2026 Pure Poker Tour Series #1 – Event #14: $450 NLH Bounty

After over 13 hours of play, Weston Pring has grinded through the field to take down the $450 NLH Bounty. The tournament found huge success drawing in 117 entries to create a prize pool of $44,460 ($32,760 prizes, $11,700 bounties). Pring took home 12 bounties along with the lion share of $9,120. Runner-up Daniel O’Leary also took home 10 bounties, while David Fong collected 11 bounties alongside his final table run.

Early in the day Steve Chung found a double elimination to spearhead his final table run. Fong also collected a couple early eliminations sitting as the second largest stack of 119,300 by the first break. Phong continued his success with the leading stack, as play neared the money. While in hand for hand play, both tables saw an elimination to bring the remaining field into the money. Matthew Ouellette and Shabab Khan, the two players to bubble, split the min-cash of $665 for $333 each.

Eliminations were rapid with Pring finding a double knockout to be the first player around 1,000,000. The final table soon shrunk from 9 to 5 with Fong and O’Leary each finding a pair of eliminations. From there, O’Leary took the chip lead and never looked back. His aggressive play applied maximum pressure to the remaining players with a dwindling number of big blinds. Pring’s duece’s held in a flip against Wesley Michalycia, and O’Leary won his race against Tesh Patel to leave the pair heads-up.

With the increasing blinds dwindling his stack, he got it in good with Ace-Jack against Jack-Ten to find his first double. A string of good hands and massive blinds swayed momentum into Pring’s corner. Soon he held a five to one chip lead. However, O’Leary picked off Pring’s shove doubling back near a million chips. Soon after, O’Leary made a hero call with middle pair against Pring’s two overs. The board ran out clean for O’Leary giving him the slight chip lead.

Pring caught more hands using aggression to steal the blinds and win pots that added up. Shortly after, Daniel O’Leary moved all in with 9♣5♣. Pring made a quick call with A♥6♥, as both players sweat the runout. O’Leary flopped better making top pair. Yet, Pring smashed his gutshot straight draw on the river to take down the tournament.

Event #14: $450 NLH Bounty Results

Position	Player	Prize
1	Weston Pring	$9,120
2	Daniel O’Leary	$6,285
3	Tesh Patel	$4,085
4	Wesley Michalycia	$3,140
5	David Fong	$2,420
6	Mehar Kammili	$1,915
7	Glenn Hall	$1,510
8	Steve Chung	$1,195
9	Ryan Cairns	$975
10	Yunlu Wang	$785
11	Eric Josselyn	$665
12	Matthew Ouellette	$333
12	Shabab Khan	$333

Daniel O’Leary moved all in for 640,000, and Weston Pring made the call. Both players revealed their holdings.

Daniel O’Leary: 9♣5♣
Weston Pring: A♥6♥

The board ran out 5♦3♦2♦3♣4♦ to give Pring the trophy.

Daniel O’Leary opened to 200,000, and Weston Pring made the call.

The flop came 3♥K♦4♦, and Pring was quick to check. O’Leary fired for 160,000, and Pring moved all in. O’Leary called for his remaining 620,000, and both players revealed their holdings.

Daniel O’Leary: 4♥2♣
Weston Pring: Q♥8♦

The board completed with the 10♥A♥ to give O’Leary the chip lead.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,740,000
Weston Pring: 1,200,000

Weston Pring moved all in, and Daniel O’Leary made the call for his remaining 470,000. Both players revealed their holdings.

Daniel O’Leary: A♣9♥
Weston Pring: 10♦3♦

The board ran out 9♠5♠4♥7♥Q♠ for O’Leary to find the double.

Weston Pring: 1,900,000
Daniel O’Leary: 1,020,000

Weston Pring moved all in for 451,000, and Daniel O’Leary made the call. Both players revealed their holdings.

Weston Pring: A♠J♥
Daniel O’Leary: J♠10♣

The board ran out 6♥J♣6♣K♠A♦ for Pring to close the gap.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,965,000
Weston Pring: 960,000

Daniel O’Leary moved all in from the button, and Tesh Patel called from the small blind. Both players reveaeld their holdings.

Tesh Patel: 3♥3♦
Daniel O’Leary: Q♥6♥

The board ran out 9♦5♥6♦K♦2♠ to send play to heads-up.

Daniel O’Leary: 2,430,000
Weston Pring: 590,000

Tesh Patel moved all in for 186,000 from the button, and Daniel O’Leary called from the big blind. Both players revealed their holdings.

Tesh Patel: A♣2♥
Daniel O’Leary: Q♥10♠

The board ran out 2♦4♠6♦6♣3♠ for Patel to find the double.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,984,000
Weston Pring: 687,000
Tesh Patel: 272,000

Wesley Michalycia moved all in for 230,000, and Weston Pring made the call. Both players revealed their holdings.

Wesley Michalycia: A♠5♠
Weston Pring: 2♣2♦

The board ran out 8♣K♦3♦8♦Q♠ for Pring to take the pot.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,580,000
Weston Pring: 860,000
Tesh Patel: 340,000

Daniel O’Leary opened to 80,000, and Wesley Michalycia moved all in for 220,000. O’Leary made the call, and both players reveaeld their holdings.

Wesley Michalycia: A♠7♣
Daniel O’Leary: 5♥5♦

The board ran out 7♦6♥9♥K♣2♦ to give Michalycia the double.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,247,000
Weston Pring: 867,000
Tesh Patel: 540,000
Wesley Michalycia: 383,000

Daniel O’Leary opened to 50,000, and David Fong moved all in for 223,000. O’Leary made the call, and both players revealed their holdings.

David Fong: J♦J♠
Daniel O’Leary: 3♦3♠

The board ran out Q♥3♣10♦Q♠A♥ for O’Leary to take the pot.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,054,000

Wesley Michalycia raised to 60,000 from the cutoff. Daniel O’Leary made the call from the button.

The flop came 7♣4♦9♣, and both players were quick to check.

After the turn peeled the K♣, Michalycia moved all in for 61,000. O’Leary made the call, and both players revealed their holdings.

Wesley Michalycia: K♥3♥
Daniel O’Leary: Q♠J♣

The board completed with the 3♦ to give Michalycia the double.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,330,000
Wesley Michalycia: 247,000

Mehar Kamilli moved all in for 148,000, and Daniel O’Leary made the call. Both players revealed their holdings.

Mehar Kamilli: A♠J♠
Daniel O’Leary: A♦K♦

The board ran out Q♥4♠7♠A♥3♥ to give O’Leary the pot.

Daniel O’Leary: 934,000

Glenn Hall moved all in for around 300,000, and Daniel O’Leary made the call. Both players revealed their holdings.

Glenn Hall: A♠J♣
Daniel O’Leary: K♣Q♦

The board ran out 2♥A♥J♥4♠10♣ to send Hall to the rail.

Daniel O’Leary: 751,000

Steve Chung moved all in for 110,000, and David Fong made the call. Both players revealed their holdings.

Steve Chung: 9♥9♠
David Fong: A♦9♦

The board ran out A♠10♥7♣8♠2♣ to give Fong the pot.

David Fong: 539,000

Ryan Cairns moved all in for 140,000, and David Fong made the call from early position. Both players revealed their holdings.

Ryan Cairns: A♣J♦
David Fong: A♥K♠

The board ran out 4♠7♣7♦3♥8♠ to send Cairns to the rail.

Weston Pring: 985,000
Daniel O’Leary: 456,000
David Fong: 429,000
Glenn Hall: 268,000
Mehar Kammili: 254,000
Wesley Michalycia: 246,000
Tesh Patel: 204,000
Steve Chung: 110,000

A three way all in occurred and all three players revealed their holdings.

Eric Josselyn: Q♥9♠
Yunlu Wang: 10♥10♠
Weston Pring: A♥J♠

The board ran out 9♣A♣5♣4♣A♦ to give Pring the double knockout.

Westong Pring: 985,000

Matthew Ouellette

Shabab Khan

With play hand for hand, both tables had an all in at the same time. Matthew Ouellette moved all in with K♠10♠, and was called by the cutoff with A♦Q♦. The board ran out Q♣7♦7♥Q♠8♦ to send him to the rail.

At the same time, Shabab Khan moved all in for his tournament life and was called by the button. Khan’s Q♣Q♠ were a strong favourite against the button’s J♣J♦. However, those odds were flipped when the board ran out 9♣6♣J♥A♣4♠.

Both Khan and Ouellette chopped the min-cash, each taking home $333 for their efforts.

After an open from middle position, Madhu Sharma moved all in for 58,500. Middle position jammed over the top, and the remaining players made the fold. Both players revealed their holdings.

Madhu Sharma: A♠A♣
Middle Position: Q♥Q♦

Sharma’s rockets held, as the board ran out J♦6♥6♣5♦K♠.

Madhu Sharma: 121,000

Action was caught as a three-way all in occurred. The three players revealed their holdings.

DJ Sharma: Q♥6♥
Middle Position: Q♣J♥
Steve Chung: K♣10♠

The board ran out 8♣K♥8♥8♦A♠ to give Chung the early double elimination.

Steve Chung: 100,200

Event #14: $450 NLH Bounty ($300 + $100 + $50)

The side game on Thursday night is the $450 Bounty game. $300 of the buy-in goes to the prize pool, with $100 on each player for a bounty.

Cards go in the air at 5 PM, and they’ll play to a winner before the end. There are 9 25-minute levels of open entry, putting the last chance to enter at about 9:15 PM.

Alek Gillies will be in to cover for me on Thursday as I take a day off. His main focus will be the PLO Main Event until it bags, but that game should finish early enough for him to get some late-game coverage on this one.

After over 13 hours of play, Weston Pring has grinded through the field to take down the $450 NLH Bounty. The tournament found huge success drawing in 117 entries to create a prize pool of $44,460 ($32,760 prizes, $11,700 bounties). Pring took home 12 bounties along with the lion share of $9,120. Runner-up Daniel O’Leary also took home 10 bounties, while David Fong collected 11 bounties alongside his final table run.

Early in the day Steve Chung found a double elimination to spearhead his final table run. Fong also collected a couple early eliminations sitting as the second largest stack of 119,300 by the first break. Phong continued his success with the leading stack, as play neared the money. While in hand for hand play, both tables saw an elimination to bring the remaining field into the money. Matthew Ouellette and Shabab Khan, the two players to bubble, split the min-cash of $665 for $333 each.

Eliminations were rapid with Pring finding a double knockout to be the first player around 1,000,000. The final table soon shrunk from 9 to 5 with Fong and O’Leary each finding a pair of eliminations. From there, O’Leary took the chip lead and never looked back. His aggressive play applied maximum pressure to the remaining players with a dwindling number of big blinds. Pring’s duece’s held in a flip against Wesley Michalycia, and O’Leary won his race against Tesh Patel to leave the pair heads-up.

With the increasing blinds dwindling his stack, he got it in good with Ace-Jack against Jack-Ten to find his first double. A string of good hands and massive blinds swayed momentum into Pring’s corner. Soon he held a five to one chip lead. However, O’Leary picked off Pring’s shove doubling back near a million chips. Soon after, O’Leary made a hero call with middle pair against Pring’s two overs. The board ran out clean for O’Leary giving him the slight chip lead.

Pring caught more hands using aggression to steal the blinds and win pots that added up. Shortly after, Daniel O’Leary moved all in with 9♣5♣. Pring made a quick call with A♥6♥, as both players sweat the runout. O’Leary flopped better making top pair. Yet, Pring smashed his gutshot straight draw on the river to take down the tournament.

Event #14: $450 NLH Bounty Results

Position	Player	Prize
1	Weston Pring	$9,120
2	Daniel O’Leary	$6,285
3	Tesh Patel	$4,085
4	Wesley Michalycia	$3,140
5	David Fong	$2,420
6	Mehar Kammili	$1,915
7	Glenn Hall	$1,510
8	Steve Chung	$1,195
9	Ryan Cairns	$975
10	Yunlu Wang	$785
11	Eric Josselyn	$665
12	Matthew Ouellette	$333
12	Shabab Khan	$333

Daniel O’Leary moved all in for 640,000, and Weston Pring made the call. Both players revealed their holdings.

Daniel O’Leary: 9♣5♣
Weston Pring: A♥6♥

The board ran out 5♦3♦2♦3♣4♦ to give Pring the trophy.

Daniel O’Leary opened to 200,000, and Weston Pring made the call.

The flop came 3♥K♦4♦, and Pring was quick to check. O’Leary fired for 160,000, and Pring moved all in. O’Leary called for his remaining 620,000, and both players revealed their holdings.

Daniel O’Leary: 4♥2♣
Weston Pring: Q♥8♦

The board completed with the 10♥A♥ to give O’Leary the chip lead.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,740,000
Weston Pring: 1,200,000

Weston Pring moved all in, and Daniel O’Leary made the call for his remaining 470,000. Both players revealed their holdings.

Daniel O’Leary: A♣9♥
Weston Pring: 10♦3♦

The board ran out 9♠5♠4♥7♥Q♠ for O’Leary to find the double.

Weston Pring: 1,900,000
Daniel O’Leary: 1,020,000

Weston Pring moved all in for 451,000, and Daniel O’Leary made the call. Both players revealed their holdings.

Weston Pring: A♠J♥
Daniel O’Leary: J♠10♣

The board ran out 6♥J♣6♣K♠A♦ for Pring to close the gap.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,965,000
Weston Pring: 960,000

Daniel O’Leary moved all in from the button, and Tesh Patel called from the small blind. Both players reveaeld their holdings.

Tesh Patel: 3♥3♦
Daniel O’Leary: Q♥6♥

The board ran out 9♦5♥6♦K♦2♠ to send play to heads-up.

Daniel O’Leary: 2,430,000
Weston Pring: 590,000

Tesh Patel moved all in for 186,000 from the button, and Daniel O’Leary called from the big blind. Both players revealed their holdings.

Tesh Patel: A♣2♥
Daniel O’Leary: Q♥10♠

The board ran out 2♦4♠6♦6♣3♠ for Patel to find the double.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,984,000
Weston Pring: 687,000
Tesh Patel: 272,000

Wesley Michalycia moved all in for 230,000, and Weston Pring made the call. Both players revealed their holdings.

Wesley Michalycia: A♠5♠
Weston Pring: 2♣2♦

The board ran out 8♣K♦3♦8♦Q♠ for Pring to take the pot.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,580,000
Weston Pring: 860,000
Tesh Patel: 340,000

Daniel O’Leary opened to 80,000, and Wesley Michalycia moved all in for 220,000. O’Leary made the call, and both players reveaeld their holdings.

Wesley Michalycia: A♠7♣
Daniel O’Leary: 5♥5♦

The board ran out 7♦6♥9♥K♣2♦ to give Michalycia the double.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,247,000
Weston Pring: 867,000
Tesh Patel: 540,000
Wesley Michalycia: 383,000

Daniel O’Leary opened to 50,000, and David Fong moved all in for 223,000. O’Leary made the call, and both players revealed their holdings.

David Fong: J♦J♠
Daniel O’Leary: 3♦3♠

The board ran out Q♥3♣10♦Q♠A♥ for O’Leary to take the pot.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,054,000

Wesley Michalycia raised to 60,000 from the cutoff. Daniel O’Leary made the call from the button.

The flop came 7♣4♦9♣, and both players were quick to check.

After the turn peeled the K♣, Michalycia moved all in for 61,000. O’Leary made the call, and both players revealed their holdings.

Wesley Michalycia: K♥3♥
Daniel O’Leary: Q♠J♣

The board completed with the 3♦ to give Michalycia the double.

Daniel O’Leary: 1,330,000
Wesley Michalycia: 247,000

Mehar Kamilli moved all in for 148,000, and Daniel O’Leary made the call. Both players revealed their holdings.

Mehar Kamilli: A♠J♠
Daniel O’Leary: A♦K♦

The board ran out Q♥4♠7♠A♥3♥ to give O’Leary the pot.

Daniel O’Leary: 934,000

Glenn Hall moved all in for around 300,000, and Daniel O’Leary made the call. Both players revealed their holdings.

Glenn Hall: A♠J♣
Daniel O’Leary: K♣Q♦

The board ran out 2♥A♥J♥4♠10♣ to send Hall to the rail.

Daniel O’Leary: 751,000

Steve Chung moved all in for 110,000, and David Fong made the call. Both players revealed their holdings.

Steve Chung: 9♥9♠
David Fong: A♦9♦

The board ran out A♠10♥7♣8♠2♣ to give Fong the pot.

David Fong: 539,000

Ryan Cairns moved all in for 140,000, and David Fong made the call from early position. Both players revealed their holdings.

Ryan Cairns: A♣J♦
David Fong: A♥K♠

The board ran out 4♠7♣7♦3♥8♠ to send Cairns to the rail.

Weston Pring: 985,000
Daniel O’Leary: 456,000
David Fong: 429,000
Glenn Hall: 268,000
Mehar Kammili: 254,000
Wesley Michalycia: 246,000
Tesh Patel: 204,000
Steve Chung: 110,000

A three way all in occurred and all three players revealed their holdings.

Eric Josselyn: Q♥9♠
Yunlu Wang: 10♥10♠
Weston Pring: A♥J♠

The board ran out 9♣A♣5♣4♣A♦ to give Pring the double knockout.

Westong Pring: 985,000

Matthew Ouellette

Shabab Khan

With play hand for hand, both tables had an all in at the same time. Matthew Ouellette moved all in with K♠10♠, and was called by the cutoff with A♦Q♦. The board ran out Q♣7♦7♥Q♠8♦ to send him to the rail.

At the same time, Shabab Khan moved all in for his tournament life and was called by the button. Khan’s Q♣Q♠ were a strong favourite against the button’s J♣J♦. However, those odds were flipped when the board ran out 9♣6♣J♥A♣4♠.

Both Khan and Ouellette chopped the min-cash, each taking home $333 for their efforts.

After an open from middle position, Madhu Sharma moved all in for 58,500. Middle position jammed over the top, and the remaining players made the fold. Both players revealed their holdings.

Madhu Sharma: A♠A♣
Middle Position: Q♥Q♦

Sharma’s rockets held, as the board ran out J♦6♥6♣5♦K♠.

Madhu Sharma: 121,000

Action was caught as a three-way all in occurred. The three players revealed their holdings.

DJ Sharma: Q♥6♥
Middle Position: Q♣J♥
Steve Chung: K♣10♠

The board ran out 8♣K♥8♥8♦A♠ to give Chung the early double elimination.

Steve Chung: 100,200

Event #14: $450 NLH Bounty ($300 + $100 + $50)

The side game on Thursday night is the $450 Bounty game. $300 of the buy-in goes to the prize pool, with $100 on each player for a bounty.

Cards go in the air at 5 PM, and they’ll play to a winner before the end. There are 9 25-minute levels of open entry, putting the last chance to enter at about 9:15 PM.

Alek Gillies will be in to cover for me on Thursday as I take a day off. His main focus will be the PLO Main Event until it bags, but that game should finish early enough for him to get some late-game coverage on this one.