2025 WSOPC Calgary Oct – Event #11: $1,000 NLH Turbo

Harpreet Gill was a bit of a wrecking ball tonight — both in terms of the poker and also his Guinness consumption. He was in good spirits through most of the final table and was the chattiest player there.

Toward the end of the evening, he had his friend, DJ Sharma, on the rail as well, and that contributed to the noise level considerably. He was quite short at one point during the final table, and he was at risk against runner-up Mike Leah with play five ways. Leah was on the suited jack-ten, but he was dominated by the ace-ten of Gill. That was the start of Gill’s big comeback, and from there, it was pretty much all Gill or Leah.

Leah sent Die Hard Poker League member Doug Cornelson home in 5th before Gill sent Colten Yamagish out in 4th. Gill then sent Bradley Thompson to the rail for 3rd when Thompson’s short stack went in with ducks, and he couldn’t win the near-inevitable race.

That left Leah and Gill heads up, with Gill holding the lead. He recognized that a player like Leah almost certainly had the skill advantage, so he took the best strategy available – shoving the big stack to force Leah into life-or-death decisions in most hands, thereby largely handicapping the skill advantage.

Leah stayed alive several times with doubles, but he was never able to get two close enough together to find the lead. He’d double to near-even, then get chipped down again having to fold to shoves. In the final confrontation, Gill shoved and, after some thought, Leah called it off with less.

Gill had the goods this time with pocket nines, but Leah was drawing very live with a united king. Leah flopped his kicker to the king, but still needed help, and Gill’s nines held.

This looks like Gill’s first live win, and his first Circuit ring. He’s final-tabled a couple of events in Calgary in the past, including a fourth place in the 2022 Summer Super Stack $250 Bounty game. This win should put him around $725k in live earnings once it’s tabulated and converted to USD.

Results from the Turbo $1k

Place	Player	Prize
1	Harpreet Gill	$35,195
2	Mike Leah	$23,092
3	Bradley Thompson	$15,616
4	Colten Yamagishi	$10,890
5	Doug Cornelson	$7,839
6	Jerry Li	$5,831
7	Josh Bennett	$4,486
8	Tony Ma	$3,575
9	Kami Chisholm	$2,954
10	Miranda Mar	$2,535
11	Cindy Kerslake	$2,535
12	Lyle Feeney	$2,262
13	Zeyu Huang	$2,262
14	Garett Maybery	$2,103
15	Stephen Dauphinais	$2,103
16	Dave Mcleod	$2,103
17	Chun-Kit Kwan	$2,103
18	Nicholas Teeuwen	$2,002
19	Mark Aylward-Nally	$2,002
20	Donald Kehler	$2,002
21	Shariq Khan	$2,002
22	Kelvin Fu	$2,002
23	Daniel Lefebvre	$2,002
24	Kirk Logeman	$2,002
25	Michael Khan	$2,002

Colten Yamagishi pushed most of his stack to the middle from the button, leaving 5k behind. Harpreet Gill thought he was all in, and called, but the money went in on the K♠J♥3♦ flop. Yamagishi was on ace-eight against ace-ten for Gill, and the ace-ten held on the 4♦J♦ runout.

That puts Gill in the lead.

The Die Hard Poker League scored another cash tonight with Doug Cornelson’s 5th place. He was card-dead for the last few levels, and got his last 370k into the middle with 10♣6♣ versus A♦2♣ for Mike Leah. Leah hit his deuce on the 2♦8♠9♠8♦Q♠ and that was the winning pair.

Colten Yamagishi and Mike Leah have been having a bit of fun tonight. Yamagishi is now to the direct left of Leah, and when they get blind on blind and Leah shoves the small, Yamagishi has been letting him peel his cards to reveal the sides. In the most recent example, Leah reported “3-side, 2-side” and Yamagishi considered folding it blind. He did look, finally, but snap-mucked the hand.

Mike Leah shoved from the middle, and Harprett Gill called with less from the button. Gill had ace-ten off against J♦10♠ for Leah. The low board missed both hands and Gill doubled with ace-high.

Jerry Li was the 6th-place finisher tonight. I missed the action while I was out of the room, but I saw Mike Leah stacking his chips when I got back.

Mike Leah raised to 125k under the gun, and it folded to Bradley Thompson, who had blinded down to less the 200k after his big blind went in. He flatted to see the J♦Q♥8♥ flop.

Thompson checked, Leah bet enough to put him in, and he called it off reluctantly. Thompson was on [invalid notations]. Thompson got it in the gut on the turn of the 10♠5♥ runout. He’s still the short stack at the table.

Josh Bennett was the short stack with just 280k, and he shoved the hijack. Doug Cornelson reshoved more from the cutoff and everyone else folded.

It was a race between ace-queen of clubs for Cornelson and pocket sevens for Bennett. It looked good for Bennett to double through most of the 9♠3♠K♦4♥Q♠ runout, but the river drowned him.

Jerry Li raised to 100k under the gun, and Douglas Cornelson flatted from the big blind. The all club flop came 3♣5♣K♣ and Cornelson checked when Li bet enough to put him in.

Cornelson hit the king with K♦J♠ while Li had A♠9♥. The 3♦9♣ runout didn’t change anything on Cornelson is up to about 800k now.

Li doubled back immediately after through Mike Leah. I missed the action, but Li’s ace-queen won the day.

Colten Yamagishi is the chip leader with more than twice as much as second place Bradley Thompson, but no one is actually that deep. Yamagishi’s 1.75 million is just 35 big blinds going into Level 24, and Thompson’s second stack is just 15 bigs. Two players have less than 10 bigs to play with.

Tony Ma has been 10th in 3 previous tournaments this series, and he said before the final table that really didn’t want to finish 10th again. He made it as far as 8th tonight, but his run ended there when he shoved 366k over an open to 65k from Mike Leah.

Colten Yamagishi woke up with a hand to his left and flat called with more. It folded back to Leah, and he got rid of his hand. Yamagishi had queens, and Ma was drawing thin with J♣10♣. The board ran out 2♥A♠K♥6♣8♥, and Leah’s reaction seemed to indicate he’d have hit the flop hard with his folded hand.

Miranda Mar and Kami Chisholm busted in 10th and 9th, respectively, as I was uploading pictures.

The action has been sprinting tonight, as they are now setting up the final table after Cindy Kerslake headed to the cage in 11th place tonight. Stay tuned for some final table pictures shortly.

The Turbo $1k is down to 11 players left now, with less than 5 minutes left in Level 21, on the bubble to the final table. The action has been moving quite quickly, and I’ll get a full list of remaining players shortly, but among the players still alive are Mike Leah, Jerry Li, Tony Ma, and Colten Yamagishi.

Place	Player	Prize
12	Lyle Feeney	$2,262
13	Zeyu Huang	$2,262
14	Garett Maybery	$2,103
15	Stephen Dauphinais	$2,103
16	Dave Mcleod	$2,103
17	Chun-Kit Kwan	$2,103
18	Nicholas Teeuwen	$2,002
19	Mark Aylward-Nally	$2,002
20	Donald Kehler	$2,002
21	Shariq Khan	$2,002
22	Kelvin Fu	$2,002
23	Daniel Lefebvre	$2,002
24	Kirk Logeman	$2,002
25	Michael Khan	$2,002

The prizes are in and the field is now confirmed at 164 entries for prizes of $143,500. 25 players will be sharing in that later tonight, and with the field now at 44 players remaining, they are less than 20 off the money spots.

Entries are now closed for the Turbo $1k, and the final unofficial tally is 164 entries. That puts the prize pool at $143,500, and if the numbers hold, it should mean 25 players getting a piece of the prizes later tonight.

I’ll verify all the numbers when the prize pool is posted.

The Turbo $1k is up to 130 entries with about an hour and a quarter left to enter. That puts the prizes at $113,750, but I’d expect at least another 20 entries before the desk closes.

Less than 5 minutes remain in Level 3, and the field is at 74. Entries are still open for more than 3 hours, and I expect this game to easily push past 120 entries as players bust from the Two-Day and the Monster stack tonight. I won’t be watching this one too closely until after the Two-Day finishes up, but this game is priority #2 for me today.

Event #11: $1,000 NLH Turbo ($875 + $125)

The side game on Tuesday is the $1k Turbo. The action goes at 4 PM, and players start with 30k in chips. Blinds will be 20 minutes throughout the game.

Players have 11 levels to buy into this one, which should put the final entry shot at about 8:15 PM. After that, they’ll play down to the ring.

In January, Nicholas Lee picked up his third ring in this event. He made it through 247 entries to take down the top prize of $48,513. That was the biggest share of $216,125 in total prizes for the game.

I won’t be watching this one very closely until the endgame, as I’ll be focused on Day 2 of the 2-Day $1k until it awards the ring, but once that’s over, I’ll move to this one to finish out my night.

Harpreet Gill was a bit of a wrecking ball tonight — both in terms of the poker and also his Guinness consumption. He was in good spirits through most of the final table and was the chattiest player there.

Toward the end of the evening, he had his friend, DJ Sharma, on the rail as well, and that contributed to the noise level considerably. He was quite short at one point during the final table, and he was at risk against runner-up Mike Leah with play five ways. Leah was on the suited jack-ten, but he was dominated by the ace-ten of Gill. That was the start of Gill’s big comeback, and from there, it was pretty much all Gill or Leah.

Leah sent Die Hard Poker League member Doug Cornelson home in 5th before Gill sent Colten Yamagish out in 4th. Gill then sent Bradley Thompson to the rail for 3rd when Thompson’s short stack went in with ducks, and he couldn’t win the near-inevitable race.

That left Leah and Gill heads up, with Gill holding the lead. He recognized that a player like Leah almost certainly had the skill advantage, so he took the best strategy available – shoving the big stack to force Leah into life-or-death decisions in most hands, thereby largely handicapping the skill advantage.

Leah stayed alive several times with doubles, but he was never able to get two close enough together to find the lead. He’d double to near-even, then get chipped down again having to fold to shoves. In the final confrontation, Gill shoved and, after some thought, Leah called it off with less.

Gill had the goods this time with pocket nines, but Leah was drawing very live with a united king. Leah flopped his kicker to the king, but still needed help, and Gill’s nines held.

This looks like Gill’s first live win, and his first Circuit ring. He’s final-tabled a couple of events in Calgary in the past, including a fourth place in the 2022 Summer Super Stack $250 Bounty game. This win should put him around $725k in live earnings once it’s tabulated and converted to USD.

Results from the Turbo $1k

Place	Player	Prize
1	Harpreet Gill	$35,195
2	Mike Leah	$23,092
3	Bradley Thompson	$15,616
4	Colten Yamagishi	$10,890
5	Doug Cornelson	$7,839
6	Jerry Li	$5,831
7	Josh Bennett	$4,486
8	Tony Ma	$3,575
9	Kami Chisholm	$2,954
10	Miranda Mar	$2,535
11	Cindy Kerslake	$2,535
12	Lyle Feeney	$2,262
13	Zeyu Huang	$2,262
14	Garett Maybery	$2,103
15	Stephen Dauphinais	$2,103
16	Dave Mcleod	$2,103
17	Chun-Kit Kwan	$2,103
18	Nicholas Teeuwen	$2,002
19	Mark Aylward-Nally	$2,002
20	Donald Kehler	$2,002
21	Shariq Khan	$2,002
22	Kelvin Fu	$2,002
23	Daniel Lefebvre	$2,002
24	Kirk Logeman	$2,002
25	Michael Khan	$2,002

Colten Yamagishi pushed most of his stack to the middle from the button, leaving 5k behind. Harpreet Gill thought he was all in, and called, but the money went in on the K♠J♥3♦ flop. Yamagishi was on ace-eight against ace-ten for Gill, and the ace-ten held on the 4♦J♦ runout.

That puts Gill in the lead.

The Die Hard Poker League scored another cash tonight with Doug Cornelson’s 5th place. He was card-dead for the last few levels, and got his last 370k into the middle with 10♣6♣ versus A♦2♣ for Mike Leah. Leah hit his deuce on the 2♦8♠9♠8♦Q♠ and that was the winning pair.

Colten Yamagishi and Mike Leah have been having a bit of fun tonight. Yamagishi is now to the direct left of Leah, and when they get blind on blind and Leah shoves the small, Yamagishi has been letting him peel his cards to reveal the sides. In the most recent example, Leah reported “3-side, 2-side” and Yamagishi considered folding it blind. He did look, finally, but snap-mucked the hand.

Mike Leah shoved from the middle, and Harprett Gill called with less from the button. Gill had ace-ten off against J♦10♠ for Leah. The low board missed both hands and Gill doubled with ace-high.

Jerry Li was the 6th-place finisher tonight. I missed the action while I was out of the room, but I saw Mike Leah stacking his chips when I got back.

Mike Leah raised to 125k under the gun, and it folded to Bradley Thompson, who had blinded down to less the 200k after his big blind went in. He flatted to see the J♦Q♥8♥ flop.

Thompson checked, Leah bet enough to put him in, and he called it off reluctantly. Thompson was on [invalid notations]. Thompson got it in the gut on the turn of the 10♠5♥ runout. He’s still the short stack at the table.

Josh Bennett was the short stack with just 280k, and he shoved the hijack. Doug Cornelson reshoved more from the cutoff and everyone else folded.

It was a race between ace-queen of clubs for Cornelson and pocket sevens for Bennett. It looked good for Bennett to double through most of the 9♠3♠K♦4♥Q♠ runout, but the river drowned him.

Jerry Li raised to 100k under the gun, and Douglas Cornelson flatted from the big blind. The all club flop came 3♣5♣K♣ and Cornelson checked when Li bet enough to put him in.

Cornelson hit the king with K♦J♠ while Li had A♠9♥. The 3♦9♣ runout didn’t change anything on Cornelson is up to about 800k now.

Li doubled back immediately after through Mike Leah. I missed the action, but Li’s ace-queen won the day.

Colten Yamagishi is the chip leader with more than twice as much as second place Bradley Thompson, but no one is actually that deep. Yamagishi’s 1.75 million is just 35 big blinds going into Level 24, and Thompson’s second stack is just 15 bigs. Two players have less than 10 bigs to play with.

Tony Ma has been 10th in 3 previous tournaments this series, and he said before the final table that really didn’t want to finish 10th again. He made it as far as 8th tonight, but his run ended there when he shoved 366k over an open to 65k from Mike Leah.

Colten Yamagishi woke up with a hand to his left and flat called with more. It folded back to Leah, and he got rid of his hand. Yamagishi had queens, and Ma was drawing thin with J♣10♣. The board ran out 2♥A♠K♥6♣8♥, and Leah’s reaction seemed to indicate he’d have hit the flop hard with his folded hand.

Miranda Mar and Kami Chisholm busted in 10th and 9th, respectively, as I was uploading pictures.

The action has been sprinting tonight, as they are now setting up the final table after Cindy Kerslake headed to the cage in 11th place tonight. Stay tuned for some final table pictures shortly.

The Turbo $1k is down to 11 players left now, with less than 5 minutes left in Level 21, on the bubble to the final table. The action has been moving quite quickly, and I’ll get a full list of remaining players shortly, but among the players still alive are Mike Leah, Jerry Li, Tony Ma, and Colten Yamagishi.

Place	Player	Prize
12	Lyle Feeney	$2,262
13	Zeyu Huang	$2,262
14	Garett Maybery	$2,103
15	Stephen Dauphinais	$2,103
16	Dave Mcleod	$2,103
17	Chun-Kit Kwan	$2,103
18	Nicholas Teeuwen	$2,002
19	Mark Aylward-Nally	$2,002
20	Donald Kehler	$2,002
21	Shariq Khan	$2,002
22	Kelvin Fu	$2,002
23	Daniel Lefebvre	$2,002
24	Kirk Logeman	$2,002
25	Michael Khan	$2,002

The prizes are in and the field is now confirmed at 164 entries for prizes of $143,500. 25 players will be sharing in that later tonight, and with the field now at 44 players remaining, they are less than 20 off the money spots.

Entries are now closed for the Turbo $1k, and the final unofficial tally is 164 entries. That puts the prize pool at $143,500, and if the numbers hold, it should mean 25 players getting a piece of the prizes later tonight.

I’ll verify all the numbers when the prize pool is posted.

The Turbo $1k is up to 130 entries with about an hour and a quarter left to enter. That puts the prizes at $113,750, but I’d expect at least another 20 entries before the desk closes.

Less than 5 minutes remain in Level 3, and the field is at 74. Entries are still open for more than 3 hours, and I expect this game to easily push past 120 entries as players bust from the Two-Day and the Monster stack tonight. I won’t be watching this one too closely until after the Two-Day finishes up, but this game is priority #2 for me today.

Event #11: $1,000 NLH Turbo ($875 + $125)

The side game on Tuesday is the $1k Turbo. The action goes at 4 PM, and players start with 30k in chips. Blinds will be 20 minutes throughout the game.

Players have 11 levels to buy into this one, which should put the final entry shot at about 8:15 PM. After that, they’ll play down to the ring.

In January, Nicholas Lee picked up his third ring in this event. He made it through 247 entries to take down the top prize of $48,513. That was the biggest share of $216,125 in total prizes for the game.

I won’t be watching this one very closely until the endgame, as I’ll be focused on Day 2 of the 2-Day $1k until it awards the ring, but once that’s over, I’ll move to this one to finish out my night.