The pot-limit Omaha match scene has been booming in recent times, and that’s simply high quality with Lautaro Guerra. The Spanish PLO specialist has 38 recorded match scores, with 35 coming in occasions that featured simply his most popular four-card poker variant. His two no-limit maintain’em and one PLO/NLH blended money account for simply $61,000 of his greater than $4.9 million in profession earnings, which makes him one of many elite performers of the burgeoning PLO circuit.
Guerra secured his largest rating but by taking down the 2024 World Collection of Poker Paradise $100,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha tremendous excessive curler occasion, topping an elite subject of 88 entries to earn his first gold bracelet and the $2,126,770 high prize.
This was fifth-largest winner’s payout in PLO match historical past, trailing solely the $2,303,017 received by 2023 WSOP $50,000 PLO champion Jesse Lonis, 2023 WSOP $25,000 PLO champion Ka Kwan Lau’s $2,294,756 payday, the $2,270,000 Eelis Parssinen captured within the Triton Monte Carlo this fall and the $2,246,728 that David Eldridge walked away with for taking down the $25,000 PLO occasion at this 12 months’s WSOP.
Given the place this rating falls within the PLO document books, it’s little shock that it is usually Guerra’s largest match payday but. It simply surpassed the $518,750 he was awarded for taking down the $25,000 finale within the inaugural PokerGO Tour Pot-Restrict Omaha Collection. That victory cemented his maintain on the collection champion for that first-ever PGT PLO Collection.
Whereas Guerra has solely recorded 38 cashes since debuting on the scene in 2018, he has already closed out 9 titles. Which means he has come away with the title almost 1 / 4 (23.7 %) of the time that he has made the cash in a match. This newest triumph got here with 960 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors. With 4 wins and eight final-table finishes, he’s now ranked 63rd within the 2024 POY race standings sponsored by World Poker.
The highest 13 finishers made the cash on this occasion, which ran over the course of three days at Atlantis Paradise Island within the Bahamas. The match was slated to play all the way down to a winner after two days, however motion was halted within the wee hours of the morning when a champion had not but been selected day 2.
Day 2 started with 52 gamers nonetheless in rivalry from the 88 complete entries made on this six-figure affair. The bubble burst when two-time bracelet winner Chris Brewer’s pocket kings couldn’t come from behind in opposition to the pocket aces of bracelet winner Pascal LeFrancois, who went on to complete sixth ($477,800).
Loads of huge names have been despatched to the rail on day 2, together with five-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman (thirteenth), bracelet winner and two-time Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl champion Isaac Haxton (twelfth), six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus (ninth), Poker Corridor of Famer Patrik Antonius (seventh), all-time Triton Poker titles chief Jason Koon (fifth), and bracelet winner and 2023 Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl PLO champion Jared Bleznick (third).
Bleznick obtained $1,170,360 because the third-place finisher. The current Excessive Stakes Duel 5 winner now has almost $8.6 million in recorded match earnings.
Ben Tollerene took roughly a 2:1 chip lead into heads-up play in opposition to Guerra after knocking out Bleznick, however that hole was narrowed a bit by the point that match organizers had the ultimate two bag up for the evening at almost 3:00 AM native time.
Motion resumed at 2:00 PM the next day with Tollerene holding 29,800,000 to Guerra’s 23,000,000. After pulling even nearer within the early going, Guerra managed an enormous double up with A
A
102 in opposition to the QQ
86 of Tollerene. The bigger pair held up and Tollerene was left on fumes. He was quickly all-in with 8
754 dealing with the A665 of Guerra. The board got here down Q10335 and Guerra’s pocket sixes earned him the pot and the title.
Tollerene was awarded $1,577,660 because the runner-up. This was the fifth seven-figure match payday for the previous high-stakes on-line money recreation grinder identified to many as ‘Ben86’. He’s now approaching $19.6 million in profession earnings.
Here’s a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Lautaro Guerra Cabrerizo
$2,126,770
960
2
Benjamin Tollerene
$1,577,660
800
3
Jared Bleznick
$1,170,360
640
4
Veselin Karakitukov
$868,220
480
5
Jason Koon
$644,070
400
6
Pascal LeFrancois
$477,800
320
7
Patrik Antonius
$354,440
240
8
Sorel Mizzi
$277,230
160
9
Jeremy Ausmus
$243,340
80
Photograph offered by WSOP.
