Four more trophies were awarded at Pure Casino Yellowhead on Monday & Tuesday this week, including a second trophy for Ross Wilson in Monday’s PLO Double Board Bomb Pot. The NLH Big Bounty, plus two side games, also played out over the last couple of days of action at this second edition of the 2026 Pure Poker Tour.
Event #7 was an unusual format, running for the first time on the PPT. With Bomb Pots every hand, there was a lot of action through the night, and the game drew a solid crowd of 93 entries for more than $35k in prizes.
Event #8 was an NLH side game on Monday night, and drew a field of 95 entries for prizes just over $27k. Tuesday’s actiop saw the NLH Big Bounty with 70 entries for combined prizes of $33,250, while the side game was the NLH Deepstack Hyper with 73 entries for prizes of almost $21k.
Ross Wilson Bags Second Trophy, Both with 4 Cards
Event #7: $450 PLO Double Board Bomb Pot ($400 + $50)
- Entries: 93
- Prizes: $35,340
- Winner (1st Place): Ross Wilson ($10,250)
The PLO Double Board Bomb Pot game was a new format for the PPT this time around, and it seems to be a popular game. With 93 entries, it was one of the biggest single-day entries of the entire series, and the second biggest prize pool, behind only the multi-flight Event #3.
It took about 8 hours to play into the money spots, and the game hit the final table about 20 minutes later, after Keith Stick bubbled the final nine. The first part of the final table went pretty quickly, with the game down to 5 left within an hour of hitting the FT.
Darren Eckel and Jody Fayant then hit the rail in quick succession to bring it to three. Fayant is one of the players battling Wilson for the Player of the Series title, and after this result, he was in second place, about 60 points behind Wilson.
Andrew Breton followed about 10 minutes later, setting up the final phase between Tina Nguyen & Wilson. Nguyen is among the toughest PLO cash game players in the region, and the two settled in for a long heads-up.
For the first half hour or so, they traded chopped pots, and the chips stayed relatively similar, with Nguyen a slight dog. After about an hour of two-handed play, Nguyen chipped up to about a 2:1 lead, but Wilson chipped into her lead to take it back about 90 minutes after the final phase began.
The final hand came about half an hour later, with Wilson scooping both sides. He found two pair on the top, then improved to a club flush, with a full house on the bottom by the river.
Final Results for the PLO Double Board Bomb Pot
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Ross Wilson | $10,250 |
| 2 | Tina Nguyen | $7,070 |
| 3 | Andrew Breton | $4,595 |
| 4 | Jody Fayant | $3,535 |
| 5 | Darren Eckel | $2,720 |
| 6 | Raji Said | $2,155 |
| 7 | Benny Sarnelli | $1,695 |
| 8 | Dagan Maxwell | $1,340 |
| 9 | James Seetoo | $1,095 |
| 10 | Keith Stick | $885 |
George Mounsef Wins One, with a Little Help from a Friend
Event #8: $340 NLH ($300 + $40)
- Entries: 95
- Prizes: $27,075
- Winner (1st Place): George Mounsef ($7,000 after deal)
Most of this game played out while Event #7 was running, so I wasn’t able to catch much action until they got seven-handed at the final table. That was seven hours into the game, but they still had a few hours to play before George Mounsef was hoisting the trophy.
Stefan Maloney was short-stacked earlier in the night, and I heard him “praying for a min-cash”. He managed to do a bit better than that, ending his run in 7th place for $1,300.
Eric Wasylenko followed shortly after, and Sandy Lam hit the cage about five minutes later after her suited-cinnector shove was capped by Mounsef’s pocket tens. About 10 minutes later, John Hubensky sent his chips over to Mounsef, when his trip jacks had Hubensky drawing dead on the turn.
They moved to the poker room shortly after Hubensky’s bust to play out the final three. Tyler Foran found a double after the move before Ron Lauzon ended his day in 3rd place.
Foran was the short stack heads up, but he managed to double up and grab the lead by the final break of the night. Mounsef fought back, taking the lead back when he rivered a boat, and he took it down in the following hand with a heart flush against Foran’s pocket sevens. Foran and Mounsef agreed on a deal when they got a heads-up that reduced the winner’s share to $7k, bumping up second place accordingly.
Mounsef doesn’t always play the lower buy-in games in these series, but he has an interesting way of deciding whether or not to play. He flips two Ryan Snides Memorial chips, and if they both land showing Ryan’s face, he plays. Monday was a double-Snides day, so perhaps Mounsef had a little help from our departed friend.
Final Results from Event #8
| Player | Place | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Mounsef | $7,000* |
| 2 | Tyler Foran | $6,270* |
| 3 | Ron Lauzon | $3,520 |
| 4 | John Hubensky | $2,705 |
| 5 | Sandy Lam | $2,085 |
| 6 | Eric Wasylenko | $1,650 |
| 7 | Stefan Maloney | $1,300 |
| 8 | Resul Dauti | $1,030 |
| 9 | Weston Pring | $840 |
| 10 | Colten Yamagishi | $675 |
Jordan Banfield Wins NLH Big Bounty Trophy
Event #9: $560 NLH Big Bounty ($300 + $200 + $60)
- Entries: 70
- Prizes: $33,250 ($19,250 prizes, $14,000 bounties)
- Winner (1st Place): Jordan Banfield ($4,942 after Deal)
It took about 11.5 hours to decide the winner in Tuesday’s Big Bounty game, but the final three players decided to cut a deal to make it that short. After a couple of three-way hands, the stacks evened out, and they decided to make an even chop of the money, with Jordan Banfield taking the trophy and the win.
It took about 9 hours to hit the final table, but they still had two more players to get through before the seven paid spots. It took about an hour to play into the money, and things went pretty quickly after that.
After Banfield sent Brett Doty home for fourth (after Doty had been the leader to start the final table), the deal was made to end the game. They didn’t play it down, instead awarding the trophy to Banfield. Note that the second-place player in this one requested that their name and picture not be used.
Final Results for NLH Big Bounty
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jordan Banfield | $4,942* |
| 2 | Dnr | $4,942* |
| 3 | Nadav Bitton | $4,942* |
| 4 | Brett Doty | $1,925 |
| 5 | Michael St. Pierre-Porter | $1,155 |
| 6 | Jay Foong | $770 |
| 7 | Gerald Chung | $575 |
Riol Sherifi Bags First Trophy in NLH Deepstack Hyper
Event #10: $340 NLH Deepstack Hyper ($300 + $40)
- Entries: 73
- Prizes: $20,805
- Winner (1st Place): Riol Sherifi ($7,070)
As befits the format, the Deepstack Hyper game finished after just over 7 hours of play. I wasn’t able to catch much of the early action until play was three-handed, as I was watching Event #9 more closely.
They got to the final three players just before 1 AM, but by 1:15 AM, it was all over. Mike Aloneissi lost a race with pocket fives against ace-seven for the eventual winner, Riol Sherifi, to set up heads-up play.
The final two players talked about a deal, but in the end, they decided to just play it out for the advertised prizes. Just a few hands into the heads-up phase, Sherifi woke up with a suited king and shoved the button with the big stack. Jarret Gray was ahead with a suited ace, but Sherifi flopped a flush draw and rivered the spades to take it down.
He said after the game that it was his first live win, and it’s easy to tell from the winner’s photos that he was pretty excited to get a trophy along with it.
Final Results from Deepstack Hyper
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riol Sherifi | $7,070 |
| 2 | Jarret Gray | $4,785 |
| 3 | Mike Aloneissi | $3,120 |
| 4 | Justin Pennell | $2,080 |
| 5 | James Seetoo | $1,375 |
| 6 | Lap Chi Duong | $1,000 |
| 7 | Leon Doublet | $770 |
| 8 | John Buck | $605 |
