Cristian Gutierrez Wins $600 PLO Deepstack For His First Bracelet and $193,780

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Jun 05, 2025 4 min read

Day 2 of Event #16 $600 Pot-Limit Omaha DeepStack concluded with Cristian Gutierrez victorious after more than 12 hours of play. Gutierrez bested a massive field of over 3,110 entrants, accumulating a total prize pool of $1,657,008. Gutierrez became the champion by defeating Robert Chorlian in heads-up play to claim his first gold bracelet and his biggest score of $193,780 at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, nearly doubling his career earnings.

The first time bracelet winner navigated a tough field of some very notable competitors like Josh Arieh, Erick Lindgren, Jamie Gold, Ryan Riess, and Leif Force, to name a few. Feeling confident since the start of the event, Gutierrez was a name to watch in the leading chip counts throughout the event.

Event #16: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack Final Table Results

Words From The Winner

When PokerNews asked about what made Gutierrez play this specific event, the champ responded by saying this:

“I started playing Omaha last year at Borgata, and I liked it. Hold'em, I started the series playing the series, and I struggled. I started putting a lot of time into mixed games. My first ten buy-ins when I started the series here, and when I went to Golden Nugget, I lost all the flips on Hold’em. I took a break, the day before this started, I said to myself ‘I’m playing the Omaha event”. I didn’t want to just play hold'em, I needed a break. You know, sometimes you’re just running bad. I was running bad on hold'em. I started playing and I felt confident from the first moment I sat down. I was playing great, making some moves and making some hands as well.

"I know the game, I have put a lot of volume online. I final tabled the Cherokee event two stops ago, the Circuit event. I got very unlucky in that one; I got like sixth, and I got 17th. I’ve been knocking on the door in Omaha as well. So I said, ‘Omaha, it is for me. ’ I had a premonition that I would win my first bracelet in mixed games other than hold'em, so I was like 'Why not?'"

When heads-up play started, Gutierrez was overheard saying he's been waiting for this moment his whole life. Gutierrez described what this bracelet win meant to him:

“I came from a family that struggled money-wise, where my grandpa had a huge family. We lived in a farm, I grew up on a farm. Just basic necessities, you know, no cable, just water and food. You gotta get up at 6 in the morning and work to get a payday. So I come from all of that, and it’s not about the money to me, I made this money to help my family and also keep playing the game that I love. When I was little, I wanted to be a soccer player, but that didn’t happen. When I didn't make it, I lost the love for the game, and then I found poker, and I found my passion again. I felt the same as I felt about soccer, and I found it in poker. I said, ‘This is it.'"

"I started playing poker after a soccer game, my friend invited me to play, and I got hooked. I played $20 buy-ins, and I started going to casinos. I learned by losing money."

When asked about a memorable moment during the tournament where Gutierrez felt like it was his tournament to win, He replied, “This morning. When I started in the morning, I was in the zone. I said, 'This is my tournament,' with 180 players left. We started Day 2, and it started flying, and I saw how everybody was playing. I was like “I can make this happen.'"

Gutierrez said he will celebrate his win by playing more poker.

Final Table Action

Gutierrez came into the final table second in chips. Eliminations came quickly as the table dwindled down to 5 players about an hour into play. Gutierrez turned up the aggression in a momentum-changing double-up, bolstering his stack to almost the 40 million chip mark. A pivotal hand saw Gutierrez gain a three-to-one chip lead on all the remaining players.

Heads-up Play

Gutierrez came into heads-up play against Robert Chlorian. On the second hand of heads-up play, Gutierrez's dominating chip lead was slightly less overbearing for Chlorian, but victory was claimed less than 7 hands later. During these 9 hands, Chlorian applied the pressure, raising all of Gutierrez's buttons. "It wasn't about your hand, it was about mine," Gutierrez said as he folded his button to Chlorian, playing patiently, waiting for his spot to spring the trap and capture the coveted jewelry at stake.

With less than ten hands left, the conclusive hand was played as Gutierreez flopped two pair and his opponent held a pair of aces in the hole. The last card gave Gutierrez a full house, a gold bracelet and the lion's share of the prize pool to the tune of $193,780.

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• Tags WSOP25 Cristian Gutierrez Erick Lindgren Jamie Gold Jorge Martinez Josh Arieh Kenneth McMillan Leif Force Martin Nielsen Matthew Allen Nick Maimone Noah Harthcock Robert Chlorian Robert Chorlian Ryan Riess
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