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Updated: January 25, 2026

 

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Next Event: Event #9 $100 NLH

Date Time: 7pm Friday, Feb 6

Location: Guildford Golf & Country Club, 7929 152 St, Surrey BC

Darren: darrenkennedydk@gmail.com (425-551-9889)

 

 

Online Weekly: $50 NLH and $25 HORSE (DHPL Online)

Date Time: EVERY MONDAY 7pm

Location: PokerStars

 

 (all start times 7pm except 6pm for TORSE & Mystery Bounty and the Final 5:30pm start)

  1. xSaturday, Sept 20 NLH
  2. Friday, Oct 17 NLH
  3. Saturday, Oct 18 PINEAPPLE
  4. Saturday, Nov 1 NLH
  5. Friday, Nov 7 (NO PTS - $300 TORSE)
  6. Saturday, Nov 8 NLH
  1. Friday, Jan 23 NLH
  2. Saturday, Jan 24 CRAZY PINEAPPLE
  3. Friday, Feb 6 NLH
  4. Friday, Feb 27 NLH
  5. Friday, Mar 20 (NO PTS - $500 NLH MYSTERY)
  6. Friday, Mar 27 NLH

 

 

BONUS EVENTS

Nov 7 - $300 TORSE Mixed Game 6PM START

Mar 20 - $500 Mystery Bounty 6PM START

 

LEAGUE FINAL

  1. Friday, Apr 10 LEAGUE FINAL Day 1

Saturday, Apr 11 LEAGUE FINAL Day 2

Regular tourneys are $100 buyin with up to one rebuy in first 4 levels (20 min levels)

 

January 25, 2026, Mystery Bounty on Mar 20th Now a $500 Tourney

Last years $300 Mystery Bounty had 94 players, 59 rebuys for 153 entries. So clearly we should be fine moving that up to a $500 entry. Therefore that is exactly what I am doing.

 

January 25, 2026, Chris Le wins and Darren Kennedy takes the 10,000 points in Event #8 Crazy Pineapple

Our second ever non NLH tourney for points saw some fun action. I would say that Crazy Pineapple was more quickly adapted to than regular Pineapple as everyone got their footing after a few levels of play. We saw some good play and some bad play but I think overall people enjoyed rethinking the game. I watched Zach Nicholls lay down pocket Kings to pocket Aces. Mike Honeyman and Mike Hill had the biggest stacks from about 4 tables down to 2 and seemed to be cruising along, but things change fast. Both of the mamde the final table but Hill would fall in 9th and Honeyman in 5th. Cindy Chen finished 4th in Pineapple and also cashed the night before in NLH in 14th. 85 people and 96 buyins was a great turnout given it was the second night of a back-to-back and it was a non-holdem game. Christina Armstrong made the final table both nights being the only player to accomplish that feat this weekend. But the most important feat of the weekend was myself getting 10,000 points for only the third time in the history of Die Hard. Felt great, though I wanted to take down Chris Le and win it, but second place still put a smile on my face.

 

January 25, 2026, Jesse Spencer and Jesse Forster Chop Event #7

Great turnout Friday night saw 108 players and 120 entries in Event #7. Lots of fun had and in the end we saw Jesse Spencer take the 10,000 points and the win, with Jesse Forster chopping first place money. Kelly Lange finished third and received 8000 points.

 

January 12, 2026, Pamela Lafleur Final Tables Seniors and other Die Harders results at WSOP in Calgary

Huge congrats to Pamela Lafluer who finished 5th for $7759 in the Seniors Event. Sadly she finished just one spot from tying her husband Ivan Mahoods 2022 finish in the same event. Ivan also cashed this years seniors.

 

While that was going on Pat Woelk made a deep run in the $600 NLH just busting shy of the Final Table in 11th spot and cashing in for $2508 to go along with his earlier min cash of $801

 

Great start in Calgary with multiple cashes to go with those two deep runs. The series is just warming up and a bunch of our guys have just arrived or are arriving tomorrow so expect big things throughout the week!!

 

All Die Hard Cashes I know of so far: 

 

EVENT 1-3

No Die Hard cashes

 

EVENT 4: $400 Min Main Day 1C – 491 players

74th Ivan Mahood $806

 

EVENT 4: $400 Min Main Day 1D – 916 players

103rd Pat Woelk $801

118th Adi Aggarwal $801

 

EVENT 5: $600 Mystery Bounty – 457 players

46th Sean Cardoso $746 + $1200 bounties

 

EVENT 6: $400 Seniors NLH – 539 players

5th Pamela Lafleur $7759

76th Ivan Mahood $807

 

EVENT 7: $600 NLH – 423 players

11th Pat Woelk $2508

43rd Justin Salero $1291

 

EVENT 8: $1000 NLH – 440 players

No Die Hard cashes

 

EVENT 9: $500 NLH Progressive Bounty – 399 players

These 3 are currently playing and all have just made the cash as of 10pm Monday night.

??th Chris Watson $

??th Nate Rajakumar $

??th Pamela Lafleur $

 

November 7, Die Hard Poker Merch Store is Active!

Hey guys. We have activated the Die Hard Poker Merch store again

 

DIE HARD MERCHANDISE STORE

 

Get your orders in as soon as possible as store will only be open for two weeks. Please tell everyone to order and note that we plan to close the store on November 17th so we can get orders in and delivered hopefully before Christmas.

 

November 8, Congrats to Everett Wicklund for Winning Event #6. Justin Salero took Second Place

Back to the regular NLH and a field of 103 players resulting in a contested battle to the end. A lot of familiar regulars at the Final table. Long time DHPLers Roger, Honeyman, Everett, Nishi, And Ted Hill were all there. Sprinkled in amongst some players newer to the league like Issa Shaw, Barb Blanchard, Dave Aplas and Anoop Randhawa. Nice work all of you.

 

November 7, Congrats to MYSELF, Darren Kennedy for chopping Event #5 $300 TORSE with Roman Pereyaslavsky.

Faisal Al Qutub gets 3rd and Christina Armstrong and impressive 4th place finish. Zaph Pages 5th, Henry Oh, 6th and Danny Bajaj got 7th. It was super fun to play some mixed games again. 36 entries made the prize pool as big as a typical Die Hard with first being $3200. It got chopped so 1-2 got $2700 each.

 

November 2, Congrats to Faisal Al Qutub for Winning Event #4 and Tyler Marples for 2nd Place and the 10,000 Points

A smaller turnout due to the World Series Game 7 saw 98 entries. Battles ensued and while everyone except Roger mourned the Jays loss in extra innings, the poker continued. Congrats to Roger’s Dodgers for the big win. As for the poker, I miscounted by 9 early on and got really confused thinking we had 107 entries and was convinced 9 people left without telling me until I recounted the entries on the sheet and the money in my pocket. Once that was sorted we seemed to get into the points quicker than the average night. Congrats to those that pointed. The Final table saw a lot of the usual suspects. The finish order went: Faisail, Tyler, Terry, Mike Andrews (NL), Reza, Zach, Pat, Tosca, Keith, and John Clark.

 

October 18, Jeff Hall and Linda Brine Chop First Ever Die Hard Pineapple Tourney, Event #3

We decided to try something other than NLH and the results were decidedly favourable with the majority of players really enjoying trying a new game. 97 entries was nothing to sneeze at and Jeff Hall ended up with the win giving him back to back nights of 8000 and 10000 points. That is one VERY productive die hard points weekend. Linda Brine chopped the cash with Jeff and 3rd through 5th included Duane Dobbs (on rebuy), Eric Ruttan and Michelle Owen. Great job everyone. There were of course a few hiccups with the new game, primarily with a lot of rulings of dead hands because players did not discard one card before the flop was brought. Growing pains for sure. We also had two separate situations where it was headsup to the flop and BOTH players had not discarded. These resulted in pot being chopped up. Thanks everyone for being open to trying out a new game.

 

Next event is back to NLH.

 

October 17, Jason Livingston and Andrew Krywaniuk (10K pts) Chop Event #2

A massive 108 players showed up fro Event #2. With another 14 rebuys added on we had 122 entries. We moved starting stack to 16K and it seemed to work well as we finished 45 minutes earlier than Event #1’s 17K start stack. Hopefully we have found our sweet spot. Congrats to first timer Jason Livingston on winning the event. Right behind him was a lot of long term and familiar faces as 2nd to 5th went to Andrew Krywaniuk, Jeff Hall, Pat Woelk and Evan Horton

 

October 9, Fantasy Picks and Standings Updated

Please verify your picks are correct and that I didn’t miss you completely. I will have all the filled-out sheets with me at next event in case you think something is wrong. It was a lot to input so mistakes could have happened.

 

October 7, Chris Potter Wins a WSOP Ring in Calgary

Massive congrats to Die Hard Player Chris Potter who just won a WSOP Ring by wining Event #9 $500 NLH Progressive KO. He outlasted a field of 325 players, and took home $13,183 for first place plus another $17,300 in bounties to total about $30.5K on top of the ring and $5K package to the Bahamas.

 

Potter was wearing some Die Hard gear and WSOP reporter Lyle Bateman noticed giving some love our way. Way to represent the league Chris!!! Chris becomes the 5th member with a ring, joining Henry Oh, Danny Bajaj, Darren Kennedy and Sean Cardoso as holders of coveted WSOP rings.

 

Full write up from Lyle can be found here:

2025 WSOPC Calgary Oct - Event #9: $500 NLH Progressive K.O. - PokerPro – online poker – live poker – cash games poker

 

Lots of other successes in Calgary this past week including Doug Cornelson’s 5th place finish in the $1K Turbo. Doug also finished 16th in the event Chris Potter won.

 

And the second biggest cash in Calgary so far goes to Reza Yazdani who finished 5th out of 1668 players in the $400 Mini Main for $20,219. Impressive work Reza.

 

Event #1 $400 NLH

8th Jeremy Skinner $2,440

12th Vikram Gill $1,238

Event #3 $400 NLH Black Chip Bounty

25th Chris Watson $610

40th Sean Cardoso $522

Event #4 $400 NLH Min Main

5th Reza Yazdani $20,219

Event #5 $600 NLH Mystery Bounty

24th Chris Watson $908

Event #6 $400 Seniors NLH

12th Ted Hill $1,614

35th Martin Sayle $978

70th Alan Schmelzel $748

Event #7 $800 TORSE

12th Henry Oh $1,578

Event #9 $500 NLH PKO

1st Chris Potter $13,183 + $17,300 bounties

16th Doug Cornelson $650 + $500 bounties

Event #11 $1000 NLH Turbo

5th Doug Cornelson $7,839

Event #12 $2200 Main Event

45th Vikram Gill $6821

47th Harry Aujla $6821

117th Kevin Kelso $5024

Event #13 $250 FlipnGo

21st Anoop Randhawa $765

32nd Brad Wilson $632

38th Vikram Gill $632

Event #14 $400 PLO Black Chip Bounty

9th Harry Aujla $1193

Event #16 $500 NLH

3rd Vikram Gill $11,946

 

21 cashes for $104,161, 6 Final Tables and 1 Ring!

 

October 4, 2025 Darren Kennedy 2 Final Tables in Europe

I entered 3 tournaments in Europe this past week and was able to Final Table 2 of them.

I finished 7th place (of 90) for €4,545 in the €1,650 High Roller NLH in Utrecht, Netherlands, then busted just shy of the money (out 42/250 when 35 paid) in the €1,100 NLH Main in Hamburg, Germany before cashing 6th (of 45) in €1,100 PLO High Roller for €2,890. Felt good to have some deep runs.

 

October 3, 2025 Adi Aggarwal comes in 4th in Osaka, Japan’s $250 Mystery Bounty!

Huge congrats to Adi for finishing in 4th place of 315 players in Osaka. Amazing work. He got some love in their twitter feed as well. Great picture and glad to see you rocking the Die Hard hat!

 

September 20, 2025 Kosta Theodosakis beats Allan Foster to take Event #1

Solid turnout with 110 entries into event 1 saw newcomer to the league Kosta Theodosakis hold off Allan Foster after a 30-40 minutes headsup battle. Eric Ruttan finished 3rd and Tosca Lueks was 4th. Adi Aggarwal 5th, Jim Prime 6th, John Romanowski 7th, Pat Woelk 8th, Chris McDonell 9th and Cindy Chen 10th rounded out our first final table of the season.

 

Fun night and can’t wait for October 17th when we have back-to-back nights of poker.

 

September 12, 2025 One Week From Start of Die Hard Poker Season

We are just one week away from the start of the next Die Hard Poker Season. We have 102 paid players at this time. Room for a max of 6 more. We start at 7pm but please try and show up 30 minutes prior to buyin and make my life easier. Parking is always tough early in the pokerseason as the golfers are still out in droves.

 

Also we have posted up the Annual DHPL Fantasy pick-em pool where you can bet on who you think might do the best in this years Die Hard League. Entries are $100 each. I will bring copies printed out to the first event but you can also print it out yourself and bring your filled out copy along with $100 to the first event. Obviously totally optional. Players are grouped by Die Har Poker Index ratings.

 

July 9, 2025 Day 4 Results: Zach Nicholls Cashed in 993rd for $20,000

Huge congrats to Zach who was able to cash in the WSOP Main Event. Even better, he did it as a winner of the Die Hard league meaning we all got a small rebate from last years league fees. Everyone will be getting money back ($60 CAD or $40 USD your choice).

 

Zach entered the day with 147,000 chips and fell to 30,000 before rebounding up to 285,000 and a very playable stack. He ran Aq into AA of a short stack which was unfortunate. In the end he bust holding 66 into TT. But what an amazing run. Congrats Zach. You join Guy Bottin as are only other Main Event seat winner to actually cash in the Main. The league is now 2 for 22 in Main Event tries.

 

July 21, 2025 Now Taking Names for Our Next Season!

I am currently working on the dates for our new season but as always it will be between September and early April. We will have 10 league dates, one league final and 2 bonus events that won’t count toward league points.

 

Please note that there will be some changes. The 10 league events will include:

8 No Limit Holdem tourneys,

1 Pineapple (start with 3 cards and discard one preflop and then basically play holdem from there),

1 Crazy Pineapple (same as Pineapple but you discard AFTER the flop instead of before).

The buyin is $700 CAD (or $500 USD) to account for the exchange rate change we saw last year (up form $650 last year).

The bonus events will likely be a $300 Mixed Game (likely TORSE) and a $300 Mystery Bounty

The League Final will be split into 2 days to allow for deeper play, with the goal to bring back 3 tables (24 players) for Day 2 and do a complete redraw.

 

Anyone looking to play this coming season, please email me @ darrenkennedydk@gmail.com and let me know. This year you will need to pay the $700 CAD ($500 USD) league fees no later than Aug 7th either via etransfer or cash direct to Darren to lock up your seat. If you haven’t sent money by then I will open up your spot to new players on waiting list.

 

The way we are working priority as always is to give returning players first crack at it.

 

Priority List:

1.     League members from 2024-25

2.     League members from prior seasons

3.     Players that have played Die Hard Poker Events before

4.     Players that have not played but are recommended by current players

5.     Other players.

 

In past seasons we have never turned away a player wanting to join the league but we are dangerously close to being full.

 

PAYMENT DUE BY AUG 7. If you were in the league last year just send $640 as I owe everyone $60 CAD from Zach’s WSOP ME cash.

 

As of Aug 10th, priority list is now just first come first served. We are at max of 108 assuming the 37 players who have not paid yet all pay up in the next few days. Anyone not paid up by Aug 15 will be removed from the confirmed list and goto the waiting list.

 

List Updated as of Oct 24 (102 total) – room for up to 6 more

 

Players Guaranteed Seat

THEY HAVE PAID

 

Players Guaranteed Seat

THEY HAVE PAID

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Alan Schmetzel-4

Allan Foster

Andrew Creed

Andrew Krywaniuk

Andy Goosen

Anoop Randhawa

Antonia Baker-4

Barb Blanchard-3

Barrie Wetzel

Bob Bell-3

Bobbi Frost

Brad Wilson

Bradley Johnson-5

Brant Taylor

Brent Senko

Chris McDonell

Chris Nishi

Chris Potter

Chris Searles

Chris Watson

Chris Watts

Christina Armstrong

Cindy Chen

Cody Hurlburt

Corey Chan-3

Corey Maitz-5

Dan Molatore

Darren Kennedy

Daryl Fowler-4

Dave Aplas

Dave Palmer-3

Dave Sims

Don Krekoski

Doug Armstrong

Doug Cornelson

Duane Dobbs-4

Dylan Ruocco

Eric Ruttan

Eric Weber

Everett Wicklund

Graham Spence

Harry Aujla

Henry Oh

Issa Shaw-3

Iven Chen-3

Ivan Mahood-2

Jamie Hucul

Jason Nadeau

 

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Jeff Roberts

Jeremy Skinner

Jesse Spencer-2

Jim Prime

John Clark

John Hooper

Johnny Dai

John Romanowski

Julian Coca-3

Kal Kooner

Kate Mitevska-2

Keith Fisher

Kelli Cera

Kelly Lange

Kosta Theodosakis-4

Marc Belland

Martin Sayle

Melanie Romanowski

Michelle Owen

Mike Baker

Mike Hill

Mike Honeyman

Mike McManus

Mike Mittermuller

Mike Pruessman

Mike Twitchell

Mo Pannun

Nikola Mitevski-2

Pamela Lafleur-3

Pat Woelk

Paul Anaka

Paul Deol

Piers Wylie

Raj Parmar-2

Reza Yazdani-3

Roger Grosset

Ryan Freeman

Scott Brynen-2

Sean Cardoso-4

Shawn Lange

Spiro Pegios

Steve McLarty

Steven Bakx

Ted Hill

Terry Goode

Tosca Lueks

Trevor Massey

Ty Duong

Tyler Marples

Wendy Dunning-4

Wray Jones

Zach Nicholls

Ben Walker

Bob Lisle

Chris Flaman

Chris Latourelle

Colton Kroeker

Danny Bajaj

Deepak Bhasin

Dennis Neels

Don Thrasher

Evan Horton

Faisal AlQutub

Gordie Clark

Greg Lock

Greg Rankich

Guy Bottin

Ish Francis

James Tichenor

Jason Makowski

Joey Blake

Johanne Glyn-Jones

Jordan Kroeker

Kal Singh

Martin Todosychuk

Robert Brechin

Romica Mikhailov

Ryan Fountain

Sam Raz

Travis Wiens

 

 

 

July 8, 2025 Day 3 Results: Darren, Brant, Watts fall and Zach Makes it Through to Day 4

Day 3 is the day you need to make it through to get into the money. The day concluded only 15 spots from the money and there was Zach Nicholls sitting with chips still. He is virtually guaranteed to make the money at this point probably only having to fold a lap or two to make it.

 

At first break of Day 3 Counts:

DK: 114,000

Zach: 160,000

Chris: 121,000

Brant: busted

 

At second break of Day 3 Counts:

DK: 135,000

Zach: 348,500

Chris: 96,000

 

At third break (dinner) of Day 3 Counts:

Zach: 248,000

DK: busted

Chris: busted

 

At 4th break of Day 3 Counts:

Zach: 140,000

 

End of Day 3 Counts:

Zach 147,000

 

Sadly, for the rest of us, our dream ended. Brant, Watts and I all feel prior to dinner break. Painful exit for me as I built up to over 200K chips before 3 successive hands destroyed the dream. I had Aces and got shoved on for my last 130K on the river on a dry looking board and ultimately chose to fold, I built back to 165K and then flopped a set of deuces on A23ddxKd8x board and also folded a shove. Finally, I had AQ on A856 board and somehow my opponent rolled over the 47 for a turned gutterball after there was a halfpot bet on the flop.

 

Brant was relatively short most of the day but worked magic with his shortstack until eventually falling when he shoved cutoff and played behind woke up with AK.

 

Chris Watts was able to build a stack well over 150K  and was cruising good for awhile. Some setbacks brought him down to the 90K range and his final hand was AsAd allin on KsJsTs vs KhQs. Board ran out T9 and his opponent won with the straight. Painful exit, but great run for Chris.

 

 

 

July 8, 2025 Day 2D Concludes: Darren, Brant, Watts and Zach Move to Day 3. Andy, Sam and Georg Fall

Day 2 of the WSOP Main Event has started for me. We are 2 hours in and on first break. Started the day with 95,100 and currently sitting at 118,400. Couple nice hands and a couple bad ones but the big hand was AKhh > KK of a shortstack. I hit the Ace on the River ala Barry Greenstein and KO’d the unlucky soul. I also ultimate coolered another player when I got AA vs KK aipf to KO him. My time would get worse throughout the day as I was move to an extremely tough table where Matt Matros and Jameson Painter gave me all sorts of problems. Form WSOP ME Final Tablers Garry Gates and Eoghan Odea also made things interesting. But although I dropped from highpoint of 187K I managed to climb back from the 120K range to finish at 156,000 going into tomorrow which is right around the average and good for 62 BBs to start the day.

 

Zach had the most impressive climb of the day moving up 53,700 to end the day at 180,000 putting himself in a great spot for Day 3. Chris Watts also did well early on moving his 77K stack up to 140K at one point before sliding to end the day at 85,000. Brant was on a tough table and didn’t have chips to play with. He lost a pot early and was down to 16K and just worked and grinded the shortstack all day. He survived and has 31,500 chip which is still 13 BBs going into today. No quit in that guy.

 

Today is Day 3 and we should either reach the money or be very close by end of day today. We play until 12:30am tonight. Fingers crossed for some rungood for our 4 remaining players.

 

From Day 2

At first break

DK: 118,400

Andy: 51,000

Brant: 56,000

Sam: 95,000

Zach: 68,000

Watts: 60,000

 

At second break

DK: 187,200

Andy: 21,600

Brant: 16,200

Sam: 48,200

Zach: 55,000

Watts: 99,200

Georg: 40,000

 

Dinner Break Counts:

DK: 141,100

Brant: 22,500

Zach: 73,500

Watts: 125,000

Sam: Busted

Andy: Busted

Georg: Busted

 

4th Break Counts:

DK: 131,000

Brant: 38,000

Zach: 97,000

Watts: 148,500

 

End of Day 2D Counts:

DK: 156,000

Brant: 31,500

Zach: 180,000

Watts: 85,000

One hand, one level, one day at a time!!

 

July 6, 2025 Everett and Faisal Out of WSOP Main Event on Day 2ABC

One of our league winners Everett Wicklund entered Day 2ABC with 48,000 chips (60BBs) but was just not able to find the tracation. He got the stack up to 77,000 a few hours into the day but couldn’t keep it going and eventually got his last chips in and lost with QJ to AQ for 5-6 BBs around 9pm. GG Everett, you did us porud!

 

Faisal entered the day with just 9,000 chips but he found an early double and then bob and weaved and built it up to 48,000 before dropping down to the 30K range. Sadly he lost his chips when TT ran into Aces preflop late in the day to bust.

 

Today is Day 2D with Chris Watts, Zach, Sam, Darren, Brant, Andy, and Georg all ready to go today.

 

July 6, 2025 Die Harders Begin the WSOP Main Event

On Friday we had 2 Die Harders play the Main Event with winner Everett Wicklund and Faisal Al Qutub entering Day 1C. Both would make it through the day but both will enter Day 2 with less than starting stack.

Everett Wicklund 48,000 (60 BBs)

Faisal Al Qutub 9,000 (11 BBs)

 

On Saturday we had 7 more players entering Day 1D with winners Zach Nicholls and Chris Watts playing along with Brant Taylor, Sam Raz, Danny Bajaj, Darren Kennedy and Georg Jancez. Danny would unfortunately bust out after dinner but the rest of us made it through the day with the following stacks:

Georg Jancez: 113,700 (142 BBs)

Darren Kennedy: 95,100 (119 BBs)

Chris Watts: 77,500 (97 BBs)

Sam Raz: 73,000 (91 BBs)

Brant Taylor: 62,100 (78 BBs)

Zach Nicholls: 53,900 (67 BBs)

Danny Bajaj: busted

 

There was lots of craziness including Danny running JJ into QQ on a QJx board that left him fairly short (~20K) early. He rebounded up to 45K by dinner before having his Aces cracked left him short once more and eventually busted with AJ < QThh on AJ96hhxx board when QT jammed and caught a rivered heart. Sam went all the way down to just 5K before his QQ beat AK and  then he doubled a couple more times to end the day with a healthy stack. Darren was hovering between 50-80K all day. I was at 60K when I flopped a set of 6’s to crack Aces and get to 85K before having my own Aces hold the very next hand to get me up into the mid 90’s late in the day. Zach also had some up and downs and fell to 15K before AK > AQ of Dan Seipol to double to 30K and then another double with 55 rivering a straight. Chris Watts was down to 30K at dinner and I have no info other than he spun it up to 77K by end of day. Likewise not a lot of hands to report for Brant but he seemed to hover in the 50-70K range all day.

 

Day 2A is Sunday with Everett and Faisal beginning again at noon while the rest of us wait until Monday to play Day 2B.

 

Lets run those stacks up boys.

 

June 28, 2025 WSOP Main Event Winners Gearing Up

The World Series of Poker Main Event starts in 4 days time. Our winners are psyched and ready to go with Everett Wicklund kicking it off playing Day 1C on Friday July 4th and Zach Nicholls and Chris Watts slated to play Day1D on Saturday July 5.

 

Lets all cheer these 3 on and hope for some deep runs and plenty of excitement.

 

We have other Die Harder's playing on their own dime with Brant Taylor, Danny Bajaj, Faisal Al Qutub and Darren Kennedy all expecting to enter the fray and several others still deciding.

 

 

Main Event

9 entered, 9 made Day 2, 6 made Day 3, 2 cashed and made Day 4. Darren Kennedy 1482nd ($15K) and Georg Jancev 845th ($25K)

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NOTE: I will only be accepting those that are current or former league members at this time. I will let you know if that changes.

 

 

 

 

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Season 13 - 2017/18

Season 13 - 2017/18

 

Season 12 - 2016/17

Season 12 - 2016/17

 

Season 11 - 2015/16

Season 11 - 2015/16

 

 

Season 10 - 2014/15

Season 10 - 2014/15

 

Season 9 - 2013/14

Season 9 - 2013/14

 

Season 8 - 2012/13

Season 8 - 2012/13

Season 7 - 2011/12

Season 7 - 2011/12

Season 6 - 2010/11

Season 6 - 2010/11

Season 5 - 2009/10

Season 5 - 2009/10

Season 4 - 2008/09

Season 4 - 2008/09

Season 3 - 2007/08

Season 3 - 2007/08

 

 

Season 2 - 2006/07

Season 2 - 2006/07

 

 

Season 1 - 2005/06

Season 1 - 2005/06