Trailblazer Tour Season II

Sandness Leads Fifth Flight on Money Bubble

Written by Kyle M | Oct 12, 2025 2:58:12 AM

Players in the fifth flight of the Trailblazer Poker Tour are coming back from their fifth break of the day.

The blinds are 4,000/8,000/8,000 and 33 players remain. Hand-for-hand will start once the field is reduced to 30 players. 29 players will finish in the money with 19 advancing to Day Two.

Mark Sandness Leads the field with 699,000. Sandness has been a top five stack for most of the day and is sitting with a healthy stack in a crucial spot on the money bubble. The pressure is on a lot of shorter stacks but not on Sandness.

Top 5 Stacks

Mark Sandness 699,000
Justin Dreiling 472,000
Damien Dreyer 447,000
Xiaoru Cui 447,000
Darryl Sample

398,000

Flight 5/8 Payouts
1st-19th: Day Two

20th-24th: $2,200
25th-29th: $2,000

Chip Counts (through Flight 4/8)
Current prize pool: $487,200 of $1,000,000 GTD
Average stack: 488,921 
Lowest blind level: 5K/10K/10K 27:23

Name Chips Flight
Jose Montes 1,275,000 4/8
Mason Vieth 1,190,000 4/8
Gabriel Gutierrez 1,089,000 3/8
Jacob Wilson 1,002,000 2/8
Thai Ha 867,000 1/8
Eric Chang 833,000 1/8
Matthew Havens 760,000 2/8
Tyler Rawlinson 757,000 3/8
Harvey Castro 735,000 1/8
Babak Behgam 623,000 1/8
Max Yang 599,000 3/8
Zach Castro 596,000 2/8
Sami Saeaemaenen 587,000 3/8
Kamran Jamal 565,000 4/8
Ricardo Eyzaguirre 484,000 3/8
Sihao Zhang 475,000 4/8
Kasey Mills 465,000 4/8
Oleksii Koiev 440,000 4/8
Barbara Sargent 430,000 4/8
Ryan Nickel 415,000 4/8
Adam Grovenstein 412,000 2/8
Ghadi Akari 391,000 2/8
Jim Coyle 357,000 2/8
Pejman Niyati 348,000 3/8
Songkane Traymany 329,000 2/8
Ryan Findley 300,000 1/8
Eric Graziano 245,000 4/8
Jared Ingles 237,000 3/8
Hunter Cichy 230,000 4/8
Thang Peter Dang 222,000 3/8
La Sengphet 220,000 2/8
Pablo Aldaco 208,000 1/8
Gene Allison 185,000 4/8
Taylor Carlet 180,000 4/8
Mariona Canals Riba 154,000 1/8
Antonio Ruelas 154,000 3/8
Brian Sanguinet 140,000 2/8
Sharan Shyangbo 80,000 4/8