Event #49: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship
Dia 1 Iniciado
Event #49: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship
Dia 1 Iniciado
The biggest pot-limit Omaha show in town may be in its latest stages as the $25,000 High Roller finishes up today, but there's still plenty of big buy-in PLO action available at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino today as it's time for the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship.
Today is the first of three days of the prestigious championship event, which was won last year by Tommy Le in a field of 438 runners for $938,732. All of the people who busted the high roller are surely still around, so the PLO championship should get a nice field once again as the game continues to gain steam as one of the most popular formats at the felt.
The plan for today is to play straight through with 10 one-hour levels and no dinner break, with 15-minute breaks after every other level. Players will get 50,000 starting stacks with a double level to start off at 100/200, progressing to 800/1,600.
Registration will remain open throughout the day and up until the start of tomorrow's Day 2.
Four-card action kicks off here at the Rio at 3 p.m. so stay tuned here on PokerNews to see one of the marquee events of the summer unfold.
In 2005, Phil Ivey won the biggest buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha event at the series, a $5,000 freeze-out. He beat a field of 134 players to take home $635,603, the biggest share of the $1,765,568 prize pool.
The next year, the event doubled its buy-in with Lee Watkinson taking down the event after beating 217 opponents. In 2007, the event was scaled back to a $5,000 buy-in but now with rebuys. The next year, it was back to $10,000 and the event has had that buy-in ever since.
While a $25,000 edition of the popular game has been introduced in 2015, the $10,000 edition remains a popular event with last year's edition setting a record in terms of attendance with 428 players.
Year | Entries | Prize Pool | Winner | Country | Prize |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2006 | 218 | $2,049,200 | Lee Watkinson | United States | $655,746 |
2007 | 145 | $2,891,000 | Burt Boutin | United States | $868,745* |
2008 | 381 | $3,581,400 | Marty Smyth | Ireland | $859,549 |
2009 | 295 | $2,773,000 | Matt Graham | United States | $679,402 |
2010 | 346 | $3,252,400 | Daniel Alaei | United States | $780,599 |
2011 | 361 | $3,393,400 | Ben Lamb | United States | $814,436 |
2012 | 293 | $2,754,200 | Jan-Peter Jachtmann | Germany | $661,000 |
2013 | 386 | $3,628,400 | Daniel Alaei | United States | $852,692 |
2014 | 418 | $3,929,200 | Pat Walsh | United States | $923,379 |
2015 | 387 | $3,637,800 | Alexander Petersen | Denmark | $927,655 |
2016 | 400 | $3,760,000 | Brandon Shack-Harris | United States | $894,300 |
2017 | 428 | $4,023,200 | Tommy Le | United States | $938,732 |
* In 2007, the event was a $5,000 with rebuys.
Nível: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Barny Boatman
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Chris Frank
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Loren Klein
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Dermot Blain | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Juha Helppi
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Luis Velador
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Matt Stout | 50,000 | 50,000 |
John Beauprez
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Maxime Heroux | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Timothy McDermott | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Pim van Holsteyn | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Roman Valerstein | 50,000 | 50,000 |
On a completed board of , a player in the small blind bet 1,600 and Matt Stout called.
"Quads," the small blind said, opening among his four-card holding.
"Quads are...good," Stout said.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Matt Stout | 48,000 | -2,000 |
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Joni Jouhkimainen
|
50,000 | |
Norbert Szecsi
|
50,000 | |
Tom Midena | 50,000 | |
David Paredes | 50,000 | |
Viatcheslav Ortynskiy
|
50,000 | |
Orlando Romero | 50,000 | |
Joe Serock
|
50,000 | |
Noah Schwartz
|
50,000 | |
Sorel Mizzi | 50,000 | |
Jeff Lisandro
|
50,000 | |
Craig Varnell
|
50,000 | |
Kane Kalas | 50,000 | |
Noah Bronstein | 50,000 | |
Rep Porter
|
50,000 | |
Michael Kamran | 50,000 | |
Brandon Shack-Harris
|
50,000 |
With the board reading , the small blind bet 8,000 and Dustin Goldklang called in the big. The river was a and the small blind put in 25,000. Goldklang called for around 20,000 and showed for a king-high flush.
The small blind mucked and the dealer briefly turned over a hand containing , though we couldn't see if another club was in there or not.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Dustin Goldklang | 66,000 |
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Do Germans lose at ANYTHING? Every four years the World Cup coincides with the World Series of Poker. Sasha Salinger heads to the Hofbrauhaus with poker players Marvin Rettenmaier, Niall Ferrell, Steven Chu, Ankush Mandavia, Rainer Kempe, Jeremy Menard, Athanasios Polychronopoulos and others! What is the atmosphere like in an authentic German beer hall? Who is getting drunk and taking shots?
Among the players who recently took a seat is Joey Ingram of YouTube fame, where he hosts a popular podcast and does various video series breaking down hands and happenings in the industry. Ingram, who has just shy of 46,000 subscribers — as well as 12.6 million views — on the video platform, isn't a regular face at the Rio as spends most of his time in the poker world on content creation these days.
However, Ingram came up in poker playing what he calls "the great game of pot-limit Omaha," and the $10K PLO Championship is one event that's alluring enough to bring him back into the tournament streets.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Ayaz Mahmood
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Kahle Burns
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Ryan D'Angelo
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Josh Arieh
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Andrew Brown | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Vivian Saliba
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Joey Ingram | 50,000 | 50,000 |