2026 WSOPC Calgary Jan – Event #9: $500 NLH Progressive K.O.

Heads up lasted a single hand in the PKO game. Kyle Dery woke up with an ace, but ran into pocket jacks for Sunny Lubana. The jacks held on a nine-high board, thought Dery turned open-ended draws, but bricked when the river paired.

Dery got $15,345 for 2nd place, but $3k in bounties to pad the win, while Lubana got the same prize, but added $11,850 in bounties to the total for more than $27k.

Jakub Sujata hit the rail in 3rd tonight on a cooler. He shoved the small blind with eights, but Sunny Lubana woke up with nines and held for the win. Sujata won $8,210 from the prizes plus $5k in bounties.

In the final hand of the previous level, Sunny Lubana opened under the gun to 160k before small blind David Davis shoved. Lubana snapped it off with more, and Davis was in rought shape.

He had sixes, but he ran into the aces for Lubana. Lubana found an ace on the flop, and Davis was dead by the turn. He won $5,667 from the prize pool, plus $2,600 in bounties.

Sunny Lubana shoved the small blind, and Alen Bakovic called with less from the big. He had king-three of spades against jack-four off, but Lubana flopped a jack on the 5♣9♠J♥9♦A♦ board to take it down. Bakovic won just over $4k from the prizes, plus an extra $2,200 in bounties tonight.

Jake “TheSnake” Sujata shoved the big stack from the small blind, and Sunny Lubana snapped it off from the big. Lubana was on ace-eight of clubs against Q♦7♣ for Sujata. Lubana flopped his eight for insurance and held for a double from 710k to just over 1.6 million.

Jordan Matsui got the rest of his stack in with ace-jack, but he ran into the pocket nines of David Davis. On a double-paired board with queens and threes, Davis’ nines held for the win.

Davis has chipped up significantly in this level, sitting close to 2 million now. Matsui earned $2,905 from prizes, plus about $2k extra in bounties.

I missed the action while I was writing the previous hand, but Brett Worton was the 7th-place finisher tonight for $2,160 plus $3k in bounties.

Kyle Dery opened the cutoff to 120k before David Davis shoved exactly 10 bigs from the button. Jakub “TheSnake” Sujata was on the button, and he shoved a stack that covered Davis by a mile, and would seriously injure Dery.

Dery tanked for a bit before he let the hand go, and Davis showed black aces against ace-queen of hearts for Sujata. The aces held to send Davis up to 1.5 million, while Sujata is still sitting with a big stack.

Dery said he folded ace-jack.

Street poker works great, but it can’t protect you from coolers. Qiang Qiu just ran into a pretty cold deck.

Jakub Sujata raised to 100k from the hijack, and Qiu shoved the button. Sujata snapped it off and was dominating with ace-king into ace-queen for Qiu.

Sujata flopped a king, but Qiu found Broadway outs on the flop. He bricked the turn and river on the 2♥K♦J♣5♣8♠ runout, and since Sujata had him stacked, he was out in 8th place.

There is a break coming in just a couple of minutes, and I’ll get a full round of counts then.

The rest of the table has decided Qiang Qiu is playing some solid street poker. He doesn’t speak much English, and Kyle Dery, who is fluent in Chinese, has been helping him out a bit with translations, but he seems to understand the game pretty well.

In a recent hand, Brett Worton raised the middle, and Jakub Sujata called from the hijack. Qiu called the small blind, and big blind Jordan Matsui came along as well.

The flop was 5♥4♥3♣, and Qiu shoved a huge stack. All three players folded, and Qiu showed the nuts with seven-six. That got the table talking, but he wasn’t done.

A few hands later, Qiu limped in under the gun, and Brett Worton called from the button, while big blind Sunny Lubana checked his option. Lubana checked the A♦5♣6♦ flop before Qiu fired 500k into the pot, prompting both players to fold. He showed an ace as he collected the pot.

Chris Watson just picked up another score for BC’s Die Hard Poker League. He jammed sixes, but the big blind woke up with jacks, and Watson couldn’t find the cards he needed to survive.

Harry Newton was the first to bust from the final table tonight, taking 10th place for $1,041. I missed the action while I was out of the room.

The final table is now being set after Aryan Setoodeh bubbled in 11th place tonight. Stay tuned for the Final Table Faces.

Peter Darlington was the most recent bust from the final two tables, bringing the game to 11 left as Level 21 ends. They’ll set the final table after the next elimination.

The PKO field is down to 12 now, with less than 10 minutes to play in Level 21. The average stack right now is about 26 big blinds, so they are still pretty deep.

Place	Player	Prize
13	Jordan Banfield	$863
14	Carson Duak	$736
15	Aaron Walters	$736
16	Jason Kelly	$736
17	Mike Leah	$736
18	Evan Chen	$648
19	Arya Ghai	$648

They are down to the final two tables now, with about 15 minutes to play in Level 20. Arya Ghai was the last player to bust from the three tables to bring the game to 18 left.

They are down to 19 players left, on the two-table bubble, at the conclusion of Level 19. Qiang Qiu is leading the way right now with 890k, while Jakub Sujata has 765k. Alen Bakovic is playing 665k, while Kyle Dery is on 575k to start Level 20.

Place	Player	Prize
20	Justin Santoro	$648
21	Ahmed Nabeel	$648
22	Aaron Duczak	$648
23	John Hamling	$648
24	Frederick Parsons	$648
25	Jeremy Graham	$648
26	Korey Dadgar	$648

Jake Sujata opened the hijack to 25k, and Peter Darlington called from the small blind. The flop was 3♦A♥2♥, and Darlington check-raised from 20k to 60k, which was plenty to get Sujata to fold.

In the final hand of the last levels, Alan Bakovic raised the hijack to 20k before Sunny Lubana reraised the cutoff to 52k. It folded back to Bakovic, who shoved a covering stack, and Lubana snapped it off.

Lubana was dominating with ace-king into ace-queen, and when the 6♠4♠4♣J♣ missed both hands, the big slick took it down for Lubana. He’s now playing about 505k after the double, while Bakovic is down to about 345k.

They are at the final three tables of the night now, with 26 players remaining. The average stack right now is about 30 big blinds, but no doubt the progressive bounties are driving action a bit quicker than a regular game at this stage.

Place	Player	Prize
27	Ben Alaghband	$587
28	Yehudah Gniwisch	$587
29	Peter Noble	$587
30	Amarjot Brar	$587
31	Daniel Busque	$587
32	Christopher Erickson	$587
33	Richard Bewski	$587

They are on the final four tables now with 33 players left in the action. Level 16 has less than 5 minutes to play, with the next break scheduled after Level 19.

Place	Player	Prize
34	Mohsen Shafizadeh	$587
35	Roger Taniwa	$587
36	Robert Waddell	$550
37	Sheldon Xu	$550
38	Jacob Paterson	$550

The PKO field is down to 38 players left now, with about 15 minutes to play in Level 16. The action is moving pretty quickly tonight, at least so far, but there’s still a lot of poker left before anyone gets a ring.

Place	Player	Prize
39	Zhi Yang	$550
40	Jacob Parent	$550
41	Jeff Clarke	$550
42	Ramaz Haymour	$550
43	Aaron Lam	$550
44	Eric Dunham	$550
45	Martin Stapley	$524
46	Duff Charette	$524
47	Pamela Lafleur	$524
48	Nicholas Milkovich	$524
49	Dylan Ellis	$524
50	Steven Desjarlais	$524
51	Shengxiang Liu	$524

Things went quickly after the bubble burst, with 9 eliminations in the final few minutes of Level 14 and the opening few in Level 15. As always, I’ll post recent eliminations with each post, while the full prize list and who has collected will be under the Payouts tab.

Place	Player	Prize
52	George Caragiorgas	$524
53	Martin Butler	$524
54	Gregory Wood	$524
55	Constantin Marusic	$524
56	Andrii Bazhura	$524
57	Sean Carpenter	$524
58	Nate Rajakumar	$524
59	Michael Malm	$524
60	Robert Cicchelli	$524

They are in the money now after a big hand on Table 24 saw two players hit the rail on the same hand. Victor Ma was the short stack, and he was forced all in from the big blind. Sean Carpenter was also all-in blind from the button.

Carpenter had pocket nines, and he ended up running out to a straight for the win to survive the bubble, while Robert Cicchelli, who flopped the nut flush draw, and was all in for the rest of his stack against a bigger stack, bricked the draw and ended as the first player to cash.

Nate Rajakumar was going to be forced all in in the next hand, with Mike Malm also facing a forced all-in within a few hands, and Jordan Banfield surviving an all-in just before the bubble, so it was pretty likely that the bubble would burst relatively quickly.

They are at 61 players now, and the clock has been paused for a couple of hands. Jordan Banfield, who streams for WPT Global on Twitch, just survived an all-in with ace-king over pocket fives when he flopped a king and turned trips for the win.

They’ll take two minutes off the clock for every hand played now until the next elimination restarts the clock with all remaining players in the money.

They are down to 62 left in the PKO game now, two off the money. The clock will be paused after the next elimination, and then they’ll play hand-for-hand until the game is at 60 players or fewer.

The bubble play is approaching, with the field down to 67 left. Just under 15 minutes remain in Level 13, with the next break scheduled following Level 14, so it still looks like a good bet to be in the money before the next break.

The PKO field is down to 79 remaining, 19 off the money spots. Level 12 has about 15 minutes remaining, with the next break more than an hour away, so it looks likely that they’ll hit the bubble before the next break.

There are fewer than 100 players left in the PKO now, with the field now 37 off the money spots. Just over 15 minutes remain in Level 11.

The action is moving pretty quickly in this one, with the progressive bounties no doubt driving some action. The average stack right now is about 33 big blinds.

The prizes are in, and the top two spots tonight will both make $15,345, plus whatever bounties they pick up along the way. That’s standard for PKO events, as the winner will pick up the bounty of the runner-up, as well as their own, to pad out their winnings. The min-cash spot is worth $524,

The full prizes are loaded under the Payouts tab, with the final table prizes below.

Entries are now closed for the PKO, and the final field fell just shy of 400 entries. Assuming the 399 holds, that should mean 60 paid spots later tonight with around $15k up top for the win, but I’ll confirm all the numbers when the prizes are posted shortly.

Level 9 is ticking down to the end, and there are now fewer than 20 minutes left to enter the PKO game. The field is now at 388, putting them 12 away from 400, so it’s still looking reasonably good to finish right around the 400 mark, as rebuy action has been fairly brisk even through thefinal level of entry.

The PKO game is into Level 9 now, and entries will be closed when they sit down for Level 10. They’ll go for a 15-minute break following this level, putting the end of entries just over 30 minutes away.

The field is now about 20 away from 400, so it’s still looking good to get 400 or more.

The field is now over 350 entries for the PKO game, with about 5 minutes to play in Level 7. That puts the combined prizes over $145k and climbing, with $71k of that in the bounty pool.

Mike Malm looks to be one of the big stacks right now with about 150k in front of him, but Brett Worton also looks to be playing about the same. Tyler Bourassa has about 140k in play right now, with Kamyar Amini playing about 120k, and Andrew Sabbagh, who was third in the side game last night, is playing about 110k.

About 5 minutes remain in Level 6, and the field is now at 320 entries. There is still a bit more than 1.5 hours left to enter today’s game, so it looks like this will be another field of 400+.

Among the players I’ve spotted today are Nate Rajakumar, Debi Loomer, DJ Sharma, Mike Malm, Jordan Banfield, Skyler York, Kyle Dery, Josh Wallace, and Wayne Hoffert.

The button moved all in for 7,800, and DJ Sharma called while announcing “you’re ahead.” Both players revealed their holdings.

Button: 8♥8♣
DJ Sharma: 9♦3♦

Unfortunately, Sharma time had been activated. The board ran out 6♥3♠7♣2♣3♣ for Sharma to find his first bounty of the tournament.

DJ Sharma: 26,000

Level 4 has just begun with the field at 220 entries. That puts the combined prizes at almost $90k, with $44k of that in the bounty pool, and the rest waiting for prizes later tonight. Entries are still open for about 3 hours.

The PKO Side game is nearly finished two levels of play now with the field over 175 entries. Registration is open for just under 3.5 hours, so there’s lots of time for those numbers to increase.

A later start of the day, Event #9: $500 PKO is officially underway. So far, 142 entries have gathered with three players having hit the rail already. These numbers are sure to increase with the bounty incentive and cheaper price tag compared to the $1,000 NLH.

The total prize pool including bounties currently sits at $60,528. With its unique format, make sure to stay tuned as a winner will be determined by the end of the night.

$500 NLH Progressive K.O. ($220 + $200 + $80)

The side game on Monday is the $500 PKO. $200 of the buy-in goes to the bounty, and when a player scores a knockout, they’ll pocket half the busted player’s bounty, with the other half getting added to their own bounty.

The action gets going at 5 PM and players start with 20k. Levels are 25 minutes long, and players have nine levels to enter. That should put the last chance to enter at about 9:15 PM.

After that, it’s a race to the ring before the end of the night.

Last October, BC’s Chris Potter took this one down, adding another ring to the growing collection for members of Die Hard Poker League (DHPL). He prevailed over a field of 325 entries for the best share of the $136,500 in combined prizes, winning it heads up over Whitehorse’s Craig Caldwell, who has been close to a ring here multiple times.

Heads up lasted a single hand in the PKO game. Kyle Dery woke up with an ace, but ran into pocket jacks for Sunny Lubana. The jacks held on a nine-high board, thought Dery turned open-ended draws, but bricked when the river paired.

Dery got $15,345 for 2nd place, but $3k in bounties to pad the win, while Lubana got the same prize, but added $11,850 in bounties to the total for more than $27k.

Jakub Sujata hit the rail in 3rd tonight on a cooler. He shoved the small blind with eights, but Sunny Lubana woke up with nines and held for the win. Sujata won $8,210 from the prizes plus $5k in bounties.

In the final hand of the previous level, Sunny Lubana opened under the gun to 160k before small blind David Davis shoved. Lubana snapped it off with more, and Davis was in rought shape.

He had sixes, but he ran into the aces for Lubana. Lubana found an ace on the flop, and Davis was dead by the turn. He won $5,667 from the prize pool, plus $2,600 in bounties.

Sunny Lubana shoved the small blind, and Alen Bakovic called with less from the big. He had king-three of spades against jack-four off, but Lubana flopped a jack on the 5♣9♠J♥9♦A♦ board to take it down. Bakovic won just over $4k from the prizes, plus an extra $2,200 in bounties tonight.

Jake “TheSnake” Sujata shoved the big stack from the small blind, and Sunny Lubana snapped it off from the big. Lubana was on ace-eight of clubs against Q♦7♣ for Sujata. Lubana flopped his eight for insurance and held for a double from 710k to just over 1.6 million.

Jordan Matsui got the rest of his stack in with ace-jack, but he ran into the pocket nines of David Davis. On a double-paired board with queens and threes, Davis’ nines held for the win.

Davis has chipped up significantly in this level, sitting close to 2 million now. Matsui earned $2,905 from prizes, plus about $2k extra in bounties.

I missed the action while I was writing the previous hand, but Brett Worton was the 7th-place finisher tonight for $2,160 plus $3k in bounties.

Kyle Dery opened the cutoff to 120k before David Davis shoved exactly 10 bigs from the button. Jakub “TheSnake” Sujata was on the button, and he shoved a stack that covered Davis by a mile, and would seriously injure Dery.

Dery tanked for a bit before he let the hand go, and Davis showed black aces against ace-queen of hearts for Sujata. The aces held to send Davis up to 1.5 million, while Sujata is still sitting with a big stack.

Dery said he folded ace-jack.

Street poker works great, but it can’t protect you from coolers. Qiang Qiu just ran into a pretty cold deck.

Jakub Sujata raised to 100k from the hijack, and Qiu shoved the button. Sujata snapped it off and was dominating with ace-king into ace-queen for Qiu.

Sujata flopped a king, but Qiu found Broadway outs on the flop. He bricked the turn and river on the 2♥K♦J♣5♣8♠ runout, and since Sujata had him stacked, he was out in 8th place.

There is a break coming in just a couple of minutes, and I’ll get a full round of counts then.

The rest of the table has decided Qiang Qiu is playing some solid street poker. He doesn’t speak much English, and Kyle Dery, who is fluent in Chinese, has been helping him out a bit with translations, but he seems to understand the game pretty well.

In a recent hand, Brett Worton raised the middle, and Jakub Sujata called from the hijack. Qiu called the small blind, and big blind Jordan Matsui came along as well.

The flop was 5♥4♥3♣, and Qiu shoved a huge stack. All three players folded, and Qiu showed the nuts with seven-six. That got the table talking, but he wasn’t done.

A few hands later, Qiu limped in under the gun, and Brett Worton called from the button, while big blind Sunny Lubana checked his option. Lubana checked the A♦5♣6♦ flop before Qiu fired 500k into the pot, prompting both players to fold. He showed an ace as he collected the pot.

Chris Watson just picked up another score for BC’s Die Hard Poker League. He jammed sixes, but the big blind woke up with jacks, and Watson couldn’t find the cards he needed to survive.

Harry Newton was the first to bust from the final table tonight, taking 10th place for $1,041. I missed the action while I was out of the room.

The final table is now being set after Aryan Setoodeh bubbled in 11th place tonight. Stay tuned for the Final Table Faces.

Peter Darlington was the most recent bust from the final two tables, bringing the game to 11 left as Level 21 ends. They’ll set the final table after the next elimination.

The PKO field is down to 12 now, with less than 10 minutes to play in Level 21. The average stack right now is about 26 big blinds, so they are still pretty deep.

Place	Player	Prize
13	Jordan Banfield	$863
14	Carson Duak	$736
15	Aaron Walters	$736
16	Jason Kelly	$736
17	Mike Leah	$736
18	Evan Chen	$648
19	Arya Ghai	$648

They are down to the final two tables now, with about 15 minutes to play in Level 20. Arya Ghai was the last player to bust from the three tables to bring the game to 18 left.

They are down to 19 players left, on the two-table bubble, at the conclusion of Level 19. Qiang Qiu is leading the way right now with 890k, while Jakub Sujata has 765k. Alen Bakovic is playing 665k, while Kyle Dery is on 575k to start Level 20.

Place	Player	Prize
20	Justin Santoro	$648
21	Ahmed Nabeel	$648
22	Aaron Duczak	$648
23	John Hamling	$648
24	Frederick Parsons	$648
25	Jeremy Graham	$648
26	Korey Dadgar	$648

Jake Sujata opened the hijack to 25k, and Peter Darlington called from the small blind. The flop was 3♦A♥2♥, and Darlington check-raised from 20k to 60k, which was plenty to get Sujata to fold.

In the final hand of the last levels, Alan Bakovic raised the hijack to 20k before Sunny Lubana reraised the cutoff to 52k. It folded back to Bakovic, who shoved a covering stack, and Lubana snapped it off.

Lubana was dominating with ace-king into ace-queen, and when the 6♠4♠4♣J♣ missed both hands, the big slick took it down for Lubana. He’s now playing about 505k after the double, while Bakovic is down to about 345k.

They are at the final three tables of the night now, with 26 players remaining. The average stack right now is about 30 big blinds, but no doubt the progressive bounties are driving action a bit quicker than a regular game at this stage.

Place	Player	Prize
27	Ben Alaghband	$587
28	Yehudah Gniwisch	$587
29	Peter Noble	$587
30	Amarjot Brar	$587
31	Daniel Busque	$587
32	Christopher Erickson	$587
33	Richard Bewski	$587

They are on the final four tables now with 33 players left in the action. Level 16 has less than 5 minutes to play, with the next break scheduled after Level 19.

Place	Player	Prize
34	Mohsen Shafizadeh	$587
35	Roger Taniwa	$587
36	Robert Waddell	$550
37	Sheldon Xu	$550
38	Jacob Paterson	$550

The PKO field is down to 38 players left now, with about 15 minutes to play in Level 16. The action is moving pretty quickly tonight, at least so far, but there’s still a lot of poker left before anyone gets a ring.

Place	Player	Prize
39	Zhi Yang	$550
40	Jacob Parent	$550
41	Jeff Clarke	$550
42	Ramaz Haymour	$550
43	Aaron Lam	$550
44	Eric Dunham	$550
45	Martin Stapley	$524
46	Duff Charette	$524
47	Pamela Lafleur	$524
48	Nicholas Milkovich	$524
49	Dylan Ellis	$524
50	Steven Desjarlais	$524
51	Shengxiang Liu	$524

Things went quickly after the bubble burst, with 9 eliminations in the final few minutes of Level 14 and the opening few in Level 15. As always, I’ll post recent eliminations with each post, while the full prize list and who has collected will be under the Payouts tab.

Place	Player	Prize
52	George Caragiorgas	$524
53	Martin Butler	$524
54	Gregory Wood	$524
55	Constantin Marusic	$524
56	Andrii Bazhura	$524
57	Sean Carpenter	$524
58	Nate Rajakumar	$524
59	Michael Malm	$524
60	Robert Cicchelli	$524

They are in the money now after a big hand on Table 24 saw two players hit the rail on the same hand. Victor Ma was the short stack, and he was forced all in from the big blind. Sean Carpenter was also all-in blind from the button.

Carpenter had pocket nines, and he ended up running out to a straight for the win to survive the bubble, while Robert Cicchelli, who flopped the nut flush draw, and was all in for the rest of his stack against a bigger stack, bricked the draw and ended as the first player to cash.

Nate Rajakumar was going to be forced all in in the next hand, with Mike Malm also facing a forced all-in within a few hands, and Jordan Banfield surviving an all-in just before the bubble, so it was pretty likely that the bubble would burst relatively quickly.

They are at 61 players now, and the clock has been paused for a couple of hands. Jordan Banfield, who streams for WPT Global on Twitch, just survived an all-in with ace-king over pocket fives when he flopped a king and turned trips for the win.

They’ll take two minutes off the clock for every hand played now until the next elimination restarts the clock with all remaining players in the money.

They are down to 62 left in the PKO game now, two off the money. The clock will be paused after the next elimination, and then they’ll play hand-for-hand until the game is at 60 players or fewer.

The bubble play is approaching, with the field down to 67 left. Just under 15 minutes remain in Level 13, with the next break scheduled following Level 14, so it still looks like a good bet to be in the money before the next break.

The PKO field is down to 79 remaining, 19 off the money spots. Level 12 has about 15 minutes remaining, with the next break more than an hour away, so it looks likely that they’ll hit the bubble before the next break.

There are fewer than 100 players left in the PKO now, with the field now 37 off the money spots. Just over 15 minutes remain in Level 11.

The action is moving pretty quickly in this one, with the progressive bounties no doubt driving some action. The average stack right now is about 33 big blinds.

The prizes are in, and the top two spots tonight will both make $15,345, plus whatever bounties they pick up along the way. That’s standard for PKO events, as the winner will pick up the bounty of the runner-up, as well as their own, to pad out their winnings. The min-cash spot is worth $524,

The full prizes are loaded under the Payouts tab, with the final table prizes below.

Entries are now closed for the PKO, and the final field fell just shy of 400 entries. Assuming the 399 holds, that should mean 60 paid spots later tonight with around $15k up top for the win, but I’ll confirm all the numbers when the prizes are posted shortly.

Level 9 is ticking down to the end, and there are now fewer than 20 minutes left to enter the PKO game. The field is now at 388, putting them 12 away from 400, so it’s still looking reasonably good to finish right around the 400 mark, as rebuy action has been fairly brisk even through thefinal level of entry.

The PKO game is into Level 9 now, and entries will be closed when they sit down for Level 10. They’ll go for a 15-minute break following this level, putting the end of entries just over 30 minutes away.

The field is now about 20 away from 400, so it’s still looking good to get 400 or more.

The field is now over 350 entries for the PKO game, with about 5 minutes to play in Level 7. That puts the combined prizes over $145k and climbing, with $71k of that in the bounty pool.

Mike Malm looks to be one of the big stacks right now with about 150k in front of him, but Brett Worton also looks to be playing about the same. Tyler Bourassa has about 140k in play right now, with Kamyar Amini playing about 120k, and Andrew Sabbagh, who was third in the side game last night, is playing about 110k.

About 5 minutes remain in Level 6, and the field is now at 320 entries. There is still a bit more than 1.5 hours left to enter today’s game, so it looks like this will be another field of 400+.

Among the players I’ve spotted today are Nate Rajakumar, Debi Loomer, DJ Sharma, Mike Malm, Jordan Banfield, Skyler York, Kyle Dery, Josh Wallace, and Wayne Hoffert.

The button moved all in for 7,800, and DJ Sharma called while announcing “you’re ahead.” Both players revealed their holdings.

Button: 8♥8♣
DJ Sharma: 9♦3♦

Unfortunately, Sharma time had been activated. The board ran out 6♥3♠7♣2♣3♣ for Sharma to find his first bounty of the tournament.

DJ Sharma: 26,000

Level 4 has just begun with the field at 220 entries. That puts the combined prizes at almost $90k, with $44k of that in the bounty pool, and the rest waiting for prizes later tonight. Entries are still open for about 3 hours.

The PKO Side game is nearly finished two levels of play now with the field over 175 entries. Registration is open for just under 3.5 hours, so there’s lots of time for those numbers to increase.

A later start of the day, Event #9: $500 PKO is officially underway. So far, 142 entries have gathered with three players having hit the rail already. These numbers are sure to increase with the bounty incentive and cheaper price tag compared to the $1,000 NLH.

The total prize pool including bounties currently sits at $60,528. With its unique format, make sure to stay tuned as a winner will be determined by the end of the night.

$500 NLH Progressive K.O. ($220 + $200 + $80)

The side game on Monday is the $500 PKO. $200 of the buy-in goes to the bounty, and when a player scores a knockout, they’ll pocket half the busted player’s bounty, with the other half getting added to their own bounty.

The action gets going at 5 PM and players start with 20k. Levels are 25 minutes long, and players have nine levels to enter. That should put the last chance to enter at about 9:15 PM.

After that, it’s a race to the ring before the end of the night.

Last October, BC’s Chris Potter took this one down, adding another ring to the growing collection for members of Die Hard Poker League (DHPL). He prevailed over a field of 325 entries for the best share of the $136,500 in combined prizes, winning it heads up over Whitehorse’s Craig Caldwell, who has been close to a ring here multiple times.