2025 WSOPC Calgary Oct – Event #2: $600 NLH/PLO

After nearly 16 hours at the tables, Praba Siva has gone back-to-back with his second ring. Not only is it his second ring, but he won his first ring in this very event in January of this year.

In general, this isn’t an easy tournament to win, as it requires mastery of both two-card and four-card poker, but today’s game may have been even more difficult. When they got down to the final table, it included players like Dylan Payne, Colten Yamagishi, 3rd place Scott Stuve, Ning Wang, Deven Lane, Kurtis Ruhl, Clint Clarkson, Debi Loomer, and the runner-up Andy Truong — it was pretty hard to point to an “easy spot” in the group.

The early game played pretty quickly tonight, but once they got to the final table it ground to a halt. Debi Loomer left the ten-handed FT relatively quickly in 10th, but they played 9-handed for about 90 minutes before Colten Yamagishi opened the floodgates. They went from 9 to 4 in less than a level, then battled four-handed for a bit, but the blinds were getting big and the stacks short.

Siva was running pure, holding a stack near the top of the list for pretty much the whole game. He was almost down and out after Deven Lane took a big double off of him, but he got it right back a few hands later. He put Lane back on fumes in a spot where they both flopped trip sevens, and it looked like a chop pot until Siva turned the boat.

Siva then sent Scott Stuve out in 3rd place to set up a quick heads-up. Both he and Truong were happy to get their chips in, and Siva won it when he cracked Truong’s aces with the spade flush to end the game.

Top Ten from Event #2

Place	Player	Prize
1	Praba Siva	$22,404
2	Andy Truong	$14,883
3	Scott Stuve	$10,156
4	Deven Lane	$7,122
5	Dylan Payne	$5,136
6	Clint Clarkson	$3,812
7	Ning”King” Wang	$2,914
8	Kurtis Ruhl	$2,297
9	Colten Yamagishi	$1,869
10	Debi Loomer	$1,570

Praba Siva raised the button to 175k and Scott Stuve called from the small blind before big blind Deven Lane potted to 700k. Siva repotted to force Lane all in, and Stuve got out of the way.

Deven Lane: A♠A♥7♥4♠
Prbab Siva: A♦Q♥6♥2♦

Lane flopped a flush draw, and stayed ahead through the entire board of 3♠8♠J♣6♦10♥, and he doubled to around 2 million and the chip lead.

It’s been a bit of an ICM battle amongst the short stacks, with two players having most of the chips right now. Andy Truong just shoved his small blind with a bit more than Kurtis Ruhl in the big, and Ruhl called it off for his life.

Ruhl was on suited connectors with 10♦9♦, while Truong had K♦4♠. Ruhl flopped a diamond draw, but theh bricked while Truong hit the river on a board of Q♠4♦6♦8♥K♣.

Praba Siva won this ring in January of this year, and it looks like he might be on his way to winning it again. He has just shy of 2 million chips right now, with his closest competitor, Scott Stuve, at less than 1.2 million.

Clint Clarkson raised to 60k from the hijack before Andy Truong shoved for 145k from the button. Praba Siva thought about making a move from the big blind, but ultimately mucked before Clarkson called it off with more.

Clint Clarkson: K♠K♥7♥2♠
Andy Truong: A♣Q♣10♥3♥

Truong hit both the ace & queen on the flop and faded the king to double to more than 300k.

Clint Clarkson was at risk with the short stack against Colten Yamagishi, and Yamagishi had the rockets versus his king-ten. Clarkson flopped two pair with a king and a ten on the flop, however, and held to stay alive.

Dylan Payne opened to 55k from the middle, and Deven Lane shoved 195k from the small blind. Payne snapped it off, and it was a race between A♠K♠ for Lane and picket nines for Payne.

Lane flopped a flush draw, the Payne turned a set, before Lane rivered it on a board of 4♥10♠8♠9♣Q♠.

Debi Loomer got her short stack in with pocket jacks, kicked by an ace, and she was in good shape against Ning Wang with the other two jacks kicked by a king. Wang was running hot, however, and after the board was complete, he had trip kings for the win, and Loomer was out in 10th place. See below for the cashes since my last list, and see the Payouts tab for the full list of tonight’s prizes.

Place	Player	Prize
10	Debi Loomer	$1,570
11	Mike Smith	$1,570
12	Darrell Moore	$1,365
13	Jordan Banfield	$1,365
14	Michael Baldwin	$1,228
15	Viet Do	$1,228
16	Yong Lu	$1,228
17	Ramaz Haymour	$1,228
18	Julius Roque	$1,170
19	Skyler York	$1,170
20	Braydon Brown	$1,170
21	Aaron Froese	$1,170
22	Darryl Broderick	$1,170
23	Kenny Tran	$1,170

They are down to the final table of 10 players now in the Half & Half game. Scott Stuve is leading the final 10 at the moment. I’ve just gotten to the Chrome room after finishing up Event #1, and I’ll grab final table pictures shortly.

They are down to 23 players left in the NLH/PLO mix, though I’m still not in the room watching them. Event #1 is just setting the final table, so I’m unsure how much of this one I’ll be able to watch tonight, as it’s running much quicker than I expected so far.

Place	Player	Prize
24	Ryan Smith	$1,170
25	Jerry Li	$1,170
26	Luteng Li	$1,170
27	Nicholas Lee	$1,170
28	Teo Sanchez	$1,170

They are down to the bubble in the Half & Half game now with 29 players left. I’m still not watching the action there as Event #1 is still playing with two tables left, but I should be able to update the payouts as they happen.

The field for the side game is complete with 183 entries on the board. That puts the final prizes just shy of $95k, with the winner set to get more than $22k and 28 players sharing in the pool. Full prizes will be loaded under the Payouts tab shortly, but the top 10 prizes are below.

Level 10 has just finished, and there are just under 15 minutes left in entry for Event #2. There are 45 players remaining from 178 entries so far, with prizes at more than $90k.

I’m still not watching this one very closely, but I’ll move over for the endgame here once Event #1 finishes in the Sundance room.

There is about 1 hour and 45 minutes remaining in entries for the side game tonight, and the field is over 150 entries for prizes of more than $80k.

Deven Lane looks to be the current leader with 157k, but defending champion Praba Siva is close behind with 146k, and Julius Roque is 3rd with 82k.

The side game is up to 120 entries with the action in Level 5. Defending champion Praba Siva is leading over there by almost 50 big blinds right now.

The prizes on the side are almost at $55k before the end of Level 2. There are about 5 minutes to play in the level, and the field is at 105 entries for prizes of $54,075. I’m not watching this one very closely until the end of the night, but I’ll try to keep the numbers up to date at least.

Event #2: $600 NLH/PLO ($515 + $85)

The second half of opening day for WSOP-C Cal Oct 2025 is all about the half-half. The game starts with NLH in Level 1, and moves to PLO for Level 2, with that same pattern repeating all night.

Players start with 25k in chips for their $600, and levels will change every 30 minutes. The late-entry desk is open until about 9 PM, at the start of Level 11. There are breaks after Levels 4, 8, 10, 14, 18, 22, & 26.

I likely won’t be following this one very closely in the early part of the day, as I’ll be on the Bog 30 Stack. I expect this one to go late, however, so I’m sure I’ll catch some action at the end.

In January, Prab Siva was the winner in a game that saw 178 entries for $91,670 in prizes. Siva took down the nearly $22k top prize over Youssef Hmama from Vancouver.

After nearly 16 hours at the tables, Praba Siva has gone back-to-back with his second ring. Not only is it his second ring, but he won his first ring in this very event in January of this year.

In general, this isn’t an easy tournament to win, as it requires mastery of both two-card and four-card poker, but today’s game may have been even more difficult. When they got down to the final table, it included players like Dylan Payne, Colten Yamagishi, 3rd place Scott Stuve, Ning Wang, Deven Lane, Kurtis Ruhl, Clint Clarkson, Debi Loomer, and the runner-up Andy Truong — it was pretty hard to point to an “easy spot” in the group.

The early game played pretty quickly tonight, but once they got to the final table it ground to a halt. Debi Loomer left the ten-handed FT relatively quickly in 10th, but they played 9-handed for about 90 minutes before Colten Yamagishi opened the floodgates. They went from 9 to 4 in less than a level, then battled four-handed for a bit, but the blinds were getting big and the stacks short.

Siva was running pure, holding a stack near the top of the list for pretty much the whole game. He was almost down and out after Deven Lane took a big double off of him, but he got it right back a few hands later. He put Lane back on fumes in a spot where they both flopped trip sevens, and it looked like a chop pot until Siva turned the boat.

Siva then sent Scott Stuve out in 3rd place to set up a quick heads-up. Both he and Truong were happy to get their chips in, and Siva won it when he cracked Truong’s aces with the spade flush to end the game.

Top Ten from Event #2

Place	Player	Prize
1	Praba Siva	$22,404
2	Andy Truong	$14,883
3	Scott Stuve	$10,156
4	Deven Lane	$7,122
5	Dylan Payne	$5,136
6	Clint Clarkson	$3,812
7	Ning”King” Wang	$2,914
8	Kurtis Ruhl	$2,297
9	Colten Yamagishi	$1,869
10	Debi Loomer	$1,570

Praba Siva raised the button to 175k and Scott Stuve called from the small blind before big blind Deven Lane potted to 700k. Siva repotted to force Lane all in, and Stuve got out of the way.

Deven Lane: A♠A♥7♥4♠
Prbab Siva: A♦Q♥6♥2♦

Lane flopped a flush draw, and stayed ahead through the entire board of 3♠8♠J♣6♦10♥, and he doubled to around 2 million and the chip lead.

It’s been a bit of an ICM battle amongst the short stacks, with two players having most of the chips right now. Andy Truong just shoved his small blind with a bit more than Kurtis Ruhl in the big, and Ruhl called it off for his life.

Ruhl was on suited connectors with 10♦9♦, while Truong had K♦4♠. Ruhl flopped a diamond draw, but theh bricked while Truong hit the river on a board of Q♠4♦6♦8♥K♣.

Praba Siva won this ring in January of this year, and it looks like he might be on his way to winning it again. He has just shy of 2 million chips right now, with his closest competitor, Scott Stuve, at less than 1.2 million.

Clint Clarkson raised to 60k from the hijack before Andy Truong shoved for 145k from the button. Praba Siva thought about making a move from the big blind, but ultimately mucked before Clarkson called it off with more.

Clint Clarkson: K♠K♥7♥2♠
Andy Truong: A♣Q♣10♥3♥

Truong hit both the ace & queen on the flop and faded the king to double to more than 300k.

Clint Clarkson was at risk with the short stack against Colten Yamagishi, and Yamagishi had the rockets versus his king-ten. Clarkson flopped two pair with a king and a ten on the flop, however, and held to stay alive.

Dylan Payne opened to 55k from the middle, and Deven Lane shoved 195k from the small blind. Payne snapped it off, and it was a race between A♠K♠ for Lane and picket nines for Payne.

Lane flopped a flush draw, the Payne turned a set, before Lane rivered it on a board of 4♥10♠8♠9♣Q♠.

Debi Loomer got her short stack in with pocket jacks, kicked by an ace, and she was in good shape against Ning Wang with the other two jacks kicked by a king. Wang was running hot, however, and after the board was complete, he had trip kings for the win, and Loomer was out in 10th place. See below for the cashes since my last list, and see the Payouts tab for the full list of tonight’s prizes.

Place	Player	Prize
10	Debi Loomer	$1,570
11	Mike Smith	$1,570
12	Darrell Moore	$1,365
13	Jordan Banfield	$1,365
14	Michael Baldwin	$1,228
15	Viet Do	$1,228
16	Yong Lu	$1,228
17	Ramaz Haymour	$1,228
18	Julius Roque	$1,170
19	Skyler York	$1,170
20	Braydon Brown	$1,170
21	Aaron Froese	$1,170
22	Darryl Broderick	$1,170
23	Kenny Tran	$1,170

They are down to the final table of 10 players now in the Half & Half game. Scott Stuve is leading the final 10 at the moment. I’ve just gotten to the Chrome room after finishing up Event #1, and I’ll grab final table pictures shortly.

They are down to 23 players left in the NLH/PLO mix, though I’m still not in the room watching them. Event #1 is just setting the final table, so I’m unsure how much of this one I’ll be able to watch tonight, as it’s running much quicker than I expected so far.

Place	Player	Prize
24	Ryan Smith	$1,170
25	Jerry Li	$1,170
26	Luteng Li	$1,170
27	Nicholas Lee	$1,170
28	Teo Sanchez	$1,170

They are down to the bubble in the Half & Half game now with 29 players left. I’m still not watching the action there as Event #1 is still playing with two tables left, but I should be able to update the payouts as they happen.

The field for the side game is complete with 183 entries on the board. That puts the final prizes just shy of $95k, with the winner set to get more than $22k and 28 players sharing in the pool. Full prizes will be loaded under the Payouts tab shortly, but the top 10 prizes are below.

Level 10 has just finished, and there are just under 15 minutes left in entry for Event #2. There are 45 players remaining from 178 entries so far, with prizes at more than $90k.

I’m still not watching this one very closely, but I’ll move over for the endgame here once Event #1 finishes in the Sundance room.

There is about 1 hour and 45 minutes remaining in entries for the side game tonight, and the field is over 150 entries for prizes of more than $80k.

Deven Lane looks to be the current leader with 157k, but defending champion Praba Siva is close behind with 146k, and Julius Roque is 3rd with 82k.

The side game is up to 120 entries with the action in Level 5. Defending champion Praba Siva is leading over there by almost 50 big blinds right now.

The prizes on the side are almost at $55k before the end of Level 2. There are about 5 minutes to play in the level, and the field is at 105 entries for prizes of $54,075. I’m not watching this one very closely until the end of the night, but I’ll try to keep the numbers up to date at least.

Event #2: $600 NLH/PLO ($515 + $85)

The second half of opening day for WSOP-C Cal Oct 2025 is all about the half-half. The game starts with NLH in Level 1, and moves to PLO for Level 2, with that same pattern repeating all night.

Players start with 25k in chips for their $600, and levels will change every 30 minutes. The late-entry desk is open until about 9 PM, at the start of Level 11. There are breaks after Levels 4, 8, 10, 14, 18, 22, & 26.

I likely won’t be following this one very closely in the early part of the day, as I’ll be on the Bog 30 Stack. I expect this one to go late, however, so I’m sure I’ll catch some action at the end.

In January, Prab Siva was the winner in a game that saw 178 entries for $91,670 in prizes. Siva took down the nearly $22k top prize over Youssef Hmama from Vancouver.