2025 WSOPC Calgary Oct – Event #12: $2,300 NLH Main Event

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  • Travis MacMillan Wins Main Event for $312,965

    Level:33 (200000/400000/400000)
    Entries:1/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    After three days of play, the Main Event is now over, and Travis MacMillan is the latest owner of a WSOP-C Main Event ring from Calgary. He overcame Victor Li in a short but hard-fought HU battle.

    Li was the leader when they started the day, and he was still the leader when they got to heads up. Li was able to hang onto the lead through most of the final table, but MacMillan was running hot heads up.

    The action got going early in the day when Tommy Nguyen found himself in a cooler just a few minutes after play began. He raised under the gun, then called off a shove from Sheraz Nasir with pocket sevens, only to run into pocket aces for Nasir. He couldn’t ground the rockets, and he was the first out from the final table.

    Clavin Chow was next to go, followed by Gabriel Vezina. Vezina hit the rail after Li made an unlikely call with just ace-high on a nine-high flop. Vezina was ahead after hitting the middle pair on the flp with a seven, along with backdoor straight outs. Li found a queen on the turn and held to send Vezina out in 8th.

    Nasir was left short after he rivered a full house, but Li had already turned a bigger boat and took a huge pot. Nasir was able to ladder over Nicholas Lee (7th), Jun Huang (6th), and Kyle Change (5th), but he ended his run in 4th place when his ace-four ran into the ace-ten for MacMillan.

    They played three-handed for almost 2 hours before Kwong Au couldn’t find a diamond to complete his flopped flush draw, and lost to the top pair for MacMillan.

    That set up the HU between Li and MacMillan. The big change happened when MacMillan called off his tournament life with a heart draw against middle pair for Li with just one card to come. It was a good one for MacMillan, as the king of hearts on the river gave him the double and the lead.

    In the final hand, MacMillan raised to 1 million, then called when Li made it 4 million. Li fired 2.5 million in J7K flop, and Li check-called for 3 million on the Q turn.

    When Li checked the K river, MacMillan shoved a covering stack and sent Li deep into the tank. The hand started with about 6 minutes to play in Level 33, but Li was still in the tank after there were already 10 minutes gone in the break following that level.

    MacMillan finally called the clock about 10 minutes into the break, and Li put in the call with about 5 seconds remaining on his 30-second countdown. Li’s queen was no good against the trip kings for MacMillan, and the game was over. Li scored $208,615 for 2nd while MacMillan pocketed nearly $313k for first place.

  • MacMillan To the Lead

    Level:33 (200000/400000/400000)
    Entries:2/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Travis MacMillan just took the lead with a double, but he had to get there to survive. The money went in on the turn with the board reading 8JK4.

    MacMillan shoved 7.825 million into a pot of about 8 million, and after some time in the tank, Li called it off. He had second pair with jack-nine, and was good against the 64 for MacMillan, but MacMillan found the heart he needed with the K river and doubled up. He is now up to about 23 million against 13 million for Li.

  • Li Leads

    Level:33 (200000/400000/400000)
    Entries:2/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Victor Li is up by about 2.5:1 now. Travis MacMillan has about 11 million in front of him, with Li playing about 25 million. There are a total of 91 big blinds in play in this level, with MacMillan playing about 28bb to Li’s 63bb.

  • Kwong Au Out in 3rd Place for $146,349

    Level:33 (200000/400000/400000)
    Entries:2/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Kwong Au

    The Main Event is now heads up between Travis MacMillan and Victor Li. Kwong Au raised to 1 million, and MacMillan called to see 5QJ on the flop.

    Au shoved for 4.35 million, and, after a count, MacMillan called. He had top pair with Q6 while Au was drawing to diamonds with K7. The JJ runout didn’t help Au, and he was out in 3rd place tonight.

  • MacMillan Chips Up

    Level:32 (150000/300000/300000)
    Entries:3/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The flop was out reading Q65 and Kwong Au check-raised from 500k to 1.2 million. Travis MacMillan called to the 9 turn. Both players checked, but after a check from Au on the 10 river, MacMillan fired 1.7 million.

    Au took some time but slid in the call. He was drawing to diamonds with ace-seven, but bricked. Despite that, he still called with ace-high, but MacMillan showed queen-jack for top pair and the win.

  • Li Leads by 4 Million

    Level:32 (150000/300000/300000)
    Entries:3/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Victor Li is in the lead, but Kwong Au’s double near the end of Level 31 made it a lot closer.

    SeatPlayerChips
    07Travis Macmillan7,275,000
    08Victor Li16,575,000
    09Kwong Au12,550,000
  • Au Can Play Again

    Level:31 (150000/250000/250000)
    Entries:3/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    I arrived to the table with the action on the turn and the board reading 45Q3. After a check from Victor Li, Kwon Au shoved 6.625 million, sending Li into the tank.

    While Li was thinking, Au said “If I win this I can play poker again.” Someone on the rail asked if he wasn’t playing now, and he replied “I’m playing like a donkey.”

    As Li continued to think, he said “Only cash players know what I have. This is a cash game play, big overbet.” Li finally called it, and both players were on the queen for top pair, with Au on the better kicker. The river bricked, and Au got a double.

  • Li Keeps Chipping Up

    Level:31 (150000/250000250000)
    Entries:3/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Victor Li raised the small blind to 800k, and Kwong Au called from the big. They both checked the 734 flop, but Li fired 700k on the 10 turn.

    Au called to the A river, then called again when Li fired 1.2 million. Li showed 105 and Au mucked his hand.

    There is a break in about 7 minutes and I’ll get exact counts then, but Li has a big lead right now.

  • Sheraz Nasir Out in 4th Place for $104,305

    Level:31 (150000/250000/250000)
    Entries:3/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Sheraz Nasir

    Sheraz Nasir got the first payout over $100k after he shoved his button with ace-four, and big blind Travis MacMillan called from the small blind with ace-ten. The 9JK10J nearly chopped with a straight on board, but in the end, MacMillan’s kicker played, and Nasir was out in 4th place.

  • Kyle Chang Out in 5th Place for $75,546

    Level:31 (150000/250000/250000)
    Entries:4/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Kyle Chang

    They are down to 4 left in the Main Event after Kyle Chang’s ace-ten couldn’t crack the queens of Kwong Au. The money was in preflop, and the jack-high board didn’t change anything.

    All remaining players are now guaranteed 6-figure payouts.

  • Li Leading

    Level:31 (150000/250000/250000)
    Entries:5/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Victor Li raised the middle to 500k, and Sheraz Nasir called the big blind. Both players checked the [invalid notations] turn.

    They both checked the K river, and both players were on big draws. Li hit a seven on the flop with [invalid notations] for the diamond straight flush draw from the flop. Li’s seven was good, however, and he increased his lead. I’ll get another round of counts at the next break.

  • Jun Yu Huang Out in 6th Place for $55,618

    Level:30 (100000/200000/200000)
    Entries:5/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Jun Huang

    In a hand that usually chops, Victor Li raised to 500k, then called off when Jun Huang shoved for a bit more. Huang had A3 against A4, but Li found his four on the flop, then turned the spade flush, on the 49Q1010 runout for the win.

  • Nasir Doubles with Freeroll

    Level:30 (100000/200000/200000)
    Entries:6/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Sheraz Nasir was all in with ace-queen of clubs against the off-suit ace-queen, but managed to find running clubs on a board of 883K4 and got the double from a spot that is usually a chop.

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  • Nicholas Lee Out in 7th Place for $41,633

    Level:30 (100000/200000/200000)
    Entries:6/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Nicholas Lee

    Nicholas Lee and Kwong Au were all in, with Lee in trouble on king-queen against ace-queen for Au. Lee flopped his king, but Au flopped his ace as well, and took it down.

  • Boat Over Boat Leaves Nasir Short

    Level:30 (100000/200000/200000)
    Entries:7/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Sheraz Nasir raised to 400k from the button, and Victor Li called from the small blind. Li check-called for 300k on the 9AA flop, and agains for 200k on the 7 turn.

    When the river came 6 Li checked again, then raised Nasir’s 800k bet to 3.2 million. Nasir hit the tank for several minutes, apologizing to the table, saying he had a “big decision”.

    When he called, it was easy to see why. He had pocket sixes for the riverboat, but Li was on pocket sevens for the bigger boat on the turn.

  • Chang Holds for a Double

    Level:30 (100000/200000/200000)
    Entries:7/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Kyle Chang raised to 1.875 million under the gun, leaving 25k behind. Sheraz Nasir called from his left, and they saw a flop of KJ5. Change check-called all in for his last 25k.

    Chang had pocket eights, with Nasir on ace-queen overs with a Broadway draw. 46 on the runout left Chang good with his pair, and he doubled to around 4 million.

  • MacMillan Leads at Break

    Level:30 (100000/200000/200000)
    Entries:7/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Travis MacMillan is the leader right now with 8 million, but there isn’t much daylight between him and Victor Li with 7.55 million. See below for the stacks as counted on the break.

    SeatPlayerChips
    01Nicholas Lee2,250,000
    03Kyle Chang3,200,000
    04Jun-Yu Huang1,900,000
    06Sheraz Nasir6,650,000
    07Travis Macmillan8,000,000
    08Victor Li7,550,000
    09Kwong Au6,625,000
  • Lee Doubles

    Level:29 (75000/150000/150000)
    Entries:7/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Travis MacMillan raised to 300k before Victor Li reraised to 650k. It folded to Nicholas Lee on the button, and he shoved for less than Li’s reraise. MacMillan got out of the way, and it was kings for Lee versus A8 for Li. Li found an eight on the flop, but nothing else, so The Doctor’s kings held for a double. He was down to 630k, but is now up to around 1.5 million.

    Exact counts coming in 6 minutes on the next break.

  • MacMillan Chips Up

    Level:29 (75000/150000/150000)
    Entries:7/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Travis MacMillan looks like the leader right now. I’ll grab exact counts at the break in about 15 minutes, but he just chipped up again through start-of-day leader Kwong Au.

    Au raised the middle to 310k, and MacMillan called from the big blind. They both checked the 1047 flop, and MacMillan check-called for 310k on the K turn.

    It was back to checks on the 2 river, and MacMillan showed K6 for the turned pair. Au mucked his hand, saying, “My pair no good.”

  • Gabriel Vezina Out in 8th Place for $31,696

    Level:29 (75000/150000/150000)
    Entries:7/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Gabriel Vezina

    Victor Li made a bit of an unbelievable call on the flop to send Gabriel Vezina home in 8th place. It was blind on blind, and Li raised to 425k from the small, with Vezina calling from the big.

    It all kicked off on the 279 flop. Li fired 275k, then tank-called when Vezina shoved for 2.74 million. That was most of the rest of Li’s stack after he recently doubled up Travis MacMillan, but after some thought, he called it off.

    Li was behind with ace-queen against eight-seven, with Vezina on the pair of sevens with backdoor straight draws. Li took the lead on the Q turn, and the [invalid notations] didn’t help Vezina.

  • Calvin Chow Out in 9th Place for $24,549

    Level:29 (75000/150000/150000)
    Entries:9/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Calvin Chow

    I missed the action, but Calvin Chow was the 9th-place finisher today from the Main Event. He earned $24,549 for his efforts.

  • MacMillan Doubles

    Level:29 (75000/150000/150000)
    Entries:9/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Travis MacMillan was just at risk, all in for 3.37 million. His pocket jacks were in great shape, but Victor Li hit his seven kicker, then the board turned to a four-card straight that might have chopped it. The river was safe for the jacks, putting a pair of sixes out, and MacMillan got the double.

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  • Tommy Nguyen Out in 10th Place for $19,349

    Level:28 (60000/120000/120000)
    Entries:9/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Tommy Nguyen

    It was a bit of a setup for short-stack Tommy Nguyen today. With Nguyen under the gun, he put in a big raise to 900k, betting about half his stack. It folded to Sheraz Nasir in the middle, and he shoved a covering stack.

    It folded around to Nicholas Lee in the big blind, and he looked like he had something he might have wanted to play under different circumstances, but then quickly mucked. Nguyen just as quickly put the rest of his chips in, only to run his sevens into the pocket aces of Nasir for an early cooler.

    Nasir flopped a third ace for the set, leaving Nguyen drawing thin to quads, and he was dead on the turn.

  • The Final Day of the Main is Underway

    Level:28 (60000/120000/120000)
    Entries:10/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The final 10 players in the Main Event are back in action for the final day of play. Everyone returning is guaranteed $19,349, but everyone will be looking up top to the four 6-digit prizes, and the nearly $313k up top for the winner.

  • Victor Li Leads Final 10 into Day 3 of the Main Event

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    Date:Day 3: Oct 13, Noon
    Blinds:60 Minutes
    Entries:10/910
    Prizes:$1,865,500 (1st Place: $312,965)

    Day 3 of the Main Event is set with 10 players returning. The action kicks off at noon in Sundance, and Victor Li is out in front with more than 9 million.

    His closest competition is Kwong Au with 6.645 million, and after that, it’s Sheraz Nasir with 4.2 million and Travis MacMillan with 4.11 million.

    SeatPlayerChips
    01Nicholas Lee2,155,000 (18 BB)
    02Tommy Nguyen1,645,000 (14 BB)
    03Kyle Chang1,620,000 (14 BB)
    04Jun-Yu Huang1,895,000 (16 BB)
    05Calvin Chow1,800,000 (15 BB)
    06Sheraz Nasir4,200,000 (35 BB)
    07Travis Macmillan4,110,000 (34 BB)
    08Victor Li9,040,000 (75 BB)
    09Gabriel Vezina3,160,000 (26 BB)
    10Kwong Au6,645,000 (55 BB)

    Blinds stay at 60 minutes for the rest of the game, and they’ll award the Main Event ring before play ends on this one. Blinds start on Day 3 at 60k/120k/120k, putting the average stack to start the final day at just over 30 bigs.

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  • Final Table Faces

    Level:27 (50000/10000/100000)
    Entries:10/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
  • Final Table

    Level:27 (50000/100000/100000)
    Entries:10/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The Main Event is at the final table now, with 10 players left. James Cruickshank was the bubble after he suffered a bit of a bad beat that left him short. He raised the button, then called off the small stack shove from Gabriel Vezina, who had just lost a bunch of chips after folding a big river to Kwong Au.

    Cruickshank was in good with ace-queen against a suited seven-six, but it was Vezina that hit the 652Q7 board hardest. That left Cruickshank short, and he was leaving the room shortly after.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    11 James Cruickshank$19,349
    12 Rauno Tahvonen$15,524
    13 Jason Chan$15,524
    14 Andrew Macdonald$12,683
    15 Ruoxiao Shi$12,683
    16 Mingchen Zhang$12,683
  • Three-Bets on Table 42

    Level:27 (50000/100000/100000)
    Entries:14/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Table 42 seems to be fond of three-bets lately. The final level of the night has just begun, but over the last ~10 minutes of Level 26, I saw three different preflop three-bet situations. It started with the previous hand from Gabriel Vezina.

    Shortly after that, Calvin Chow opened the middle to 160k, and Vezina once again found the three-bet, this time sizing up to 520k, prompting a fold from Chow.

    A couple of hands later, Kyle Chang raised the cutoff to 160k, but Sheraz Nasir, in the small blind, had other ideas, repopping it to 465k, forcing the fold from Chang.

  • Vezina Takes it on the Flop

    Level:26 (40000/80000/80000)
    Entries:15/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Kyle Chang raised to 160k from the cutoff, and big blind Gabriel Vezina three-bet to 380k. Chang made the call to see 9K4 on the flop, then check-folded to a bet of 250k from Vezina.

    Mingchen Zhang was the most recent exit to bring the game to 15 remaining.

  • Final 16 Stacks in the Main

    Level:26 (40000/80000/80000)
    Entries:16/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Kwong Au leads the final 16, with stacks counted at the recent break. He is the only player with more than 5 million, but Victor Lee and Sheraz Nasir are both playing about 4.7 million.

    T-SPlayerChips
    41 – 1Nicholas Lee1,495,000
    41 – 3James Cruickshank2,365,000
    41 – 4Ruoxiao Shi605,000
    41 – 6Kwong Au5,125,000
    41 – 7Jun-Yu Huang1,430,000
    41 – 9Rauno Tahvonen475,000
    42 – 2Andrew Macdonald975,000
    42 – 3Jason Chan1,375,000
    42 – 6Gabriel Vezina2,550,000
    42 – 7Sheraz Nasir4,755,000
    42 – 9Victor Li4,775,000
    43 – 2Travis Macmillan1,500,000
    43 – 3Calvin Chow880,000
    43 – 4Tommy Nguyen3,105,000
    43 – 5Kyle Chang2,915,000
    43 – 7Mingchen Zhang1,035,000
  • 16 Left at Final Break of Day 2

    Level:26 (40000/80000/80000)
    Entries:16/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    They are down to 16 remaining, with the players on the break following Level 25. This will be the final break of Day 2, with the bags set to come out at the end of Level 27. There are two levels of play left in the day when they return, and anyone remaining after the end of Level 27 will come back tomorrow to finish it out on Day 3.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    17 Jeremy Herauf$12,683
    18 Trent Hopper$10,556
  • Final Two Tables of the Main Event

    Level:25 (30000/60000/60000)
    Entries:18/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Day 2 of the Main Event just broke down to the final two tables with 18 players left. Nicholas Teeuwen, the only previous winner of this event that I could see remaining in the field, was among the recent busts.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    19 Hamish Tong$10,556
    20 Mehmet Siginc$10,556
    21 Kevin Javier$10,556
    22 Arya Ghai$10,556
    23 Richard Rex$10,556
    24 Zhi(George) Yang$10,556
    25 Nicholas Teeuwen$10,556
    26 Luteng Li$10,556
  • Herauf Doubles to More than 1 Million

    Level:24 (25000/50000/50000)
    Entries:24/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Jeremy Herauf shoved the cutoff for 585k, and Andrew MacDonald called from the button. It was a race between the AK for MacDonald and pocket sixes for Herauf. The board of Q7Q86 ran clean for the underpair, and Herauf hit the set on the river for overkill.

  • Chips for Final 26

    Level:24 (25000/50000/50000)
    Entries:26/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The Day 2 players are on their dinner break now, with just under 20 minutes until they are back in action for Level 24. Below is a look at the final 26 stacks, counted on dinner by me. Victor Li is leading with 3.62 million, and Sheraz Nasir is the only other player with 3 million or more.

    T-SPlayerChips
    41 – 1Andrew Macdonald960,000
    41 – 2Arya Ghai785,000
    41 – 3CALVIN CHOW1,015,000
    41 – 4Gabriel Vezina1,435,000
    41 – 5Hamish Tong2,730,000
    41 – 6James Cruickshank1,640,000
    41 – 7Jason Chan1,035,000
    41 – 8Jeremy Herauf1,035,000
    41 – 9JUN YU HUANG1,416,000
    42 – 1Kevin Javier950,000
    42 – 2Kwong Au1,375,000
    42 – 3Kyle Chang755,000
    42 – 4Luteng Li470,000
    42 – 5Mehmet Siginc1,225,000
    42 – 6Mingchen Zhang510,000
    42 – 7Nicholas Lee2,950,000
    42 – 8Nicholas Teeuwen1,150,000
    42 – 9Rauno Tahvonen770,000
    43 – 1Richard Rex680,000
    43 – 2Ruoxiao Shi1,075,000
    43 – 3SHERAZ NASIR3,250,000
    43 – 4Tommy L D Nguyen2,075,000
    43 – 5Travis Macmillan1,925,000
    43 – 6Trent Hopper905,000
    43 – 7Victor Zhenyu Li3,620,000
    43 – 8Zhi Yang655,000

    Recent Busts Before Dinner

    PlacePlayerPrize
    27 Pavlo Vertiiko$8,952
    28 Ran Yi$8,952
  • Ran Yi Bubbles Final Three Tables

    Level:23 (20000/40000/40000)
    Entries:27/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    They are down to the final three tables now after Ran Yi’s pocket threes couldn’t crack the aces of Tommy Nguyen. About 6 minutes remain in Level 23, with a break to follow this level.

  • Nearing the Final Three Tables

    Level:23 (20000/40000/40000)
    Entries:29/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    They are down to 28 players remaining, on the bubble to the final three tables. Full prizes so far, as well as future payouts, are under the Payouts tab, with recent busts below.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    29 Yan Lin$8,952
    30 Matthew Ouellette$8,952
    31 Jorge Pacheco$8,952
    32 Toan Tran$8,952
    33 Chris Hak$8,952
    34 Chad Winnick$8,952
  • Final 34 Players

    Level:22 (15000/30000/30000)
    Entries:34/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    I’m not 100% certain of the stacks, as these came from dealer counts (likely at the last break), but below is a look at the final 34 players in the Main, and their approximate stacks.

    PlayerChips
    Mingchen Zhang2,585,000
    Victor Zhenyu Li2,450,000
    Nicholas Lee2,225,000
    Sheraz Nasir2,150,000
    Arya Ghai1,615,000
    Gabriel Vezina1,435,000
    Nicholas Teeuwen1,400,000
    Jeremy Herauf1,350,000
    Trent Hopper1,280,000
    Kevin Javier1,255,000
    Pavlo Vertiiko1,150,000
    Kyle Chang1,090,000
    Toan Tran1,075,000
    Jorge Artiga Pacheco995,000
    Mehmet Siginc975,000
    Travis Macmillan930,000
    Ruoxiao Shi875,000
    Calvin Chow740,000
    Yan Lin680,000
    Zhi Yang666,000
    Kwong Au625,000
    Tommy L D Nguyen600,000
    Luteng Li600,000
    Ran Yi545,000
    Matthew Ouellette530,000
    Jason Chan475,000
    Rauno Tahvonen465,000
    James Larry Cruickshank463,000
    Andrew Macdonald455,000
    Richard Rex415,000
    Hamish Tong385,000
    Chris Hak290,000
    Chad Winnick275,000
    Jun Yu Huang127,000
  • Down to 34 Remaining

    Level:22 (15000/30000/30000)
    Entries:34/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    PlacePlayerPrize
    35 Johnny Dalphond$8,952
    36 Jen Peters$7,738
    37 Dylan Payne$7,738
    38 Harman Jassal$7,738
    39 Jackson Oniske$7,738
    40 Ngoc Nguyen$7,738
  • Some Big Stacks Before Break

    Level:21 (15000/25000/25000)
    Entries:40/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    There are 40 players left with about 5 minutes to play until the end of Level 21. Mingchen Zhang looks to be leading right now with 2.7 million, but Mini Main Event winner Nicholas Lee is close behind with about 2.6 million, while Sheraz Nasir has about 2.5 million.

    Nicholas Teeuwen has the chance to be the first player to win the WSOP-C Calgary Main Event twice, as he’s sitting with about 1.4 million right now.

    PlayerChips
    Mingchen Zhang2,700,000
    Nicholas Lee2,600,000
    Sheraz Nasir2,500,000
    Arya Ghai1,900,000
    Victor Zhenyu Li1,400,000
    Nicholas Teeuwen1,400,000

    Recent Payouts from Day 2

    PlacePlayerPrize
    41 Alex Difelice$7,738
    42 David Burnard$7,738
    43 Duane Van-Leulen$7,738
    44 Kevin Rivest$7,738
  • Final Five Tables

    Level:21 (15000/25000/25000)
    Entries:44/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    They are down to 44 left in Day 2, with about 35 minutes to play in Level 21.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    45 Vikram Gill$6,821
    46 Bradley Ellis$6,821
    47 Hari Aujla$6,821
    48 Tony Ma$6,821
    49 Xiu-Mei Song$6,821
    50 Wenhan Lu$6,821
    51 Rishi Makkar$6,821
  • Huang Pips Tran

    Level:21 (15000/25000/25000)
    Entries:46/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Jun Huang raised under the gun to 50k, and Toan Tran defended the big blind with a call. They both checked through the AK8K flop and turn, but when the river brought the fourth spade with 6, Tran bet out 60k. After some time in the tank, Huang called it off, showing QJ to pip Tran’s A10 for the flush.

  • Nearing 50 Remaining

    Level:21 (15000/25000/25000)
    Entries:51/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The field is down to 51 players on the final 6 tables now in Day 2 of the Main Event. Full prizes are under the Payouts tab, with recent cahses below.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    52 Matt Kwong$6,821
    53 Jodie Dunfield$6,821
    54 Julien Perouse$6,134
    55 Dabid Katzov$6,134
    56 Colin Jung$6,134
    57 Jay Glass$6,134
    58 Pietro Giudice$6,134
    59 Amarjot Brar$6,134
    60 Ramaz Haymour$6,134
    61 Alemu Makonen$6,134
  • Down to 7 Tables

    Level:20 (10000/20000/20000)
    Entries:61/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    They are down to 61 players left on the final 7 tables now, with about 40 minutes to play in Level 20.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    62 Ali Razzaq$6,134
    63 Vincent Lam$5,630
    64 Chengdong Zhao$5,630
    65 Michael Li$5,630
    66 Clint Cockburn$5,630
    67 Umang Dattani$5,630
  • Some Big Stacks from the Break

    Level:20 (10000/20000/20000)
    Entries:67/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    PlayerChips
    Arya Ghai1,405,000
    Victor Zhenyu Li1,265,000
    Jun Yu Huang1,080,000
    Luteng Li1,055,000
    Jorge Artiga Pacheco995,000
    Kevin Rivest995,000
    Jason Chan960,000
    Sheraz Nasir960,000
    Clinton Cockburn950,000
  • 67 Remain at the Break

    Level:20 (10000/20000/20000)
    Entries:67/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    They are down to 67 remaining in Day 2 of the Main Event Day 2. There is a small change to the order from my last post as well, as they adjusted the payout order in the backend.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    68 Zackery Farthing$5,630
    69 Ryan Smith$5,630
    70 Joseph Roberts$5,630
    71 Yeping Shan$5,630
    72 Daniel Lefebvre$5,275
  • Down to 70

    Level:19 (10000/15000/15000)
    Entries:70/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Less than 10 minutes remain in Level 19, with the first break of Day 2 scheduled after this level. The field is now down to 70, with the action slowing a bit during this level. Full prizes from today’s action, including all the future prizes and past bustouts, are under the Payouts tab.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    71 Joseph Roberts$5,630
    72 Daniel Lefebvre$5,275
    73 Shawn Buchanan$5,275
    74 Drew Ducsham$5,275
    75 Jack Dick$5,275
  • Fewer than 75 Remain

    Level:19 (10000/15000/15000)
    Entries:73/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The field is dropping pretty fast here on Day 2, with the number down to 73 now. See below for the recent busts, and I should be paying closer attention to the action shortly.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    76 Ashkan Razavi$5,275
    77 Wayne Goulet$5,275
    78 Chun-Kit Kwan$5,275
    79 Xiaoyi Wang$5,275
    80 Qi Luo$5,275
    81 Richard Wolfe$5,024
    82 Jared Kempf$5,024
    83 Derek Arnold$5,024
    84 Gaetano Buda$5,024
    85 David Quang$5,024
    86 Yue Yang$5,024
    87 Glenn Slater$5,024
    88 Tung Kwok$5,024
    89 Michael Farrow$5,024
    90 Jimmy Lee$5,024
    91 Sunny Lubana$5,024
    92 Zeyu Huang$5,024
    93 Hasanain Al-Ghunaim$5,024
    94 Shreesh Hebbar$5,024
    95 Jeff Eldred$5,024
  • Under 100 Players Remain

    Level:18 (6000/12000/12000)
    Entries:95/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The Day 2 players have been at the felt for barely 30 minutes, and they are already down to 95 players remaining. The prizes are all loaded under the Payouts tab, and I’ll post recent busts on individual posts.

    Early Busts on Day 2

    PlacePlayerPrize
    96 Shane Brotherwood$5,024
    97 Dallas Larson$5,024
    98 Austin Hamer$5,024
    99 Neal Lamb$5,024
    100 Scott Stuve$5,024
    101 Ning Ma$5,024
    102 Matthew Obrien$5,024
    103 Adrian Chan$5,024
    104 Gordon Wong$5,024
    105 Cody Mckay$5,024
    106 Kevin Huang$5,024
    107 Eun Park$5,024
    108 Linyang Song$5,024
    109 Senthuran Vijayaratnam$5,024
    110 Kelvin Fu$5,024
    111 Yi Cheng$5,024
    112 John Holopainen$5,024
    113 Roman Gallivan$5,024
    114 Tyson Glass$5,024
    115 Allen Shen$5,024
    116 Matthew Osorio$5,024
    117 Kevin Kelso$5,024
  • 117 Players Returning for Day 2; Ash Razavi Leads

    WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard
    Date:Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
    Day 3: Oct 13, Noon
    Blinds:60 Minutes
    Entries:117/910
    Prizes:$1,865,500 (1st Place: $312,965)

    Day 2 of the Main Event is set, and despite a smaller-than-expected prize pool, Day 2 will be relatively big after Day 1c barely made it to the bubble. There were 70 paid spots on 1c, but no one got paid out as they didn’t get to 70 players until Level 18.

    Ashkan Razavi is the overall leader, bagging 988k on 1b. Razavi is a familiar face at the deep end of the Main Event here. He’s final tabled the last two Mains, with a fourth place and a 3rd place to show for it.

    His 1b compatriot, Victor Li, also bagged more than 900k, as did “The Doctor” Nicholas Lee. Ruoxiao Shi and Hamish Tong round out the top five stacks with more than 800k each. Full stacks with seats will be posted below.

    The Day 2 action gets going at noon and they’ll play 10 Levels before they bag for the night to finish the game on Monday’s Day 3. Blinds are 60 minutes long for the rest of the game.

    Day 2 Players, Sorted by Name

    T-SPlayerChips
    30 – 4Adrian Chan49,000
    35 – 3Alemu Makonen378,000
    42 – 5Alex Difelice480,000
    34 – 3Ali Razzaq301,000
    37 – 9Allen Li-Xin Shen130,000
    41 – 9Amarjot Brar402,000
    37 – 7Andrew Macdonald718,000
    40 – 6Antonio Ma130,000
    31 – 8Arya Ghai542,000
    29 – 8Ashkan Razavi988,000
    34 – 5Austin Felix Hamer133,000
    31 – 3Bradley Ellis368,000
    30 – 3Calvin Chow62,000
    32 – 3Chad Winnick454,000
    36 – 8Chengdong Zhao87,000
    30 – 6Chris Hak491,000
    28 – 5Chun Kit Kwan234,000
    40 – 8Clinton Cockburn92,000
    32 – 5Cody Mckay62,000
    44 – 4Colin Jung214,000
    41 – 3Dallas Larson146,000
    44 – 1Daniel Lefebvre280,000
    35 – 4David Burnard307,000
    42 – 8David Katzov245,000
    43 – 1David Quang339,000
    30 – 2Derek Arnold614,000
    29 – 6Drew Ducsharm191,000
    31 – 9Duane Van Keulen184,000
    44 – 9Dylan Stephen Payne649,000
    44 – 3Eun Park104,000
    30 – 7Gabriel Vezina411,000
    30 – 1Gaetano Buda421,000
    36 – 9Glenn Slater191,000
    29 – 4Gordon Wong185,000
    29 – 1Hamish Tong806,000
    40 – 7Harman Jassal392,000
    42 – 3Harminder Aujla77,000
    43 – 9Hasanain Al Ghunaim354,000
    28 – 6Jack Dick143,000
    40 – 9Jackson Oniske103,000
    35 – 7James Cruickshank463,000
    36 – 4Jared Kempf211,000
    38 – 9Jason Chan188,000
    35 – 6Jay Glass63,000
    38 – 4Jeffrey Eldred208,000
    40 – 5Jennifer Peters270,000
    41 – 2Jeremy Herauf86,000
    38 – 5Jimmy Lee172,000
    40 – 1Jodie Dunfield405,000
    43 – 6Johnny Dalphond287,000
    38 – 6John Holopainen45,000
    44 – 8Jorge Artiga Pacheco570,000
    42 – 7Joseph Matthew Roberts386,000
    35 – 9Julien Perouse362,000
    32 – 1Jun Yu Huang127,000
    38 – 3Kelvin Fu67,000
    43 – 2Kevin Javier636,000
    32 – 8Kevin Huang210,000
    28 – 7Kevin Kelso11,000
    41 – 6Kevin Rivest497,000
    31 – 4Kwong Au508,000
    30 – 5Kyle Chang308,000
    28 – 9Linyang Song70,000
    34 – 6Luteng Li113,000
    42 – 1Matthew Obrien134,000
    38 – 2Matthew Kwong167,000
    44 – 6Matthew Osorio36,000
    29 – 5Matthew Ouellette123,000
    37 – 4Mehmet Siginc266,000
    34 – 7Michael Farrow388,000
    41 – 1Michael Li630,000
    41 – 5Mingchen Zhang348,000
    43 – 7Neal Lamb82,000
    28 – 2Ngok Nguyen288,000
    37 – 6Nicholas Lee941,000
    40 – 4Nicholas Teeuwen780,000
    43 – 3Ning Ma150,000
    34 – 4Pavlo Vertiiko592,000
    34 – 8Pietro Lo Giudice214,000
    28 – 3Qi Luo57,000
    37 – 2Ramaz Haymour358,000
    40 – 2Ran Yi345,000
    28 – 4Rauno Tahvonen150,000
    31 – 1Richard Rex430,000
    36 – 5Richard Wolfe361,000
    44 – 2Rishi Makkar342,000
    41 – 4Roman Gallivan71,000
    31 – 2Ruoxiao Shi873,000
    35 – 5Ryan Smith149,000
    35 – 8Scott Ernest Stuve387,000
    44 – 5Senthuran Vijayaratnam150,000
    32 – 2Shane Brotherwood366,000
    38 – 7Shawn Buchanan316,000
    37 – 1Sheraz Nasir530,000
    35 – 2Shreesh Hebbar84,000
    28 – 1Sunny Lubana69,000
    36 – 6Toan Tran741,000
    36 – 1Tommy Nguyen540,000
    32 – 7Travis Macmillan300,000
    29 – 2Trent Hopper199,000
    43 – 4Tung Kwok245,000
    36 – 7Tyson Glass45,000
    37 – 3Umang Dattani592,000
    32 – 4Victor Li974,000
    38 – 1Vikram Gill370,000
    41 – 7Vincent Lam674,000
    37 – 8Wayne Goulet109,000
    31 – 6Wenhan Lu153,000
    42 – 9Xiaoyi Wang288,000
    29 – 9Xiu Mei Song76,000
    34 – 9Yan Lin362,000
    31 – 5Yeping Shan183,000
    42 – 4Yi Sheng Cheng105,000
    43 – 5Yue Yang124,000
    36 – 3Zackery Farthing431,000
    30 – 8Zeyu Huang197,000
    34 – 2Zhi Yang419,000

    Day 2 Players, Sorted by Table & Seat (T-S)

    T-SPlayerChips
    28 – 1Sunny Lubana69,000
    28 – 2Ngok Nguyen288,000
    28 – 3Qi Luo57,000
    28 – 4Rauno Tahvonen150,000
    28 – 5Chun Kit Kwan234,000
    28 – 6Jack Benjamin Ashley Dick143,000
    28 – 7Kevin Kelso11,000
    28 – 9Linyang Song70,000
    29 – 1Hamish Tong806,000
    29 – 2Trent Hopper199,000
    29 – 4Gordon Wong185,000
    29 – 5Matthew Ouellette123,000
    29 – 6Drew Ducsharm191,000
    29 – 8Ashkan Razavi988,000
    29 – 9Xiu Mei Song76,000
    30 – 1Gaetano Buda421,000
    30 – 2Derek Arnold614,000
    30 – 3Calvin Chow62,000
    30 – 4Adrian Chan49,000
    30 – 5Kyle Chang308,000
    30 – 6Chris Hak491,000
    30 – 7Gabriel Vezina411,000
    30 – 8Zeyu Huang197,000
    31 – 1Richard Rex430,000
    31 – 2Ruoxiao Shi873,000
    31 – 3Bradley Ellis368,000
    31 – 4Kwong Au508,000
    31 – 5Yeping Shan183,000
    31 – 6Wenhan Lu153,000
    31 – 8Arya Ghai542,000
    31 – 9Duane Van Keulen184,000
    32 – 1Jun Yu Huang127,000
    32 – 2Shane Lee Brotherwood366,000
    32 – 3Chad Winnick454,000
    32 – 4Victor Zhenyu Li974,000
    32 – 5Cody Mckay62,000
    32 – 7Travis Macmillan300,000
    32 – 8Kevin Jeffrey Huang210,000
    34 – 2Zhi Yang419,000
    34 – 3Ali Razzaq301,000
    34 – 4Pavlo Vertiiko592,000
    34 – 5Austin Felix Hamer133,000
    34 – 6Luteng Li113,000
    34 – 7Michael Farrow388,000
    34 – 8Pietro Lo Giudice214,000
    34 – 9Yan Lin362,000
    35 – 2Shreesh Hebbar84,000
    35 – 3Alemu Makonen378,000
    35 – 4David Burnard307,000
    35 – 5Ryan Smith149,000
    35 – 6Jay Glass63,000
    35 – 7James Larry Cruickshank463,000
    35 – 8Scott Ernest Stuve387,000
    35 – 9Julien Perouse362,000
    36 – 1Tommy L D Nguyen540,000
    36 – 3Zackery Farthing431,000
    36 – 4Jared Scott Kempf211,000
    36 – 5Richard Wolfe361,000
    36 – 6Toan Tran741,000
    36 – 7Tyson Glass45,000
    36 – 8Chengdong Zhao87,000
    36 – 9Glenn Slater191,000
    37 – 1Sheraz Nasir530,000
    37 – 2Ramaz Haymour358,000
    37 – 3Umang Dattani592,000
    37 – 4Mehmet Siginc266,000
    37 – 6Nicholas Lee941,000
    37 – 7Andrew Macdonald718,000
    37 – 8Wayne Goulet109,000
    37 – 9Allen Li-Xin Shen130,000
    38 – 1Vikram Gill370,000
    38 – 2Matthew Kwong167,000
    38 – 3Kelvin Fu67,000
    38 – 4Jeffrey Eldred208,000
    38 – 5Jimmy Lee172,000
    38 – 6John Holopainen45,000
    38 – 7Shawn Michael Buchanan316,000
    38 – 9Jason Chan188,000
    40 – 1Jodie Dunfield405,000
    40 – 2Ran Yi345,000
    40 – 4Nicholas Teeuwen780,000
    40 – 5Jennifer Peters270,000
    40 – 6Antonio Ma130,000
    40 – 7Harman Jassal392,000
    40 – 8Clinton Cockburn92,000
    40 – 9Jackson Oniske103,000
    41 – 1Michael Li630,000
    41 – 2Jeremy Herauf86,000
    41 – 3Dallas Larson146,000
    41 – 4Roman Gallivan71,000
    41 – 5Mingchen Zhang348,000
    41 – 6Kevin Rivest497,000
    41 – 7Vincent Lam674,000
    41 – 9Amarjot Brar402,000
    42 – 1Matthew Donald Obrien134,000
    42 – 3Harminder Aujla77,000
    42 – 4Yi Sheng Cheng105,000
    42 – 5Alex Difelice480,000
    42 – 7Joseph Matthew Roberts386,000
    42 – 8David Katzov245,000
    42 – 9Xiaoyi Wang288,000
    43 – 1David Quang339,000
    43 – 2Kevin Javier636,000
    43 – 3Ning Ma150,000
    43 – 4Tung Kwok245,000
    43 – 5Yue Yang124,000
    43 – 6John Dalphond287,000
    43 – 7Neal Lamb82,000
    43 – 9Hasanain Al Ghunaim354,000
    44 – 1Daniel Lefebvre280,000
    44 – 2Rishi Makkar342,000
    44 – 3Eun Park104,000
    44 – 4Colin Jung214,000
    44 – 5Senthuran Vijayaratnam150,000
    44 – 6Matthew Osorio36,000
    44 – 8Jorge Artiga Pacheco570,000
    44 – 9Dylan Stephen Payne649,000

    Top Ten Payouts for Day 2

    See the Payouts tab for the full Day 2 prizes.

    PlacePrize
    1$312,965
    2$208,615
    3$146,349
    4$104,305
    5$75,546
    6$55,618
    7$41,633
    8$31,696
    9$24,549
    10$19,349
    2025 WSOP Circuit Calgary October Structure Sheet

  • 70 Bags for 1c

    Level:18 (6000/12000/12000)
    Entries:70/465 (117/910)
    Prizes:$953,250 ($1,865,500 total)

    They went into bubble play with 72 left in Level 16, then they played hand-for-hand until they got into Level 18, finally ending the night with 57:48 remaining in Level 18. That means there were no Day 1c payouts, and 70 players bagged chips for Day 2. See below for a look at the Day 1c stacks, and stay tuned for the Day 2 preview with a full player list, seat assignments, and payouts for the Main Event.

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    Day 1c Stacks

    PlayerChips
    Andrew Macdonald718,000
    Vincent Lam674,000
    Kevin Javier636,000
    Michael Li630,000
    Derek Arnold614,000
    Pavlo Vertiiko592,000
    Umang Dattani592,000
    Arya Ghai542,000
    Tommy Nguyen540,000
    Sheraz Nasir530,000
    Kwong Au508,000
    Chris Hak491,000
    Alex Difelice480,000
    Chad Winnick454,000
    Richard Rex430,000
    Jodie Dunfield405,000
    Amarjot Brar402,000
    Harman Jassal392,000
    Alemu Makonen378,000
    Vikram Gill370,000
    Yan Lin362,000
    Richard Wolfe361,000
    Ramaz Haymour358,000
    Hasanain Al Ghunaim354,000
    David Burnard307,000
    Ali Razzaq301,000
    Travis Macmillan300,000
    John Dalphond287,000
    Daniel Lefebvre280,000
    Tung Kwok245,000
    David Katzov245,000
    Pietro Lo Giudice214,000
    Colin Jung214000
    Kevin Huang210000
    Trent Hopper199,000
    Zeyu Huang197,000
    Drew Ducsharm191,000
    Jason Chan188,000
    Gordon Wong185,000
    Duane Van Keulen184,000
    Matthew Kwong167,000
    Wenhan Lu153,000
    Rauno Tahvonen150,000
    Senthuran Vijayaratnam150,000
    Ryan Smith149,000
    Jack Dick143,000
    Matthew Obrien134,000
    Antonio Ma130,000
    Luteng Li113,000
    Wayne Goulet109,000
    Jackson Oniske103,000
    Clinton Cockburn92,000
    Chengdong Zhao87,000
    Jeremy Herauf86,000
    Shreesh Hebbar84,000
    Neal Lamb82,000
    Harminder Aujla77,000
    Xiu Song76,000
    Roman Gallivan71,000
    Linyang Song70,000
    Gurpreet Lubana69,000
    Kelvin Fu67,000
    Jay Glass63,000
    Cody Mckay62,000
    Calvin Chow62,000
    Adrian Chan49,000
    John Holopainen45,000
    Tyson Glass45,000
    Matthew Osorio36,000
    Kevin Kelso11,000
  • Hard Bubble in 1c

    Level:17 (5000/10000/10000)
    Entries:71/465 (118/910)
    Prizes:$953,250 ($1,865,500 total)

    They are now on the hard bubble to the money in Day 1c with 71 players left. I’m not watching this action right now as I’m over in Chrome watching the end of the Ladies game.

  • 1c is on the Bubble

    Level:17 (5000/10000/10000)
    Entries:72/465 (119/910)
    Prizes:$953,250 ($1,865,500 total)

    Day 1c is on the bubble with 72 players left. The clock is now paused and they are playing hand-for-hand until the next two eliminations put them in the money. It looks like they went hand-for-hand one player early tonight, probably because last night they lost two in a single hand and ended with less than 10% of the field remaining.

  • 11 Off the Money

    Level:16 (4000/8000/8000)
    Entries:81/465 (128/910)
    Prizes:$953,250 ($1,865,500 total)

    They are 11 off the money in 1c of the Main Event, with about 10 minutes to play in Level 16. They need to make it to 70 left, at least, before the end of the night.

    If they hit 70 before the end of Level 17, then they’ll bag for the night after the end of that level. If tere are more than 70 players remaining at the end of Level 17, they’ll keep playing until the hit the money, no matter how long it takes.

  • 465 Entries for 1c Confirmed

    Level:13 (2000/4000/4000)
    Entries:140/465 (187/910)
    Prizes:$953,250 ($1,865,500 total)

    The prizes have been posted and the field for 1c is confirmed at 465 entries. That puts 910 entries into the pool for all three flights, for prizes of $1,865,500, though some of that will be handed out during the various Day 1 flights.

    There are 70 paid spots tonight, with at least 47 bags at the end. If they hit 47 players before the end of Level 17, they’ll bag up early, otherwise, they’ll bag up at the end of Level 17. However, players should be aware that this flight MUST play into the money, at least, so if there are still more than 70 players alive at the end of Level 17, they’ll keep playing until they get to the money no matter how long that takes.

    Day 1c Prizes

    PlacePrize
    1$192,979
    2$128,627
    3$87,803
    4$61,194
    5$43,563
    6$31,692
    7$23,573
    8$17,935
    9$13,966
    10-11$11,136
    12-13$9,099
    14-17$7,622
    18-26$6,549
    27-35$5,788
    36-44$5,236
    45-53$4,879
    54-70$4,646
  • 465 Entries for 1c

    Level:13 (2000/4000/4000)
    Entries:157/465 (204/910)
    Prizes:$953,250 ($1,865,500 total)

    Entries for the Main Event are now closed, and the final unofficial number on the board is 465 for 1c, and 910 total across all three flights. If confirmed, that will mean there are more than $953k in prizes for today’s flight alone, and $1,865,500 for the whole event.

    That should also mean a total of 70 paid spots for today’s field, with at least 47 bags at the end of the night. I’ll confirm all the numbers shortly when the 1c prizes are posted – bear in mind there won’t be a Day 2 prize pool available until the end of today’s flight.

  • Final Break for Entries in the Main Event

    Level:12 (1500/3000/3000)
    Entries:156/458 (203/903)
    Prizes:$938,900 ($1,851,150 total)

    There are less than 15 minutes left to get into this Main Event, as the players have just gone for their break following Level 12. When they return to the felt for Level 13 with blinds at 2k/4k/4k, entries will be closed.

    They are currently just shy of 460 entries for today’s flight, with 903 overall. The prizes just pushed above $1.85 million.

  • More than 450 Entries with 30 Minutes to Go

    Level:12 (1500/3000/3000)
    Entries:167/452 (214/897)
    Prizes:$926,600 ($1,838,850 total)

    The 1c field is now up to 452, with the combined field just shy of 900 total entries. 30 minutes still remain in entries, so it seems likely they’ll get a bit more than 900 for the whole game.

  • More than $1.8 Million

    Level:11 (1500/2500/2500)
    Entries:198/442 (245/887)
    Prizes:$906,100 ($1,818,350 total)

    The 1c prizes are just a couple fo entries away from equalling 1a & 1b combined. 1c now has $906k in prizes, for a total of $1,818,350 across all three flights.

    There are now 90 minutes left to get into this Main Event.

  • 4th Biggest Prize Pool on Record for WSOP-C Calgary

    Level:10 (1000/2000/2000)
    Entries:220/431 (267/876)
    Prizes:$883,550 ($1,795,800 total)

    There is still more than 2 hours left to get into this final flight to the Main Event, but the prizes just capped January 2022 for the 4th biggest game ever at WSOP-C Calgary. With 431 entries on the board now, the prizes are $1,795,800, about $10k higher than the first Main Event run under the WSOP-C banner here.

    I still expect to see at least 20-30 more entries before the registration desk closes for good on the Main, and if today’s field hits 450 entries, that would be prizes of almost $1.835 million.

  • 425 Entries on the 3rd Break

    Level:10 (1000/2000/2000)
    Entries:225/426 (272/871)
    Prizes:$873,300 ($1,785,550 total)

    The 1c field is now one entry away from making this the 4th-biggest prize pool in the history of WSOP-C Calgary. The current 1c field is 426, for 871 total, and one more entry will push it to $1,787,600 in prizes. That caps the opening Main Ev ent back in 2022, which had $1,786,362 in total prizes.

    The players are now on the dinner break following Level 9, and they’ll be back in action in about 30 minutes for the final three levels of open entry for this Main Event.

  • Nearing $1.75 Million in Prizes

    Level:8 (600/1200/1200)
    Entries:243/408 (290/853)
    Prizes:$836,400 ($1,748,650 total)

    The numbers for this Main Event are a little lower than I’d initially guessed, given the size of the early fields in this series, but it’s still far and away the biggest game of the series. With more than 850 entries across all the starting days so far, the prize pool is just shy of $1.75 million in total, with the expectation of more coming before entries close.

    For this prize pool to cap $2 million, they’d need to get 531 entries today, which seems a bit out of reach at this point, but this is already the fifth biggest prize pool ever amassed here at Deerfoot Inn & Casino, and there’s every chance it will push into position #4 well before entries close.

    Today’s flight only needs 427 entries to push the prize pool higher than the January 2022 Main Event, which is currently the 4th biggest pool in the series with $1.786 million in prizes. Hitting 427 for today would put this game at $1,787,600 to take over 4th spot.

    3rd spot is a bit more of a stretch, as they need to get $2.077 million to beat this year’s January Main. For this game to beat that number, we’d need to see 569 for 1c, and that seems unlikely given the current numbers.

  • Nearing 400 Entries for 1c

    Level:7 (500/1000/1000)
    Entries:255/392 (302/837)
    Prizes:$803,600 ($1,715,850 total)

    The 1c field is closing in on 400 entries with Level 7 ticking down to the end. There are now 837 entries across all starting flights, for combined prizes of $1.715 million.

    Entries are still open for more than 4 hours, and I expect the number to grow fairly briskly through the rest of the entry period, with players recognizing this is their last chance to get into Day 2 of the Main, but it seems like a final 1c field of around 500 might be our top end today.

  • Final Flight to the Main Event Runs Saturday

    WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard
    Date:Day 1a: Oct 9, 11 AM
    Day 1b: Oct 10, 11 AM
    Day 1c: Oct 11, 11 AM
    Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
    Day 3: Oct 13, Noon
    Blinds:40 Minutes
    Starting Stack:40k
    Late Entry:12 Levels (~8:30 PM)
    Day 1 Ends:17 Levels or 10% of the Field
    Entries:47/445
    Prizes:$912,250

    The first two flights to the Main Event are complete, but they’ve had some empty seats. After two starting days, there are 445 entries with 47 players bagging stacks for Day 2, and $912,250 in total prizes, including the money already handed out on 1a and 1b.

    Day 1c gets going at 11 AM, and players start with 40k in chips. Day 1 levels are 40 minutes long, and entries are open for 12 levels. That should put the last chance to get into this Main Event at about 8:30 PM Saturday evening.

    Once entries close, they play to 10% of the field, or the end of Level 12. Day 1a still had a few extra players alive when the end of the level came around, but 1b looks to have finished a couple of minutes before the end of Level 17, with a double knockout that meant one fewer bag than expected from 1b.

    1b leader Ashkan Razavi also has the overall lead, about 100k ahead of 1a leader Ruoxiao Shi, with Victor Li, and Mini Main Winner Nicholas Lee also bagging more than 900k and coming in ahead of Shi. Hamish Tong from 1b looks to be in 5th place overall, while former Main Event winner Nicholas Teeuwen has the chance to become the first double winner of a Calgary Main, bagging the 6th best stack overall. It’s worth adding that the leader Razavi, has a lot of experience going deep in the Calgary Main Event. He was 3rd in January’s Big Show and 4th in the Main last August, so he’ll be one to watch on Day 2 as well.

    Full stacks and cashes from each of the two starting days can be found as the most recent post under the Day 1a & Day 1b tabs. No prizes will be under the Payouts tab until Day 2.

    I should be watching this one pretty closely in the early part of the day, though I’ll likely be late to the floor as Friday night’s PLO Bounty looks to be a long one. Once the entries close for this game at 8:30, I will likely move over to cover the Ladies game, and then update the final results from the Main once they bag the final flight.

    2025 WSOP Circuit Calgary October Structure Sheet
  • Day 1b of the Main Event is Done

    Level:17 (5000/10000/10000)
    Entries:25/257 (47/445)
    Prizes:$526,850 ($912,250 total)

    Day 1b is now complete with 25 players remaining at the end of 17 levels of play. There was supposed to be 26 bags at the end of today’s flight, but they lost an extra person on the final hand, so only 25 players will advance from Day 1b.

    Ashkan Razavi is the 1b leader with 988k and, so far, that puts him in the overall lead for both days with about 100k more than 1a leader Ruoxiao Shi. Razavi has been deep in the Main Event here a few times, including 3rd in January of this year, as well as 4th in August of 2024, so he’s a good bet to figure in the Monday endgame.

    Ontario’s Victor Li bagged the second stack for 1b, while Nicholas Lee, who won the Mini Main Event earlier in the series, is third. All three of the top players have more than 900k.

    Players started getting paid on 1b at 39th place with a min-cash of $4,661. See below for the stacks moving forward from 1b, as well as the prizes awarded before they bagged.

    Day 1b Stacks

    PlayerChips
    Ashkan Razavi988,000
    Victor Li974,000
    Nicholas Lee941,000
    Hamish Tong806,000
    Toan Tran741,000
    Dylan Payne649,000
    Kevin Rivest497,000
    Michael Farrow388,000
    Scott Stuve387,000
    Joseph Roberts386,000
    Julien Perouse362,000
    Mingchen Zhang348,000
    Ran Yi345,000
    Shawn Buchanan316,000
    Kyle Chang308,000
    Ngok Nguyen288,000
    Jennifer Peters270,000
    Mehmet Siginc266,000
    Jared Kempf211,000
    Yeping Shan183,000
    Jimmy Lee172,000
    Jun Huang127,000
    Yue Yang124,000
    Eun Park104,000
    Qi Luo57,000

    Day 1b Payouts

    PlacePlayerPrize
    26 Francis Iron$4,894
    27 Gordon Konkin$4,661
    28 Wayne Hoffert$4,661
    29 Ka Yeung$4,661
    30 Kyle Ho$4,661
    31 Paul Brar$4,661
    32 Mohsen Shafizadeh$4,661
    33 Rajan Nagra$4,661
    34 Garett Maybery$4,661
    35 Eric Wasylenko$4,661
    36 Cameron Stewart$4,661
    37 Stephen Lee$4,661
    38 Travis Williams$4,661
    39 Gilbert Anderson$4,661
  • More than $900k

    Level:11 (1500/2500/2500)
    Entries:97/252 (119/440)
    Prizes:$516,600 ($902,000 total)

    About an hour and 20 minutes remain for entries into Day 1b of the Main, with the field now above 250. The 1b prizes are more than $515k, putting the combined prizes at just over $900k. I expect entries to slow from here through the end of the night as the starting stack is down to less than 20 big blinds now.

  • 235 Entries Just Before Dinner

    Level:9 (1000/1500/1500)
    Entries:113/235 (135/423)
    Prizes:$481,750 ($867,150 total)

    The Main Event players in Day 1b are moments away from their dinner break, with 3 more levels of open registration following dinner. There are now about 3 hours left to get into the second flight to the Main Event.

  • More than $800k in Prizes

    Level:6 (400/800/800)
    Entries:149/212 (171/400)
    Prizes:$434,600 ($820,000 total)

    Day 1b of the Main Event is running in the Sindance room now with 212 entries on the board as Level 6 comes to a close. There are still more than 5 hours left to enter today’s flight, plus the final flight tomorrow.

    So far, the numbers for the opening two flights have been a little lower than expected. 1b has already surpassed the 1a total halfway through registration, but it still feels like a bit of a low number for this point on a Day 1b, but I still expect to see the total prizes pass $1 million today.

  • Second Flight to the Main Starts Boarding at 11 AM Friday

    WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard
    Date:Day 1a: Oct 9, 11 AM
    Day 1b: Oct 10, 11 AM
    Day 1c: Oct 11, 11 AM
    Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
    Day 3: Oct 13, Noon
    Blinds:40/60 Minutes
    Starting Stack:40k
    Late Entry:12 Levels (~8:30 PM)
    Day 1 Ends:17 Levels or 10% of the Field
    Entries:22/188
    Prizes:$385,400 (7 Players Cashed Out of Day 1a for $4,631 before the end of the Day)

    The first flight to the Main Event has landed with 22 players still on board, from a starting field of 188. There were 29 paid spots today, and they might have bagged early if they got to 19 players, but they went the distance and bagged up more than 10% of the field after 17 levels.

    Day 1b starts at 11 AM on Friday, and everyone will be looking to beat Ruoxiao Shi, who bagged the 1a lead with 873k. Previous winner of the Main here in Calgary, Nicholas Teeuwen, has stack #2 from the 1a players, so there’s a solid chance for our first repeat Main Event winner at WSOP-C Calgary.

    1b is, of course, a redo of 1a with a bigger field. The 1a field was a bit smaller than expected, but that isn’t unusual for a 1a. They got 188 entries on 1a for more than $385k in prizes, and I think it’s still a decent bet for this to be the biggest prize pool ever, though my optimism is somewhat tempered by the 1a result.

    Players get 40k to start their day, and entries are open for 12 levels. For players who max-late reg during the break after Level 12 (~8:30), they’ll sit down with 10 bigs for Level 13. Players getting in at 11 AM will have 40 minutes of 200bb play, in theory.

    Once entries are closed, they’ll play to 10% or the end of Level 17, whichever comes first. However, since 1a played into the money, players in 1b & 1c should be aware that those flights MUST at least play into the money. That means if the field is still higher than 15% at the end of Level 17, they’ll keep playing until they hit that 15% cashing mark, no matter how long it takes.

    Once again, I have other priorities first on Friday. Day 2 of the Flip & Go runs, so I’ll be watching that one most closely. After that, my focus should be on the one-day PLO Bounty starting at 6 PM, and that one could go quite late, so it seems unlikely I’ll get to watch much of 1b of the Main. I will try to keep up with numbers and prizes, and I fully expect Friday’s flight to put this game over $1 million.

    Day 1a Stacks

    PlayerChips
    Ruoxiao Shi873,000
    Nicholas Teeuwen780,000
    Jorge Artiga Pacheco570,000
    James Cruickshank463,000
    Zackery Farthing431,000
    Gaetano Buda421,000
    Zhi Yang419,000
    Gabriel Vezina411,000
    Bradley Ellis368,000
    Shane Brotherwood366,000
    Rishi Makkar342,000
    David Quang339,000
    Xiaoyi Wang288,000
    Chun Kwan234,000
    Jeffrey Eldred208,000
    Glenn Slater191,000
    Ning Ma150,000
    Dallas Larson146,000
    Austin Hamer133,000
    Allen Shen130,000
    Matthew Ouellette123,000
    Yi Cheng105,000

    2025 WSOP Circuit Calgary October Structure Sheet
  • 188 Entries for Day 1a of the Main; 22 Bags

    Level:17 (5000/10000/10000)
    Entries:22/188
    Prizes:$385,400

    Day 1a of the Main Event is done, but with the very long Day 2 in the Monster stack, I wasn’t able to watch any of this one. The opening flight got 188 entries, which is a bit lower than I’d expected based on recent entries.

    That still put more than $385k into the prize pool after one flight, however, which makes Day 1a of the Main the second biggest prize pool so far this series. The only game that’s been bigger was the Mini Main Event, which had more than $500k in prizes, but that also took four flights to build.

    There are still two more flights to the Main Event, on Friday and Saturday, before Day 2 on Sunday. I’m expecting about 50% more for Friday’s field, putting my guess for that one at about 300 entries, while I think Saturday could easily see more than 500.

    There were 29 paid spots tonight, and seven players cashed out for $4,631 on Day 1a, with another 22 players finding bags at the end of 17 levels.

    See below for the Day 1a stacks, with Ruoxiao Shi leading, and potential repeat winner Nicholas Teeuwen in second place. Jorge Pacheco, James Cruickshank, and Zachary Farthing round out the top five stacks from 1a

    Day 1a Stacks

    PlayerChips
    Ruoxiao Shi873,000
    Nicholas Teeuwen780,000
    Jorge Artiga Pacheco570,000
    James Cruickshank463,000
    Zackery Farthing431,000
    Gaetano Buda421,000
    Zhi Yang419,000
    Gabriel Vezina411,000
    Bradley Ellis368,000
    Shane Brotherwood366,000
    Rishi Makkar342,000
    David Quang339,000
    Xiaoyi Wang288,000
    Chun Kwan234,000
    Jeffrey Eldred208,000
    Glenn Slater191,000
    Ning Ma150,000
    Dallas Larson146,000
    Austin Hamer133,000
    Allen Shen130,000
    Matthew Ouellette123,000
    Yi Cheng105,000

    Day 1a Prizes

    PlacePlayerPrize
    23 Ning Wang$4,631
    24 Ran Yi$4,631
    25 Alex Difelice$4,631
    26 Garett Maybery$4,631
    27 Tommy Nguyen$4,631
    28 Jimmy Lee$4,631
    29 Joshua Myers$4,631
  • More than $313k in the Main So Far

    Level:7 (500/1000/1000)
    Entries:113/153
    Prizes:$313,650

    The Main Event is on the second break of Day 1a, with the field at 153 entries. That puts $313,650 in prizes into the pool so far, and my guess is today’s flight will get more than $400k in total prizes before entries shut down in about 5 hours.

  • 1a of the Main is Over $260k

    Level:5 (300/600/600)
    Entries:105/128
    Prizes:$262,400

    There are still more than 6 hours left to enter this opening flight to the Main Event, and the prizes are now over $262k. There are 128 entries on the board so far, and I expect that to at least double before the end of entries around 8:30 tonight, while Day 1b tomorrow, and Day 1c on Saturday promise to be much bigger fields.

  • 100 Entries on First Break

    Level:4 (300/500/500)
    Entries:93/100
    Prizes:$205,000

    The Main Event Day 1a is over $200k in prizes with 100 entries on the board in the first break of the day. That puts the prizes at $205k, and it’s looking very good for today’s flight to easily cap 200 entries and possibly go beyond 300.

  • Nearing $200k in Prizes

    Level:3 (200/400/400)
    Entries:88/93
    Prizes:$190,650

    The prizes are already more than $190k, with half of Level 3 yet to play. The field is at 93, and I’m expecting something like 200+ for today’s flight. If they hit 200, that would mean Day 1a prizes of $410k.

    In January, Day 1a of the Main got 319 entries, and given that they are nearly at 100 already before the first break, it’s not out of the question that this Day 1a will meet or beat that number later today. The final number for January was 1,371, for $2.077 million in prizes. If this beefed-up Main gets the same number, the prizes this time around would be more than $2.8 million. The game only needs 1,220 entries overall to cap $2.5 million.

    January 2024 was the biggest prize pool yet here ar Deerfoot WSOP-C, with 1,475 entries for prizes of $2,234,625. With the beefed-up buy-in this time around, a field of just 1,090 overall will turn this into the biggest prize pool ever for a WSOP-C Calgary event.

  • 70 Entries Early in Main Event 1a

    Level:2 (200/300/300)
    Entries:67/70
    Prizes:$143,500

    The Main Event is starting out reasonably well for early on Day 1a. Level 2 has about 5 minutes remaining and the field is up to 70 entries for more than $140k in prizes. I’d expect that number to at least triple before the end of entries in a bit more than 8 hours.

  • It’s Main Event Time!

    WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard
    Date:Day 1a: Oct 9, 11 AM
    Day 1b: Oct 10, 11 AM
    Day 1c: Oct 11, 11 AM
    Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
    Day 3: Oct 13, Noon
    Blinds:40/60 Minutes
    Starting Stack:40k
    Late Entry:12 Levels (~8:30 PM)
    Day 1 Ends:17 Levels or 10% of the Field

    It’s time for the Main Event! The biggest game of the series kicks off its opening flight Thursday morning at 11 AM. This is a beefed-up version of the Main from previous series, with a $2,300 buy-in, as well as a 40k stack.

    That extra juice in the prize should almost certainly guarantee that this game hits $2.5 million for the first time. The total is in the cards even if this game gets less than January’s total, since the buy-in is basically 33% bigger.

    Blinds on Day 1 will be 40 minutes long, and entries are open for 12 levels. That means the desk closes on Day 1 at about 8:30 PM, after which, they’ll play 17 levels, or until only 10% of the field remains.

    The opening flight runs on Thursday, with Day 1b on Friday, and Day 1c on Saturday. All Day 1 flights start at 11 AM, while Day 2 and 3 start at noon.

    Manish “Bubs” Ralh shows off the WSOP-C bling after winning the Main

    In January, Manish “Bubs” Ralh took down the Main Event ring over 1,371 entries. His $312,624 prize was the biggest share of $2,077,065 in total prizes. Ralh took the game down after an entertaining battle with Angelo Jopek.

    2025 WSOP Circuit Calgary October Structure Sheet
  • 188 Entries for Day 1a of the Main; 22 Bags

    Level:17 (5000/10000/10000)
    Entries:22/188
    Prizes:$385,400

    Day 1a of the Main Event is done, but with the very long Day 2 in the Monster stack, I wasn’t able to watch any of this one. The opening flight got 188 entries, which is a bit lower than I’d expected based on recent entries.

    That still put more than $385k into the prize pool after one flight, however, which makes Day 1a of the Main the second biggest prize pool so far this series. The only game that’s been bigger was the Mini Main Event, which had more than $500k in prizes, but that also took four flights to build.

    There are still two more flights to the Main Event, on Friday and Saturday, before Day 2 on Sunday. I’m expecting about 50% more for Friday’s field, putting my guess for that one at about 300 entries, while I think Saturday could easily see more than 500.

    There were 29 paid spots tonight, and seven players cashed out for $4,631 on Day 1a, with another 22 players finding bags at the end of 17 levels.

    See below for the Day 1a stacks, with Ruoxiao Shi leading, and potential repeat winner Nicholas Teeuwen in second place. Jorge Pacheco, James Cruickshank, and Zachary Farthing round out the top five stacks from 1a

    Day 1a Stacks

    PlayerChips
    Ruoxiao Shi873,000
    Nicholas Teeuwen780,000
    Jorge Artiga Pacheco570,000
    James Cruickshank463,000
    Zackery Farthing431,000
    Gaetano Buda421,000
    Zhi Yang419,000
    Gabriel Vezina411,000
    Bradley Ellis368,000
    Shane Brotherwood366,000
    Rishi Makkar342,000
    David Quang339,000
    Xiaoyi Wang288,000
    Chun Kwan234,000
    Jeffrey Eldred208,000
    Glenn Slater191,000
    Ning Ma150,000
    Dallas Larson146,000
    Austin Hamer133,000
    Allen Shen130,000
    Matthew Ouellette123,000
    Yi Cheng105,000

    Day 1a Prizes

    PlacePlayerPrize
    23 Ning Wang$4,631
    24 Ran Yi$4,631
    25 Alex Difelice$4,631
    26 Garett Maybery$4,631
    27 Tommy Nguyen$4,631
    28 Jimmy Lee$4,631
    29 Joshua Myers$4,631
  • More than $313k in the Main So Far

    Level:7 (500/1000/1000)
    Entries:113/153
    Prizes:$313,650

    The Main Event is on the second break of Day 1a, with the field at 153 entries. That puts $313,650 in prizes into the pool so far, and my guess is today’s flight will get more than $400k in total prizes before entries shut down in about 5 hours.

  • 1a of the Main is Over $260k

    Level:5 (300/600/600)
    Entries:105/128
    Prizes:$262,400

    There are still more than 6 hours left to enter this opening flight to the Main Event, and the prizes are now over $262k. There are 128 entries on the board so far, and I expect that to at least double before the end of entries around 8:30 tonight, while Day 1b tomorrow, and Day 1c on Saturday promise to be much bigger fields.

  • 100 Entries on First Break

    Level:4 (300/500/500)
    Entries:93/100
    Prizes:$205,000

    The Main Event Day 1a is over $200k in prizes with 100 entries on the board in the first break of the day. That puts the prizes at $205k, and it’s looking very good for today’s flight to easily cap 200 entries and possibly go beyond 300.

  • Nearing $200k in Prizes

    Level:3 (200/400/400)
    Entries:88/93
    Prizes:$190,650

    The prizes are already more than $190k, with half of Level 3 yet to play. The field is at 93, and I’m expecting something like 200+ for today’s flight. If they hit 200, that would mean Day 1a prizes of $410k.

    In January, Day 1a of the Main got 319 entries, and given that they are nearly at 100 already before the first break, it’s not out of the question that this Day 1a will meet or beat that number later today. The final number for January was 1,371, for $2.077 million in prizes. If this beefed-up Main gets the same number, the prizes this time around would be more than $2.8 million. The game only needs 1,220 entries overall to cap $2.5 million.

    January 2024 was the biggest prize pool yet here ar Deerfoot WSOP-C, with 1,475 entries for prizes of $2,234,625. With the beefed-up buy-in this time around, a field of just 1,090 overall will turn this into the biggest prize pool ever for a WSOP-C Calgary event.

  • 70 Entries Early in Main Event 1a

    Level:2 (200/300/300)
    Entries:67/70
    Prizes:$143,500

    The Main Event is starting out reasonably well for early on Day 1a. Level 2 has about 5 minutes remaining and the field is up to 70 entries for more than $140k in prizes. I’d expect that number to at least triple before the end of entries in a bit more than 8 hours.

  • It’s Main Event Time!

    WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard
    Date:Day 1a: Oct 9, 11 AM
    Day 1b: Oct 10, 11 AM
    Day 1c: Oct 11, 11 AM
    Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
    Day 3: Oct 13, Noon
    Blinds:40/60 Minutes
    Starting Stack:40k
    Late Entry:12 Levels (~8:30 PM)
    Day 1 Ends:17 Levels or 10% of the Field

    It’s time for the Main Event! The biggest game of the series kicks off its opening flight Thursday morning at 11 AM. This is a beefed-up version of the Main from previous series, with a $2,300 buy-in, as well as a 40k stack.

    That extra juice in the prize should almost certainly guarantee that this game hits $2.5 million for the first time. The total is in the cards even if this game gets less than January’s total, since the buy-in is basically 33% bigger.

    Blinds on Day 1 will be 40 minutes long, and entries are open for 12 levels. That means the desk closes on Day 1 at about 8:30 PM, after which, they’ll play 17 levels, or until only 10% of the field remains.

    The opening flight runs on Thursday, with Day 1b on Friday, and Day 1c on Saturday. All Day 1 flights start at 11 AM, while Day 2 and 3 start at noon.

    Manish “Bubs” Ralh shows off the WSOP-C bling after winning the Main

    In January, Manish “Bubs” Ralh took down the Main Event ring over 1,371 entries. His $312,624 prize was the biggest share of $2,077,065 in total prizes. Ralh took the game down after an entertaining battle with Angelo Jopek.

    2025 WSOP Circuit Calgary October Structure Sheet
  • Day 1b of the Main Event is Done

    Level:17 (5000/10000/10000)
    Entries:25/257 (47/445)
    Prizes:$526,850 ($912,250 total)

    Day 1b is now complete with 25 players remaining at the end of 17 levels of play. There was supposed to be 26 bags at the end of today’s flight, but they lost an extra person on the final hand, so only 25 players will advance from Day 1b.

    Ashkan Razavi is the 1b leader with 988k and, so far, that puts him in the overall lead for both days with about 100k more than 1a leader Ruoxiao Shi. Razavi has been deep in the Main Event here a few times, including 3rd in January of this year, as well as 4th in August of 2024, so he’s a good bet to figure in the Monday endgame.

    Ontario’s Victor Li bagged the second stack for 1b, while Nicholas Lee, who won the Mini Main Event earlier in the series, is third. All three of the top players have more than 900k.

    Players started getting paid on 1b at 39th place with a min-cash of $4,661. See below for the stacks moving forward from 1b, as well as the prizes awarded before they bagged.

    Day 1b Stacks

    PlayerChips
    Ashkan Razavi988,000
    Victor Li974,000
    Nicholas Lee941,000
    Hamish Tong806,000
    Toan Tran741,000
    Dylan Payne649,000
    Kevin Rivest497,000
    Michael Farrow388,000
    Scott Stuve387,000
    Joseph Roberts386,000
    Julien Perouse362,000
    Mingchen Zhang348,000
    Ran Yi345,000
    Shawn Buchanan316,000
    Kyle Chang308,000
    Ngok Nguyen288,000
    Jennifer Peters270,000
    Mehmet Siginc266,000
    Jared Kempf211,000
    Yeping Shan183,000
    Jimmy Lee172,000
    Jun Huang127,000
    Yue Yang124,000
    Eun Park104,000
    Qi Luo57,000

    Day 1b Payouts

    PlacePlayerPrize
    26 Francis Iron$4,894
    27 Gordon Konkin$4,661
    28 Wayne Hoffert$4,661
    29 Ka Yeung$4,661
    30 Kyle Ho$4,661
    31 Paul Brar$4,661
    32 Mohsen Shafizadeh$4,661
    33 Rajan Nagra$4,661
    34 Garett Maybery$4,661
    35 Eric Wasylenko$4,661
    36 Cameron Stewart$4,661
    37 Stephen Lee$4,661
    38 Travis Williams$4,661
    39 Gilbert Anderson$4,661
  • More than $900k

    Level:11 (1500/2500/2500)
    Entries:97/252 (119/440)
    Prizes:$516,600 ($902,000 total)

    About an hour and 20 minutes remain for entries into Day 1b of the Main, with the field now above 250. The 1b prizes are more than $515k, putting the combined prizes at just over $900k. I expect entries to slow from here through the end of the night as the starting stack is down to less than 20 big blinds now.

  • 235 Entries Just Before Dinner

    Level:9 (1000/1500/1500)
    Entries:113/235 (135/423)
    Prizes:$481,750 ($867,150 total)

    The Main Event players in Day 1b are moments away from their dinner break, with 3 more levels of open registration following dinner. There are now about 3 hours left to get into the second flight to the Main Event.

  • More than $800k in Prizes

    Level:6 (400/800/800)
    Entries:149/212 (171/400)
    Prizes:$434,600 ($820,000 total)

    Day 1b of the Main Event is running in the Sindance room now with 212 entries on the board as Level 6 comes to a close. There are still more than 5 hours left to enter today’s flight, plus the final flight tomorrow.

    So far, the numbers for the opening two flights have been a little lower than expected. 1b has already surpassed the 1a total halfway through registration, but it still feels like a bit of a low number for this point on a Day 1b, but I still expect to see the total prizes pass $1 million today.

  • Second Flight to the Main Starts Boarding at 11 AM Friday

    WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard
    Date:Day 1a: Oct 9, 11 AM
    Day 1b: Oct 10, 11 AM
    Day 1c: Oct 11, 11 AM
    Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
    Day 3: Oct 13, Noon
    Blinds:40/60 Minutes
    Starting Stack:40k
    Late Entry:12 Levels (~8:30 PM)
    Day 1 Ends:17 Levels or 10% of the Field
    Entries:22/188
    Prizes:$385,400 (7 Players Cashed Out of Day 1a for $4,631 before the end of the Day)

    The first flight to the Main Event has landed with 22 players still on board, from a starting field of 188. There were 29 paid spots today, and they might have bagged early if they got to 19 players, but they went the distance and bagged up more than 10% of the field after 17 levels.

    Day 1b starts at 11 AM on Friday, and everyone will be looking to beat Ruoxiao Shi, who bagged the 1a lead with 873k. Previous winner of the Main here in Calgary, Nicholas Teeuwen, has stack #2 from the 1a players, so there’s a solid chance for our first repeat Main Event winner at WSOP-C Calgary.

    1b is, of course, a redo of 1a with a bigger field. The 1a field was a bit smaller than expected, but that isn’t unusual for a 1a. They got 188 entries on 1a for more than $385k in prizes, and I think it’s still a decent bet for this to be the biggest prize pool ever, though my optimism is somewhat tempered by the 1a result.

    Players get 40k to start their day, and entries are open for 12 levels. For players who max-late reg during the break after Level 12 (~8:30), they’ll sit down with 10 bigs for Level 13. Players getting in at 11 AM will have 40 minutes of 200bb play, in theory.

    Once entries are closed, they’ll play to 10% or the end of Level 17, whichever comes first. However, since 1a played into the money, players in 1b & 1c should be aware that those flights MUST at least play into the money. That means if the field is still higher than 15% at the end of Level 17, they’ll keep playing until they hit that 15% cashing mark, no matter how long it takes.

    Once again, I have other priorities first on Friday. Day 2 of the Flip & Go runs, so I’ll be watching that one most closely. After that, my focus should be on the one-day PLO Bounty starting at 6 PM, and that one could go quite late, so it seems unlikely I’ll get to watch much of 1b of the Main. I will try to keep up with numbers and prizes, and I fully expect Friday’s flight to put this game over $1 million.

    Day 1a Stacks

    PlayerChips
    Ruoxiao Shi873,000
    Nicholas Teeuwen780,000
    Jorge Artiga Pacheco570,000
    James Cruickshank463,000
    Zackery Farthing431,000
    Gaetano Buda421,000
    Zhi Yang419,000
    Gabriel Vezina411,000
    Bradley Ellis368,000
    Shane Brotherwood366,000
    Rishi Makkar342,000
    David Quang339,000
    Xiaoyi Wang288,000
    Chun Kwan234,000
    Jeffrey Eldred208,000
    Glenn Slater191,000
    Ning Ma150,000
    Dallas Larson146,000
    Austin Hamer133,000
    Allen Shen130,000
    Matthew Ouellette123,000
    Yi Cheng105,000

    2025 WSOP Circuit Calgary October Structure Sheet
  • 70 Bags for 1c

    Level:18 (6000/12000/12000)
    Entries:70/465 (117/910)
    Prizes:$953,250 ($1,865,500 total)

    They went into bubble play with 72 left in Level 16, then they played hand-for-hand until they got into Level 18, finally ending the night with 57:48 remaining in Level 18. That means there were no Day 1c payouts, and 70 players bagged chips for Day 2. See below for a look at the Day 1c stacks, and stay tuned for the Day 2 preview with a full player list, seat assignments, and payouts for the Main Event.

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    Day 1c Stacks

    PlayerChips
    Andrew Macdonald718,000
    Vincent Lam674,000
    Kevin Javier636,000
    Michael Li630,000
    Derek Arnold614,000
    Pavlo Vertiiko592,000
    Umang Dattani592,000
    Arya Ghai542,000
    Tommy Nguyen540,000
    Sheraz Nasir530,000
    Kwong Au508,000
    Chris Hak491,000
    Alex Difelice480,000
    Chad Winnick454,000
    Richard Rex430,000
    Jodie Dunfield405,000
    Amarjot Brar402,000
    Harman Jassal392,000
    Alemu Makonen378,000
    Vikram Gill370,000
    Yan Lin362,000
    Richard Wolfe361,000
    Ramaz Haymour358,000
    Hasanain Al Ghunaim354,000
    David Burnard307,000
    Ali Razzaq301,000
    Travis Macmillan300,000
    John Dalphond287,000
    Daniel Lefebvre280,000
    Tung Kwok245,000
    David Katzov245,000
    Pietro Lo Giudice214,000
    Colin Jung214000
    Kevin Huang210000
    Trent Hopper199,000
    Zeyu Huang197,000
    Drew Ducsharm191,000
    Jason Chan188,000
    Gordon Wong185,000
    Duane Van Keulen184,000
    Matthew Kwong167,000
    Wenhan Lu153,000
    Rauno Tahvonen150,000
    Senthuran Vijayaratnam150,000
    Ryan Smith149,000
    Jack Dick143,000
    Matthew Obrien134,000
    Antonio Ma130,000
    Luteng Li113,000
    Wayne Goulet109,000
    Jackson Oniske103,000
    Clinton Cockburn92,000
    Chengdong Zhao87,000
    Jeremy Herauf86,000
    Shreesh Hebbar84,000
    Neal Lamb82,000
    Harminder Aujla77,000
    Xiu Song76,000
    Roman Gallivan71,000
    Linyang Song70,000
    Gurpreet Lubana69,000
    Kelvin Fu67,000
    Jay Glass63,000
    Cody Mckay62,000
    Calvin Chow62,000
    Adrian Chan49,000
    John Holopainen45,000
    Tyson Glass45,000
    Matthew Osorio36,000
    Kevin Kelso11,000
  • Hard Bubble in 1c

    Level:17 (5000/10000/10000)
    Entries:71/465 (118/910)
    Prizes:$953,250 ($1,865,500 total)

    They are now on the hard bubble to the money in Day 1c with 71 players left. I’m not watching this action right now as I’m over in Chrome watching the end of the Ladies game.

  • 1c is on the Bubble

    Level:17 (5000/10000/10000)
    Entries:72/465 (119/910)
    Prizes:$953,250 ($1,865,500 total)

    Day 1c is on the bubble with 72 players left. The clock is now paused and they are playing hand-for-hand until the next two eliminations put them in the money. It looks like they went hand-for-hand one player early tonight, probably because last night they lost two in a single hand and ended with less than 10% of the field remaining.

  • 11 Off the Money

    Level:16 (4000/8000/8000)
    Entries:81/465 (128/910)
    Prizes:$953,250 ($1,865,500 total)

    They are 11 off the money in 1c of the Main Event, with about 10 minutes to play in Level 16. They need to make it to 70 left, at least, before the end of the night.

    If they hit 70 before the end of Level 17, then they’ll bag for the night after the end of that level. If tere are more than 70 players remaining at the end of Level 17, they’ll keep playing until the hit the money, no matter how long it takes.

  • 465 Entries for 1c Confirmed

    Level:13 (2000/4000/4000)
    Entries:140/465 (187/910)
    Prizes:$953,250 ($1,865,500 total)

    The prizes have been posted and the field for 1c is confirmed at 465 entries. That puts 910 entries into the pool for all three flights, for prizes of $1,865,500, though some of that will be handed out during the various Day 1 flights.

    There are 70 paid spots tonight, with at least 47 bags at the end. If they hit 47 players before the end of Level 17, they’ll bag up early, otherwise, they’ll bag up at the end of Level 17. However, players should be aware that this flight MUST play into the money, at least, so if there are still more than 70 players alive at the end of Level 17, they’ll keep playing until they get to the money no matter how long that takes.

    Day 1c Prizes

    PlacePrize
    1$192,979
    2$128,627
    3$87,803
    4$61,194
    5$43,563
    6$31,692
    7$23,573
    8$17,935
    9$13,966
    10-11$11,136
    12-13$9,099
    14-17$7,622
    18-26$6,549
    27-35$5,788
    36-44$5,236
    45-53$4,879
    54-70$4,646
  • 465 Entries for 1c

    Level:13 (2000/4000/4000)
    Entries:157/465 (204/910)
    Prizes:$953,250 ($1,865,500 total)

    Entries for the Main Event are now closed, and the final unofficial number on the board is 465 for 1c, and 910 total across all three flights. If confirmed, that will mean there are more than $953k in prizes for today’s flight alone, and $1,865,500 for the whole event.

    That should also mean a total of 70 paid spots for today’s field, with at least 47 bags at the end of the night. I’ll confirm all the numbers shortly when the 1c prizes are posted – bear in mind there won’t be a Day 2 prize pool available until the end of today’s flight.

  • Final Break for Entries in the Main Event

    Level:12 (1500/3000/3000)
    Entries:156/458 (203/903)
    Prizes:$938,900 ($1,851,150 total)

    There are less than 15 minutes left to get into this Main Event, as the players have just gone for their break following Level 12. When they return to the felt for Level 13 with blinds at 2k/4k/4k, entries will be closed.

    They are currently just shy of 460 entries for today’s flight, with 903 overall. The prizes just pushed above $1.85 million.

  • More than 450 Entries with 30 Minutes to Go

    Level:12 (1500/3000/3000)
    Entries:167/452 (214/897)
    Prizes:$926,600 ($1,838,850 total)

    The 1c field is now up to 452, with the combined field just shy of 900 total entries. 30 minutes still remain in entries, so it seems likely they’ll get a bit more than 900 for the whole game.

  • More than $1.8 Million

    Level:11 (1500/2500/2500)
    Entries:198/442 (245/887)
    Prizes:$906,100 ($1,818,350 total)

    The 1c prizes are just a couple fo entries away from equalling 1a & 1b combined. 1c now has $906k in prizes, for a total of $1,818,350 across all three flights.

    There are now 90 minutes left to get into this Main Event.

  • 4th Biggest Prize Pool on Record for WSOP-C Calgary

    Level:10 (1000/2000/2000)
    Entries:220/431 (267/876)
    Prizes:$883,550 ($1,795,800 total)

    There is still more than 2 hours left to get into this final flight to the Main Event, but the prizes just capped January 2022 for the 4th biggest game ever at WSOP-C Calgary. With 431 entries on the board now, the prizes are $1,795,800, about $10k higher than the first Main Event run under the WSOP-C banner here.

    I still expect to see at least 20-30 more entries before the registration desk closes for good on the Main, and if today’s field hits 450 entries, that would be prizes of almost $1.835 million.

  • 425 Entries on the 3rd Break

    Level:10 (1000/2000/2000)
    Entries:225/426 (272/871)
    Prizes:$873,300 ($1,785,550 total)

    The 1c field is now one entry away from making this the 4th-biggest prize pool in the history of WSOP-C Calgary. The current 1c field is 426, for 871 total, and one more entry will push it to $1,787,600 in prizes. That caps the opening Main Ev ent back in 2022, which had $1,786,362 in total prizes.

    The players are now on the dinner break following Level 9, and they’ll be back in action in about 30 minutes for the final three levels of open entry for this Main Event.

  • Nearing $1.75 Million in Prizes

    Level:8 (600/1200/1200)
    Entries:243/408 (290/853)
    Prizes:$836,400 ($1,748,650 total)

    The numbers for this Main Event are a little lower than I’d initially guessed, given the size of the early fields in this series, but it’s still far and away the biggest game of the series. With more than 850 entries across all the starting days so far, the prize pool is just shy of $1.75 million in total, with the expectation of more coming before entries close.

    For this prize pool to cap $2 million, they’d need to get 531 entries today, which seems a bit out of reach at this point, but this is already the fifth biggest prize pool ever amassed here at Deerfoot Inn & Casino, and there’s every chance it will push into position #4 well before entries close.

    Today’s flight only needs 427 entries to push the prize pool higher than the January 2022 Main Event, which is currently the 4th biggest pool in the series with $1.786 million in prizes. Hitting 427 for today would put this game at $1,787,600 to take over 4th spot.

    3rd spot is a bit more of a stretch, as they need to get $2.077 million to beat this year’s January Main. For this game to beat that number, we’d need to see 569 for 1c, and that seems unlikely given the current numbers.

  • Nearing 400 Entries for 1c

    Level:7 (500/1000/1000)
    Entries:255/392 (302/837)
    Prizes:$803,600 ($1,715,850 total)

    The 1c field is closing in on 400 entries with Level 7 ticking down to the end. There are now 837 entries across all starting flights, for combined prizes of $1.715 million.

    Entries are still open for more than 4 hours, and I expect the number to grow fairly briskly through the rest of the entry period, with players recognizing this is their last chance to get into Day 2 of the Main, but it seems like a final 1c field of around 500 might be our top end today.

  • Final Flight to the Main Event Runs Saturday

    WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard
    Date:Day 1a: Oct 9, 11 AM
    Day 1b: Oct 10, 11 AM
    Day 1c: Oct 11, 11 AM
    Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
    Day 3: Oct 13, Noon
    Blinds:40 Minutes
    Starting Stack:40k
    Late Entry:12 Levels (~8:30 PM)
    Day 1 Ends:17 Levels or 10% of the Field
    Entries:47/445
    Prizes:$912,250

    The first two flights to the Main Event are complete, but they’ve had some empty seats. After two starting days, there are 445 entries with 47 players bagging stacks for Day 2, and $912,250 in total prizes, including the money already handed out on 1a and 1b.

    Day 1c gets going at 11 AM, and players start with 40k in chips. Day 1 levels are 40 minutes long, and entries are open for 12 levels. That should put the last chance to get into this Main Event at about 8:30 PM Saturday evening.

    Once entries close, they play to 10% of the field, or the end of Level 12. Day 1a still had a few extra players alive when the end of the level came around, but 1b looks to have finished a couple of minutes before the end of Level 17, with a double knockout that meant one fewer bag than expected from 1b.

    1b leader Ashkan Razavi also has the overall lead, about 100k ahead of 1a leader Ruoxiao Shi, with Victor Li, and Mini Main Winner Nicholas Lee also bagging more than 900k and coming in ahead of Shi. Hamish Tong from 1b looks to be in 5th place overall, while former Main Event winner Nicholas Teeuwen has the chance to become the first double winner of a Calgary Main, bagging the 6th best stack overall. It’s worth adding that the leader Razavi, has a lot of experience going deep in the Calgary Main Event. He was 3rd in January’s Big Show and 4th in the Main last August, so he’ll be one to watch on Day 2 as well.

    Full stacks and cashes from each of the two starting days can be found as the most recent post under the Day 1a & Day 1b tabs. No prizes will be under the Payouts tab until Day 2.

    I should be watching this one pretty closely in the early part of the day, though I’ll likely be late to the floor as Friday night’s PLO Bounty looks to be a long one. Once the entries close for this game at 8:30, I will likely move over to cover the Ladies game, and then update the final results from the Main once they bag the final flight.

    2025 WSOP Circuit Calgary October Structure Sheet
  • Final Table Faces

    Level:27 (50000/10000/100000)
    Entries:10/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
  • Final Table

    Level:27 (50000/100000/100000)
    Entries:10/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The Main Event is at the final table now, with 10 players left. James Cruickshank was the bubble after he suffered a bit of a bad beat that left him short. He raised the button, then called off the small stack shove from Gabriel Vezina, who had just lost a bunch of chips after folding a big river to Kwong Au.

    Cruickshank was in good with ace-queen against a suited seven-six, but it was Vezina that hit the 652Q7 board hardest. That left Cruickshank short, and he was leaving the room shortly after.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    11 James Cruickshank$19,349
    12 Rauno Tahvonen$15,524
    13 Jason Chan$15,524
    14 Andrew Macdonald$12,683
    15 Ruoxiao Shi$12,683
    16 Mingchen Zhang$12,683
  • Three-Bets on Table 42

    Level:27 (50000/100000/100000)
    Entries:14/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Table 42 seems to be fond of three-bets lately. The final level of the night has just begun, but over the last ~10 minutes of Level 26, I saw three different preflop three-bet situations. It started with the previous hand from Gabriel Vezina.

    Shortly after that, Calvin Chow opened the middle to 160k, and Vezina once again found the three-bet, this time sizing up to 520k, prompting a fold from Chow.

    A couple of hands later, Kyle Chang raised the cutoff to 160k, but Sheraz Nasir, in the small blind, had other ideas, repopping it to 465k, forcing the fold from Chang.

  • Vezina Takes it on the Flop

    Level:26 (40000/80000/80000)
    Entries:15/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Kyle Chang raised to 160k from the cutoff, and big blind Gabriel Vezina three-bet to 380k. Chang made the call to see 9K4 on the flop, then check-folded to a bet of 250k from Vezina.

    Mingchen Zhang was the most recent exit to bring the game to 15 remaining.

  • Final 16 Stacks in the Main

    Level:26 (40000/80000/80000)
    Entries:16/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Kwong Au leads the final 16, with stacks counted at the recent break. He is the only player with more than 5 million, but Victor Lee and Sheraz Nasir are both playing about 4.7 million.

    T-SPlayerChips
    41 – 1Nicholas Lee1,495,000
    41 – 3James Cruickshank2,365,000
    41 – 4Ruoxiao Shi605,000
    41 – 6Kwong Au5,125,000
    41 – 7Jun-Yu Huang1,430,000
    41 – 9Rauno Tahvonen475,000
    42 – 2Andrew Macdonald975,000
    42 – 3Jason Chan1,375,000
    42 – 6Gabriel Vezina2,550,000
    42 – 7Sheraz Nasir4,755,000
    42 – 9Victor Li4,775,000
    43 – 2Travis Macmillan1,500,000
    43 – 3Calvin Chow880,000
    43 – 4Tommy Nguyen3,105,000
    43 – 5Kyle Chang2,915,000
    43 – 7Mingchen Zhang1,035,000
  • 16 Left at Final Break of Day 2

    Level:26 (40000/80000/80000)
    Entries:16/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    They are down to 16 remaining, with the players on the break following Level 25. This will be the final break of Day 2, with the bags set to come out at the end of Level 27. There are two levels of play left in the day when they return, and anyone remaining after the end of Level 27 will come back tomorrow to finish it out on Day 3.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    17 Jeremy Herauf$12,683
    18 Trent Hopper$10,556
  • Final Two Tables of the Main Event

    Level:25 (30000/60000/60000)
    Entries:18/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Day 2 of the Main Event just broke down to the final two tables with 18 players left. Nicholas Teeuwen, the only previous winner of this event that I could see remaining in the field, was among the recent busts.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    19 Hamish Tong$10,556
    20 Mehmet Siginc$10,556
    21 Kevin Javier$10,556
    22 Arya Ghai$10,556
    23 Richard Rex$10,556
    24 Zhi(George) Yang$10,556
    25 Nicholas Teeuwen$10,556
    26 Luteng Li$10,556
  • Herauf Doubles to More than 1 Million

    Level:24 (25000/50000/50000)
    Entries:24/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Jeremy Herauf shoved the cutoff for 585k, and Andrew MacDonald called from the button. It was a race between the AK for MacDonald and pocket sixes for Herauf. The board of Q7Q86 ran clean for the underpair, and Herauf hit the set on the river for overkill.

  • Chips for Final 26

    Level:24 (25000/50000/50000)
    Entries:26/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The Day 2 players are on their dinner break now, with just under 20 minutes until they are back in action for Level 24. Below is a look at the final 26 stacks, counted on dinner by me. Victor Li is leading with 3.62 million, and Sheraz Nasir is the only other player with 3 million or more.

    T-SPlayerChips
    41 – 1Andrew Macdonald960,000
    41 – 2Arya Ghai785,000
    41 – 3CALVIN CHOW1,015,000
    41 – 4Gabriel Vezina1,435,000
    41 – 5Hamish Tong2,730,000
    41 – 6James Cruickshank1,640,000
    41 – 7Jason Chan1,035,000
    41 – 8Jeremy Herauf1,035,000
    41 – 9JUN YU HUANG1,416,000
    42 – 1Kevin Javier950,000
    42 – 2Kwong Au1,375,000
    42 – 3Kyle Chang755,000
    42 – 4Luteng Li470,000
    42 – 5Mehmet Siginc1,225,000
    42 – 6Mingchen Zhang510,000
    42 – 7Nicholas Lee2,950,000
    42 – 8Nicholas Teeuwen1,150,000
    42 – 9Rauno Tahvonen770,000
    43 – 1Richard Rex680,000
    43 – 2Ruoxiao Shi1,075,000
    43 – 3SHERAZ NASIR3,250,000
    43 – 4Tommy L D Nguyen2,075,000
    43 – 5Travis Macmillan1,925,000
    43 – 6Trent Hopper905,000
    43 – 7Victor Zhenyu Li3,620,000
    43 – 8Zhi Yang655,000

    Recent Busts Before Dinner

    PlacePlayerPrize
    27 Pavlo Vertiiko$8,952
    28 Ran Yi$8,952
  • Ran Yi Bubbles Final Three Tables

    Level:23 (20000/40000/40000)
    Entries:27/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    They are down to the final three tables now after Ran Yi’s pocket threes couldn’t crack the aces of Tommy Nguyen. About 6 minutes remain in Level 23, with a break to follow this level.

  • Nearing the Final Three Tables

    Level:23 (20000/40000/40000)
    Entries:29/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    They are down to 28 players remaining, on the bubble to the final three tables. Full prizes so far, as well as future payouts, are under the Payouts tab, with recent busts below.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    29 Yan Lin$8,952
    30 Matthew Ouellette$8,952
    31 Jorge Pacheco$8,952
    32 Toan Tran$8,952
    33 Chris Hak$8,952
    34 Chad Winnick$8,952
  • Final 34 Players

    Level:22 (15000/30000/30000)
    Entries:34/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    I’m not 100% certain of the stacks, as these came from dealer counts (likely at the last break), but below is a look at the final 34 players in the Main, and their approximate stacks.

    PlayerChips
    Mingchen Zhang2,585,000
    Victor Zhenyu Li2,450,000
    Nicholas Lee2,225,000
    Sheraz Nasir2,150,000
    Arya Ghai1,615,000
    Gabriel Vezina1,435,000
    Nicholas Teeuwen1,400,000
    Jeremy Herauf1,350,000
    Trent Hopper1,280,000
    Kevin Javier1,255,000
    Pavlo Vertiiko1,150,000
    Kyle Chang1,090,000
    Toan Tran1,075,000
    Jorge Artiga Pacheco995,000
    Mehmet Siginc975,000
    Travis Macmillan930,000
    Ruoxiao Shi875,000
    Calvin Chow740,000
    Yan Lin680,000
    Zhi Yang666,000
    Kwong Au625,000
    Tommy L D Nguyen600,000
    Luteng Li600,000
    Ran Yi545,000
    Matthew Ouellette530,000
    Jason Chan475,000
    Rauno Tahvonen465,000
    James Larry Cruickshank463,000
    Andrew Macdonald455,000
    Richard Rex415,000
    Hamish Tong385,000
    Chris Hak290,000
    Chad Winnick275,000
    Jun Yu Huang127,000
  • Down to 34 Remaining

    Level:22 (15000/30000/30000)
    Entries:34/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    PlacePlayerPrize
    35 Johnny Dalphond$8,952
    36 Jen Peters$7,738
    37 Dylan Payne$7,738
    38 Harman Jassal$7,738
    39 Jackson Oniske$7,738
    40 Ngoc Nguyen$7,738
  • Some Big Stacks Before Break

    Level:21 (15000/25000/25000)
    Entries:40/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    There are 40 players left with about 5 minutes to play until the end of Level 21. Mingchen Zhang looks to be leading right now with 2.7 million, but Mini Main Event winner Nicholas Lee is close behind with about 2.6 million, while Sheraz Nasir has about 2.5 million.

    Nicholas Teeuwen has the chance to be the first player to win the WSOP-C Calgary Main Event twice, as he’s sitting with about 1.4 million right now.

    PlayerChips
    Mingchen Zhang2,700,000
    Nicholas Lee2,600,000
    Sheraz Nasir2,500,000
    Arya Ghai1,900,000
    Victor Zhenyu Li1,400,000
    Nicholas Teeuwen1,400,000

    Recent Payouts from Day 2

    PlacePlayerPrize
    41 Alex Difelice$7,738
    42 David Burnard$7,738
    43 Duane Van-Leulen$7,738
    44 Kevin Rivest$7,738
  • Final Five Tables

    Level:21 (15000/25000/25000)
    Entries:44/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    They are down to 44 left in Day 2, with about 35 minutes to play in Level 21.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    45 Vikram Gill$6,821
    46 Bradley Ellis$6,821
    47 Hari Aujla$6,821
    48 Tony Ma$6,821
    49 Xiu-Mei Song$6,821
    50 Wenhan Lu$6,821
    51 Rishi Makkar$6,821
  • Huang Pips Tran

    Level:21 (15000/25000/25000)
    Entries:46/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Jun Huang raised under the gun to 50k, and Toan Tran defended the big blind with a call. They both checked through the AK8K flop and turn, but when the river brought the fourth spade with 6, Tran bet out 60k. After some time in the tank, Huang called it off, showing QJ to pip Tran’s A10 for the flush.

  • Nearing 50 Remaining

    Level:21 (15000/25000/25000)
    Entries:51/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The field is down to 51 players on the final 6 tables now in Day 2 of the Main Event. Full prizes are under the Payouts tab, with recent cahses below.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    52 Matt Kwong$6,821
    53 Jodie Dunfield$6,821
    54 Julien Perouse$6,134
    55 Dabid Katzov$6,134
    56 Colin Jung$6,134
    57 Jay Glass$6,134
    58 Pietro Giudice$6,134
    59 Amarjot Brar$6,134
    60 Ramaz Haymour$6,134
    61 Alemu Makonen$6,134
  • Down to 7 Tables

    Level:20 (10000/20000/20000)
    Entries:61/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    They are down to 61 players left on the final 7 tables now, with about 40 minutes to play in Level 20.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    62 Ali Razzaq$6,134
    63 Vincent Lam$5,630
    64 Chengdong Zhao$5,630
    65 Michael Li$5,630
    66 Clint Cockburn$5,630
    67 Umang Dattani$5,630
  • Some Big Stacks from the Break

    Level:20 (10000/20000/20000)
    Entries:67/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    PlayerChips
    Arya Ghai1,405,000
    Victor Zhenyu Li1,265,000
    Jun Yu Huang1,080,000
    Luteng Li1,055,000
    Jorge Artiga Pacheco995,000
    Kevin Rivest995,000
    Jason Chan960,000
    Sheraz Nasir960,000
    Clinton Cockburn950,000
  • 67 Remain at the Break

    Level:20 (10000/20000/20000)
    Entries:67/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    They are down to 67 remaining in Day 2 of the Main Event Day 2. There is a small change to the order from my last post as well, as they adjusted the payout order in the backend.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    68 Zackery Farthing$5,630
    69 Ryan Smith$5,630
    70 Joseph Roberts$5,630
    71 Yeping Shan$5,630
    72 Daniel Lefebvre$5,275
  • Down to 70

    Level:19 (10000/15000/15000)
    Entries:70/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Less than 10 minutes remain in Level 19, with the first break of Day 2 scheduled after this level. The field is now down to 70, with the action slowing a bit during this level. Full prizes from today’s action, including all the future prizes and past bustouts, are under the Payouts tab.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    71 Joseph Roberts$5,630
    72 Daniel Lefebvre$5,275
    73 Shawn Buchanan$5,275
    74 Drew Ducsham$5,275
    75 Jack Dick$5,275
  • Fewer than 75 Remain

    Level:19 (10000/15000/15000)
    Entries:73/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The field is dropping pretty fast here on Day 2, with the number down to 73 now. See below for the recent busts, and I should be paying closer attention to the action shortly.

    PlacePlayerPrize
    76 Ashkan Razavi$5,275
    77 Wayne Goulet$5,275
    78 Chun-Kit Kwan$5,275
    79 Xiaoyi Wang$5,275
    80 Qi Luo$5,275
    81 Richard Wolfe$5,024
    82 Jared Kempf$5,024
    83 Derek Arnold$5,024
    84 Gaetano Buda$5,024
    85 David Quang$5,024
    86 Yue Yang$5,024
    87 Glenn Slater$5,024
    88 Tung Kwok$5,024
    89 Michael Farrow$5,024
    90 Jimmy Lee$5,024
    91 Sunny Lubana$5,024
    92 Zeyu Huang$5,024
    93 Hasanain Al-Ghunaim$5,024
    94 Shreesh Hebbar$5,024
    95 Jeff Eldred$5,024
  • Under 100 Players Remain

    Level:18 (6000/12000/12000)
    Entries:95/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The Day 2 players have been at the felt for barely 30 minutes, and they are already down to 95 players remaining. The prizes are all loaded under the Payouts tab, and I’ll post recent busts on individual posts.

    Early Busts on Day 2

    PlacePlayerPrize
    96 Shane Brotherwood$5,024
    97 Dallas Larson$5,024
    98 Austin Hamer$5,024
    99 Neal Lamb$5,024
    100 Scott Stuve$5,024
    101 Ning Ma$5,024
    102 Matthew Obrien$5,024
    103 Adrian Chan$5,024
    104 Gordon Wong$5,024
    105 Cody Mckay$5,024
    106 Kevin Huang$5,024
    107 Eun Park$5,024
    108 Linyang Song$5,024
    109 Senthuran Vijayaratnam$5,024
    110 Kelvin Fu$5,024
    111 Yi Cheng$5,024
    112 John Holopainen$5,024
    113 Roman Gallivan$5,024
    114 Tyson Glass$5,024
    115 Allen Shen$5,024
    116 Matthew Osorio$5,024
    117 Kevin Kelso$5,024
  • 117 Players Returning for Day 2; Ash Razavi Leads

    WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard
    Date:Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
    Day 3: Oct 13, Noon
    Blinds:60 Minutes
    Entries:117/910
    Prizes:$1,865,500 (1st Place: $312,965)

    Day 2 of the Main Event is set, and despite a smaller-than-expected prize pool, Day 2 will be relatively big after Day 1c barely made it to the bubble. There were 70 paid spots on 1c, but no one got paid out as they didn’t get to 70 players until Level 18.

    Ashkan Razavi is the overall leader, bagging 988k on 1b. Razavi is a familiar face at the deep end of the Main Event here. He’s final tabled the last two Mains, with a fourth place and a 3rd place to show for it.

    His 1b compatriot, Victor Li, also bagged more than 900k, as did “The Doctor” Nicholas Lee. Ruoxiao Shi and Hamish Tong round out the top five stacks with more than 800k each. Full stacks with seats will be posted below.

    The Day 2 action gets going at noon and they’ll play 10 Levels before they bag for the night to finish the game on Monday’s Day 3. Blinds are 60 minutes long for the rest of the game.

    Day 2 Players, Sorted by Name

    T-SPlayerChips
    30 – 4Adrian Chan49,000
    35 – 3Alemu Makonen378,000
    42 – 5Alex Difelice480,000
    34 – 3Ali Razzaq301,000
    37 – 9Allen Li-Xin Shen130,000
    41 – 9Amarjot Brar402,000
    37 – 7Andrew Macdonald718,000
    40 – 6Antonio Ma130,000
    31 – 8Arya Ghai542,000
    29 – 8Ashkan Razavi988,000
    34 – 5Austin Felix Hamer133,000
    31 – 3Bradley Ellis368,000
    30 – 3Calvin Chow62,000
    32 – 3Chad Winnick454,000
    36 – 8Chengdong Zhao87,000
    30 – 6Chris Hak491,000
    28 – 5Chun Kit Kwan234,000
    40 – 8Clinton Cockburn92,000
    32 – 5Cody Mckay62,000
    44 – 4Colin Jung214,000
    41 – 3Dallas Larson146,000
    44 – 1Daniel Lefebvre280,000
    35 – 4David Burnard307,000
    42 – 8David Katzov245,000
    43 – 1David Quang339,000
    30 – 2Derek Arnold614,000
    29 – 6Drew Ducsharm191,000
    31 – 9Duane Van Keulen184,000
    44 – 9Dylan Stephen Payne649,000
    44 – 3Eun Park104,000
    30 – 7Gabriel Vezina411,000
    30 – 1Gaetano Buda421,000
    36 – 9Glenn Slater191,000
    29 – 4Gordon Wong185,000
    29 – 1Hamish Tong806,000
    40 – 7Harman Jassal392,000
    42 – 3Harminder Aujla77,000
    43 – 9Hasanain Al Ghunaim354,000
    28 – 6Jack Dick143,000
    40 – 9Jackson Oniske103,000
    35 – 7James Cruickshank463,000
    36 – 4Jared Kempf211,000
    38 – 9Jason Chan188,000
    35 – 6Jay Glass63,000
    38 – 4Jeffrey Eldred208,000
    40 – 5Jennifer Peters270,000
    41 – 2Jeremy Herauf86,000
    38 – 5Jimmy Lee172,000
    40 – 1Jodie Dunfield405,000
    43 – 6Johnny Dalphond287,000
    38 – 6John Holopainen45,000
    44 – 8Jorge Artiga Pacheco570,000
    42 – 7Joseph Matthew Roberts386,000
    35 – 9Julien Perouse362,000
    32 – 1Jun Yu Huang127,000
    38 – 3Kelvin Fu67,000
    43 – 2Kevin Javier636,000
    32 – 8Kevin Huang210,000
    28 – 7Kevin Kelso11,000
    41 – 6Kevin Rivest497,000
    31 – 4Kwong Au508,000
    30 – 5Kyle Chang308,000
    28 – 9Linyang Song70,000
    34 – 6Luteng Li113,000
    42 – 1Matthew Obrien134,000
    38 – 2Matthew Kwong167,000
    44 – 6Matthew Osorio36,000
    29 – 5Matthew Ouellette123,000
    37 – 4Mehmet Siginc266,000
    34 – 7Michael Farrow388,000
    41 – 1Michael Li630,000
    41 – 5Mingchen Zhang348,000
    43 – 7Neal Lamb82,000
    28 – 2Ngok Nguyen288,000
    37 – 6Nicholas Lee941,000
    40 – 4Nicholas Teeuwen780,000
    43 – 3Ning Ma150,000
    34 – 4Pavlo Vertiiko592,000
    34 – 8Pietro Lo Giudice214,000
    28 – 3Qi Luo57,000
    37 – 2Ramaz Haymour358,000
    40 – 2Ran Yi345,000
    28 – 4Rauno Tahvonen150,000
    31 – 1Richard Rex430,000
    36 – 5Richard Wolfe361,000
    44 – 2Rishi Makkar342,000
    41 – 4Roman Gallivan71,000
    31 – 2Ruoxiao Shi873,000
    35 – 5Ryan Smith149,000
    35 – 8Scott Ernest Stuve387,000
    44 – 5Senthuran Vijayaratnam150,000
    32 – 2Shane Brotherwood366,000
    38 – 7Shawn Buchanan316,000
    37 – 1Sheraz Nasir530,000
    35 – 2Shreesh Hebbar84,000
    28 – 1Sunny Lubana69,000
    36 – 6Toan Tran741,000
    36 – 1Tommy Nguyen540,000
    32 – 7Travis Macmillan300,000
    29 – 2Trent Hopper199,000
    43 – 4Tung Kwok245,000
    36 – 7Tyson Glass45,000
    37 – 3Umang Dattani592,000
    32 – 4Victor Li974,000
    38 – 1Vikram Gill370,000
    41 – 7Vincent Lam674,000
    37 – 8Wayne Goulet109,000
    31 – 6Wenhan Lu153,000
    42 – 9Xiaoyi Wang288,000
    29 – 9Xiu Mei Song76,000
    34 – 9Yan Lin362,000
    31 – 5Yeping Shan183,000
    42 – 4Yi Sheng Cheng105,000
    43 – 5Yue Yang124,000
    36 – 3Zackery Farthing431,000
    30 – 8Zeyu Huang197,000
    34 – 2Zhi Yang419,000

    Day 2 Players, Sorted by Table & Seat (T-S)

    T-SPlayerChips
    28 – 1Sunny Lubana69,000
    28 – 2Ngok Nguyen288,000
    28 – 3Qi Luo57,000
    28 – 4Rauno Tahvonen150,000
    28 – 5Chun Kit Kwan234,000
    28 – 6Jack Benjamin Ashley Dick143,000
    28 – 7Kevin Kelso11,000
    28 – 9Linyang Song70,000
    29 – 1Hamish Tong806,000
    29 – 2Trent Hopper199,000
    29 – 4Gordon Wong185,000
    29 – 5Matthew Ouellette123,000
    29 – 6Drew Ducsharm191,000
    29 – 8Ashkan Razavi988,000
    29 – 9Xiu Mei Song76,000
    30 – 1Gaetano Buda421,000
    30 – 2Derek Arnold614,000
    30 – 3Calvin Chow62,000
    30 – 4Adrian Chan49,000
    30 – 5Kyle Chang308,000
    30 – 6Chris Hak491,000
    30 – 7Gabriel Vezina411,000
    30 – 8Zeyu Huang197,000
    31 – 1Richard Rex430,000
    31 – 2Ruoxiao Shi873,000
    31 – 3Bradley Ellis368,000
    31 – 4Kwong Au508,000
    31 – 5Yeping Shan183,000
    31 – 6Wenhan Lu153,000
    31 – 8Arya Ghai542,000
    31 – 9Duane Van Keulen184,000
    32 – 1Jun Yu Huang127,000
    32 – 2Shane Lee Brotherwood366,000
    32 – 3Chad Winnick454,000
    32 – 4Victor Zhenyu Li974,000
    32 – 5Cody Mckay62,000
    32 – 7Travis Macmillan300,000
    32 – 8Kevin Jeffrey Huang210,000
    34 – 2Zhi Yang419,000
    34 – 3Ali Razzaq301,000
    34 – 4Pavlo Vertiiko592,000
    34 – 5Austin Felix Hamer133,000
    34 – 6Luteng Li113,000
    34 – 7Michael Farrow388,000
    34 – 8Pietro Lo Giudice214,000
    34 – 9Yan Lin362,000
    35 – 2Shreesh Hebbar84,000
    35 – 3Alemu Makonen378,000
    35 – 4David Burnard307,000
    35 – 5Ryan Smith149,000
    35 – 6Jay Glass63,000
    35 – 7James Larry Cruickshank463,000
    35 – 8Scott Ernest Stuve387,000
    35 – 9Julien Perouse362,000
    36 – 1Tommy L D Nguyen540,000
    36 – 3Zackery Farthing431,000
    36 – 4Jared Scott Kempf211,000
    36 – 5Richard Wolfe361,000
    36 – 6Toan Tran741,000
    36 – 7Tyson Glass45,000
    36 – 8Chengdong Zhao87,000
    36 – 9Glenn Slater191,000
    37 – 1Sheraz Nasir530,000
    37 – 2Ramaz Haymour358,000
    37 – 3Umang Dattani592,000
    37 – 4Mehmet Siginc266,000
    37 – 6Nicholas Lee941,000
    37 – 7Andrew Macdonald718,000
    37 – 8Wayne Goulet109,000
    37 – 9Allen Li-Xin Shen130,000
    38 – 1Vikram Gill370,000
    38 – 2Matthew Kwong167,000
    38 – 3Kelvin Fu67,000
    38 – 4Jeffrey Eldred208,000
    38 – 5Jimmy Lee172,000
    38 – 6John Holopainen45,000
    38 – 7Shawn Michael Buchanan316,000
    38 – 9Jason Chan188,000
    40 – 1Jodie Dunfield405,000
    40 – 2Ran Yi345,000
    40 – 4Nicholas Teeuwen780,000
    40 – 5Jennifer Peters270,000
    40 – 6Antonio Ma130,000
    40 – 7Harman Jassal392,000
    40 – 8Clinton Cockburn92,000
    40 – 9Jackson Oniske103,000
    41 – 1Michael Li630,000
    41 – 2Jeremy Herauf86,000
    41 – 3Dallas Larson146,000
    41 – 4Roman Gallivan71,000
    41 – 5Mingchen Zhang348,000
    41 – 6Kevin Rivest497,000
    41 – 7Vincent Lam674,000
    41 – 9Amarjot Brar402,000
    42 – 1Matthew Donald Obrien134,000
    42 – 3Harminder Aujla77,000
    42 – 4Yi Sheng Cheng105,000
    42 – 5Alex Difelice480,000
    42 – 7Joseph Matthew Roberts386,000
    42 – 8David Katzov245,000
    42 – 9Xiaoyi Wang288,000
    43 – 1David Quang339,000
    43 – 2Kevin Javier636,000
    43 – 3Ning Ma150,000
    43 – 4Tung Kwok245,000
    43 – 5Yue Yang124,000
    43 – 6John Dalphond287,000
    43 – 7Neal Lamb82,000
    43 – 9Hasanain Al Ghunaim354,000
    44 – 1Daniel Lefebvre280,000
    44 – 2Rishi Makkar342,000
    44 – 3Eun Park104,000
    44 – 4Colin Jung214,000
    44 – 5Senthuran Vijayaratnam150,000
    44 – 6Matthew Osorio36,000
    44 – 8Jorge Artiga Pacheco570,000
    44 – 9Dylan Stephen Payne649,000

    Top Ten Payouts for Day 2

    See the Payouts tab for the full Day 2 prizes.

    PlacePrize
    1$312,965
    2$208,615
    3$146,349
    4$104,305
    5$75,546
    6$55,618
    7$41,633
    8$31,696
    9$24,549
    10$19,349
    2025 WSOP Circuit Calgary October Structure Sheet

  • Travis MacMillan Wins Main Event for $312,965

    Level:33 (200000/400000/400000)
    Entries:1/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    After three days of play, the Main Event is now over, and Travis MacMillan is the latest owner of a WSOP-C Main Event ring from Calgary. He overcame Victor Li in a short but hard-fought HU battle.

    Li was the leader when they started the day, and he was still the leader when they got to heads up. Li was able to hang onto the lead through most of the final table, but MacMillan was running hot heads up.

    The action got going early in the day when Tommy Nguyen found himself in a cooler just a few minutes after play began. He raised under the gun, then called off a shove from Sheraz Nasir with pocket sevens, only to run into pocket aces for Nasir. He couldn’t ground the rockets, and he was the first out from the final table.

    Clavin Chow was next to go, followed by Gabriel Vezina. Vezina hit the rail after Li made an unlikely call with just ace-high on a nine-high flop. Vezina was ahead after hitting the middle pair on the flp with a seven, along with backdoor straight outs. Li found a queen on the turn and held to send Vezina out in 8th.

    Nasir was left short after he rivered a full house, but Li had already turned a bigger boat and took a huge pot. Nasir was able to ladder over Nicholas Lee (7th), Jun Huang (6th), and Kyle Change (5th), but he ended his run in 4th place when his ace-four ran into the ace-ten for MacMillan.

    They played three-handed for almost 2 hours before Kwong Au couldn’t find a diamond to complete his flopped flush draw, and lost to the top pair for MacMillan.

    That set up the HU between Li and MacMillan. The big change happened when MacMillan called off his tournament life with a heart draw against middle pair for Li with just one card to come. It was a good one for MacMillan, as the king of hearts on the river gave him the double and the lead.

    In the final hand, MacMillan raised to 1 million, then called when Li made it 4 million. Li fired 2.5 million in J7K flop, and Li check-called for 3 million on the Q turn.

    When Li checked the K river, MacMillan shoved a covering stack and sent Li deep into the tank. The hand started with about 6 minutes to play in Level 33, but Li was still in the tank after there were already 10 minutes gone in the break following that level.

    MacMillan finally called the clock about 10 minutes into the break, and Li put in the call with about 5 seconds remaining on his 30-second countdown. Li’s queen was no good against the trip kings for MacMillan, and the game was over. Li scored $208,615 for 2nd while MacMillan pocketed nearly $313k for first place.

  • MacMillan To the Lead

    Level:33 (200000/400000/400000)
    Entries:2/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Travis MacMillan just took the lead with a double, but he had to get there to survive. The money went in on the turn with the board reading 8JK4.

    MacMillan shoved 7.825 million into a pot of about 8 million, and after some time in the tank, Li called it off. He had second pair with jack-nine, and was good against the 64 for MacMillan, but MacMillan found the heart he needed with the K river and doubled up. He is now up to about 23 million against 13 million for Li.

  • Li Leads

    Level:33 (200000/400000/400000)
    Entries:2/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Victor Li is up by about 2.5:1 now. Travis MacMillan has about 11 million in front of him, with Li playing about 25 million. There are a total of 91 big blinds in play in this level, with MacMillan playing about 28bb to Li’s 63bb.

  • Kwong Au Out in 3rd Place for $146,349

    Level:33 (200000/400000/400000)
    Entries:2/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Kwong Au

    The Main Event is now heads up between Travis MacMillan and Victor Li. Kwong Au raised to 1 million, and MacMillan called to see 5QJ on the flop.

    Au shoved for 4.35 million, and, after a count, MacMillan called. He had top pair with Q6 while Au was drawing to diamonds with K7. The JJ runout didn’t help Au, and he was out in 3rd place tonight.

  • MacMillan Chips Up

    Level:32 (150000/300000/300000)
    Entries:3/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The flop was out reading Q65 and Kwong Au check-raised from 500k to 1.2 million. Travis MacMillan called to the 9 turn. Both players checked, but after a check from Au on the 10 river, MacMillan fired 1.7 million.

    Au took some time but slid in the call. He was drawing to diamonds with ace-seven, but bricked. Despite that, he still called with ace-high, but MacMillan showed queen-jack for top pair and the win.

  • Li Leads by 4 Million

    Level:32 (150000/300000/300000)
    Entries:3/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Victor Li is in the lead, but Kwong Au’s double near the end of Level 31 made it a lot closer.

    SeatPlayerChips
    07Travis Macmillan7,275,000
    08Victor Li16,575,000
    09Kwong Au12,550,000
  • Au Can Play Again

    Level:31 (150000/250000/250000)
    Entries:3/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    I arrived to the table with the action on the turn and the board reading 45Q3. After a check from Victor Li, Kwon Au shoved 6.625 million, sending Li into the tank.

    While Li was thinking, Au said “If I win this I can play poker again.” Someone on the rail asked if he wasn’t playing now, and he replied “I’m playing like a donkey.”

    As Li continued to think, he said “Only cash players know what I have. This is a cash game play, big overbet.” Li finally called it, and both players were on the queen for top pair, with Au on the better kicker. The river bricked, and Au got a double.

  • Li Keeps Chipping Up

    Level:31 (150000/250000250000)
    Entries:3/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Victor Li raised the small blind to 800k, and Kwong Au called from the big. They both checked the 734 flop, but Li fired 700k on the 10 turn.

    Au called to the A river, then called again when Li fired 1.2 million. Li showed 105 and Au mucked his hand.

    There is a break in about 7 minutes and I’ll get exact counts then, but Li has a big lead right now.

  • Sheraz Nasir Out in 4th Place for $104,305

    Level:31 (150000/250000/250000)
    Entries:3/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Sheraz Nasir

    Sheraz Nasir got the first payout over $100k after he shoved his button with ace-four, and big blind Travis MacMillan called from the small blind with ace-ten. The 9JK10J nearly chopped with a straight on board, but in the end, MacMillan’s kicker played, and Nasir was out in 4th place.

  • Kyle Chang Out in 5th Place for $75,546

    Level:31 (150000/250000/250000)
    Entries:4/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Kyle Chang

    They are down to 4 left in the Main Event after Kyle Chang’s ace-ten couldn’t crack the queens of Kwong Au. The money was in preflop, and the jack-high board didn’t change anything.

    All remaining players are now guaranteed 6-figure payouts.

  • Li Leading

    Level:31 (150000/250000/250000)
    Entries:5/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Victor Li raised the middle to 500k, and Sheraz Nasir called the big blind. Both players checked the [invalid notations] turn.

    They both checked the K river, and both players were on big draws. Li hit a seven on the flop with [invalid notations] for the diamond straight flush draw from the flop. Li’s seven was good, however, and he increased his lead. I’ll get another round of counts at the next break.

  • Jun Yu Huang Out in 6th Place for $55,618

    Level:30 (100000/200000/200000)
    Entries:5/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Jun Huang

    In a hand that usually chops, Victor Li raised to 500k, then called off when Jun Huang shoved for a bit more. Huang had A3 against A4, but Li found his four on the flop, then turned the spade flush, on the 49Q1010 runout for the win.

  • Nasir Doubles with Freeroll

    Level:30 (100000/200000/200000)
    Entries:6/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Sheraz Nasir was all in with ace-queen of clubs against the off-suit ace-queen, but managed to find running clubs on a board of 883K4 and got the double from a spot that is usually a chop.

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  • Nicholas Lee Out in 7th Place for $41,633

    Level:30 (100000/200000/200000)
    Entries:6/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Nicholas Lee

    Nicholas Lee and Kwong Au were all in, with Lee in trouble on king-queen against ace-queen for Au. Lee flopped his king, but Au flopped his ace as well, and took it down.

  • Boat Over Boat Leaves Nasir Short

    Level:30 (100000/200000/200000)
    Entries:7/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Sheraz Nasir raised to 400k from the button, and Victor Li called from the small blind. Li check-called for 300k on the 9AA flop, and agains for 200k on the 7 turn.

    When the river came 6 Li checked again, then raised Nasir’s 800k bet to 3.2 million. Nasir hit the tank for several minutes, apologizing to the table, saying he had a “big decision”.

    When he called, it was easy to see why. He had pocket sixes for the riverboat, but Li was on pocket sevens for the bigger boat on the turn.

  • Chang Holds for a Double

    Level:30 (100000/200000/200000)
    Entries:7/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Kyle Chang raised to 1.875 million under the gun, leaving 25k behind. Sheraz Nasir called from his left, and they saw a flop of KJ5. Change check-called all in for his last 25k.

    Chang had pocket eights, with Nasir on ace-queen overs with a Broadway draw. 46 on the runout left Chang good with his pair, and he doubled to around 4 million.

  • MacMillan Leads at Break

    Level:30 (100000/200000/200000)
    Entries:7/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Travis MacMillan is the leader right now with 8 million, but there isn’t much daylight between him and Victor Li with 7.55 million. See below for the stacks as counted on the break.

    SeatPlayerChips
    01Nicholas Lee2,250,000
    03Kyle Chang3,200,000
    04Jun-Yu Huang1,900,000
    06Sheraz Nasir6,650,000
    07Travis Macmillan8,000,000
    08Victor Li7,550,000
    09Kwong Au6,625,000
  • Lee Doubles

    Level:29 (75000/150000/150000)
    Entries:7/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Travis MacMillan raised to 300k before Victor Li reraised to 650k. It folded to Nicholas Lee on the button, and he shoved for less than Li’s reraise. MacMillan got out of the way, and it was kings for Lee versus A8 for Li. Li found an eight on the flop, but nothing else, so The Doctor’s kings held for a double. He was down to 630k, but is now up to around 1.5 million.

    Exact counts coming in 6 minutes on the next break.

  • MacMillan Chips Up

    Level:29 (75000/150000/150000)
    Entries:7/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Travis MacMillan looks like the leader right now. I’ll grab exact counts at the break in about 15 minutes, but he just chipped up again through start-of-day leader Kwong Au.

    Au raised the middle to 310k, and MacMillan called from the big blind. They both checked the 1047 flop, and MacMillan check-called for 310k on the K turn.

    It was back to checks on the 2 river, and MacMillan showed K6 for the turned pair. Au mucked his hand, saying, “My pair no good.”

  • Gabriel Vezina Out in 8th Place for $31,696

    Level:29 (75000/150000/150000)
    Entries:7/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Gabriel Vezina

    Victor Li made a bit of an unbelievable call on the flop to send Gabriel Vezina home in 8th place. It was blind on blind, and Li raised to 425k from the small, with Vezina calling from the big.

    It all kicked off on the 279 flop. Li fired 275k, then tank-called when Vezina shoved for 2.74 million. That was most of the rest of Li’s stack after he recently doubled up Travis MacMillan, but after some thought, he called it off.

    Li was behind with ace-queen against eight-seven, with Vezina on the pair of sevens with backdoor straight draws. Li took the lead on the Q turn, and the [invalid notations] didn’t help Vezina.

  • Calvin Chow Out in 9th Place for $24,549

    Level:29 (75000/150000/150000)
    Entries:9/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Calvin Chow

    I missed the action, but Calvin Chow was the 9th-place finisher today from the Main Event. He earned $24,549 for his efforts.

  • MacMillan Doubles

    Level:29 (75000/150000/150000)
    Entries:9/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    Travis MacMillan was just at risk, all in for 3.37 million. His pocket jacks were in great shape, but Victor Li hit his seven kicker, then the board turned to a four-card straight that might have chopped it. The river was safe for the jacks, putting a pair of sixes out, and MacMillan got the double.

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  • Tommy Nguyen Out in 10th Place for $19,349

    Level:28 (60000/120000/120000)
    Entries:9/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)
    Tommy Nguyen

    It was a bit of a setup for short-stack Tommy Nguyen today. With Nguyen under the gun, he put in a big raise to 900k, betting about half his stack. It folded to Sheraz Nasir in the middle, and he shoved a covering stack.

    It folded around to Nicholas Lee in the big blind, and he looked like he had something he might have wanted to play under different circumstances, but then quickly mucked. Nguyen just as quickly put the rest of his chips in, only to run his sevens into the pocket aces of Nasir for an early cooler.

    Nasir flopped a third ace for the set, leaving Nguyen drawing thin to quads, and he was dead on the turn.

  • The Final Day of the Main is Underway

    Level:28 (60000/120000/120000)
    Entries:10/910
    Prizes:$1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay)

    The final 10 players in the Main Event are back in action for the final day of play. Everyone returning is guaranteed $19,349, but everyone will be looking up top to the four 6-digit prizes, and the nearly $313k up top for the winner.

  • Victor Li Leads Final 10 into Day 3 of the Main Event

    WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard
    Date:Day 3: Oct 13, Noon
    Blinds:60 Minutes
    Entries:10/910
    Prizes:$1,865,500 (1st Place: $312,965)

    Day 3 of the Main Event is set with 10 players returning. The action kicks off at noon in Sundance, and Victor Li is out in front with more than 9 million.

    His closest competition is Kwong Au with 6.645 million, and after that, it’s Sheraz Nasir with 4.2 million and Travis MacMillan with 4.11 million.

    SeatPlayerChips
    01Nicholas Lee2,155,000 (18 BB)
    02Tommy Nguyen1,645,000 (14 BB)
    03Kyle Chang1,620,000 (14 BB)
    04Jun-Yu Huang1,895,000 (16 BB)
    05Calvin Chow1,800,000 (15 BB)
    06Sheraz Nasir4,200,000 (35 BB)
    07Travis Macmillan4,110,000 (34 BB)
    08Victor Li9,040,000 (75 BB)
    09Gabriel Vezina3,160,000 (26 BB)
    10Kwong Au6,645,000 (55 BB)

    Blinds stay at 60 minutes for the rest of the game, and they’ll award the Main Event ring before play ends on this one. Blinds start on Day 3 at 60k/120k/120k, putting the average stack to start the final day at just over 30 bigs.

    2025 WSOP Circuit Calgary October Structure Sheet
2025 WSOP Circuit Calgary October Structure Sheet
PlacePlayerPrize
1 Travis Macmillan$312,965
2 Vincent Li$208,615
3 Kwong Au$146,349
4 Sheraz Nasir$104,305
5 Kyle Chang$75,546
6 Jun-Yu Huang$55,618
7 Nicholas Lee$41,633
8 Gabriel Vezina$31,696
9 Calvin Chow$24,549
10 Tommy Nguyen$19,349
11 James Cruickshank$19,349
12 Rauno Tahvonen$15,524
13 Jason Chan$15,524
14 Andrew Macdonald$12,683
15 Ruoxiao Shi$12,683
16 Mingchen Zhang$12,683
17 Jeremy Herauf$12,683
18 Trent Hopper$10,556
19 Hamish Tong$10,556
20 Mehmet Siginc$10,556
21 Kevin Javier$10,556
22 Arya Ghai$10,556
23 Richard Rex$10,556
24 Zhi(George) Yang$10,556
25 Nicholas Teeuwen$10,556
26 Luteng Li$10,556
27 Pavlo Vertiiko$8,952
28 Ran Yi$8,952
29 Yan Lin$8,952
30 Matthew Ouellette$8,952
31 Jorge Pacheco$8,952
32 Toan Tran$8,952
33 Chris Hak$8,952
34 Chad Winnick$8,952
35 Johnny Dalphond$8,952
36 Jen Peters$7,738
37 Dylan Payne$7,738
38 Harman Jassal$7,738
39 Jackson Oniske$7,738
40 Ngoc Nguyen$7,738
41 Alex Difelice$7,738
42 David Burnard$7,738
43 Duane Van-Leulen$7,738
44 Kevin Rivest$7,738
45 Vikram Gill$6,821
46 Bradley Ellis$6,821
47 Hari Aujla$6,821
48 Tony Ma$6,821
49 Xiu-Mei Song$6,821
50 Wenhan Lu$6,821
51 Rishi Makkar$6,821
52 Matt Kwong$6,821
53 Jodie Dunfield$6,821
54 Julien Perouse$6,134
55 Dabid Katzov$6,134
56 Colin Jung$6,134
57 Jay Glass$6,134
58 Pietro Giudice$6,134
59 Amarjot Brar$6,134
60 Ramaz Haymour$6,134
61 Alemu Makonen$6,134
62 Ali Razzaq$6,134
63 Vincent Lam$5,630
64 Chengdong Zhao$5,630
65 Michael Li$5,630
66 Clint Cockburn$5,630
67 Umang Dattani$5,630
68 Zackery Farthing$5,630
69 Ryan Smith$5,630
70 Joseph Roberts$5,630
71 Yeping Shan$5,630
72 Daniel Lefebvre$5,275
73 Shawn Buchanan$5,275
74 Drew Ducsham$5,275
75 Jack Dick$5,275
76 Ashkan Razavi$5,275
77 Wayne Goulet$5,275
78 Chun-Kit Kwan$5,275
79 Xiaoyi Wang$5,275
80 Qi Luo$5,275
81 Richard Wolfe$5,024
82 Jared Kempf$5,024
83 Derek Arnold$5,024
84 Gaetano Buda$5,024
85 David Quang$5,024
86 Yue Yang$5,024
87 Glenn Slater$5,024
88 Tung Kwok$5,024
89 Michael Farrow$5,024
90 Jimmy Lee$5,024
91 Sunny Lubana$5,024
92 Zeyu Huang$5,024
93 Hasanain Al-Ghunaim$5,024
94 Shreesh Hebbar$5,024
95 Jeff Eldred$5,024
96 Shane Brotherwood$5,024
97 Dallas Larson$5,024
98 Austin Hamer$5,024
99 Neal Lamb$5,024
100 Scott Stuve$5,024
101 Ning Ma$5,024
102 Matthew Obrien$5,024
103 Adrian Chan$5,024
104 Gordon Wong$5,024
105 Cody Mckay$5,024
106 Kevin Huang$5,024
107 Eun Park$5,024
108 Linyang Song$5,024
109 Senthuran Vijayaratnam$5,024
110 Kelvin Fu$5,024
111 Yi Cheng$5,024
112 John Holopainen$5,024
113 Roman Gallivan$5,024
114 Tyson Glass$5,024
115 Allen Shen$5,024
116 Matthew Osorio$5,024
117 Kevin Kelso$5,024

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