The most important-ever Pot-Restrict Omaha (PLO) event is again with the PokerGo Tour (PGT) Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl: $100,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha, a six-figure, four-card occasion that debuted final yr and noticed Jared Bleznick profitable the historic occasion for $1.3 million.
One yr later, the sports activities playing cards fanatic is closing in back-to-back $100,000 PLO victories. Bleznick ended Thursday’s Day 1 second in chips because of a cooler in opposition to Samuli Sipila as he made quad jacks to crush the Finn’s aces full, in accordance with PokerGO updates.
The one participant forward of Bleznick within the counts is Russia’s Artem Maksimov, who’s after his first PGT title after a number of ultimate desk finishes on the earlier two PLO festivals inside PokerGO Studio. Different gamers who bagged Day 1 embrace final yr’s runner-up Isaac Haxton, Josh Arieh, Sam Soverel, Sean Winter, latest PGT PLO Championship victor Ben Tollerene and present PGT factors chief Jeremy Ausmus.
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Final yr’s inaugural occasion in Las Vegas drew 38 gamers for a $3.8 million prize pool. This yr’s providing has attracted 38 gamers up to now with registration open till the beginning of Day 2 at this time at 1 p.m. native time.
It took two bullets for Bleznick, who earlier this summer time received his first bracelet and $2 million within the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) $50,000 Excessive Curler, to bag a giant stack, and Daniel Negreanu did not have the identical fortune.
The latest $10,000 PLO winner busted his first bullet as his wrap could not hit in opposition to John Riordan. His second $100,000 buy-in introduced the Poker Corridor of Famer even much less luck as he bluffed into the stone nuts of Jason Koon, who himself was eradicated later within the night.
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It is unlikely Negreanu took the bustouts personally as he sang nothing however excessive praises for his PLO comrades earlier within the week.
Different gamers who didn’t advance via Day 1 embrace Alex Foxen, Dylan Weisman, Nick Schulman and Seth Davies.
After seven ranges of play on Day 1, gamers will return at this time to blind ranges of 4,000/8,000/8,000. That leaves loads of play left for anybody seeking to hop in with a recent beginning stack of 300,000.
PokerNews will present updates from every day of motion forward of the second-ever $100,000 SHRB PLO champion being topped.
Comply with to high-stakes PLO motion on PokerGO and take a look at some highlights from yesterday’s stream on YouTube.
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