Samuli Sipila is a drive to be reckoned with on the burgeoning pot-limit Omaha event circuit. The 31-year-old Finnish poker professional has made 5 last tables and received three titles to this point this 12 months, all in PLO occasions. He has cashed for greater than $1.3 million throughout these scores, together with his largest payday but being the $535,000 he earned because the champion of the 2024 Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Sequence Montenegro $25,000 pot-limit Omaha occasion.
Sipila exploded on the dwell scene earlier this 12 months with a powerful displaying on the PokerGO Tour PLO Sequence. He received two titles and made 4 last tables throughout that competition, securing the participant of the collection honors within the course of.
“It’s a fairly run good 12 months,” Sipila informed Triton reporters when requested about his resolution to attend this high-stakes competition. “It’s fairly unreal. If you’re working this scorching, why not come?”
Sipila now has practically $2.1 million in profession cashes to his title, with the overwhelming majority having been earned because the begin of the 12 months.
With the 672 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors he earned for his most up-to-date victory on the Maestral Resort & On line casino in Montenegro, Sipila has climbed to thirty sixth place on the 2024 POY leaderboard offered by World Poker.
This event drew 82 entries, making a prize pool of $2,050,000 that was paid out among the many high 14 finishers. Loads of large names ran deep, together with Isaak Haxton (thirteenth), Masashi Oya (eleventh), Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero (tenth), Quan Zhou (ninth), Ronald Keijzer (sixth), and Anson Ewe (third).
Mikalai Vaskaboinikau completed because the runner-up, falling simply wanting securing the title in back-to-back occasions. The Belarusian businessman took down the $125,000 buy-in primary occasion a day earlier, topping the huge 171-entry area in that occasion to earn greater than $4.7 million. He added one other $371,000 to his tally with this second-place end, rising his lifetime earnings to greater than $8.7 million.
Here’s a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the last desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Samuli Sipila
$535,000
672
2
Mikalai Vaskaboinikau
$371,000
560
3
Anson Ewe
$242,000
448
4
Klemens Roiter
$195,000
336
5
Maher Nouira
$156,000
280
6
Ronald Keijzer
$122,000
224
7
Chris Parker
$97,000
168
8
Martin Dam
$75,000
112
9
Quan Zhou
$55,000
56
Photograph credit score: Triton Poker / Joe Giron.
