Hey, everybody. I am Kyle Anderson, PokerNews ambassador and Ontario resident. Right here is an replace on every little thing that is occurred within the poker world in Ontario within the final month.
Keep in mind, ON gamers can legally play actual cash poker in Ontario, so PokerNews has give you a listing of the easiest on-line poker websites within the Canadian province. Entry actual poker websites and play totally different video games with poker gamers throughout the state.
What are the large points and tales on everybody’s minds? Let’s get into it.
Deep Runs on the 2024 WSOP
Toronto’s Mike Leah (lead image) made an look on the 2024 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) and he practically claimed the second gold bracelet of his profession. It was in Occasion #45: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E., a match that attracted 181 runners and provided up a $1,683,300 prize pool.
Leah made all of it the best way to heads-up play, however in the end completed runner-up to Russia’s Maksim Pisarenko for $266,658.
One other Ontario participant to make a deep run on the 2024 WSOP was Michael Machugh, who completed fifth out of 1,277 entries in Occasion #15: $1,500 Pot-Restrict Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher. Whereas he fell simply in need of WSOP gold, he had $66,014 in prize cash to take again to Canada.
Ontario Legend Joins WPT World
In my final replace, I reported that Canada’s Patrick “Egption” Tardif had departed as a consultant of GGPoker Ontario.
Nicely, it didn’t take lengthy for him to discover a new residence as on the finish of Might it was revealed that he had signed with WPT World as a model ambassador. He joined a roster that features Xuan Liu, Phil Ivey, Brad Owen, Ethan Yau, Jon Van Fleet, and Angel Guillen.
“I’m keen to hitch WPT World as an envoy,” mentioned Tardif. “WPT World’s dedication to innovation and delivering a world-class poker expertise aligns completely with my ardour for the sport. I am unable to wait to start out connecting with the neighborhood and battle within the enormous tournaments and money video games WPT World has to supply.”
Taridf, a widely known Twitch streamer, graduated from the College of Western Ontario and relocated to South Korea to show English as a overseas language. Nevertheless, he give up his profession as a trainer in 2017 and transitioned full-time to Twitch poker streamer.
Tardif has over $11 million in on-line cashes and has amassed practically $500,000 in match earnings together with a career-best $159,157 for ending second within the 2020 World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview $2,500 Occasion. In 2023, he additionally made a deep run within the record-breaking WSOP Major Occasion inserting 97th out of 10,043 gamers for $78,900.
He’s slated to be on the 2024 WSOP in July, and rumor has it he might even visitor host on an episode of the PokerNews Podcast, which I just lately did. Test it out beneath.
Ontario Participant Claims Venetian DeepStack Title
In different dwell information from Las Vegas on June 16, Ontario’s Jesse Jay Jaurigue topped a discipline of 219 entries to win the Venetian DeepStack Championship Poker Sequence Occasion #33: $1,100 NLH Final Bounty to win $32,256, not together with any bounties he might have collected alongside the best way.
Closing Desk Outcomes
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PokerStars ON Path to NAPT
Proper now, Ontario gamers can declare a free Path to NAPT Step 1 ticket price $0.50. This provide runs each day from now by way of 23:59 ET on October 21, 2024. Every each day provide interval begins at 00:00 ET and ends at 23:59 ET.
Moreover, Summer season Stacks are underway at PokerStars ON, so it’s time to get seated, stack the competitors and declare your share of $900K GTD throughout 100 occasions between now and July 1.
Get warmed up in one of the simplest ways doable for an enormous $75K GTD Major Occasion on June 30, the place you’ll be able to win an superior Gold Go to NAPT Vegas in the event you handle to eclipse the competitors.
Kyle Anderson typically streams his successes on World Poker, goes by the display identify “KAA17” and goals to “assist develop the sport of poker to be enjoyable and inclusive for everybody.” Anderson’s favourite expertise to this point was working deep in a web based match, the place he turned a freeroll right into a $15,488 payday.
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