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

They had to move to the poker room because of the late hour, but once they did, it finished pretty quickly. They played six-handed for an hour and a hald, with stacks dipping to as low as 12 bigs average at one point.

The dam finally burst with the elimination of Kevin Huang in 5th place, and that opened the floodgates a bit. Griffin Ristevski followed about 10 minutes later, and Guneet Singh was right behind him in 4th place.

That left the final three fairly even, and they battled for a bit before Craig Caldwell got it in for essentially a flip with his ace-five up against the king-seven for Quin Kannekens. Kannekens flopped his king, and Caldwell was out in 3rd.

Caldwell hit the rail just before 6 AM, so they had to pack up the chips and move the players to the Poker Room to finish the game. Once they got going again, it only took a few hands for the final confrontation. Cristian Moldovan was a short stack through much of the final table, and Kannekens had a big chip advantage to start heads up.

In the final hand, Kannekens had to get there with a three-outer. The money went in with Moldovan on ace-seven against king-seven for Kannekens. He hit his king on the flop again in a near carbon-copy of his hand against Caldwell.

Final Table Results

Place	Player	Prize
1	Quinn Kannekens	$26,234
2	Cristian Moldovan	$17,424
3	Craig Caldwell	$11,838
4	Guneet Singh	$8,221
5	Griffin Ristevski	$5,839
6	Kevin Huang	$4,243
7	Johnny Yu	$3,157
8	Bron Johnson	$2,406
9	Kurt Lillemo	$1,880
10	Tony Ma	$1,506

Craig Caldwell got it in with ace-five off, and was up against the king-seven off for Quinn Kannekens. Kannekens found a king on the flop and held for the win.

With the hour now past 6 AM, the game has moved to poker to finish heads up between Lannekens and Cristian Moldovan.

Cristian Moldovan just picked up a double up when he shoved his small blind for 1.15 million, and Quinn Kannekens called off in the big with more. Moldovan has ace-king against 9♥5♥ and Kannekens flopped huge draws, but ultimately bricked the 10♥A♣8♥8♠8♦ runout.

Guneet Singh was the short stack, and he was in with ace-six against pocket eights for Cristian Moldovan. Singh hit the ace on the flop, but Moldovan kept calling for an eight, and got it on the river to send Singh home in 4th.

Quinn Kannekens shoved the button, and Griffin Ristevski called from the big blind. It was a race between pocket sevens for Ristevski, and Q♣10♣ for Kannekens.

Ristevski flopped a straight draw, but it was Kannekens who ended up straightening out when the board ran out 8♣9♦5♥Q♦J♥.

Kevin Huang was short after doubling up Griffin Ristevski in the previous hand, and he shoved, but ran into pocket aces fro Craig Caldwell. He couldn’t find his cards and ended in 6th place tonight. He’s off to get some sleep for Day 2 of Event #4 tomorrow, where he’ll be in with his friend and rail Kezheng Peng.

Quinn Kannekens raised to 250k from the cutoff, then called when Griffin Ristevski shoved the big blind. Ristevski was covered, but it looked like a chop with ace-four for Kannekens and ace-deuce for Ristevski.

The stacks are getting pretty short as the blinds keep going up. Griffin Restevski shoved the cutoff, and Cristian Moldovan called off with less.

Moldovan had A♦10♥ against Q♦J♣ and Moldovan hit his ace on the flop of A♠5♣6♥4♣7♣. he had 425 to start the hand, and doubled to a bit more than a million, while Ristevski was left short.

Quinn Kannekens raised early to 225k, and then called when Craig Caldwell shoved 695k from the big blind.

“This is as good as it gets,” he said as his chips went in. Kannekens called, but his queen-jack was dominated by the king-queen for Caldwell. The board ran out K♣Q♦3♣6♦Q♥, and Caldwell got his boat on the river for the win.

Kevin Huang had taken over the lead recently, but he just lost a race to Quinn Kannekens. Huang raised under the gun to 200k before Kannekens reraised the small blind to 500k, then snap-called when Huang shove a covering stack.

Kannekens had A♠Q♥ against pocket eights for Huang, and Kannekens hit his queen on the turn of 5♠5♣9♦Q♦9♠. Kannekens had 1.55 million, and is now well over 3 million.

Gunnet Singh shoved under the gun for 470k, and Craig Caldwell reshoved with more from the button. The blinds got out of the way and Caldwell had the lead with ace-jack into ace-six.

The board ran out [TdAcQd7d3d[/pcn] and Singh’s ace of diamonds turned into the nut flush and a double to about a million.

Griffin Ristevski raised under the gun to 175k, and Quinn Kannenkens called from the button, as did Kevin Huang from the big blind. After a check from Huang on the 3♠10♣Q♠ flop, Ristevski fired 160k.

Kannekens mucked, but Huang flatted to the 4♠ turn. Huang led for 250k and Ristevski called, but when Huang shoved a covering stack on the 9♣ river, Ristevski folded after about 15 seconds of studying the board.

Quinn Kannekens is the leader with more than 2.5 million, but Craig Caldwell also has more than 2 million.

Johnny Yu got it in for a race, holding king-jack of spades against pocket tens for Quinn Kannekens. Kannekens found a set of tens on the flop to send Yu to the rail tonight for 7th place.

There’s a break coming in about 15 minutes, and I’ll grab exact counts for everyone then, but here’s a look at the approximate counts right now.

I am still trying to finish up the work I need to get done for Sunday’s action, but the Mystery Bounty field is down to 13 remaining. I am in the room, but still not watching the action very closely.

Prizes to 14th Place for Mystery Bounty

Place	Player	Prize
14	Colin Burton	$1,046
15	Rob Lothian	$1,046
16	Christopher Wilson	$1,046
17	Joshua Molnar	$1,046
18	Alexander Maione	$908
19	Garcia Gonzalez	$908
20	Jason Law	$908
21	Seamus Mcgearty	$908
22	Glenn Slater	$908
23	John Harris	$908
24	Christopher Watson	$908
25	Zeyu Huang	$908
26	Parth Patel	$908
27	Luteng Li	$810
28	Micah Quinn	$810
29	Jerod Dobson	$810
30	Chris Kenoras	$810
31	Matthew Hall	$810
32	Mehrad Khalajzadeh	$810
33	Trent Hopper	$810
34	Sinisa Kovacevic	$810
35	Allan Hobbins	$810
36	Jeff Breant	$745
37	Donald Kehler	$745
38	Paul Sampson	$745
39	David Genaille	$745
40	Raymond Ng	$745
41	Kevin Varnier	$745
42	Avery Aloneissi	$745
43	Matthew Osorio	$745
44	Zhi Jiang	$745
45	Shariq Khan	$709
46	Adrian Chan	$709
47	Arya Ghai	$709
48	Cameron Mcarthur	$709
49	Yafei Jian	$709
50	Dale Foyle	$709
51	Adrain Payne	$709
52	Kristopher Fang	$709
53	Wayne Hoffert	$709
54	Calvin Johnson	$709
55	Bryan Wutke	$709
56	Scott Loonskin	$709
57	David Swaim	$709
58	Tony Melowsky	$709
59	Aaron Walters	$709
60	Troy Kopp	$709

The prizes are in, and the field is confirmed at 395 entries for prizes of $203,425 ($124,425 Prizes, $79,000 Bounties). That means 60 players will get a piece of $124,425 in prizes, with $79,000 in bounties. See below for the top ten prizes tonight, with the full prize list loaded under the Payouts tab shortly.

Entries are now closed for the Mystery Bounty game, and the final field ended up at 395. That is still a tentative number, but if it holds, it should mean 60 places paid tonight.

The final prize pool came in at $203,425, with $79k of that in the bounty pool. Bounties kick in when they hit the money with 60 left, and one of the two big bounties will remain out of play until the field hits 18 players later tonight.

There are about 20 minutes until entries close for the Mystery Bounty, with the field at 380 entries. That puts the combined prizes at $195,700, with $76k of that in the bounty pool

There is still an hour left to enter the Mystery Bounty game, playing out in the Chrome room. With the action in Level 9, the field is just shy of 350 entries, for prizes of $179,735 ($109,935 Prizes, $69,800 Bounties).

The Mystery Bounty is underway in the Chrome Room today, and with action in Level 2, the prizes are already over $90k with 176 entries on the board. That means there’s more than $55k in the prize pool, with $35,200 in the bounty pool.

Entries are still open for almost 4 hours, so expect this field to likely double before the desk closes. Also expect this to be a pretty late game — I likely won’t be watching it very closely until after the Mini Main bags up at around 11:30 tonight, at the latest, but I should finish my night out on this one.

Event #5: $600 Mystery Bounty NLH ($315 + $200 + $85)

The side game on Saturday evening is the Mystery Bounty, with $200 of the $600 buy-in going to the mystery bounty pool. Bounties start with players in the money, and one big bounty will stay out of the bin until the field hits 18 players.

The action kicks off at 4 PM with just shy of 5 hours of late entry. The entry desk will shut down at the start of Level 11, which should be at about 8:50 PM. After that, they’ll play to a winner.

In January, it was Adrian Selero who won this one. He took it down over a field of 459 entries for a prize pool of $236,385 ($144,585 prizes, $91,800 bounties).

I expect the final flight to the Mini Main Event to be a big one, and as a result, the opening numbers for this game might look low; however, I expect the pace of entries to pick up significantly in this one once the reg-desk for E3 closes for good at about 6:15 PM. This game will be my secondary focus until Day 1d of the Mini Main bags.

They had to move to the poker room because of the late hour, but once they did, it finished pretty quickly. They played six-handed for an hour and a hald, with stacks dipping to as low as 12 bigs average at one point.

The dam finally burst with the elimination of Kevin Huang in 5th place, and that opened the floodgates a bit. Griffin Ristevski followed about 10 minutes later, and Guneet Singh was right behind him in 4th place.

That left the final three fairly even, and they battled for a bit before Craig Caldwell got it in for essentially a flip with his ace-five up against the king-seven for Quin Kannekens. Kannekens flopped his king, and Caldwell was out in 3rd.

Caldwell hit the rail just before 6 AM, so they had to pack up the chips and move the players to the Poker Room to finish the game. Once they got going again, it only took a few hands for the final confrontation. Cristian Moldovan was a short stack through much of the final table, and Kannekens had a big chip advantage to start heads up.

In the final hand, Kannekens had to get there with a three-outer. The money went in with Moldovan on ace-seven against king-seven for Kannekens. He hit his king on the flop again in a near carbon-copy of his hand against Caldwell.

Final Table Results

Place	Player	Prize
1	Quinn Kannekens	$26,234
2	Cristian Moldovan	$17,424
3	Craig Caldwell	$11,838
4	Guneet Singh	$8,221
5	Griffin Ristevski	$5,839
6	Kevin Huang	$4,243
7	Johnny Yu	$3,157
8	Bron Johnson	$2,406
9	Kurt Lillemo	$1,880
10	Tony Ma	$1,506

Craig Caldwell got it in with ace-five off, and was up against the king-seven off for Quinn Kannekens. Kannekens found a king on the flop and held for the win.

With the hour now past 6 AM, the game has moved to poker to finish heads up between Lannekens and Cristian Moldovan.

Cristian Moldovan just picked up a double up when he shoved his small blind for 1.15 million, and Quinn Kannekens called off in the big with more. Moldovan has ace-king against 9♥5♥ and Kannekens flopped huge draws, but ultimately bricked the 10♥A♣8♥8♠8♦ runout.

Guneet Singh was the short stack, and he was in with ace-six against pocket eights for Cristian Moldovan. Singh hit the ace on the flop, but Moldovan kept calling for an eight, and got it on the river to send Singh home in 4th.

Quinn Kannekens shoved the button, and Griffin Ristevski called from the big blind. It was a race between pocket sevens for Ristevski, and Q♣10♣ for Kannekens.

Ristevski flopped a straight draw, but it was Kannekens who ended up straightening out when the board ran out 8♣9♦5♥Q♦J♥.

Kevin Huang was short after doubling up Griffin Ristevski in the previous hand, and he shoved, but ran into pocket aces fro Craig Caldwell. He couldn’t find his cards and ended in 6th place tonight. He’s off to get some sleep for Day 2 of Event #4 tomorrow, where he’ll be in with his friend and rail Kezheng Peng.

Quinn Kannekens raised to 250k from the cutoff, then called when Griffin Ristevski shoved the big blind. Ristevski was covered, but it looked like a chop with ace-four for Kannekens and ace-deuce for Ristevski.

The stacks are getting pretty short as the blinds keep going up. Griffin Restevski shoved the cutoff, and Cristian Moldovan called off with less.

Moldovan had A♦10♥ against Q♦J♣ and Moldovan hit his ace on the flop of A♠5♣6♥4♣7♣. he had 425 to start the hand, and doubled to a bit more than a million, while Ristevski was left short.

Quinn Kannekens raised early to 225k, and then called when Craig Caldwell shoved 695k from the big blind.

“This is as good as it gets,” he said as his chips went in. Kannekens called, but his queen-jack was dominated by the king-queen for Caldwell. The board ran out K♣Q♦3♣6♦Q♥, and Caldwell got his boat on the river for the win.

Kevin Huang had taken over the lead recently, but he just lost a race to Quinn Kannekens. Huang raised under the gun to 200k before Kannekens reraised the small blind to 500k, then snap-called when Huang shove a covering stack.

Kannekens had A♠Q♥ against pocket eights for Huang, and Kannekens hit his queen on the turn of 5♠5♣9♦Q♦9♠. Kannekens had 1.55 million, and is now well over 3 million.

Gunnet Singh shoved under the gun for 470k, and Craig Caldwell reshoved with more from the button. The blinds got out of the way and Caldwell had the lead with ace-jack into ace-six.

The board ran out [TdAcQd7d3d[/pcn] and Singh’s ace of diamonds turned into the nut flush and a double to about a million.

Griffin Ristevski raised under the gun to 175k, and Quinn Kannenkens called from the button, as did Kevin Huang from the big blind. After a check from Huang on the 3♠10♣Q♠ flop, Ristevski fired 160k.

Kannekens mucked, but Huang flatted to the 4♠ turn. Huang led for 250k and Ristevski called, but when Huang shoved a covering stack on the 9♣ river, Ristevski folded after about 15 seconds of studying the board.

Quinn Kannekens is the leader with more than 2.5 million, but Craig Caldwell also has more than 2 million.

Johnny Yu got it in for a race, holding king-jack of spades against pocket tens for Quinn Kannekens. Kannekens found a set of tens on the flop to send Yu to the rail tonight for 7th place.

There’s a break coming in about 15 minutes, and I’ll grab exact counts for everyone then, but here’s a look at the approximate counts right now.

I am still trying to finish up the work I need to get done for Sunday’s action, but the Mystery Bounty field is down to 13 remaining. I am in the room, but still not watching the action very closely.

Prizes to 14th Place for Mystery Bounty

Place	Player	Prize
14	Colin Burton	$1,046
15	Rob Lothian	$1,046
16	Christopher Wilson	$1,046
17	Joshua Molnar	$1,046
18	Alexander Maione	$908
19	Garcia Gonzalez	$908
20	Jason Law	$908
21	Seamus Mcgearty	$908
22	Glenn Slater	$908
23	John Harris	$908
24	Christopher Watson	$908
25	Zeyu Huang	$908
26	Parth Patel	$908
27	Luteng Li	$810
28	Micah Quinn	$810
29	Jerod Dobson	$810
30	Chris Kenoras	$810
31	Matthew Hall	$810
32	Mehrad Khalajzadeh	$810
33	Trent Hopper	$810
34	Sinisa Kovacevic	$810
35	Allan Hobbins	$810
36	Jeff Breant	$745
37	Donald Kehler	$745
38	Paul Sampson	$745
39	David Genaille	$745
40	Raymond Ng	$745
41	Kevin Varnier	$745
42	Avery Aloneissi	$745
43	Matthew Osorio	$745
44	Zhi Jiang	$745
45	Shariq Khan	$709
46	Adrian Chan	$709
47	Arya Ghai	$709
48	Cameron Mcarthur	$709
49	Yafei Jian	$709
50	Dale Foyle	$709
51	Adrain Payne	$709
52	Kristopher Fang	$709
53	Wayne Hoffert	$709
54	Calvin Johnson	$709
55	Bryan Wutke	$709
56	Scott Loonskin	$709
57	David Swaim	$709
58	Tony Melowsky	$709
59	Aaron Walters	$709
60	Troy Kopp	$709

The prizes are in, and the field is confirmed at 395 entries for prizes of $203,425 ($124,425 Prizes, $79,000 Bounties). That means 60 players will get a piece of $124,425 in prizes, with $79,000 in bounties. See below for the top ten prizes tonight, with the full prize list loaded under the Payouts tab shortly.

Entries are now closed for the Mystery Bounty game, and the final field ended up at 395. That is still a tentative number, but if it holds, it should mean 60 places paid tonight.

The final prize pool came in at $203,425, with $79k of that in the bounty pool. Bounties kick in when they hit the money with 60 left, and one of the two big bounties will remain out of play until the field hits 18 players later tonight.

There are about 20 minutes until entries close for the Mystery Bounty, with the field at 380 entries. That puts the combined prizes at $195,700, with $76k of that in the bounty pool

There is still an hour left to enter the Mystery Bounty game, playing out in the Chrome room. With the action in Level 9, the field is just shy of 350 entries, for prizes of $179,735 ($109,935 Prizes, $69,800 Bounties).

The Mystery Bounty is underway in the Chrome Room today, and with action in Level 2, the prizes are already over $90k with 176 entries on the board. That means there’s more than $55k in the prize pool, with $35,200 in the bounty pool.

Entries are still open for almost 4 hours, so expect this field to likely double before the desk closes. Also expect this to be a pretty late game — I likely won’t be watching it very closely until after the Mini Main bags up at around 11:30 tonight, at the latest, but I should finish my night out on this one.

Event #5: $600 Mystery Bounty NLH ($315 + $200 + $85)

The side game on Saturday evening is the Mystery Bounty, with $200 of the $600 buy-in going to the mystery bounty pool. Bounties start with players in the money, and one big bounty will stay out of the bin until the field hits 18 players.

The action kicks off at 4 PM with just shy of 5 hours of late entry. The entry desk will shut down at the start of Level 11, which should be at about 8:50 PM. After that, they’ll play to a winner.

In January, it was Adrian Selero who won this one. He took it down over a field of 459 entries for a prize pool of $236,385 ($144,585 prizes, $91,800 bounties).

I expect the final flight to the Mini Main Event to be a big one, and as a result, the opening numbers for this game might look low; however, I expect the pace of entries to pick up significantly in this one once the reg-desk for E3 closes for good at about 6:15 PM. This game will be my secondary focus until Day 1d of the Mini Main bags.