in their pocket, and their bounty going forward is $225).

The game starts with 20k in chips, and levels are 25 minutes long throughout the night. Players have 8 levels to buy into the game, with the registration desk set to close at about 9:10 PM. After that, they’ll run until all the chips are in front of one player.

I’ll be watching Day 1b of Event #3 until that game bags at around midnight tonight. After that, I’ll be over to catch the end of this one.

The PKO game is over after about 10 hours at the felt. Once Tony Ma hit the cage for 3rd place money, the final two players looked at the equal payouts up top and decided to just call it a night, keeping their own bounties in the process. That means both players won $3,578 from the prizes, and Delic-Ibukic got $725 extra for his bounty while Smith had a whopping $2,900 in extra bounty cash.

It was a not-so-classic flip between Tony Ma’s A♦8♦ and K♦Q♣ for Ismar Delic-Ibukic. Both players missed the board as far as pairs were concerned, but when the J♣6♣5♣4♦4♣ board was complete, Delic-Ibukic had the club flush for the win. Ma added $625 in bounties to his $2,155 prize tonight.

The final three players have moved to poker, as the main casino floor shuts down at 4 AM on th weekends. Will Smith is leading with more than a million chips and only 2.3 million in play.

The preflop action was call-check, and action checked through the 6♥10♦4♠4♦ flop and turn. Tony Ma fired 50k on the 6♠ river and Ismar Delic-Ibukic called, but mucked when Ma showed 10♥4♣ for the turned trips.

I missed the action while I was writing the previous bustout, but Ryan Down took the 4th place prize of $1,539 tonight. Tony Ma was the recipient of his chips, and Down added an extra $250 in bounties to his total winnings tonight.

They are down to four left after Jamal Borhot got it in against Will Smith, with Smith on a slightly bigger stack. Borhot was dominated with king-nine against king-queen, and Smith hit his queen kicker just for insurance. In addition to the $1,077 prize, he pocketed around $1,200 in bounties tonight.

It was a bit of a brutal end for Sam Masson tonight. He limped the small blind, then hit the tank when big blind and big stack Jamal Borhot shoved.

He eventually called it off to put himself at risk, but was in good shape before the board with king-queen against a dominated queen-eight of diamonds for Borhot. The board of 7♥9♠5♣10♥8♣ was all Borhot, though as he flopped a gutty, turned open-ended, then rivered his kicker for the win.

Chandra Prawal limped under the gun, and it folded around to Sam Mason on the button. He pushed all in for 127k and, after a short tank, Prawal called.

Chandra Prawal: J♣10♣
Sam Mason: A♦10♦

The 5♣A♥9♠A♣10♥ turned the trips for Mason, but also brought a club sweat. Prawal bricked the river and was left with just 32k, which he lost in the next hand to hit the cage for 7th place. In addition to $693 for 7th, he bagged $335 in bounties tonight.

Jamal Borhot is the leader with seven players left. The remaining players are on a break for about 5 more minutes before they return for Level 19.

They are down to 7 remaining in the PKO game now with just under 10 minutes left in Level 18. See below for cashing players so far.

Place	Player	Prize
8	Nicholas Saunders	$616
9	Ramez Haimour	$539
10	Charlene Boustead	$462
11	Baowei Sun	$385

The bubble burst in the PKO game without any hand-for-hand action as they went from 13 to 11 in a single hand. All remaining players are now in the money, and I’ll grab some photos and names when they get to the final table.

They are down to 24 players left on the break following Level 13. They’ll be back in action for Level 14 in less than 5 minutes, and they are now 13 players away from the money. The average stack is 95k, which will be about 25 big blinds when they return to blinds of 2k/4k/4k.

The PKO game is now 21 off the money spots, with about 5 minutes to play in Level 12. The average stack is just shy of 30 big blinds right now, and assuming no one busts before the next level, the average stack will be down to about 22 bigs.

Paul Sokoloff is among the players still in the game, along with Trevor Argue, Allan Hobbins, Tony Ma, Chase Cromwell, Jacqueline Ray, and Amir Khan.

The prizes are in, and the field is confirmed at 114 entries for the PKO game, a significant improvement over the April total for this game. That means 11 players will share in $15,390 in prizes, with another $17,100 in bounties.

Payouts for PKO Game

Entries are now closed on the PKO side game, with 114 as the final number on the board. I’m still waiting for the prizes to be posted to verify that number, but if it holds, it should mean 11 players sharing in $15,390 in prizes later tonight, with an additional $17,100 in bounty money floating around.

The PKO game is going gangbusters with 11 entries on the board and about 25 minutes left to enter the game. Among the players active right now are Seniors winner Graham Lupton, Julius Roque, Mohsen Shafizadeh, Daniel O’Leary, Sebastien Fallu, Duane Wong, Tony Ma, Trevor Argue, Allan Hobbins, Toms Varghese, Chase Cromwell, Jacqueline Ray, Amir Khan, Anthony Casten, and Jordan Banfield.

In April’s Spring Super Stack, this game got 75 entries, so the Summer edition is already well ahead of the previous field, with entries still open for a bit more than an hour. The field is now at 100 entries exactly, and looks likely to end between 110 & 120 entries tonight.

The PKO field is at 98 entries now, with a bit more than hour left to enter the game. I misreported the end of entries on this one as 9:10, but I was working with 20-minute blinds, when the true blinds are 25 minutes long. That means the end of entries for the PKO will be around 9:50 PM tonight instead of 9:10 as I previously reported. Sorry for the error.

The side game is over 80 entries with Level 5 just beginning. There are still about 90 minutes left to enter the game tonight, with the registration set to close at about 9:10 tonight.

The current combined prizes are almost $24k, with $12,600 of that in the bounty pool. Just a reminder that I won’t be watching this game very closely until later in the evening after 1b of Event #3 bags up for the night.

2025 Summer Super Stack – Event #5: $340 NLH Progressive Knockout ($150 + $150 + $40)

The Friday side dish is the Progressive Knockout game. Players start with $150 bounties on their heads, but the “progressive” part of this game means that when a player knocks another player out, 50% of that player’s bounty goes into the winner’s pocket immediately, while the other 50% gets added to the winning player’s bounty (for example, Player A busts Player B with $150 on Player B’s head. Player A gets $75 in their pocket, and their bounty going forward is $225).

The game starts with 20k in chips, and levels are 25 minutes long throughout the night. Players have 8 levels to buy into the game, with the registration desk set to close at about 9:10 PM. After that, they’ll run until all the chips are in front of one player.

I’ll be watching Day 1b of Event #3 until that game bags at around midnight tonight. After that, I’ll be over to catch the end of this one.