No messing around this time, because I ran these stats a few days ago before heading to Seattle for the weekend (no poker! my wife’s birthday!) thinking I’d get it done late at night and I did not. I did get a chance to meet up with my old poker brother Jason Brown at Pike Place Market, though, so this edition is dedicated to him.

Lots of jumping back and forth in the stats here, apparently the Canadian tournament series reported at the beginning of the month led to results from a 2020 getting reported to Hendon Mob, so some of the info here is slow-release. Then, there are some results you’ve probably already heard about from last week that aren’t here but because I ran the Leaderboard scripts on Wednesday,

David Froyalde of Federal Way was the seventh-place finisher in the Venetian DeepStack Showdown #26 $200K GTD NLHE UltimateStack. There were 661 entries. Froyalde moves nearly 150 places up the Leaderboard to #920, and is GPI:7903.

Oner of those 202 results, Viet Do from Calgary was the third-place finisher in last November’s 242-entry Deerfoot 2020 Fall Super Stack #3 NLHE Megastack. It’s Do’s 6th and largest cash. Do (GPI:30,952) moves from #4353 to #2702. The runner-up was Weston Pring, also of Calgary, GPI:5,456 who pops up to #512, more than 140 places.

Matthew Jewett GPI:2,809 of Shoreline, Washington made the final table in ninth place at the $1,100 Wynn Signature Series $500K GTD NLHE. 935 entries made a prize pool of $908K. Jewett rises more than 100 places on the Leaderboard to #591.

Cranbrook, British Columbia’s Timothy Andrew GPI:21,928 was the winner of the Deerfoot 2020 FSS #1 NLHE Deepstack, a C$350 buyin tournament with 306 entries. Andrew goes from #418 to #374.

Found one. The homeland 🇩🇪 is so proud. Can someone please translate this for me. I’m sure it says something about being a massive 70 player field crusher.

Thanks @pokerfirma !https://t.co/zHTZxXDk2f

— Kris Steinbach (@Steiner82) September 6, 2021

Over in Rozvadov in the Czech Republic, Kris Steinbach GPI:1,656 “seigt beim”—as they say—at King’s Casino in a side event of the WSOPC in Europe. 57 player (plus 13 re-entries) made the €1,100 buyin for WSOPC Rozvadov €50K GTD NLHE King’s 1000. There was a 4-way deal. Steinbach moves up 17 places to #260.

On September 11, Kao Saechao was the last player standing of the 113 player $550 NLH $50,000 GTD. Congratulations Flex for winning $17,078 and the trophy!

9/12 Event: 11 a.m. $400 NLH $40K GTD pic.twitter.com/3wBNE7iEbw

— Wynn Poker Room (@WynnPoker) September 12, 2021

Kao “Flex” Saechao was the winner of a trophy for the Wynn Signature Series $50K GTD NLHE on September 11. No stats on this one at the moment, because Hendon Mob gave it to the wrong Kao Saechao.

Calgary’s Cuong Lieu GPI:10,194 jumped nearly 900 places on the Leaderboard to #859 with a best-ever cash in the Deerfoot 2020 FSS #4 NLHE Superstack. There was an even chop of the top two players, out of the 280 entries.

Adam Hendrix (GPI:3) claimed 1st in the PokerMasters #3 PLO, and $10K buyin with 69 entries. It’s enough to move Hendrix two positions on the Leaderboard, to #24.

And, of course, there’s #1 Seth Davies again GPI:73. continuing to put space between himself and everyone else on the Leaderboard, with a win at the Merit Poker Super High Roller Bowl #8 NLHE, a $50K buyin with 14 entries in Cyprus.

making it in just under the wire for midnight!

We’re 29 days away from the start of the WSOP?

Congrats to Joseph Brandenburg for winning the Ante Up World Championship Player of the Year this year at @TVPokerRoom at @Thunder_Valley! https://t.co/dEENUpW69V pic.twitter.com/kMNUZj7kql

— Ante Up Poker Media (@anteupmagazine) August 28, 2021

Congratulations are in order to Joe Brandenberg, whose win of the Big O tournament at the Ante Up Poker Tour World Championship Series at Thunder Valley Casino & Resort, combined with final table spots in the HORSE and FL Omaha Hi-Lo put him in the lead for the Player of the Year, which netted him a free entry to the series’s Main Event and a couple nights at the resort. Portland Big O forever!

The second edition of The Kevmath Report is out. You can read in there about Norman Chad’s #DonkeyCaravan, his plan to play the WSOP’s $25K buyin HORSE tournament; he’s selling pieces on stakekings.com for 1.5 markup, with all of the markup going to the Hope for Depression Research Foundation. I’ve got a piece; here’s hoping that Norm makes it deep and funds my WSOP!

PNW Poker Leaderboard

Lots of news from up north, as some of the first tournament series kicked off in Canada since the pandemic started!

Nohad Tellani of Edmonton (GPI: 10,235) picked up his biggest-ever cash with a win of the Summer Super Stack #7 PLO at Deerfoot Inn & Casino in Calgary. Tellani beat 165 other players in a prize pool of almost C$57K (US$45K). He climbs just over 300 places on the Leaderboard, to #1224.

Another Edmontonian, Malcolm Bolger (GPI: 10,858) took 4th in the Summer Super Stack #2 NLHE Megastack. That event drew 488 entries and made a prize pool of C$232K. Bolger was already #150 on the Leaderboard and rises to #144. Sherwood Park, Alberta’s Kris Steinbach took 2nd, pushing him fifty places up the Leaderboard to #283 (GPI: 3,763).

Talal Shoush of Edmonton (GPI: 6,858) came in 6th in the Summer Super Stack #8 NLHE Superstack. Shoush moves more than 200 places to #828, but he was not the only entry from that tournament (695 players, C$660K prize pool) to make this edition of the Leaderboard. Coming in at 5th was Haowei Pan (GPI: 6,914) from Alberta, picking up their biggest cash to date and debuting on the Leaderboard at #2304. In 3rd was Calgary’s James Yang (GPI: 9,122) picking up their first Hendon Mob result in six years, their largest-ever cash, and debuting on the Leaderboard at #723. Homan Mohammadi of North Vancouver (that would be north of the Vancouver to the north of Vancouver) was the runner-up. He’s GPI: 5,922 and moves from #87 to #79. Alberta-based Diem Tran (GPI: 4,117) was the winner; it’s Tran’s third Hendon Mob result (one of the others was in the PLO tournament above) and by far the largest. His debut on the Leaderboard is at #841.

Straddling both Megastack and Superstack, Calgary’s Zhun Rui Chen placed 3rd in the Megastack before claiming 7th in the Superstack a week later. Chen is GPI: 5,539 and makes a first appearance on the Leaderboard at #904.

Also out of Calgary, Tyler Thomas was the 3rd-place finisher in the 653-entry, C$186K prize pool Summer Super Stack #6 NLHE Deepstack. Thomas is GPI: 9,323 and jumps nearly three hundred spots on the Leaderboard to #984. Toma Raffaul from Alberta (GPI: 22,921) got his first Hendon Mob cash in 2nd place, entering the Leaderboard as #2824, and Lethbridge, Alberta’s Robert McMurren picked up the win and his second-ever cash to jump in at #1829 (GPI: 19,069).

For our last Canadian result of this edition, climbing 370 places on the Leaderboard to #1087 is Omar Stefanini of Coquitlam, British Columbia, who took first place in the Summer Super Stack #5 NLHE/PLO Mix (112 entries, C$53K prize pool. It’s Stefanini’s largest cash GPI: 2,370.

I said Canadian result not Canadian player, right? Because Edmonton player Sam Kim GPI: 14,874 placed 3rd in the World Poker Tour Choctaw #17 NLHE Monster Stack. There were over 700 entries and a prize pool of more than $200K. Kim moves up nearly 1,000 spots on the Leaderboard, to #1544.

And then there was Calgary’s Rey Lee GPI: 2,574 who squeaks onto the Leaderboard with his biggest cash at 20th in the Venetian/WPTDeepstacks $2M GTD NLHE Main Event. Lee climbs 900+ places to #1338.

What about our compatriots south of the border? Well, if it’s a Leaderboard these days, there’s got to be a Christopher Brewer result. Brewer took 2nd in the Merit Poker/PokerGO Super High Roller Bowl Europe #3 NLHE, with 26 entries and 19 re-entries at $25K a pop (assuming that’s on top of the 26; it paid 7 places). Brewer is GPI: 137 and moves up five slots on the Leaderboard, to #21. This finds Brewer moving up past the likes of Elliot Smith, Daniel Idema, Max Young, Doug Lee, and Adam Hendrix.

Brewer still has a way to go to catch #1 on the Leaderboard Seth Davies GPI:45, who continues to put space between himself and the rest of the pack this time. Davies was runner-up in SHRBE #5 NLHE Short Deck and won SHRBE #8 NLHE.