Phenom7 Wins Big in the Ontario Poker Championships; Main Events Underway

The inaugural PartyPoker Ontario Poker Championships are in full swing, and already more than two dozen Ontarians have become poker champions. However, so far, nobody has won more prize money from a single Ontario Poker Championships event than “Phenom7,” who scooped an impressive $7,530 in one event!

That prize should be blown out of the water once the $50,000 guaranteed Ontario Poker Championships Main Event crowns its champion on September 27.

Ontario Poker Championships #02-HR 7-Max Final Table Results

Event #02-HR saw 43 PartyPoker players buy in for $530 and fight it out for a share of the $25,000 prize pool. Nine places were paid, with “girls5eva” being the player who crashed out in tenth place and was the last player to go home empty-handed as they popped the money bubble.

Their untimely exit locked up a min-cash of $1,267 for the surviving nine players. “GitandSos” and “GirlzNightIn” fell in ninth and eighth-place and secured the aforementioned $1,267.

“Sucra74” was the first casualty of the seven-handed final table, a finish worth $1,368. They are set for another sizeable prize because Sucra74 finds themselves in the top ten chip counts of the $109 buy-in $50,000 guaranteed Main Event! What an incredible run they are on.

“Irishpoet” and “ALHAMDULILLAH” were the next players eliminated. They saw their PartyPoker account balances swell by $1,542 and $1,783, respectively. The same the eliminations of “Iron1557” and “Snoozing.” The ever-increasing pay jumps meant these two grinders walked away with stacks of Canadian dollars weighing in at $2,305 and $3,193.

The final two players neglected to strike a deal despite a difference in prize money of almost $2,800. This meant “CardDeadNit” had to console themselves with a $4,739 runner-up prize, leaving Phenom7 to win the event and the $7,530 first-place payout.

Ontario Poker Championships #22-HR 7-Max Final Table Results

Another High Roller affair ended in a heads-up chop with only two of the 31 entrants remaining. Those 31 starters created a guarantee-busting $15,500 prize pool, and the final two players shared almost $9,000!

Before that happened, Iron1557, the fourth-place finisher in the above mentioned tournament, added a $1,178 sixth-place prize to their lifetime results. “RaiseUpBlind,” “burdd,” and “crotalus” joined the list of busted players, the latter seeing their $530 investment become a chunkier $2,354.

Heads-up ended with the final two players making a deal for the remaining prize money. ALHAMDULILLAH, who finished fifth in the tournament above, officially finished second for $4,278, with “Demarvelous” crowned champion, an accolade that came with $4,616 and the title of champion.

*reflects a heads-up deal

Ontario Poker Championship #73-H Main Event Top 10 Chip Counts

The $109 buy-in $50,000 guaranteed Main Event has seen 101 PartyPoker players buy in so far, but only 14 of those have punched their Day 2 tickets and guaranteed themselves a slice of the prize pool.

Four players have given themselves a great chance of becoming this tournament’s champion by turning their starting stack into more than one million chip. “UltraInstinctPK” (1,100,180), “crotalus” (1,119,829), and “abcs4” (1,151,491) are nicely poised for a deep run, but nobody has more chips right now than “KashStyleZ” who has amassed 1,192,412 betting tokens!

Will you catch the leader this weekend? You could be playing in this amazing, value-packed tournament from as little as $0.01, thanks to the Main Event satellite tree. Good luck!

Ontario Poker Championship #73-M Main Event Top 10 Chip Counts

The medium Main Event has seen 143 players exchange $22 for the chance to become a true poker champion. Five of the 22 players through to Day 2 have progressed with seven-figure stacks and are now on course for a large slice of the $10,000 guaranteed prize pool.

“Colaman75” leads the way with 1,373,871 chips, narrowly ahead of “Harley 1234” on 1,366,058. Others who are part of the million chip club are “Bruce B” (1,273,949), “CHANNA501” (1,034,921), and “woody0333” (1,028,216).

Ontario Poker Championship #73-L Main Event Top 10 Chip Counts

The Low Main Event has proven exceptionally popular with 262 players buying into for $5.50 and helping the $5,000 guarantee edge ever closer. Of those 262 starters, 39 are safely through to the business end of the tournament.

A special mention must go to “whaleshark1” who is the only PartyPoker Ontario player to break through the magical two million chip barrier across all three events. They return to Main Event action behind a pile of chips worth 2,027,749!

Three other players ended their Low Main Event flight with more than 1.5 million chips. A doff of the cap to “the_chach” (1,731,464), “dawiczma” (1,655,564), and “Leaf4Yoshi” (1,548,946).