Within the spring of 2023, Lautaro Guerra ran away with the sequence champion honors within the inaugural PokerGO Tour Pot-Restrict Omaha Collection. The Spanish PLO specialist and on-line high-stakes money recreation participant got here out on prime in three of the 9 titles provided throughout that sequence, cashing for $967,150 together with $518,750 because the champion of the festival-ending $25,000 buy-in occasion.
Now, Guerra is off to the very best begin within the 2024 PGT PLO Collection II which kicked off halfway by means of October. He emerged victorious from a discipline of 155 entries within the $5,100 buy-in kickoff occasion, incomes $178,250 and his fourth profession PGT PLO Collection title.
This was the fifth-largest rating of his profession, bringing his lifetime match haul to greater than $2.4 million.
Guerra additionally earned 576 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors for the win. This was his sixth final-table end of the yr, and third title. He took down a pair of occasions on the Spring Massive Wrap PLO Collection again in April, and made two last tables on the 2024 PGT PLO Collection I in March. With 2,108 complete factors, he now sits inside the highest 150 within the 2024 POY race standings offered by International Poker.
This was Guerra’s fifth money in an occasion awarding PokerGO Tour factors. With the 178 PGT factors he secured for this title operating bringing his complete to 455, he now sits in first place within the sequence factors race and inside the highest 100 within the season-long rankings.
This match performed out over the course of two days contained in the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & On line casino Las Vegas. The highest 23 finishers made the cash, with massive names like five-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman (twentieth), four-time bracelet winner and three-time World Poker Tour champion Anthony Zinno (18th), bracelet winner Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero (seventeenth), two-time bracelet winner Dylan Linde (twelfth), Dan Shak (eleventh), present second-ranked POY race contender David Coleman (ninth), and bracelet winner Allan Le (eighth) all operating deep.
The ultimate day started with Guerra within the lead and 6 gamers remaining. Two-time WPT champion and Card Participant columnist Jonathan Little was the primary to fall, being despatched to the rail with $38,750 because the sixth-place finisher.
Guerra scored his first knockout of the day by making a flush to remove Johnson Phanyaseng (fifth -$46,500). It wasn’t all easy crusing for the Spaniard, although. He shortly misplaced a giant pot throughout four-handed play together with his ace-high flush operating into jacks stuffed with nines for six-time bracelet winner Josh Arieh.
Arieh prolonged his newfound chip lead when his 9-8-7-7 double suited outran the pocket queens with king-high diamonds of Christopher Costa (4th – $58,125). Arieh flopped a wrap draw and turned a nine-high straight. The river was a clean and Costa headed to the payout counter.
Guerra quickly doubled again into the lead, calling all-in with prime set towards the pair and a number of gutshot straight attracts of Arieh. The river modified nothing and Guerra surged again in entrance. He added to his benefit when his A
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10
8 held towards the A
Q86 of three-time bracelet winner Sean Troha in a preflop showdown. Guerra flopped a flush draw and turned each the flush and prime set, leaving Troha drawing lifeless. Troha earned $77,500 because the third-place finisher.
Guerra held roughly a 3:1 chip lead over Arieh when heads-up play started. It didn’t take lengthy for him to transform that benefit into the title. The ultimate hand of the match started with Arieh limping for 250,000 complete from the button with Q1073. Guerra checked with J865 and the flop got here down 1062. Guerra check-called a guess of 600,000 and the flip introduced the 8. Guerra guess pot (1,950,000) and Arieh moved all-in for two,375,000. Guerra known as together with his two pair and held by means of the J river.
Arieh earned $112,375 because the runner-up. He now has practically $13 million in profession cashes to his title.
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
PGT Factors
1
Lautaro Guerra Cabrerizo
$178,250
576
178
2
Josh Arieh
$112,375
480
112
3
Sean Troha
$77,500
384
78
4
Christopher Costa
$58,125
288
58
5
Johnson Phanyaseng
$46,500
240
47
6
Jonathan Little
$38,750
192
39
Picture credit: PokerGO / Antonio Abrego.
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