Samuli Sipila is knocking on the door of the highest 15 within the 2024 Card Participant Participant of the Yr standings thanks totally to his success in pot-limit Omaha tournaments. The 31-year-old PLO specialist from Finland has cashed for greater than $2.1 million to this point on the stay circuit throughout six final-table finishes, with 4 titles gained alongside the best way.
The most recent victory was additionally the most important, with Sipila taking down a $50,000 buy-in PLO occasion on the Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection Montenegro competition for a career-best payday of $839,000. The win got here simply two days after he emerged victorious within the $25,000 buy-in PLO occasion on the identical sequence for $535,000.
“I had hopes, clearly,” Sipila stated in his interview with Triton reporters after popping out on high. “Clearly there’s quite a lot of ability. It’s not simply going all-in… however to be truthful, I’ve run rather well.”
Sipila now has greater than $2.9 million in profession match earnings, with greater than two-thirds of that having been gained this spring. This newest victory elevated his POY level complete to 2,878, which is sweet for sixteenth place on the POY leaderboard offered by World Poker.
Previous to his spectacular run on the Maestral Resort & On line casino in Montenegro, Sipila dominated the PokerGO Tour PLO Collection, successful two titles and making two extra last tables to safe the sequence champion honors.
This occasion drew 61 entries, making a prize pool of $3,050,000 that was paid out among the many high 11 finishers. Amongst people who ran deep have been 2023 PGT PLO champion Lautaro Guerra Cabrerizo (eleventh), ten-time Triton champion Jason Koon (tenth), five-time Triton champion Danny Tang (seventh), and Biao Ding (fifth).
Eelis Parssinen, contemporary off of a fourth-place displaying within the $100,000 PLO foremost occasion, wound up busting in the identical spot on this occasion. The Finnish bracelet winner cashed for almost $1.1 million throughout the 2 scores, with $300,100 coming for his most up-to-date run.
Patrik Antonius made his eighth money of the sequence his greatest, inserting third for $390,000. The Finnish excessive curler has climbed to thirty first place within the POY standings with 4 final-table finishes and one title earned to this point this 12 months.
Heads-up play started with two-time Triton winner Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero holding roughly a 3:1 chip lead over Sipila. Sipula surged again to even thanks to creating a jacks full to greatest the flopped fours full held by Barbero. The bracelet winner from Argentina was in a position to pull again out in entrance after that, solely to have Sipila make the nut flush in a giant pot that gave him the lead.
Sipula then gained a giant pot with high set to depart Barbero on fumes. Within the last hand, Sipila rivered a nine-high straight to lock up the pit and the title. Barbero earned $596,300 for his sixth final-table displaying of the 12 months. With two titles and a pair of,799 complete factors, he’s now ranked twenty first within the POY rankings.
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
$839,000
612
2
Jose Barbero
$596,300
510
3
Patrik Antonius
$390,000
408
4
Eelis Parssinen
$300,100
306
5
Biao Ding
$238,000
255
6
Alex Komaromi
$186,000
204
7
Danny Tang
$146,000
153
8
Chris Parker
$115,000
102
9
Aku Joentausta
$87,000
51
Photograph credit score: Triton Poker / Joe Giron.
