2025 WSOPC Calgary – Event #5: $600 Mystery Bounty NLH

It took more than 13 hours to decide the Mystery Bounty but in the end, Adrian Selero took down the big prize tonight. He was a middling stack for most of the final table, but found a new gear near the end, first sending Shaun Scrymgeour out in 3rd place before besting Russ King, who had been the big stack fro much of the final phase.

The final hand saw King flop the lead with an ace pair of aces, but Selero flopped a royal gutshot, needing the K♥ to complete. The turn bricked for him, but the river brought an offsuit king for the basic straight, which was still plenty to take it all down.

Russ King was the big stack for much of the endgame tonight, but when things got heads up it turned around. Adrian Selero had the lead after sending Shaun Scrymgeour to the rail in third, and shortly after, it all went in when King qoke up with ace-three of spades against jack-ten of hearts for Selero.

Selero flopped a royal gutshot, then rivered the straight with an offsuit king to take it down.

It wasn’t easy, but Adrian Selero finally got the best of Shaun Scrymgeour. After doubling him off a couple of times, Selero finally held with ace-five over ace-deuce and the five played for the win.

Shaun Scrymgeour shoved for 850k from the button and Adrian Selero reshoved the small blind while big stack Russ King got out of the way. Scrymgeour had kings against ace-eight of spades and he flopped the set before turning a boat against trip eights for Selero.

Shaun Scrymgeour shoved the small blind for 675k and Adrian Selero called from the big. Scrymgeour had pocket nines against A♣6♣ and the nines held on the board of 8♥7♠10♦Q♦5♦. Russ King is still in the lead.

Adrian Selero shoved the small blind for 1.675 million and Russ King called it off from the big. King was in good shape with the best jack, holding jack-nine gainst jack-three. Selero hit his three on the flop, though, and nothing else hit.

Easton Walker was down to barely enough to pay his big blind, with only 50k behind once he posted ante and blind. The rest of the table limped in before he threw in the extra 50k, and they all called. Action checked through the 8♦4♥4♣J♣Q♦ and Russ King’s jack was enough to take it down.

It was a brutal end for Paul Sokoloff as he got his remaining 1.2 million in with aces and looked in good shape to double until Adrian Selero rivered trip nines to crack the rockets.

It was limped preflop between Easton Walker and Russ King in the blinds. They both checked the A♣6♣K♣ flop and King called a bet of 150k on the 8♣ turn. Walker fired again on the 6♥ river for 350k, and King snapped it off with J♣4♣.

Shaun Scrymgeour shoved the big blind after a raise from button Russ King. King called with more and was in good shape with ace-jack against ace-seven. As the saying goes, however, it’s always coming seven and that was true this time as the board ran out 6♣5♠7♠Q♠A♦.

They are down to 5 now after Tony Melowski got his remaining 800k in with pocket fives but ran into queens for Paul Sokoloff. The queens held and Sokoloff outstacked Melowsky by 10k, so he was on the rail for 6th.

Shaun Scrymgeour Raised to 160 from the button and Easton Walker called from the big blind.They both checked the flop of 3♥9♥K♠, but Walker check-raised from 150k to 400k on the 9♦ turn and got the fold.

When action folded to Rob McMullin in the small blind, he shoved. Russ King looked at his hand in the big blind and said “I think I gotta call you.”

McMullin was dominated with ace-six into ace-queen, and the board missed both hands to send McMullin to the rail in 7th.

Tony Meloqwsky opened the cutoff to 175, then called off when Paul Sokoloff shoved the small blind for 425k. Melowsky was dominated with J♥10♥ against A♣J♦ for Sokoloff. There was an ace on the flop and that was enough for Sokoloff to score the double.

Sokoloff will likely have a decision to make tomorrow, though the late hour might make it for him. He has Seniors rings already, so he is always eager to jump in that one, but he’s also known as a high-stakes mixed-game specialist, so he’ll also be very interested in Day 1 of the HORSE tomorrow. It’ll be interesting to see which one he ends up in.

While I was doing the pictures, there were a few players to hit the rail. Shortly after the FT started, Julius Roque (10th) and Brian Mennis (9th) both went out to big stack Tony Melowsky. Roque was on ace-five and the shortest stack against Mennis with queens and Melowsky with eights. The board ran out to four hearts with Melowsky holding the 8♥ for the double knockout.

A few hands later, Michael Khan also hit the rail for 8th place, but I missed the action. He found a few doubles early on, including winning a race with ace-king over nines, but he bowed out in 8th place.

It’s final table time as Youssef Hmama was the final table bubble tonight in 11th place. I’ll grab names, pictures, and stacks for the final table shortly, but meanwhile, below is a look at the most recent cashers.

Place	Player	Prize
11	Youssef Hmama	$1,853
12	Mark Laforest	$1,504
13	Gary Speck	$1,504
14	Darrell Domes	$1,243

They are closing in on the final table now in the Mystery Bounty with 14 players left. Level 23 has just begun and they’ll go to the final table at 10 players.

Mystery Payouts Since Last Update

Place	Player	Prize
15	Hongwei Liu	$1,243
16	Frederic Moss	$1,243
17	Eric Westrum	$1,243
18	Korey Dadgar	$1,047

They are down to the final two tables now with 18 players remaining. They’ll throw in the second big bounty now, so there are now two $11,520 bounties in the bin as the first one hasn’t been pulled yet.

Mystery Payouts Since Last Update

Place	Player	Prize
19	Sam Gottiparthi	$1,047
20	Michael Admussen	$1,047
21	Jan Madayag	$1,047
22	Krystian Hady	$1,047
23	Arya Ghai	$1,047
24	Tristan Buchanan	$1,047
25	Bash Ramahi	$1,047
26	April Facey	$1,047
27	Shawn Holland	$899

Things are moving pretty quickly in the Mystery Bounty with the field down to 27 players on the final three tables. See below for payouts since my last update, and there have been a few more big bounties pulled along the way. April Facey pulled a yellow worth $1,728 while Youssef Hmama bagged a purple worth $9,216.

Place	Player	Prize
28	Nate Rajakumer	$899
29	Ethan Flewin	$899
30	Zhaowei Cheng	$899
31	Sunny Lubana	$899
32	David Macneil	$899
33	Edward Guergis	$899
34	Jui Hsu	$899
35	Reza Yazdani-Aminabadi	$899
36	Jayvee Lumahan	$787
37	Robert Mosher	$787
38	Kendra Bernard	$787
39	Jiachen Zhang	$787
40	Ferdinando Pettigrosso	$787
41	Justin Pennell	$787
42	David Ko	$787
43	Thomas Bona	$787
44	Ghislaine Johnson	$787
45		$749
46	Haochewn Zhou	$749
47	Sandy Lam	$749
48	Trent Hopper	$749
49	Nichols Leslie	$749
50	Dennis Duval	$749
51	Nadav Bitton	$749
52	Zacharie Desautels	$749
53	Barry Frey	$749
54	Lohrasp Seify	$749

The field is down to 54 players left now, and the first big bounty has been pulled. Kory Dadgar pulled a yellow card out of the bin worth $1,728. He grabbed the bounty when he reshoved the small blind after a smaller shove. Calvin Lake called with a covering stack for both from the big blind looking for a double knockout. Lake had pocket tens, against ace-queen for Dadger, and ace-six for the original shove. Dadgar hit his queen and held for the win and the yellow bounty. Lake was left short and hit the rail shortly after for 55th place.

Mystery Payouts Since Last Update

Place	Player	Prize
55	Calvin Lake	$749
56	Jesse Ingaldson	$749
57		$749
58	Simon Snell	$749
59	Shane Chief	$749
60	Laura Mccollom	$749
61	Steven Nielsen	$749

The Mystery Bounty is in the money now with 61 players left and 8 players already cashing out for a prize. See below for the cashing players to date. All eliminations so far have been for average bounties of $600.

I’m still not watching this one very closely as I’m still sorting out the Day 2 posts for the 4-Flight, but I should be watching this one a bit closer as I’m at least in the same room now.

Mystery Bounty Payouts So Far

Place	Player	Prize
62	Martin Sayle	$749
63	Kim Pham	$749
64	Marc-Andre Kudjick-Paquin	$749
65	Jeffery Casey	$749
66	Zhiyu Chen	$749
67	Dylan Payne	$749
68	Adam Balis	$749
69	Michael St. Pierre Porter	$749

The numbers are in and the field ended up at 459 entries. That puts the combined prizes at $236,385 with $91,800 of that in bounties. Full prizes are loaded under the payouts tab.

Mystery Bounty Prizes

Mystery Bounty Values

There are about 10 minutes to play in Level 9 with another level of poker before the end of entries and the field is at 423 entries now. Registration will close in less than an hour, but that still gives a fair bit of time to increase the numbers.

It’s a big turnout for the Mystery Bounty tonight with the field at 335 entries before the first break of the day. That puts the total prize pool at more than $170k with $67,000 of that in the Bounty pool now.

There are still about 3 hours left in the registration period for this one as well, so the numbers look to grow significantly still. Last January’s Mystery Bounty got 472 entries by the time it all closed down, so it’s looking like a reasonable bet that this year will be similar.

The side event on Saturday is the Mystery Bounty. The action kicks off at 4 pm and entries are open for 10 levels (25 minutes each) which should put the final chance to buy in at around 8:50 pm tonight.

After entry closes, it will be a race to the finish as this is a one-day event. $200 from the buy in goes to the Mystery bounty pool, and those bounties go into effect when players hit the money.

Mystery Bounties

• 2 x 20%
• 1 x 16%
• 1 x 11%
• 1 x 7.5%
• 3 x 4.5%
• 4 x 3%
• One of the 20% bounties will be reserved for the final 18 players