Ka Kwan kaju85 Lau triumphed in the
$10,300 PLO Main Event and secured a $263,099 payout following a heads-up deal with Danish grinder LamassuShedu.
The majority of the $1,340,000 prize pool was dished out among the final seven players, with start of the day chip leader
Joao vovo leo Studart being the final table s first casualty. Studart collected $59,046 for his efforts. terror777727 were the next players to fall, the latter banking the tournament s final five-figure prize, namely $98,178.
Lau was aggressive throughout the final table s proceedings and that aggression paid off with the scalp of PLO expert TheBrodie5 . Lau went into his heads-up battle with LamassuShedu holding a near two-to-one chip lead, but PLO is a high variance game so nobody blamed the heads-up duo for striking a deal.
Yuri Dzivielevski was the chip leader going into the nine-handed final table, closely followed by
Daniel Dvoress. Neither was able to build on their impressive start and become the final champion of the GG Spring Festival.
The final table lost a player when
Konstantin Maslak shoved for 9.5 big blinds with and lost a coinflip against Dzivielevskiâs
.
Dzivielevski was the executioner against in a cooler hand that saw
âxyzpokerâ hit the rail in eighth-place. xyzpoker must have been rubbing his hands together in delight after looking down at and seeing Dzivielevski all but min-raise in front of him. Delight turned to despair when the Brazilian snap-called xyzpokerâs 8.5 big blind three-bet all-in, doing so with
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Some 601 players bought into the High Main Event despite it costing $10,300 to do so. Those entrants ensure the $5 million guarantee was not only hit but surpassed by almost $1 million. Only 194 players remain in contention for the title right now, although that number could rise because late registration is open until 6:05 p.m. BST on April 26.
Sweden s ShipitFTW911 is the player to catch right now courtesy of amassing 3,169,951 chips. Only Mexico s ZeBaronju, with 3,077,927, has more than three-million chips. There is a lot of poker still to be played in this event, but those two players have done their chances of glory no harm at all.
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