Bryce Yockey is the newest champion determined on the 2023 PGT PLO Series II. The bracelet winner from Torrance, California overcame a subject of 114 entries within the $10,100 pot-limit Omaha occasion to earn the title and the highest prize of $239,400.
This was the sixth-largest match rating of Yockey’s profession, with the largest being the $511,147 he took down because the winner of the 2017 World Series of Poker $10,000 pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better championship occasion. The victory pushed his lifetime match earnings previous $4.1 million.
Yockey was additionally awarded loads of rankings factors after popping out on high on this match. The 600 Card Player Player of the Year factors he secured moved him inside the highest 1,000 within the 2023 POY standings offered by Global Poker, whereas 200 PokerGO Tour factors moved him inside the highest 100 on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.
This was Yocky’s second money of the competition, having additionally completed nineteenth within the $7,500 buy-in bounty PLO occasion for $11,175. His win on this newest occasion was sufficient to maneuver him into second place within the series-long rankings with 250 factors.
The second and closing day of this occasion started with seven gamers remaining contained in the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Yockey was within the lead, with a number of different extremely completed gamers nonetheless in competition.
Alex Foxen was the primary to fall. The bracelet winner’s single-suited pocket kings have been unable to beat out the A-J-10-9 with ace-high spades of Kyle Merronm who flopped a wrap draw and made it on the flip. Foxen earned $57,000 for his twenty first final-table displaying of the yr. With greater than $3 million in to-date POY earnings and 6,568 factors, Foxen is presently the seventh-ranked POY contender. He can also be simply outdoors the highest ten within the PGT year-long standings, with 19 certified cashes.
Four-time bracelet winner Ben Yu was knocked out by six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus, who climbed to 3rd within the chip counts after scoring the knockout. Yu took residence $68,400 because the sixth-place finisher.
Yockey scored his first knockout of the day when his high pair and wrap draw beat out the flush draw of Artem Maksimov (fifth – $79,800). Merron had moved into the highest spot through the early motion, although, and added to his lead when his high set of kings completed off two-time bracelet winner and 2022 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian most important occasion champion John Riordan (4th – $102,600).
Ausmus briefly overtook the lead earlier than dropping a giant conflict with Merron to slip again into third place. He finally obtained all-in on a Ok
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3 flop with A87
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3 of Yockey. The Ok flip maintained the established order, however the 5 river gave Yockey the next flush and the pot. Ausmus headed to the cashier to gather $125,400 in prize cash for his third-place displaying. This was his twentieth final-table end of the yr. He now sits in ninth within the POY rankings and tenth within the PGT standings.
That knockout gave Yockey the lead over Merron going into heads-up motion. Yockey actually pulled away within the early going, solely to have Merron start to regain some misplaced floor. The comeback ended abruptly when all the chips went in on a Ok105A board with Merron holding Q755 for backside set. Yockey had QJ74 for the nut straight. The 2 didn’t pair the board and Merron was eradicated in second place, incomes $171,000.
Here is a take a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the closing desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Bryce Yockey | $239,400 | 600 | 239 |
| 2 | Kyle Merron | $171,000 | 500 | 171 |
| 3 | Jeremy Ausmus | $125,400 | 400 | 125 |
| 4 | John Riordan | $102,600 | 300 | 103 |
| 5 | Artem Maksimov | $79,800 | 250 | 80 |
| 6 | Ben Yu | $68,400 | 200 | 68 |
| 7 | Alex Foxen | $57,000 | 150 | 57 |
Here is a take a look at the present high ten within the sequence factors race by 5 occasions:
1st: Stephen Hubbard – 262 factors
2nd: Bryce Yockey – 250 factors
third: Richard Gryko – 246 factors
4th: Eelis Parssinen – 236 factors
fifth: Vasil Medarov – 200 factors
sixth: Adam Hendrix – 200 factors
seventh: Daniel Geeng – 188 factors
eighth: Allan Le – 171 factors
ninth: Kyle Merron – 171 factors
tenth: Matthew Wantman – 151 factors
Photo credit: PokerGO / Antonio Abgrego.
