The 10th Annual Western Canadian Poker Classic is currently underway at Casino Yellowhead in Edmonton Alberta, having wrapped up it’s first two events for the May 2nd-6th tournament series on Wednesday and Thursday. We have those results for you, but we can’t claim they come with any big surprises…except wait!
This just in: Calgary’s Shane Brotherwood has won an event in Edmonton! And another before that, and before that and before…well, you get the point. Near as we can figure and keeping our estimates on the conservative side, Brotherwood has won at least 3 events over the past couple years in Edmonton, with as many more top 5 finishes, with cashes totaling near $150,000 in the capital city. Congratulations to him on his latest haul!
His isn’t the only name that is starting to look like a standard copy/paste for those preparing the results in Edmonton; Patrick Gunjai has also had at least 3 deep finishes over the past few series and Cliff Green just keeps adding to a five figure running tally.
Ryan McClean told this writer pre-series that he was going to make him and a few lucky investors some scratch, a bold statement already backed up by a noteworthy 4th place finish in the $500 after the tournament played straight through the night with the final table still playing 5 handed at 9:00am! Edmonton’s Talal Shoush claimed the top spot in the end after holding the chip lead for much of the final table and crushing dreams with quad 8’s…
There are of course already a few others that have seemingly become staples on Canadian pay-out sheets that if we hadn’t met in person we might start to think they are live poker bots; anybody surprised to see Michael Smith, Zennawi Petros and Jerome Makonen collect four figures for their days work either? We aren’t.
Event #3 started up Friday afternoon, a hefty $2,000 No Limit Hold’em with 75 runners and $50,000 set aside for first. We’ll be back to drop some more names, but until then, here are the results to date:
WCPC Event # 1, $300 No Limit Hold’em
1st Shane Brotherwood $13,500
2nd David Chau $8,300
3rd I Simpson $5,000
4th Jerome Makonen $3,700
5th Kim Graham $3,000
6th Ron Lauzon $2,500
7th Zennawi Petros $2,100
8th Brian McLachlan $1,800
9th Ken Knight $1,500
10th Joseph Williams $1,400
11th Kyle Hartree $1,300
12th Nathan Tyndale $1,200
13th Roan Michenev $1,100
14th Glyn Gracias $1,000
15th Grant Wall $900
16th Sean Coombs $800
17th Jonathan Kozel $625
Total Entries: 175 Prize Pool: $49,725
WCPC Event #2, $500 No Limit Hold’em Chips
1st Talal Shoush $22,000
2nd Bryan Hoeving $12,500
3rd Christa Backlund $8,200
4th Ryan McClean $6,200
5th Cliff Green $4,800
6th Duy Pham $4,000
7th Cory Hauser $3,400
8th David Chan $2,900
9th Kenneth Bernard $2,450
10th Ryan Zdunick $2,200
11th Patrick Gunraj $2,000
12th Michael Smith $1,800
13th Tho Nguyen $1,700
14th Cody Fleming $1,600
15th Christopher Paulson $1,500
16th William Joseph $1,400
17th Nick Holloway $1,300
Total Entries: 164 Prize Pool: $79,950
