It was a big day at the Deerfoot Inn & Casino Summer Super Stack. So far in the series, only one event has come in lower than the numbers for April’s Spring Super Stack, and that was the PLO Double Board Bomb Pot. Both games on Friday, however, crushed the April numbers.
In the Deepstack game, Friday marked the second of three starting flights. After the opening flight got ten extra entries over Spring, the second flight came in more than 20% bigger with 180 entries, for a combined total of 308.
On the side, 114 entries jumped into the Progressive Knockout game, nearly 40 entries over the Spring numbers. That produced a prize pool of nearly $33k, with $17,100 of that in the bounty pool.
Day 1b of Deepstack Goes Huge
The second flight to the Deepstack game was a big one, with the field about 23% bigger than Day 1b in the Spring. 180 entries meant that 18 players found a bag at the end of the night, with Jordan Qiao bagging the biggest with 465.5k. That still put him below the top two stacks from Day 1a, Giulio Rosati and Curtis Singleton.
Kimberly Durham, Reg Hampton, John Phan, and Victor Ma rounded out the top 5 counts from the second day. The 180 entries from 1b swelled the combined field to 308 entries for prizes of $87,780, setting up a solid shot at more than $150k in prizes after the entries close on the final flight on Saturday.
Event #3 Stacks after Two Flights
| Flight | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1a | Giulio Rosati | 682,500 |
| 1a | Curtis Singleton | 581,500 |
| 1b | Jordan Qiao | 465,500 |
| 1b | Kimberly Durham | 456,500 |
| 1b | Reg Hampton | 407,000 |
| 1b | John Phan | 389,500 |
| 1b | Victor Ma | 366,500 |
| 1b | Peter Amic | 364,500 |
| 1b | Denny Amirault | 360,000 |
| 1a | Cris Hillana | 346,500 |
| 1a | Julius Roque | 325,000 |
| 1b | Michael Malm | 324,000 |
| 1a | Ron Giles | 265,500 |
| 1b | Guneet Singh | 229,500 |
| 1b | Wayne Keating | 225,500 |
| 1a | Henry Yang | 197,000 |
| 1a | Francis Lagos | 194,500 |
| 1b | Kevin Willerton | 169,000 |
| 1a | Bonpyo Koo | 168,000 |
| 1b | Maria Mvulesku | 153,000 |
| 1b | Josh Myers | 133,500 |
| 1b | Ivanna Yatsiuk | 118,000 |
| 1b | Jordan Matsui | 115,500 |
| 1a | Philip Roque | 91,500 |
| 1b | Cherry Torrico | 90500 |
| 1b | Doug Bates | 88,500 |
| 1a | Mark Byczkiw | 75,000 |
| 1b | Oleksander Lobur | 75,000 |
| 1a | Seol Hee Kim | 74,500 |
| 1a | Andrew Phantavong | 66,500 |
| 1a | Hongwei Liu | 33,000 |
Top Two in PKO Keep Their Bounties
It was a pretty long night in the Progressive Knockout game. The field was another huge one, topping out at 114 entries, significantly more than the 75 from the Spring Super Stack version of this event. That meant they were playing for $32,940 in total prizes, with $15,390 of that for the end-of-game payouts and $17,100 in bounties.
They sat down for the action at 6 PM, but it was well after 4 AM when the game ended, and they didn’t even play it out completely. It was a pretty quick run down to the final three players, but action stalled a bit three-handed with all three players dialed into the game.
They played three-handed for almost an hour, and were forced out of the Chrome room into poker after 4 AM. They played about 15 minutes in poker before Tony Ma got it in with a suited ace against king-queen, but couldn’t hold when Ismar Delic-Ibukic found a four-card club flush to send Ma home in third for a score of about $2,800, including his bounty cash.
Immediately after that, Will Smith and Delic-Ibukic looked at the equal payouts for 1st and 2nd, and decided there was no point in playing it out. They each pocketed their own bounty stack, which was $725 for Delic-Ibukic and a whopping $2,900 for Smith, and Smith took the official win as he had the bigger stack when they got heads up.
Results from Event #5: $340 NLH Progressive Knockout
| 1 |  Will Smith | $3,578 |
| 2 | Ismar Delic-Ibukic | $3,578 |
| 3 | Tony Ma | $2,155 |
| 4 | Ryan Down | $1,539 |
| 5 | Jamal Borhot | $1,077 |
| 6 | Sam Masson | $770 |
| 7 | Chandra Thella Raghunath (Prawal) | $693 |
| 8 | Nicholas Saunders | $616 |
| 9 | Ramez Haymour | $539 |
| 10 | Charlene Boustead | $462 |
| 11 | Baowei Sun | $385 |
