Pot-Limit Omaha Takes Over PokerGO Tour In October

The PokerGO Tour debuted its first sequence comprised solely of pot-limit Omaha occasions within the spring of 2023. The concept was such successful {that a} second PGT PLO Collection was hosted later that 12 months, and one other within the spring of 2024. This October the PokerGO Studio contained in the ARIA Resort & On line casino in Las Vegas is about to play dwelling to extra thrilling four-card motion, with the PGT PLO Collection II and the 2024 Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl: Pot-Restrict Omaha operating back-to-back from Oct. 14-22 and Oct. 24-26, respectively.

The fourth general PGT PLO Collection is about to characteristic 9 occasions, with buy-ins starting from $5,100 as much as $25,200. The schedule consists of three bounty occasions, with the primary two being progressive knockout tournaments. The championship $25,200 occasion will retain a cap on the variety of re-entries per participant at two, whereas all different tournaments throughout this competition will now permit limitless re-entries in the course of the registration interval.

This occasion will, in fact, award PGT factors that rely each towards the season-long standings and the race for the sequence champion honors. Whoever finally ends up on prime on the finish of that leaderboard on the finish of the competition will likely be rewarded with a $10,000 PGT Passport bonus and the PGT Gold Cup. Prior sequence champions embrace Lautaro Guerra (March 2023), Daniel Geeng (October 2023), and Samuli Sipila (March 2024).

The 2024 SHRB: PLO will observe sizzling on the heels of the PGT PLO Collection. The $100,000 buy-in match will run from Oct. 24-26. The press launch asserting this 12 months’s match included details about a number of adjustments to the occasion, which embrace, “…registration remaining open till the beginning of Day 2 and a discount to 60-minute ranges. For gamers getting into on-time, they may obtain a $2,500 low cost on the entry charge of $3,000. The PGT shot clock will likely be lively in the course of the [event], with gamers having 20 seconds to behave on their hand preflop, and 30 seconds postflop. Time extensions are value 30 seconds every, no matter which road they’re used, and gamers start with 9 for entry earlier than the second break after which six thereafter. Gamers obtain an extra 9 time extensions at first of Day 2, and an extra six at first of the ultimate desk.”

This occasion made its premiere in 2023, with Jared Bleznick topping a discipline of 38 entries within the largest buy-in PLO match ever held to earn the SHRB ring and a career-best payday of $1,292,000.

There will likely be two satellites for the PGT PLO Collection II, every costing $560 to enter. These satellites kick off at 1:00 PM native time on Oct. 12 and 13. There’s additionally a $10,000 buy-in satellite tv for pc deliberate for the SHRB: PLO which can start at 1:00 PM on Oct. 23.

For followers trying to observe the PLO motion from dwelling, the primary eight occasions of the PGT PLO Collection II and the SHRB: PLO will all be stay streamed on PokerGO. The PGT PLO Collection II broadcasts will cowl day 2 motion from occasions 1-8, with every stream starting at 1:00 PM PT. The SHRB: PLO will characteristic two days of protection on Oct. 25 and 26.