2025 WSOPC Calgary – Event #4: $400 4Flight NLH Day

Tyler Panas picked up his first circuit ring tonight after taking down the 4-Flight. He survived a bit of a rollercoaster final table that saw the chip lead move around a lot.

Panas was actually short for much of the final table but he jumped into the lead in part thanks to a huge hold in a race against Evan Casey. Panas had Casey covered and sent him to the rail in third when his nines held over the ace-queen.

That gave Panas a big lead going into heads up, and it didn’t take long for them to find a cooler to get it all in. In the final hand, runner-up Eyal Pevzner raised to 600k, then called off Panas’ shove with queen-jack, only to run into ace-king. The big slick held on a board that saw both players hit the flop.

Panas had an excellent 2024 with 14 cashes including one win as well as runner-up in a PPT Main Event. He put $130k in winnings onto his Hendon Mob page in 2024, and it looks like his 2025 is off to a roaring start as well.

Full Payouts for Day 2 of 4-Flight

Place	Player	Prize
1	Tyler Panas	$70,054
2	Eyal Pevzner	$46,703
3	Evan Casey	$32,885
4	Colin Burton	$23,554
5	Caleb Simmons	$17,165
6	Shane Kozniuk	$12,732
7	Josh Myers	$9,614
8	Steven Desjarlais	$7,394
9	Matthew Hall	$5,794
10	Pieter Kobben	$4,626
11	Kali Shuali	$4,626
12	Mason St Martin	$3,766
13	Rami Hammoud	$3,766
14	Mohsen Shafizadeh	$3,127
15	David Katzov	$3,127
16	Cory Hauser	$3,127
17	Senthuren Indrasithu	$3,127
18	Anderson Frank-Graham	$2,650
19	Deven Lane	$2,650
20	Bash Ramahi	$2,650
21	Trevor Otterson	$2,650
22	Ryan(Zoran) Kaniski	$2,650
23	Dylan Boyer	$2,650
24	Bobby Lauderville	$2,650
25	Jeffery Clarke	$2,650
26	Kyle Chang	$2,650
27	Varanpreet Sidhu	$2,291
28	Simon Juno	$2,291
29	Ryan Smith	$2,291
30	Kyle Rognes	$2,291
31	Alison Senycz	$2,291
32	Harry Newton	$2,291
33	Lorne(Ed) Gaetz	$2,291
34	Jorden Arbuthnott	$2,291
35	Jeffry Grigg	$2,291
36	Coltyn Gaetz	$2,023
37	Alexander Allison	$2,023
38	Devon Morgan	$2,023
39	Marc-Andre Kudjick-Paquin	$2,023
40	Aris Forbes	$2,023
41	Lanze Chevillard	$2,023
42	Jason Chan	$2,023
43	William Duncan	$2,023
44	Steven Barber	$2,023
45	Allan Alejandro	$1,826
46	Sean O’Reilly	$1,826
47	Louis Flewin	$1,826
48	Michael Rozak	$1,826
49	Christopher Fagan	$1,826
50	Bruce Demish	$1,826
51	Daniel Luczyk	$1,826
52	Sam Gottiparthi	$1,826
53	George Mounsef	$1,826
54	Lance Andre	$1,739
55	Jeremy Harper	$1,739
56	Christopher Clisby	$1,739
57	Craig Caldwell	$1,739
58	Shane Rawlins	$1,739
59	Alex Langlais	$1,739
60	Kristopher Taylor	$1,739
61	Hoang Quach	$1,739
62	Marcio Kondo	$1,739
63	Justin Pennell	$1,739
64	John Nielsen	$1,739
65	Peter Darlington	$1,739
66	Kwong Au	$1,739
67	John Boland	$1,739
68	Easton Walker	$1,739
69	Stephen Dauphanais	$1,739
70	Larry Quon	$1,739
71	Edward Cook	$1,739
72	Julius Roque	$1,739
73	Colten Yamagishi	$1,739
74	Nohad Teliani	$1,739
75	Joel Kogan	$1,739
76	Nate Rajakumar	$1,739
77	Shane Brotherwood	$1,739
78	Chao Wang	$1,739
79	Triston Buchanan	$1,739
80	Claire Leclerc	$1,739
81	Trevor Simpson	$1,739

The game wasn’t heads up for very long tonight as they found a bit of a cooler early on. Tyler Panas got to the final phase with the chip lead, and he never surrendered it. After a couple of hands with no showdown, Eyal Pevzner raised to 600k, then called off when Panas shoved.

Pevzner was on queen-jack, but Panas was premium with ace-king. Both players hit the flop on the board of A♣Q♥4♣5♠3♥ but Panas hit it hardest and held.

They are down to two left now in the 4-Flight after Ryal Pevzner raised to 600k, Evan Casey shoved, and Tyler Panas reshoved. That pushed Pevzner out of the hand, and it was a race between pocket nines for Panas and ace-queen for Casey. The nines held on a dry board for the overcards and Casey was out in 3rd place.

Colin Burton grabbed a double through Eyal Pezner when his threes held against ace-king, but that didn’t last long for him. The next hand he shoved pocket fours but ran into jacks and couldn’t find any help to hit the rail in 4th place.

There are four players left in the 4-Flight now after Caleb Simmons hit the rail in 5th place. I missed the action while I was cleaning up some of the HORSE end-of-day action.

Eyal Pevzner shoved under the gun and it folded around to Tyler Panas in the big blind. He tanked for a bit before calling the 2.5 million shove.

Eyal Pevzner: Pocket Threes
Tyler Panas: A♠7♠

Pavzner was hoping to get it through and sweated the 6♠4♥2♠4♦K♠ but was able to hold for the win.

Colin Burton called from the small blind, then called again when Caleb Simmons raised the big blind to 600k. The flop came 3♣6♠K♣ and Burton check-raised from 325k to 1.1 million.

Simmons called to the 8♦ turn where they both checked through to the J♣ river. Burton fired 2 million and Simmons hit the tank for about a minute before finally calling.

Burton showed A♣9♠ against K♠J♠ for Simmons. “When I saw the ace of clubs I thought you had it,” Simmons said after realizing his two pair was ahead.

Tyler Panas opened to 500k from the button, and Evan Casey defended his big blind. They both checked the 10♥9♣A♠ flop and Casey led for 475k on the 7♣ turn.

Panas called to the 3♥ and after a check from Casey fired 750k into the middle. Casey tanked for a bit before calling, but he mucked his hand when Panas showed A♥Q♥ for the win.

Shane (Roy) Kozniuk flopped a pair with his ace-eight, but he ran into pocket aces for Colin Burton. The aces held through the turn and river and Kozniuk was out in 6th place.

I’ve been a bit bust getting the Seniors final table sorted out so I missed some action on the 4-Flight final table. Steve Dejarlais and Josh Myers have exited the game in 8th and 7th places respectively.

They are down to 8 left in the 4-Flight now after Matt Hall took 9th place, though I missed the action while I was working on pictures.

Pieter Kobben came into Day 2 with the chip lead and he made it as far as the final table, but he was the first one off once they got ten-handed. In the big confrontation, he doubled up Josh Myers when he shoved into Myers aces’ with eights and couldn’t get there.

That left him short and the rest went in the following hand with king-ten for Kobben against ace-six suited for Tyler Panas. Panas turned an ace for insurance and sent the start-of-day leader to the rail in 10th place.

They are just setting the final table now after Kali Shuali was the FT bubble in 11th place tonight. I’ll grab some pictures for the final 10 shortly.

Mason St. Martin just hit the rail for 12th place today ($3,766) after a big confrontation with chip leader Colin Burton. St. Martin raised preflop under the gun and Burton called from the big blind. It all went off on the flop of [invalid notations] smashed the trip eights for the win after the rest of the board bricked out for the overpair.

It was blind on blind when Matt Hall limped the small and Kali Shuali checked her option in the big. They both checked the 6♥A♥7♥ flop but Hall led for 125k on the A♠ turn. Shuali took a second before announcing all in for a smaller stack than Hall, but Hall elected to fold showing a 6♦ as he did.

They are down to 2 off the final table now with 12 players left in the game. Cashing players since my last update are below.

Place	Player	Prize
13	Rami Hammoud	$3,766
14	Mohsen Shafizadeh	$3,127
15	David Katzov	$3,127
16	Cory Hauser	$3,127
17	Senthuren Indrasithu	$3,127

Colin Burton is the leader at the dinner break with almost 4 million. Full stacks are below.

Kali Shuali opened the action from the cutoff to 180k before Cory Hauser shoved his button for about 1.3 million. Big blind Steve Dejarlais hit the tank for a bit before reshoving for a bit more, while Shuali snap-mucked.

Hauser was on Q♥9♥ against pocket queens for Dejarlais and the queens held to send Hauser to the rail in 16th place.

Meanwhile, on the other table, Colin Burton picked up some dead money after he shoved his big blind over a raise to 200k from Tyler Panas in the middle, forcing Panas to fold.

They are now five minutes from the dinner break when I’ll get a good look at all the stacks in play.

Josh Myers opened to 160k from the middle before big blind David Katzov shoved. Myers called it off with more and looked to be in good shape with ace-king over ace-queen. Poker had other ideas, however, and Katzov spiked both an ace and a queen on the flop, boating up with another queen on the turn for the win.

“I don’t know how I can lose ace-king into ace-queen so often,” Myers said as he was counting out the double. Day 2 will be going on a dinner break following this level, and I’ll grab full chip counts then for all remaining players.

Payouts Since Last Update

Place	Player	Prize
18	Anderson Frank-Graham	$2,650
19	Deven Lane	$2,650

They are down to 19 now, on the bubble to the final two tables. Day 1c chip leader Bash Ramahi was among the recent players to hit the rail.

Payouts Since Last Update

Place	Player	Prize
20	Bash Ramahi	$2,650
21	Trevor Otterson	$2,650
22	Ryan(Zoran) Kaniski	$2,650
23	Dylan Boyer	$2,650

They are down to 23 left in the 4-Flight now with just under 30 minutes to play in Level 24. See below for a look at payouts since my last update.

Place	Player	Prize
24	Bobby Lauderville	$2,650
25	Jeffery Clarke	$2,650
26	Kyle Chang	$2,650
27	Varanpreet Sidhu	$2,291

They are down to 27 remaining with just 3 minutes remaining in Level 23. There is another break following this level – See below for the payouts since my last update.

Place	Player	Prize
28	Simon Juno	$2,291
29	Ryan Smith	$2,291
30	Kyle Rognes	$2,291
31	Alison Senycz	$2,291
32	Harry Newton	$2,291
33	Lorne(Ed) Gaetz	$2,291
34	Jorden Arbuthnott	$2,291
35	Jeffry Grigg	$2,291
36	Coltyn Gaetz	$2,023
37	Alexander Allison	$2,023

The field is down to 37 remaining now with Level 23 just underway. I made a small error on my last post of payouts, missing one player and reporting the wrong finish for a few others as a result. That is corrected in the list below, and 72nd place has now reported in as well.

Place	Player	Prize
38	Devon Morgan	$2,023
39	Marc-Andre Kudjick-Paquin	$2,023
40	Aris Forbes	$2,023
41	Lanze Chevillard	$2,023
42	Jason Chan	$2,023
43	William Duncan	$2,023
44	Steven Barber	$2,023
45	Allan Alejandro	$1,826
46	Sean O’Reilly	$1,826
72	Julius Roque	$1,739

The field is down to five tables now with 42 players left in the game. There are about 30 minutes to play in Level 22 with the next break scheduled following Level 23. The average stack right now is about 730k which is a bit more than 24 big blinds in the current level.

Payouts SInce Last Update

Place	Player	Prize
43	Jason Chan	$2,023
44	Steven Barber	$2,023
45	Allan Alejandro	$1,826
46	Sean O’Reilly	$1,826
47	Louis Flewin	$1,826
48	Michael Rozak	$1,826
49	Christopher Fagan	$1,826

They are down to 49 left in the 4-Flight now with just over 10 minutes to play in Level 21. They’ve just finished the min-cash level of $1,739 with four players jumping to the next level at $1,826. See below for payouts since my last update here.

Place	Player	Prize
50	Bruce Demish	$1,826
51	Daniel Luczyk	$1,826
52	Sam Gottiparthi	$1,826
53	George Mounsef	$1,826
54	Lance Andre	$1,739
55	Jeremy Harper	$1,739
56	Christopher Clisby	$1,739
57	Craig Caldwell	$1,739
58	Shane Rawlins	$1,739

The Day 2 players are back in their seats for the first level at 45 minutes. I’ve just been collating the data from all the events so far, and the series has already capped $1 million in total prizes without even considering the Seniors and HORSE games set to run today. With those included, it’s likely that the total prizes at the end of Sunday will be in the range of $1.4 million or more with the Seniors field closing in on $175k in prizes.

It remains to be seen how the turnout will be in the final week of the series starting tomorrow, but it’s still looking pretty good to meet or beat the 2024 Jan total of $5.8 million.

The 4-Flight players are on their first break of Day 2 now and will return for action in Level 21 with blinds at 15k/25k/25k. This will be the start of the 45-minute Day 2 levels.

Payouts Since Last Update

Place	Player	Prize
59	Alex Langlais	$1,739
60	Kristopher Taylor	$1,739

They are down to 60 players left alive in the 4-Flight now with Level 20 about halfway finished. They’ll take their first break of Day 2 following this level and when they return for Level 21, they’ll be playing for 45 minutes before the blinds change again.

4-Flight Payouts Since Last Update

Place	Player	Prize
61	Hoang Quach	$1,739
62	Marco Kondo	$1,739
63	Justin Pennell	$1,739
64	John Nielsen	$1,739
65	Peter Darlington	$1,739
66	Kwong Au	$1,739
67	John Boland	$1,739
68	Easton Walker	$1,739

As expected, things are moving pretty quickly and they are down to 68 players left in Day 2 of the 4-Flight now. I am still missing the name for 72nd place as they haven’t checked in with the desk yet, but the rest of the payouts since my last update are below with the full prize list under the Payouts tab.

Place	Player	Prize
69	Stephen Dauphanais	$1,739
70	Larry Quon	$1,739
71	Edward Cook	$1,739
72		$1,739
73	Colten Yamagishi	$1,739
74	Nohad Teliani	$1,739
75	Joel Kogan	$1,739
76	Nate Rajakumar	$1,739

Level 19 has just begun with the field already down to 76 entries. They’ll play this level and the next one at 30 minutes in length, with the Day 2 levels of 45 minutes kicking in at the start of Level 21.

4-Flight Payouts so Far

Place	Player	Prize
77	Shane Brotherwood	$1,739
78	Chao Wang	$1,739
79	Triston Buchanan	$1,739
80	Claire Leclerc	$1,739
81	Trevor Simpson	$1,739

Day 2 is now underway with just under 20 minutes to play in Level 18. Day 1 blinds will continue until the end of Level 20 at 30 minutes, then will jump to the Day length of 45 minutes to start Level 21.

Day 2 is about to get underway with 81 players returning. They are all in the money with the min-cash today set at $1,739 and more than $70k up top for the winner later today. I expect the early part of today will be mostly just responding to bustouts, but as the field thins and the pace slows, I’ll get some action in as well.

Day 2 Chips by Name

Day 2 Chips by Seat

Day 2 of the 4-Flight is now set with 81 players returning for the final day of play. Pieter Kobben from the Netherlands leads the way into Day 2 with almost 1 million chips. He has more than 100k more than 2nd place Roy Kozniuk. Alison Senycz, Bash Ramahi, and Senthuran Indrasithu round out the top five counts going into Sunday’s action.

Day 2 action will start with 21 minutes remaining in Level 18 and will move to Day 2 blinds of 45 minutes at the start of Level 19. They’ll be playing down to a winner on Sunday.

There is still $382,989 waiting in the prize pool after all the Day 1 cashes were paid out, and that means the winner on Sunday will pocket a bit more than $70k. Full prizes are listed under the Payouts tab, but below is a look at the final table payouts.

I should be focused on this one until they award the ring sometime late Sunday night.