The second-ever PokerGo Tour (PGT) Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl: $100,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha wrapped up on Saturday with Seth Davies successful $1.5 million and his second SHRB title in two months.
The high-stakes PLO occasion drew 42 gamers for a prize pool of $4.2 million, a rise from the 38-player discipline in 2023 that noticed Jared Bleznick successful the inaugural occasion. The sports activities playing cards fanatic, who used time banks to open a number of playing cards on the last desk, regarded to defend his title as he entered Day 3 because the chip chief however bowed out in fourth place for $450,000.
This yr’s champion entered because the brief stack and misplaced practically his total stack earlier than occurring a run that noticed him ladder previous Bleznick and remove Sean Winter (third – $600,000) to enter heads-up play with a dominant lead over runner-up Artem Maksimov ($900,000), the one non-American on the last desk.
“I had two large blinds, not a lot of that was talent,” Davies instructed PokerGO’s Remko Rinkema. “I simply bought actually fortunate time and again. So I imply unimaginable outcome clearly, however it’s a PLO match, craziness occurs, all of us noticed it. I simply gained each hand for 2 hours. So that is what occurred.”
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The victory offers Davies his second SHRB title in simply two months after he took down August’s Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl Cyprus for $3.2 million. In March, he gained a PGT PLO $25,000 occasion for $522,000 after lately deciding to concentrate on Omaha.
“I am clearly not the perfect participant within the room at this sport,” he mentioned. “I’ve solely been enjoying it critically for a couple of yr or so. Omaha itself is a very nice poker sport. I really feel prefer it’s very a lot a poker participant’s sport. And I say that which means all the pieces form of is smart. It is like an enormous logic puzzle. Whereas maintain’em is somewhat bit form of computer-y.”
The PLO occasion drew the perfect high-stakes Omaha specialists on the planet, together with latest PGT PLO Championship winner Ben Tollerene (seventh – $170,000) and six-time bracelet winner Josh Arieh (fifth – $330,000).
Rinkema referred to as Davies’ climb again from two large blinds “one of the vital epic comebacks we now have ever seen, particularly in an occasion this large.”
In response to PokerGO, the victory strikes Davies into third on the PGT leaderboard behind latest PLO champion Daniel Negreanu and Jeremy Ausmus, who bubbled the excessive curler occasion.
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