2025 WSOPC Calgary Oct – Event #18: $400 Big 30 Stack NLH

Corey Arsenault said he only entered two tournaments in this series, and he’s leaving WSOP-C Calgary with two Circuit rings. He won the Monster Stack on Thursday, taking down Anthony Casten in one of the wildest heads up matches I’ve ever seen.

Tonight, he got his second ring in five days after winning the turbo edition of the Big 30 Stack on the final day of action. Arsenault’s rise started when he nearly felted Ottawa’s Michael Khan. Khan’s been at more than his share of Calgary final tables, and he picked up fourth tonight, in no small part because of the winner.

In a crucial hand for both players, Khan shoved with ace-jack and Arsenault called with a suited king-four. Arsenault was at risk, with Khan covering him, but he found a king on the flop to double up. That left Khan too short make a comeback, and he was out a couple of hands later.

They played three handed for a bit until Dmytro Nikiforov ran into a brutal cooler. Arsenault shoved over his opening raise, and he tank-called it off with jacks. Arsenault had the goods, though, turning over cowboys and holding to take a big lead into heads up.

He was up about 6:1 over runner up Rodney Dyck, who had been a big leader early at the final table. Dyck found a couple of double ups to stay alive, but his high point wasn’t much more than 2.5 million of the 8 million in play.

In the final hand, Dyck was down to 1.3 million with the big blind at 150k, and shoved with king-four. Arsenault took quite a while to think about it, but finally decided to call with ten-eight of hearts. Dyck flopped the king on ace-nine-king, but the nine gave Arsenault backdoor flush and straight outs. The turn and river six-seven ran straight in through the backdoor for Arsenault’s second ring.

Rodney Dyck shoved the button, and Corey Arsenault tank-called. Arsenault had a pair, but he was always going to be racing against overs, with deuces. Dyck had ace-nine, and flopped an ace, and rivered trips. He is now up to about 2.3 million, but he still needs another double to take the lead, as Arsenault has about 5.7 million.

Corey Arsenault is looking for his second ring, heads up with the big lead now. He won a ring a few nights ago in the Monster Stack for $61k, and he’s got a solid chance of getting #2 tonight with a 6:1 lead over Rodney Dyck.

Dmytro Nikiforov raised to 285k, then tank-called when Corey Arsenault shoved a covering stack. Nikiforov was on pocket jacks, but he ran into pocket kings for Arsenault. The kings held to get Arsenault heads-up against Rodney Dyck. Arsenault had aces the hand before, but didn’t get a lot of value from them against Dyck.

Michael Khan was left short after doubling up Corey Arsenault recently, and when he woke up with ace-four, he got the rest in, but couldn’t beat ace-jack for Rodney Dyck.

Corey Arsenault opened the pot, then tank-called when Michael Khan shoved a covering stack. Khan had ace-jack against a suited king-four, but Arsenault hit his king on the flop and held for the double.

Darcy Beaucage had less than 4 big blinds when he shoved 365k from the cutoff. Rodney Dyck called, and Beaucage said “I have a suited six, but I don’t know what the other card is.” He had 6♠3♠ but was in rough against pocket eights. He flopped about as well as could be hoped for, but by the time the 4♦5♠5♣Q♠A♦ was down, his flopped open-ended was still open-ended.

Kyle Cook was just coolered to the rail. He raised early, then snap-called when Rodney Dyck shoved a covering stack. Cook had kings, but ran into aces for Dyck, and the runout didn’t change anything.

Taeyoon Kang hit the rail in 7th place tonight when his pocket eights couldn’t crack the jacks of Michael Khan.

Mike Malm followed Chris Alcindor out the door tonight for 8th place worth $1,967.

KKPoker rep Chris Alcindor was the most recent exit from the final table. I missed the action while working on the final table photos, and Alcindor busted in the previous level. The average stack right now is about 16 big blinds.

Justin Hines was the first person off the final table tonight, but I missed the action while I was working on the final table faces.

Below is a look at how the final table players are seated and stacked. I’m still processing the pictures, and they’ll be posted in a few minutes.

They are setting the final table now with 10 players left. Stay tuned for final table faces, and see below for the recent cashes (full prizes for tonight are under the Payouts tab.

Place	Player	Prize
11	Amarjot Brar	$1,259
12	Shariq Khan	$1,046
13	Hamish Tong	$1,046

They are down to 13 left in the final event of this series, with about 13 minutes to play in Level 23. There is a break following this level, and I’ll update the chip counts then.

Place	Player	Prize
14	Christopher Hewitt	$892
15	James Chalcroft	$892
16	Shane Brotherwood	$892
17	Allan Alejandro	$892
18	Youssef Hmama	$781

Dmytro Nikiforov is the leader going into the final two tables with 800k <ike Malm is right behind with 780k. See below for all the stacks and how they are seated.

They are down to 18 left in the final event of the series, with the final two tables now being set. Full prizes are under the Payouts tab, including cashers to 19th place, as well as the future prizes.

Place	Player	Prize
19	Stephen Lee	$781
20	Richard Berenbaum	$781
21	Christopher Floyd	$781
22	Matthew Hall	$781
23	Attila Draskoczy	$781
24	Dale Dominic Foyle	$781
25	Andrew Carnero	$781
26	Hassan Issa	$781
27	Stephen Oates	$744
28	Kyle Dery	$744
29	Tyler Panas	$744
30	Nader Aram Panahi	$744
31	Liana Galaszkiewicz	$744
32	Sean Carlyle	$744
33	Adam Wayne Reicker	$744
34	Zeyang Zhao	$744
35	Zeyu Huang	$744
36	Keith Andrew Gould	$744
37	Peter O Leary	$744
38	Robert Stuve	$744
39	Alemu Makonen	$744
40	Laszlo Somogyi	$744
41	Jonathan Lauagan	$744

They are in the money of the final event of WSOP-C Calgary October 2025, with 23 players left in the action. I’ll get the prizes updated shortly. I’ll get the prizes and chip counts posted shortly, but there is at least one person still in the field looking for their second ring of this series. Matt Hall is still alive here tonight, and he already has a ring from the PLO Bounty game on Friday night.

The final even is playing out in Chrome, and while I don’t have eyes on the action, I can see the numbers. There is just shy of 2.5 hours left in entry, and the field is at 176 for prizes of more than $58k. I’ll finish my night on this one if it’s still running, but the Main Event and the High Roller are higher priorities for me today.

Event #18: $400 Big 30 Stack NLH

The final game of the series gets going Monday, Oct 13, at 4 PM. The Big 30 Stack tends to open and close the WSOP-C Calgary series, and this time, the final Big 30 is a $400 game.

Players get 30k to start, with blinds 20 minutes long. There are 11 levels to enter the game, putting the last chance to enter a ring event in this series at around 8:10 Monday evening. This is a one-day game that will finish before the day is out.

In January, this game got 400 entries for prizes of $132,000. Steven Labelle overcame those 400 entries, including his heads-up opponent Mike Malm, to take down his first ring and the last ring of the January series.

I’m not sure how much of this game I’ll get to watch on Monday. My main focus will be the Main Event Day 3, with the High Roller Day 2 as my second priority. Once those are complete, if this is still running, I’ll finish the series out watching the endgame here, but don’t expect much action early in the game.

Corey Arsenault said he only entered two tournaments in this series, and he’s leaving WSOP-C Calgary with two Circuit rings. He won the Monster Stack on Thursday, taking down Anthony Casten in one of the wildest heads up matches I’ve ever seen.

Tonight, he got his second ring in five days after winning the turbo edition of the Big 30 Stack on the final day of action. Arsenault’s rise started when he nearly felted Ottawa’s Michael Khan. Khan’s been at more than his share of Calgary final tables, and he picked up fourth tonight, in no small part because of the winner.

In a crucial hand for both players, Khan shoved with ace-jack and Arsenault called with a suited king-four. Arsenault was at risk, with Khan covering him, but he found a king on the flop to double up. That left Khan too short make a comeback, and he was out a couple of hands later.

They played three handed for a bit until Dmytro Nikiforov ran into a brutal cooler. Arsenault shoved over his opening raise, and he tank-called it off with jacks. Arsenault had the goods, though, turning over cowboys and holding to take a big lead into heads up.

He was up about 6:1 over runner up Rodney Dyck, who had been a big leader early at the final table. Dyck found a couple of double ups to stay alive, but his high point wasn’t much more than 2.5 million of the 8 million in play.

In the final hand, Dyck was down to 1.3 million with the big blind at 150k, and shoved with king-four. Arsenault took quite a while to think about it, but finally decided to call with ten-eight of hearts. Dyck flopped the king on ace-nine-king, but the nine gave Arsenault backdoor flush and straight outs. The turn and river six-seven ran straight in through the backdoor for Arsenault’s second ring.

Rodney Dyck shoved the button, and Corey Arsenault tank-called. Arsenault had a pair, but he was always going to be racing against overs, with deuces. Dyck had ace-nine, and flopped an ace, and rivered trips. He is now up to about 2.3 million, but he still needs another double to take the lead, as Arsenault has about 5.7 million.

Corey Arsenault is looking for his second ring, heads up with the big lead now. He won a ring a few nights ago in the Monster Stack for $61k, and he’s got a solid chance of getting #2 tonight with a 6:1 lead over Rodney Dyck.

Dmytro Nikiforov raised to 285k, then tank-called when Corey Arsenault shoved a covering stack. Nikiforov was on pocket jacks, but he ran into pocket kings for Arsenault. The kings held to get Arsenault heads-up against Rodney Dyck. Arsenault had aces the hand before, but didn’t get a lot of value from them against Dyck.

Michael Khan was left short after doubling up Corey Arsenault recently, and when he woke up with ace-four, he got the rest in, but couldn’t beat ace-jack for Rodney Dyck.

Corey Arsenault opened the pot, then tank-called when Michael Khan shoved a covering stack. Khan had ace-jack against a suited king-four, but Arsenault hit his king on the flop and held for the double.

Darcy Beaucage had less than 4 big blinds when he shoved 365k from the cutoff. Rodney Dyck called, and Beaucage said “I have a suited six, but I don’t know what the other card is.” He had 6♠3♠ but was in rough against pocket eights. He flopped about as well as could be hoped for, but by the time the 4♦5♠5♣Q♠A♦ was down, his flopped open-ended was still open-ended.

Kyle Cook was just coolered to the rail. He raised early, then snap-called when Rodney Dyck shoved a covering stack. Cook had kings, but ran into aces for Dyck, and the runout didn’t change anything.

Taeyoon Kang hit the rail in 7th place tonight when his pocket eights couldn’t crack the jacks of Michael Khan.

Mike Malm followed Chris Alcindor out the door tonight for 8th place worth $1,967.

KKPoker rep Chris Alcindor was the most recent exit from the final table. I missed the action while working on the final table photos, and Alcindor busted in the previous level. The average stack right now is about 16 big blinds.

Justin Hines was the first person off the final table tonight, but I missed the action while I was working on the final table faces.

Below is a look at how the final table players are seated and stacked. I’m still processing the pictures, and they’ll be posted in a few minutes.

They are setting the final table now with 10 players left. Stay tuned for final table faces, and see below for the recent cashes (full prizes for tonight are under the Payouts tab.

Place	Player	Prize
11	Amarjot Brar	$1,259
12	Shariq Khan	$1,046
13	Hamish Tong	$1,046

They are down to 13 left in the final event of this series, with about 13 minutes to play in Level 23. There is a break following this level, and I’ll update the chip counts then.

Place	Player	Prize
14	Christopher Hewitt	$892
15	James Chalcroft	$892
16	Shane Brotherwood	$892
17	Allan Alejandro	$892
18	Youssef Hmama	$781

Dmytro Nikiforov is the leader going into the final two tables with 800k <ike Malm is right behind with 780k. See below for all the stacks and how they are seated.

They are down to 18 left in the final event of the series, with the final two tables now being set. Full prizes are under the Payouts tab, including cashers to 19th place, as well as the future prizes.

Place	Player	Prize
19	Stephen Lee	$781
20	Richard Berenbaum	$781
21	Christopher Floyd	$781
22	Matthew Hall	$781
23	Attila Draskoczy	$781
24	Dale Dominic Foyle	$781
25	Andrew Carnero	$781
26	Hassan Issa	$781
27	Stephen Oates	$744
28	Kyle Dery	$744
29	Tyler Panas	$744
30	Nader Aram Panahi	$744
31	Liana Galaszkiewicz	$744
32	Sean Carlyle	$744
33	Adam Wayne Reicker	$744
34	Zeyang Zhao	$744
35	Zeyu Huang	$744
36	Keith Andrew Gould	$744
37	Peter O Leary	$744
38	Robert Stuve	$744
39	Alemu Makonen	$744
40	Laszlo Somogyi	$744
41	Jonathan Lauagan	$744

They are in the money of the final event of WSOP-C Calgary October 2025, with 23 players left in the action. I’ll get the prizes updated shortly. I’ll get the prizes and chip counts posted shortly, but there is at least one person still in the field looking for their second ring of this series. Matt Hall is still alive here tonight, and he already has a ring from the PLO Bounty game on Friday night.

The final even is playing out in Chrome, and while I don’t have eyes on the action, I can see the numbers. There is just shy of 2.5 hours left in entry, and the field is at 176 for prizes of more than $58k. I’ll finish my night on this one if it’s still running, but the Main Event and the High Roller are higher priorities for me today.

Event #18: $400 Big 30 Stack NLH

The final game of the series gets going Monday, Oct 13, at 4 PM. The Big 30 Stack tends to open and close the WSOP-C Calgary series, and this time, the final Big 30 is a $400 game.

Players get 30k to start, with blinds 20 minutes long. There are 11 levels to enter the game, putting the last chance to enter a ring event in this series at around 8:10 Monday evening. This is a one-day game that will finish before the day is out.

In January, this game got 400 entries for prizes of $132,000. Steven Labelle overcame those 400 entries, including his heads-up opponent Mike Malm, to take down his first ring and the last ring of the January series.

I’m not sure how much of this game I’ll get to watch on Monday. My main focus will be the Main Event Day 3, with the High Roller Day 2 as my second priority. Once those are complete, if this is still running, I’ll finish the series out watching the endgame here, but don’t expect much action early in the game.