Spanish Pot-Limit Omaha Specialist Triumphs In World Series of Poker Paradise $100,000 High Roller

The pot-limit Omaha event scene has been booming lately, and that’s simply high quality with Lautaro Guerra. The Spanish PLO specialist has 38 recorded event scores, with 35 coming in occasions that featured simply his most well-liked four-card poker variant. His two no-limit maintain’em and one PLO/NLH combined money account for simply $61,000 of his greater than $4.9 million in profession earnings, which makes him one of the elite performers of the burgeoning PLO circuit.

Guerra secured his largest rating but by taking down the 2024 World Series of Poker Paradise $100,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha tremendous excessive curler occasion, topping an elite area of 88 entries to earn his first gold bracelet and the $2,126,770 high prize.

This was fifth-largest winner’s payout in PLO event historical past, trailing solely the $2,303,017 received by 2023 WSOP $50,000 PLO champion Jesse Lonis, 2023 WSOP $25,000 PLO champion Ka Kwan Lau’s $2,294,756 payday, the $2,270,000 Eelis Parssinen captured within the Triton Monte Carlo this fall and the $2,246,728 that David Eldridge walked away with for taking down the $25,000 PLO occasion at this yr’s WSOP.

Given the place this rating falls within the PLO report books, it’s little shock that it is usually Guerra’s largest event payday but. It simply surpassed the $518,750 he was awarded for taking down the $25,000 finale within the inaugural PokerGO Tour Pot-Limit Omaha Series. That victory cemented his maintain on the sequence champion for that first-ever PGT PLO Series.

While Guerra has solely recorded 38 cashes since debuting on the scene in 2018, he has already closed out 9 titles. That means he has come away with the title practically 1 / 4 (23.7 %) of the time that he has made the cash in a event. This newest triumph got here with 960 Card Player Player of the Year factors. With 4 wins and eight final-table finishes, he’s now ranked 63rd within the 2024 POY race standings sponsored by Global Poker.

The high 13 finishers made the cash on this occasion, which ran over the course of three days at Atlantis Paradise Island within the Bahamas. The event was slated to play right down to a winner after two days, however motion was halted within the wee hours of the morning when a champion had not but been selected day 2.

Day 2 started with 52 gamers nonetheless in rivalry from the 88 complete entries made on this six-figure affair. The bubble burst when two-time bracelet winner Chris Brewer’s pocket kings couldn’t come from behind in opposition to the pocket aces of bracelet winner Pascal LeFrancois, who went on to complete sixth ($477,800).

Plenty of large names had been despatched to the rail on day 2, together with five-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman (thirteenth), bracelet winner and two-time Super High Roller Bowl champion Isaac Haxton (twelfth), six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus (ninth), Poker Hall of Famer Patrik Antonius (seventh), all-time Triton Poker titles chief Jason Koon (fifth), and bracelet winner and 2023 Super High Roller Bowl PLO champion Jared Bleznick (third).

Bleznick acquired $1,170,360 because the third-place finisher. The latest High Stakes Duel 5 winner now has practically $8.6 million in recorded event earnings.

Ben Tollerene took roughly a 2:1 chip lead into heads-up play in opposition to Guerra after knocking out Bleznick, however that hole was narrowed a bit by the point that event organizers had the ultimate two bag up for the night time at practically 3:00 AM native time.

Action resumed at 2:00 PM the next day with Tollerene holding 29,800,000 to Guerra’s 23,000,000. After pulling even nearer within the early going, Guerra managed an enormous double up with AA102 in opposition to the QQ86 of Tollerene. The bigger pair held up and Tollerene was left on fumes. He was quickly all-in with 8754 going through the A665 of Guerra. The board got here down Q10335 and Guerra’s pocket sixes earned him the pot and the title.

Tollerene was awarded $1,577,660 because the runner-up. This was the fifth seven-figure event payday for the previous high-stakes on-line money sport grinder recognized to many as ‘Ben86’. He is now approaching $19.6 million in profession earnings.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:

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