Harpreet Gill was a bit of a wrecking ball tonight — both in terms of the poker and also his Guinness consumption. He was in good spirits through most of the final table and was the chattiest player there.
Toward the end of the evening, he had his friend, DJ Sharma, on the rail as well, and that contributed to the noise level considerably. He was quite short at one point during the final table, and he was at risk against runner-up Mike Leah with play five ways. Leah was on the suited jack-ten, but he was dominated by the ace-ten of Gill. That was the start of Gill’s big comeback, and from there, it was pretty much all Gill or Leah.
Leah sent Die Hard Poker League member Doug Cornelson home in 5th before Gill sent Colten Yamagish out in 4th. Gill then sent Bradley Thompson to the rail for 3rd when Thompson’s short stack went in with ducks, and he couldn’t win the near-inevitable race.
That left Leah and Gill heads up, with Gill holding the lead. He recognized that a player like Leah almost certainly had the skill advantage, so he took the best strategy available – shoving the big stack to force Leah into life-or-death decisions in most hands, thereby largely handicapping the skill advantage.
Leah stayed alive several times with doubles, but he was never able to get two close enough together to find the lead. He’d double to near-even, then get chipped down again having to fold to shoves. In the final confrontation, Gill shoved and, after some thought, Leah called it off with less.
Gill had the goods this time with pocket nines, but Leah was drawing very live with a united king. Leah flopped his kicker to the king, but still needed help, and Gill’s nines held.
This looks like Gill’s first live win, and his first Circuit ring. He’s final-tabled a couple of events in Calgary in the past, including a fourth place in the 2022 Summer Super Stack $250 Bounty game. This win should put him around $725k in live earnings once it’s tabulated and converted to USD.
Results from the Turbo $1k
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Harpreet Gill | $35,195 |
| 2 | Mike Leah | $23,092 |
| 3 | Bradley Thompson | $15,616 |
| 4 | Colten Yamagishi | $10,890 |
| 5 | Doug Cornelson | $7,839 |
| 6 |  Jerry Li | $5,831 |
| 7 | Josh Bennett | $4,486 |
| 8 | Tony Ma | $3,575 |
| 9 | Kami Chisholm | $2,954 |
| 10 | Miranda Mar | $2,535 |
| 11 | Cindy Kerslake | $2,535 |
| 12 | Lyle Feeney | $2,262 |
| 13 | Zeyu Huang | $2,262 |
| 14 | Garett Maybery | $2,103 |
| 15 | Stephen Dauphinais | $2,103 |
| 16 | Dave Mcleod | $2,103 |
| 17 |  Chun-Kit Kwan | $2,103 |
| 18 | Nicholas Teeuwen | $2,002 |
| 19 | Mark Aylward-Nally | $2,002 |
| 20 | Donald Kehler | $2,002 |
| 21 | Shariq Khan | $2,002 |
| 22 | Kelvin Fu | $2,002 |
| 23 | Daniel Lefebvre | $2,002 |
| 24 | Kirk Logeman | $2,002 |
| 25 | Michael Khan | $2,002 |
