Die Hard Poker League

Die Hard Poker League

Updated: July 14, 2024

	Standings	Season Info	Statistics
	Season 18 - 2023/24	Season 18 - 2023/24
	Season 17 - 2022/23	Season 17 - 2022/23
	Season 16 - 2021/22	Season 16 - 2021/22
	Season 15c - 2021Online
	Season 15b - 2021Online
	Season 15a - 2020Online
Home	Season 15 - 2019/20	Season 15 - 2019/20	All Time Leaders
Rules Page	Season 14 - 2018/19	Season 14 - 2018/19	DHPL on Hendon Mob
DHPL Fantasy	Season 13 - 2017/18	Season 13 - 2017/18	Die Hard Poker Index
DHPL HORSE	Season 12 - 2016/17	Season 12 - 2016/17
Membership 2019-20	Season 11 - 2015/16	Season 11 - 2015/16
For records on Seasons 1-10 see the bottom of this page.

Next Event: Event #1 DHPL Season 24/25

Date Time: Friday, September 13

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

Darren: darrenkennedydk@gmail.com

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

Date Time: EVERY MONDAY 7pm

Location: PokerStars

Zoom: Meeting Link (Starts 6:30pm)

(all start times 7pm except final 5:30pm start)

Friday, September 13
Friday, September 27
Friday, November 1
Saturday, November 2
Friday, November 15

Friday, January 10
Friday, January 31
Saturday, February 1
Friday, February 28
Friday, March 14

BONUS EVENTS

Mixed Game Friday, October 18

Mystery Bounty Saturday March 29 $300

LEAGUE FINAL Saturday, April 12 5:30PM

2025 WSOP $10,000 Main Event and

Several prizes between $1,000 and $5000

July 14, 2024 Time to Sign Up for Die Hard 2024-25 Season #19

Hi everyone, now that I’m finished with my WSOP events I am looking forward to this seasons Die Hard Poker League. Dates are posted and we are starting to get ready for yet another Die Hard Poker Season. Take a look above and make sure you can make the Final.

Friday, September 13
Friday, September 27
Friday, November 1
Saturday, November 2
Friday, November 15

Friday, January 10
Friday, January 31
Saturday, February 1
Friday, February 28
Friday, March 14

BONUS EVENTS

Mixed Game Friday, October 18 (Game Type and Buyin to be determined)

Mystery Bounty Saturday March 29 $300

LEAGUE FINAL Saturday, April 12 5:30PM

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 $650 CAD league fees no later than Aug 9^th 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 2023-24

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.

July 11, 2024 Darren Kennedy and Georg Jancev Cash the Main Event

I am so happy to say that Georg and I both cashed the Main Event. I made the money with just 7BBs so happy to min cash for $15,000 and 1482^nd place. Georg hit the money bubble with a solid stack and would last longer busting in 845^th for $25,000. Sadly the others that made Day 3 all fell short of the money. Brant Taylor, Zach Nicholls, Brad Wilson and Danny Bajaj would all bust short of Day 4.

July 9, 2024 WSOP Main Event DAY 3!!! 6 of 9 players from Die Hard Playing the Main Event make Day 3

OK this is where it starts to get interesting. Make it through Day 3 and you are virtually guaranteed to be in the money. Last year they finished Day 3 just 11 players off the money. Previous years they made the money on Day 3. We shall see how this year goes.

Going into today we still have 6 of our 9 Die Harders sitting with chips:

Georg Jancev 495,000

Zach Nicholls 197,000

Brad Wilson 145,000

Brant Taylor 265,500

Danny Bajaj 240,000

Darren Kennedy 104,500

Sadly no longer with chips are:

Jamie Hucul

Mike Baker

Faisal Al Qutub

There are currently 3617 players remaining from a record starting field of 10,112 entries. 1517 players make the money. Of those remaining there are still 33 from British Columbia. Die harders represent 6 of those 33!! Well done boys. Lets navigate this field and make it to the money!

July 6, 2024 WSOP Main Event!!! All 9 Players From Die Hard Playing the Main Event Make Day 2

We had all 3 winners as well as Jamie Hucul play the World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1D on Saturday and all 4 of them made it through to Day 2. This makes it an amazing 8 for 8 of us the made it through to Day 2. Day 2 is typically more of a moving day where big stacks start to emerge and blinds are still plenty to low enough to play some good poker. Day 3 is more of a survival Day and end of Day 3 is where the money is made.

Chipcounts at end of day for them were:

Zach Nicholls (100,700)

Brad Wilson (59,500)

Jamie Hucul (45,200)

Mike Baker (30,600)

Georg Jancev (177,200)

Today is Day 2ABC and Darren Kenney, Brant Taylor, Faisal Al Qutub and Danny Bajaj take to the felts to try and build up their respective stacks and make it to Day 3. Follow along and watch as we try and position our chipstacks and ourselves for a deep run.

WSOP | Tournaments | Event Updates

July 6, 2024 WSOP Main Event!!! Our Winners Play Today

Good luck to Brad Wilson, Mike Baker and Zach Nicholls who all take their seat in the Main Event today. Day 1D begins with what is likely over 4000 players today. Joining them will be Jamie Hucul also a winner from our league and Georg Jancev.

Yesterday we had 4 players in Day 1C. All made it through the day with chips and will restart their Day 2 Sunday at noon. Brant Taylor (193,400), Danny Bajaj (155,900), Darren Kennedy (70,800) and Faisal Al Qutub (62,600) all made it through the day with more than the chips they started with (60,000).

July 1, 2024 Danny Bajaj Final Tables Event 68 for 6^th Place and $135,522!!

An amazing run by Danny who made it through a field os 2,229 players to get to the Final table. His bustout hand was heartbreaking as he got AK in against AQ and lost for a pot that would determine the chiplead. The winner of that pot steamrolled the rest of the table to the bracelet. Danny also has two other small cashes in bracelet events.

Faisal has cashed 3 times at this years WSOP and added two other cashes.

Brant went deep in the Super Seniors cashing 35^th of 3,362 players for $11,848

Doug Cornelson chopped a mystery bounty at Orleans for a solid cash.

I myself had two cashes in $800 PLO8 and Daily Deepstack at WSOP but went 0-4 in bracelet events so far. Hoping to change that with the Main Event.

Many others have had cashes but I don’t have them at my fingertips.

April 16, 2024 Congrats to All League Winners

Great event to finish off the Season. Bustouts came fast and furious early but everyone settled down later and battled hard. 16 players did not show making it interesting with dead stacks being blinded out.

Lots of drama including Roger Running KK into AA of Shawn Lange with 17 remaining to bust.

On the money bubble Kelli Cera folded down to less than a single BB but a couple of doubles kept her alive as on the other table Shawn Lange’s stack dropped to just a couple of BB’s. During that time Darren Kennedy put himself at risk twice and doubled both times. Eventually Bobbi Frost would be the bubble when she pushed all in with a 4 BB stack UTG and Darren called from the BB with an Ace and eliminated her.

Another significant hand came with Mike Baker (JJ), Zach Nicholls (AQ) and Ty Duong (73o) getting it all in with Ty hoping for the double KO. Mike would triple up and work his stack up to be a contender after that hand.

Kelli and Shawn would fall in short order after the bubble burst and we were down to our final table. The final table saw shortstacks double for a while before Ty Duong eliminated Darren Kennedy in 10^th when AA held over TT. Andy Goosen had no hands and his stack had been ground down before he eventually fell in 9^th. Next to fall was John Romanowski followed by Paul Deol. Play would stay 6 handed for quite sometime before Danny Bajaj busted in 6^th place. Jamie Hucul went out in 5^th and then there were 4. It looked like it would be over quickly as there were allin and calls 3 times in the first 5 hands, but the shortstacks doubled and the game settled down as the stacks had evened out. With 3 Main Event prizes and one prize of $5000 CAD for 4^th remaining. With it looking like it would take sometime to finish, Ty decided he would prefer to have the cash for 4^th and the other 3 were given their seats.

Great tourney everyone and good luck to all our winners down in Vegas.

The winners:

1. Brad Wilson

2. Mike Baker

3. Zach Nicholls

4. Ty Duong

5. Jamie Hucul

6. Danny Bajaj

7. Paul Deol

8. John Romanowski

9. Andy Goosen

10. Darren Kennedy

11. Shawn Lange

12. Kelli Cera

I will reach out in the next couple weeks to start getting peoples schedules for Vegas so we know who will be down at what time and for which events.

April 5, 2024 League Final Runs Tomorrow!! Start Time Now 5:30PM

Please don’t arrive before 5pm as we will not have access to the room until that time. The facility will be extremely busy so if you can carpool please do so.

Please note that we will attempt to play down to the 3 winners but if it gets super late we may elect to stop the tourney with 5 or less remaining and find a suitable date to continue playing on another day. This will be at the TD’s discretion.

Please look at the table draw before you come so you can go straight to your table. There is no buyin and your chips will already be at your seat.…see below for Table Draw…

If I know a player will not be coming I will remove their stack. Otherwise dead stacks will be left on the table to blind out. I only know of one person for sure not coming at this time. If you know you won’t be coming please let me know.

March 25, 2024, Final Table Seat Draw

We did the table draw during Saturday nights tourney. Tony Washburn helped me out by drawing all 96 names. There are 706,000 chips in play for now. I have 3-4 people who may noy be making it. If they confirm not coming then I will remove their stacks from play.

Interestingly Table 5 has 6 of the 11 total 1,000 chipstacks all on it, making it by far the shortest stacked of the tables

Chip totals per table:

Table	Chip Total
7	107,000
2	90,000
1	85,500
3	81,000
9	79,000
6	65,000
8	59,000
4	51,500
11	39,500
10	32,000
5	16,500

Check out your table below:

	Seat		Table 1		Chips		Seat		Table 2		Chips
	1		Mike Baker		3,500		1		Henry Oh		15,000
	2		Michelle Owen		3,500		2		Robert Brechin		6,000
	3		Jesse Forster		2,000		3		Paul Deol		9,000
	4		Ben Barlow		2,500		4		Chris McDonell		11,500
	5		Danny Bajaj		27,000		5		Doug Cornelson		15,000
	6		Jason Marshall		7,500		6		Nik Mitevski		15,500
	7		Everett Wicklund		26,000		7		Mike Twitchell		1,000
	8		Scott Brynen		2,000		8		Trevor Massey		8,000
	9		Dan Molatore		11,500		9		Faisal AlQutub		9,000
					85,500						90,000

	Seat		Table 3		Chips		Seat		Table 4		Chips
	1		Deepak Bhasin		10,000		1		Cathy Mai		1,500
	2		John Clark		10,500		2		Mike Hill		10,500
	3		Jamie Hucul		11,000		3		Dave Sims		7,000
	4		Paul Anaka		15,500		4		Ted Hill		4,000
	5		John Romanowski		4,500		5		Keith Fisher		8,500
	6		Christina Armstrong		1,500		6		Harry Aujla		3,000
	7		Andrew Creed		19,500		7		Terry Goode		2,500
	8		Steve Mclarty		2,000		8		Kate Mitevska		3,500
	9		Robin Scorry		6,500		9		Ty Duong		11,000
					81,000						51,500

	Seat		Table 5		Chips		Seat		Table 6		Chips
	**1		Jordan Kroeker		1,000		1		Chris Latourelle		16,500
	2		Kal Kooner		1,000		2		Darren Kennedy		14,500
	3		Martin Sayle		1,000		3		Roger Grosset		11,000
	4		Dennis Neels		3,000		4		Eric Ruttan		2,500
	5		Dave Collier		1,000		5		Johanne Glyn-Jones		5,000
	6		Jim Prime		2,000		6		Shawn Lange		2,500
	7		Ryan McDonald		1,000		7		Dylan Ruocco		6,000
	8		Travis Wiens		5,500		8		Mike Honeyman		1,500
	9		Cenzo Cimino		1,000		9		Kelli Cera		5,500
					16,500						65,000

	Seat		Table 7		Chips		Seat		Table 8		Chips
	1		Zach Nicholls		27,000		1		Jeff Hall		8,000
	2		Chris Watson		5,500		2		Diane Abrey		1,500
	3		Johnny Dai		10,500		3		Gordie Clark		3,000
	4		Ryan Freeman		4,500		4		Andrew Krywaniuk		7,500
	5		Brant Taylor		8,000		5		Brent Senko		9,500
	6		Allan Foster		1,000		6		Rik Rohrback		8,500
	7		Tosca Lueks		2,500		7		Cindy Chen		2,500
	8		Piers Wylie		10,500		8		Greg Lock		14,000
	9		Andy Goosen		37,500		**9		Mo Pannun		4,500
					107,000						59,000

Seat		Table 9		Chips		Seat		Table 10		Chips
**1		Brian Taylor		4,500		1		Martin Todosychuk		2,500
2		Wray Jones		11,000		2		Graham Spence		1,000
3		Brad Wilson		23,000		3		Melanie Romanowski		5,500
4		Don Krekoski		1,500		4		Jaskarn Sahota		4,000
5		Jeremy Skinner		10,000		5		Pat Woelk		12,500
**6		Colton Kroeker		4,000		6		Adi Aggarwal		1,000
7		Eric Nair		5,000		7		Spiro Pegos		2,000
8		Mike Mittermuller		20,000		8		Tony Washburn		3,500

				79,000						32,000

Seat		Table 11		Chips
1		Kerry Sweeney		3,000
2		Jason Makowski		2,000
3		Chris Watts		9,000
4		Sam Raz		2,500
5		Bobbi Frost		7,500
6		Chris Nishi		2,500
7		Nik Fabisiak		1,000
8		James Tichenor		12,000

				39,500

March 5, 2024 League Final Start Time Now 5:30PM

The facility can’t take us for League Final at 2pm so we are moving the start time to 5:30PM

March 3, 2024 $300 Mystery Bounty coming soon on Saturday March 23^rd at 6pm

The regular season events may be over, but we have a big event coming up 3 weeks from now. A $300 Mystery Bounty with $200 going to the prize pool and $100 to the Mystery Bounties. We will pay our usual 12-15% of the field but we will also make bounties active with 30% of the field remaining, meaning you could get a bounty and not make the money.

PLEASE NOTE THE 6PM START TIME!!!!

Also we will be drawing seats for the final at this event. If you are present you will get to draw your own seat otherwise we will have someone draw it for you. After the Event we will post the full table draw up on the website for the final

Note League Final start time is 2pm.

March 1, 2024 Die Hard Event #10 Danny Bajaj with 2^nd Win of the Season and Andy Goosen Locks up Season Points Race

Congrats to Andy Goosen who locked up the season points race and the guaranteed prize by finishing second place at Event #10. Also a huge congrats to Danny Bajaj who wins his second event in the last 32 days as he outlasts Andy and Zach Nicholls. Zach Nicholls himself has a monster third place finish after winning Event #8 recently. The top 3 finishers in Event #10 are all top 3 for the season points as well.

Feb 17, 2024 Die Hard Event #9 Won by Brad Wilson

One day after Event #8 we were at it again and this time Brad Wilson outlasted, James Tichenor, Piers Wylie and Faisal Al Qutub after a 4 way chop of the money. The event saw 97 runners. With just one event to go, everyone will have to dig deep to earn some more chips for the final in Event #10. For the guaranteed prize for winning the league we have 5 people fighting for it. Andy Goosen has the pole position with Everett Wicklund, Brad Wilson, Zach Nicholls and Mike Mittermuller being the only players that can catch him.

Feb 16, 2024 Die Hard Event #8 Won by Zach Nicholls

Zach Nicholls one upped his second place finish earlier in the season in Event #2 by winning it outright over Greg Locke and Evan Horton. We had an amazing 120 runners for this event.

January 29, 2024 Die Hard Event #7 Won by Danny Bajaj

Hot off of his excellent showing at the Calgary WSOP, Danny came in and won Event #7 over Andy Luong. Long time member Jason Nadeau finished in third after getting a massive stack early that was enough to help him survive a card dead final table. Andy Goosen also rode his recent hot hand in Calgary to an 8^th place finish to extend his points lead for the season. Everett Wicklund did pot 6,500 points to keep on his tail though as the race for the season champ comes down to the final 3 events.

Please note that Events 8 and 9 are back to back nights on Feb 16 and 17.

January 23, 2024 Dieharders 24 Cashes at WSOPC Deerfoot, Calgary for $141,196!!!!

There were plenty of obstacles getting to Calgary and several Die Harders were unable to make the trip due to flight cancellations, but those that did make it to Deerfoot definitely left their collective mark on the Series. Almost every day I was there one Die Harder or another was making a deep run. We had 5 Final Tables as Die Harders did their best to bring some jewellery home.

None got closer than Andy Goosen who lost headsup for the ring. I myself had a glorious shot at a ring before ultimately falling in 3^rd spot. Danny Bajaj and Roger Grosset both got 7^th in their respective Final Tables and Brant Taylor secured a 9^th place at his Final Table.

Everyone looked great in our new Die Hard gear and lots of fun was had by all. The series proved once again that the Die Hard Poker League contains a wealth of solid poker players ready to take on the world’s best.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on Friday.

Cashes I know of from last week include:

Deerfoot: WSOP International Circuit Calgary

Event #3 $400 NLH

Andy Goosen 21^st for $3,602

Harry Aujla 57^th for $1,457

Andy Luong 78^th for $1,352

Event #4 Mystery Bounty

Danny Bajaj 7^th for $4,381 plus ~$4,200 in bounties

Event #5 $400 Seniors

Event #6 $400 Bounty

Event #7 $1000 NLH

Harry Aujla 40^th for $1,806

Henry Oh 61^st for $1,632

Event #8 $400 PLO

Event #9 $400 Monster Stack NLH

Andy Goosen 2^nd for $53,249

Roger Grosset 48^th for $1,507

Darren Kennedy 1B 106^th for $602

Event #10 $1000 Turbo

Darren Kennedy 3^rd for $19,226

Harry Aujla 17^th for $2,272

Event #11 $1700 Main Event

Danny Bajaj 18^th for $20,138

Nik Fabisiak 51^st for $5,747

Evan Horton 60^th for $5,115

Faisal Al Qutub 140^th for $3,095

Sam Raz 163^rd for $2,944

Event #12 $250 Flip N Go

Brant Taylor 9^th for $1683

Andy Goosen 19^th for $817

Darren Kennedy 31^st for $544

Danny Bajaj 33^rd for $544

Event #13 $400 PLO Bounty

Roger Grosset 7^th for $2,731

Event #14 $2200 High Roller

Event #15 $250 NLH

Brant Taylor 33^rd for $552

Ace Casino Calgary

Ace Dail Grind

Doug Cornelson 4 way chop for $600

Ace $225

Roger Grosset 6^th for $1,400

#Cashes	Player	Amount
3	Andy Goosen	$ 57,668
3	Danny Bajaj	$ 29,263
3	Darren Kennedy	$ 20,372
1	Nik Fabisiak	$ 5,747
3	Harry Aujla	$ 5,535
1	Evan Horton	$ 5,115
3	Roger Grosset	$ 5,638
1	Faisal AlQutub	$ 3,095
1	Sam Raz	$ 2,944
2	Brant Taylor	$ 2,235
1	Henry Oh	$ 1,632
1	Andy Luong	$ 1,352
1	Doug Cornelson	$ 600

I may have missed a couple so if anyone knows of more let me know.

January 19, 2024 Great Success so far in Calgray

So far we have already had 3 final tables at WSOP events with our die harders coming oh so close to a ring. None closer than Andy Goosen who was runner up in the 1380 player $400 Monster Stack on Jan 18^th. Oh so close but fortunately he made an ICM chop headsup and left $5K to play for so he cashed for $53,249. Darren Kennedy (that’s me 😊) finished 3^rd in the $1K turbo and took home $19,226 for my time. Felt amazing but 3 handed I had about 65% of the chips in play before doubling the same guy up 4 times all in preflop including AQ<95 and my personal favorite JJ<48. Nonetheless an amazing result for me. Our third final table was Danny Bajaj who came 7^th in Mystery Bounty for $4300 plus another $4200 in bounties.

Harry Aujla didn’t final table an event but he did cash all 3 tournies that he played which is absolutely amazing.

Andy also got a 21^st of 1731 playing in the first multiflight $400 which was Event #3 for $3,602.

Huge results and more to come in the next 3-4 days.

January 7, 2024 Mike Mittermuller outlasts Everett Wicklund for the Win

Nice to have everyone back for yet another tourney. We had 96 entries and long time Die Harder Mike Mittermuller notched his 3^rd ever win. Andy Goosen with yet another great finish kept his spot on top of the season leaderboard. Mike and Everett’s finishes were enough to move them to 2^nd and 3^rd in the standings respectively.

Great to see a lot of people wearing the new Die Hard gear. It looks fantastic! Love to see players repping this league and repping it well.

Next event is in 3 weeks time but before that we have a whole host of Die Harders heading to Calgary to play in the WSOP Circuit event at Deerfoot. By my count we have 23 players I know of that are going and I am certain I missed a few. Good luck to all you Die Harders heading to Alberta

November 28, DIE HARD BRANDED MERCH AVAIL UNTIL DEC 5^th

DIE HARD POKER LEAGUE MERCH: Home (promoplace.com)

Click above and go buy yourself some Die Hard Poker League branded merchandise. This is for sale from now until December 5^th only. You have 7 days. We will place an order once per year so your next chance will likely not be until this time next year. Don’t wait go and order.

There is so much cool stuff from hats to jackets, to backpacks, patches and hoody’s.

For those going to Calgary in January it would be great if we could all roll in Die Hard Poker branded.

The order will be placed on Dec 5th and delivered to me (Darren) in Langley on Dec 20. I will then either bring your gear to Die Hard Tourney on Jan 5th or you can come meet me in Langley before that to pick up. No costs for delivery.

November 17, 2023 Wray Jones wins Event #5

Huge congrats to Jonesy who took down Event #5. His first ever win at a Die Hard Event came over Mike Mittermuller, Chris Watts and Paul Deol. Movement in the standings as both Nik Mitevski and Darren Kennedy picked up points to edge up the leaderboard. Now we have a long wait until Event #6 which comes first Friday after New Years.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years everyone.

November 3, 2023 Paul Anaka wins Event 4 and Jamie Hucul takes the 10,000 points

Another massive turnout saw 94 people and 112 entries, one more than Event 3. Some great poker was played and lots of fun as always. The final 2 tables saw a tonne of shortstack double ups on table 2 as people jockeyed for position and to get into the cash. Dave Sims bubbled the money and we moved onwards. Dave Aplas bubbled the final table. A huge congrats to Ivan Dmytryshyn who battled hard and took a tough beat at final two tables but survived it and eventually went out in 7^th place for his first Die Hard cash. Ivan and his brother Vasyl from Ukraine have dropped in to every event this year. As for the final 5, Darren Kennedy would go out 5^th and Andy Goosen 4^th on the same hand. I was shortstacked and stuck it in with A7o, Jamie called the 2 BB bet in the SB with 33 and Andy did the same from the BB with 68o. Starting the hand Jamie and Andy were two of the biggest stacks. The flop came 368 and all the chips went into the middle. Headsup between Paul Anaka and Jamie lasted one hand as they both picked up an Ace but Paul’s was just a little bigger and his A9 held over A5 of Jamie for the win.

One other massive hadn saw 4 players all in with just a few tables remaining. The flop was 678 and two players had the T9 including Tosca, one player held 95 and one held 87. The river came 8 to fill up the 87 which I believe was Vasyl’s hand. Crazy action. Two more weeks and we do it again before we have nearly 2 months of no poker. See you all on the 17^th.

October 27, 2023 Cindy Chen and Chris Latourelle Chop Event #3.

Cindy took the win and Chris took the 10,000 points as Cindy was on rebuy. 111 entries made it one of our biggest events post covid. Great turnout and lots of fun. Next event is November 3^rd. Look forward to seeing everyone out there.

October 14, 2023 Andrew Creed wins Events 2 over Zach Nicholls

While Andrew may have won the event the true star of the night was the new chipset. Brand spanking new custom Die Hard Poker chips were introduced for this event and everyone agrees they look and feel amazing. So happy to have some new chips with denominations on them to use. Also of note is that Darren and Roger both final tabled last night. Been a while since us two organizers final tabled the same event. Also a first was that all 14 players that cashed were still playing for points. No one that rebought and no non-leaguers made the money. Way to keep it in the fold. Even better news is we have no rest as we are right back at it next Friday for Event #3.

September 16, 2023 Jeff Hall and Andy Goosen chop Event #1 with Andy winning 10,000 points

Great turnout for Event #1 saw 88 people and 103 buyins. Awesome to see everyone back in action as we kicked off the 18^th running of the Die Hard Poker League. Lots of new faces join us this year and our league membership sits at 98 players. Still room for someone to join in the fun. Standings page has been updated with all the in the point and in the money finishers.

September 11, 2023 Let the Season Begin!

We are back! Summer is over and that means only one thing ...Football Season... err I mean DIE HARD POKER TIME!!!

We play this Friday at 7pm and I for one am pumped up and ready to go. Please note we have a few things to discuss so buy-in by 6:50pm please so that we can talk and go through the changes in the league this year.

Some news and changes this year:

1. Since we have 100 league members and 11 tables with ability to seat 99 players at once, league members will get priority over drop-ins. To maintain their priority league members will need to buy-in by 6:50pm. League members that do not buy-in by 6:50pm will not be guaranteed a seat initially as at 6:50pm I will give out empty seats to drop-ins.

2. Drop-ins: the drop-in list will be open at 6pm and will be first paid, first served. I expect we will be able to sit 10-13 players before cards in the air each night and then another 8-10 as alternates. If you want to play it will be up to you to be there at 6pm and buy-in. You must be there in person. No one lese can buy-in for you.

3. If you bust out you will go to the back of any alternate list before you get your seat. Still only 1 rebuy per player.

4. Rebuys go until end of first break (1.5Hrs)

5. Last longer of $100 will continue and we will continue to pay 50% to 1st, 30% to 2nd and 20% to 3rd. Players can make any deals they want with last longers though.

6. Final League Prizes. We will only be having the Main Event winners having to pay anything back to the league from now on. The rest of the prizes will be intended to be used as poker tourney buy-ins, but I will not be tracking them and thus are really just going to be cash prizes. The Main Event winners will have the option of playing the WSOP Main Event in Vegas or the WSOP Main Event in Europe.

September 8, 2023 League is Full with 100 Players and 1 person on waitlist

We are currently full with 100 people signed up for the league. There will likely be 2-4 people drop out in next few days so we are taking a waitlist. Current wait list is just one person. So if you want in please let me know ASAP.

Drop In Policy for this year.

Please note that we have 100 league members and can only seat 99 people at once. This means if everyone shows up that non-league members would need to wait for bustouts to be able to play. The reality is that we almost always have 10-12 league members that don’t show per event. We will be able to take dropins but policy this year will be that non-leaguers wait until 7pm to get their seat as league members will have priority. At 7pm I will sit as many non-leaguers as I can and any left over will be on the alternate list to take a seat that opens up from a bustout. Alternate list will take priority over the player busting being able to rebuy. Player busting will go to the back of the alternate list.

Non-leaguers will be taken in order of when they pay. We will post an alternate list at 6pm. You sign in on that and pay your entry. Those that show up and pay first will be first on the list.

I hope this makes sense to everyone. Depending on how it goes we may make alterations to keep it smooth.

August 20, 2023 League DATE CHANGE

Please note that event 2 was originally scheduled for September 29^th. It is being moved to October 20^th.

August 12, 2023 League Members – Please Send League Fees of $650 CAD

OK its time to start sending in your league fees. I need you to send $650 CAD via etransfer to darrenkennedydk@gmail.com to lock up your spot. We are over 90 league members so far and I need to make sure we don’t turn people away if spots are open. So get your money in and I will update the paid on the list below by denoting ‘PD’ to right of your name. Thanks to all who have already sent their fees in.

To verify if I have received your money you can check standings page here: Season 18 - 2023/24

August 12, 2023 Pat Woelk wins Mystery Bounty Tourney, but Tosca Lueks takes 2^nd and the 2 big bounties

Really fun tourney with 59 entries last night. Lots of good chatter, rebuys and fun had by all. We gave out 18 bounties ranging from $800 down to $50. A lot of the drama went early as Tosca picked the big $800 bounty on first draw and she took the next biggest $500 bounty with her second pick so the big bounties were gone early. Bounties were won by the following players:

1 - $800 bounty – Tosca Lueks

1 - $500 bounty – Tosca Lueks

2 - $250 bounties – Pat Woelk, Paul Anaka

2 - $200 bounties – Darren Kennedy, Paul Anaka

3 - $100 bounties – Paul Anaka, Tosca Lueks, Nick Pesht

9 - $50 bounties – Pat Woelk (5), Darren Kennedy (2), Robin Scorry, Nick Pesht

Tourney Results included: Pat Woelk ($2000 + $500), Tosca Lueks ($2000 + $1400), Paul Anaka ($1200 + $550), Darren Kennedy ($900 + $300), Nick Pesht ($700 + $150) Robin Scorry ($500 + $50), Paul Deol ($450), Kerry Sweeney ($400), Jason Wells ($400)

August 9, 2023 $200 Buyin, Mystery Bounty Tourney

Hi guys, we have a $200 buyin this Friday with $50 towards the bounty pool. It will be Mystery bounties to the top 30% of the field. So with 51 players for example there would be the following 16 bounties:

1 - $750 bounty

1 - $500 bounty

2 - $250 bounties

4 - $100 bounties

8 - $50 bounties

Please let me know at darrenkennedydk@gmail.com if you are interested and plan on coming. Guessing we will have 40-50 players.

August 9, 2023 Signing Up for the upcoming Die Hard Season

Who’s playing this year???? Email me or text me if you are in. If your name isn’t here, then I don’t know. Returning players get priority over newcomers. I will collect a list of all newcomers and next end of July, depending on space available we will let newcomers know if they are in or not.

Updated: September 8^th, 2023. Total 100!! WE are full and currently have a waitlist with 1 person on it.

For who has paid click Standings

Returning Players

Waiting on Confirm

Newcomers

Not Returning

Allan Foster

Alyssa Webber

Andrew Creed

Andrew Krywaniuk

Andy Goosen

Bobbi Frost

Brad Wilson

Brant Taylor

Brent Senko

Brian Taylor

Cathy Mai

Chris McDonell

Chris Watson

Chris Watts

Dan Molatore

Damien Zillig

Darren Kennedy

Dave Brunham

Dave Collier

Dave Sims

Deepak Bhasin

Dennis Neels

Diane Abrey

Doug Cornelson

Doug Crone

Eric Ruttan

Everett Wicklund

Graham Spence

Greg Lock

Guy Bottin

Henry Oh

James Tichenor

Jamie Hucul

Jeff Hall

Jesse Forster

Jim Prime

Johnny Dai

Jordan Kroeker

Kal Kooner

Katarina Mitevska

Keith Fisher

Kelli Cera

Kelly Lange

Martin Sayle

Martin Todosychuk

Michelle Owen

Mike Honeyman

Mike Mittermuller

Mike Twitchell

Mo Pannun

Nick Simon

Nikola Mitevski

Pat Woelk

Paul Anaka

Paul Deol

Raj Parmar

Rik Rohrback

Robert Brechin

Roger Grosset

Sam Raz

Scott Brynen

Shawn Lange

Spiro Pegos

Steve Mclarty

Tony Washburn

Tosca Lueks

Travis Wiens

Trevor Massey

Ty Duong

Tyler Marples

Adi Aggarwal (Hard Rock)

Cameron Doerksen (MH)

Cenzo Cimino (BF)

Chris Latourelle (MO)

Cindy Chen (DC)

Colton Kroeker (JK)

Don Krekoski (MO)

Faisal AlQutub

Gordie Clark (SP)

Jason Makowski (JK)

Jason Marshall (AW)

Jeremy Skinner

Johanna Hauterville (HardRock)

Johanne Glyn-Jones (MO)

John Clark

John Romanowski

Melanie Romanowski

Mike Baker (BS)

Nate Rajakumar ()

Nik Fabisiak

Phil Pereira (website)

Piers Wylie

Ryan Freeman

Zach Nicholls (new)

Abe Leiren

Adam Cappon

Dan Cassidy

Darren Hindley

Garry Juvelin

Georg Jancev

Hal Fellingham

Kerry Sweeney

Mike Bigelow

Robin Scory

Rod Seitz

Troy Border

July 8, 2023 Main Event Day 2ABC Update

Eric Ruttan was unable to get it going and busted in Level 7 of the Main when his AT ran into AA after being crippled to a few big blinds.

Robin Scorry who entered Day 2 with 109K stack had a little more success making it past dinner break into Level 9 but ultimately he too would fail to pull a bag into Day 3.

Both Brant Taylor and Darren Kennedy start their Main Events today as we decided to skip Day 1 and buy straight into Day 2. Beyond stoked and ready to play my heart out.

July 7, 2023 Main Event Day 1 Updates

Eric Ruttan played Day 1 on Tuesday and fought hard all day not getting a lot of cards but he did make it through to Day 2 with 23,000 chips (from 60K startstack). He plays his Day 2 today (Friday), so good luck Eric!

Brad Wilson played his Day 1 on Thursday and he battled hard building his stack up to to 70K before having some setbacks down to mid 40K levels. And then unfortunately late in the night he busted the Main Event. It’s a tough tournament to bust. We feel your pain,

July 2, 2023 All dates are now FINAL.

Please verify you are good for April 6 for the League Final.

June 11, 2023, Still Working out League Dates. AUGUST 11^th $300 Bounty ($100 Bounties) Tourney is a GO!!!!

I am still working with Guildford to finalize league dates for next year. Above is the potential dates. Hopefully I’ll have them finalized in the next 7 days.

We WILL be running a $300 buyin tournament as a one off on August 11. There will be $100 bounties for every player you knock out. So mark your dates and I will take a list once we get closer to that date.

June 8, 2023, Diehard League Returning Players and Interest List

We are coming back at Guildford again. The schedule is posted and like last year we have a back-to0back night in January.Please check the dates and particularly the final date to make sure you are good with everything.

As of right now I need to start seeing an interest list. We will go with the same format as always with 10 events being run between September and April.

Buyin for each tourney will be $100 and league fees for the season are going to be $650 Canadian. All players need to pay the league fees prior to event #1. I will convert all of the league fees into USD after Event #1 to hold as year-end prizes. I would prefer to take the $650 via etransfer ahead of time if possible.

So who is in? Let me know now please. I will collect $650 starting in August via etransfer lock in your spot at darrenkennedydk@gmail.com.

I will keep track of who has let me know they are returning and who has paid up near top of this page and eventually on the standings page that will be created.

Darren

darrenkennedydk@gmail.com

778-870-6319

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The WSOP Crew! Trying to figure out who is all going for WSOP in Vegas May 30 – July 18 2023.

Ben Walker June 18-25

Brad Wilson – July 4-11 - Main Event timeframe – Day1D July 6

Brant Taylor – June 17-30

Chris McDonell – May 30 – until he’s tired of poker

Chris Watson Jun 2-8, June 16-22, June 26-30 possible and also July trip??

Darren Kennedy June 19-26, July 5-10 (Sat July 8 2D?)

Dean Hilts – June 19-26?? Sometime in here

Doug Cornelson June 1-9, June 20-30

Eric Ruttan – Main Event timeframe

Henry Oh – May 30-June 30, July 5-16

Jim Prime – No longer going

Johnny Dai and Tosca Lueks – June 21-28

Keith Fisher – June 10-18

Mike Honeyman – June 18-27

Paul Anaka – early July

Kerry Sweeney and Robin Scorry – June 15 – June 21

Trevor Massey – June 29- July 4

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