The Sunday action on the PPT included the conclusion of the opening multi-flight game of the series, as well as the Big Bounty game in the evening on the side. There were 27 players returning for Day 2 of Event #3, after a starting field of 209 entries and total prizes of $119,130.
About an hour after Day 2 got underway, the Big Bounty kicked off with 8 levels of late entry. By the time the desk closed, they got 94 entries for combined prizes of $44,650 ($25,850 prizes, $18,800 bounties). That led into a fairly late night that saw play go on until almost 4 AM before they finally finished.
David Boyer Bags First Trophy
- Event #3: $670 NLH
- Entries: 209
- Prizes: $119,130
- Winner: David Boyer ($22,905)
After two opening flights on Friday and Saturday, Day 2 of Event #3 played through the money spots on Sunday. With 85 entries on 1a and 124 on 1b, the final tally was 209 entries for prizes of just under $120k.
Defending champion Jimmy Lee started the day with the most chips, with Garry Sandhu in second and David Boyer in 3rd. About 8 hours later, the final three players were pretty much the same, just in reverse order, as Lee had to settle for third, and Sandhu fell in heads-up to Boyer.
All three of the big stacks maintained their positions throughout the day, jostling around a bit as the day wore on but none of them ever in real danger. The final table was pretty stacked with Ryan Comely, Cameron Stewart, Alex Liu, and Matthew Ouellette among the other players in the final nine.
Lee was on track to repeat for much of the early final table, but he ran into a huge cooler against Boyer when Boyer hit aces full with ace-king, and Lee doubled him up to more than 2 million chips. That left Lee very short, but he still managed to ladder up a couple of spots, surviving to watch Stewart and Comely hit the rail before him.
Lee ultimately bowed out in 3rd place when he got his short stack in with paint, but ran into ace-king for Sandhu. Both players ended up with a heart flush after the board, but Sandhu was biggest to send Lee out in 3rd.
That set up a topsy-turvy heads-up match that saw both players with chances to win it. Both players were at risk at some points before doubling back into it. In the final confrontation, the money went in after a limp-raise from Boyer, who then called off the shove from Sandhu.
It was roughly a flip with Boyer on ace-five against the jack-nine for Sandhu. Boyer turned his ace and grabbed his first-ever live win.
Final Table Results from Event #3
Full prizes are under the Payouts tab on the Live Reporting page.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  David Boyer | $22,905 |
| 2 | Garry Sandhu | $16,275 |
| 3 | Jimmy Lee | $10,965 |
| 4 | Ryan Comely | $7,995 |
| 5 | Cameron Stewart | $6,325 |
| 6 | Holly Lingel | $5,315 |
| 7 | Alex Liu | $4,540 |
| 8 | Mike Aloneissi | $3,825 |
| 9 | Matthew Ouellette | $3,110 |
Thomas Woodburn Gets First Trophy in Big Bounty
- $560 NLH Big Bounty
- Entries: 94
- Prizes: $44,650 ($25,850 prizes, $18,800 bounties)
- Winner: Thomas Woodburn ($6,335 after HU Deal)
The side game on Sunday was the Big Bounty with $200 bounties. It took nearly 14 hours of play to make it through the 94 entries and decide the winner.
Mishel Nguyen was the chip leader when they got to the final table, but she seemingly went card dead once they were down to just the single table. Eventual winner Thomas Woodburn took over the lead when he found a huge double through Zeyu Huang. Woodburn got it in with pocket jacks for a race against ace-king, and Huang couldn’t find the overs he needed to crack the johnnies. Huang then hit the rail for 6th after he got his short stack in with eights, only for Johnny Dalphond to wake up with aces in the big blind and hold.
Nguyen was next to fall, after she couldn’t hold against Preston Stevenson. It was a race between pocket fives for Stevenson and king-queen for Nguyen, and she nailed her queen on the flop, looking good to double and stay alive. Stevenson rivered a third five, however, to crush her dreams and send her home in 5th place.
Stevenson then got it in with the “dead man’s hand”, and it proved prophetic. Ken Kaneda called him down with king-ten and turned a ten to send Stevenson out in 4th.
That set a fairly long three-way game between Dalphond, Kaneda, and Woodburn, with Woodburn on the big stack the whole way. It took a while for them to send Dalphond home in 3rd place, and as soon as they did, Kaneda and Woodburn decided to chop the money down the middle and then flip for the trophy.
As it turned out, they needn’t have agreed to the “flip” as the next hand dealt was pocket threes against king-ten, a hand that almost certainly would have gotten all in preflop anyway, regardless of the deal. Woodburn hit his king on the flop, and that was all he needed to crack the treys for Kaneda. Both Kaneda and Woodburn earned $6,335 for prizes (plus $1,600 for 8 bounties each), but Woodburn was the one to take home the trophy for his mantle.
Final Results from the Big Bounty
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas Woodburn | $6,335* |
| 2 | Ken Kaneda | $6,335* |
| 3 | Johnny Dalphond | $3,360 |
| 4 | Preston Stevenson | $2,585 |
| 5 | Mishel Nguyen | $1,990 |
| 6 | Zeyu Huang | $1,576 |
| 7 | Sal Haji | $1,240 |
| 8 | Razvan Radu | $982 |
| 9 | Shane Hall | $801 |
| 10 | Denis Mujcin | $646 |
