$1,100 PLO Championship
Day 1a Started
2024 Champions Club Winter Poker Open
$1,100 PLO Championship
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
2024 Champions Club Winter Poker Open
Buy-in
$1,100
Prize Pool
$192,035
Entries
199
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
50,000
Entries
37
Players Left
5
Champions Club Winter PLO Championship Starts Saturday
The 2024 Winter Poker Open at Champions Club Texas in Houston is off to a huge start with Friday’s $400 Monster Stack event doubling its $50,000 guarantee, and a pair of other events adding to a packed poker room to start the weekend.
Along with the first flight of the $300,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty event, Saturday sees the $150,000 guaranteed Pot-Limit Omaha Championship get underway for the first of three starting days.
The $1,100 buy-in event starts at 5 p.m. local time with unlimited re-entry and registration open until the start of Level 9 (approximately 9:30 p.m. CT). Days 1B and 1C will go at the same time Sunday and Monday.
Levels are 30-minutes in length and players will start their quest for Winter Poker Open glory with 40,000 chips. Play continues in each opening flight until just 12% of the field remains, with those players in the money and advancing to Day 2.
The two-day event culminates with a live-streamed final table on Tuesday, February 6th once all survivors from the three opening flights have been thinned to nine remaining contenders. Those opening flight returnees will come back to the Champions Club poker room at 5 p.m. Tuesday to continue their chase for a five-figure payday for the win.
Pot-Limit Omaha’s popularity continues to grow here in Texas, and PokerNews will have you covered for this prestigious event from the first ‘shuffle up and deal’ until a champion is crowned on Tuesday, so stay with us for all the action.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 0
Shuffle up and Deal!
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Day 1a of the Champions Club Winter Poker Open $1,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship is underway with one table of eight players to get play started.
The Earliest Entries
Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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40,000 | |
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40,000 | |
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40,000 | |
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40,000 | |
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40,000 | |
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40,000 | |
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40,000 | |
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40,000 |
"Straddle" Works Well for Gayao
Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 0 ante
With play 400 big blinds deep to start the day, players at Table 18 decided to "straddle" and "double straddle". The preflop actions would of course be deemed blind raises as straddling is not permitted.
Action folded around to Danylo Turov in the big blind who raised to 2,500 which was called by Margarette Zayao under-the-gun and Danny Chang to her left in the "straddles"
On the 8♠7♦5♠ flop, Turov led for 3,000 and was called by Zayao before Chang raised to 19,000.
"You guys are f***ing donkeys," Gayao playfully exclaimed at the site of Chang's raise.
Turov folded but Zayao called with just 400 chips behind. The last of it of course went in on the J♣ turn and the cards were revealed with Zayao at risk.
Margarette Zayao: A♣Q♣5♥5♦
Danny Chang: Q♠8♣7♠6♦
Zayao's set of fives was ahead of Chang's two pair and a straight draw, and with the J♠ river, she doubled up and then some after dropping some chips early to start the day.
"Ship it to baby mama!" said Gayao, to the smiles and laughter of the table, including Chang.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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57,000
17,000
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17,000 |
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54,000
14,000
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14,000 |
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17,500
-22,500
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-22,500 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 100
Thai Ha Wins Winter Poker Open Event #1 ($21,000)
Level 2
: Blinds 100/200, 100 ante
While the PLO Championship is just getting underway at Champions Club Texas, a trio of events are already in the books.
The opening event, $400 Monster Stack saw 305 entries create a prizepool of $100,650, more than doubling the $50,000 guarantee.
Thai Ha of Houston took home the trophy and the $21,000 first place prize after a deal was struck four-handed.
Event #1: $400 Monter Stack Final Table Results
| PLACE | NAME | HOMETOWN | PAYOUT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THAI HA | HOUSTON, TX | $21,000* |
| 2 | JODY THERIOT | NEW IBERIA, LA | $13,875* |
| 3 | MICHAEL STONER | MISSOURI CITY, TX | $13,875* |
| 4 | RICHARD SEMANDER | WILLIS, TX | $5,400* |
| 5 | SANG N NGO | SUGAR LAND, TX | $4,930 |
| 6 | SURRINDER AHLUWALIA | HOUSTON, TX | $4,100 |
| 7 | KALEB HARWELL | HOUSTON, TX | $3,460 |
| 8 | TONG MU | SUGAR LAND, TX | $2,860 |
| 9 | BASSEL ASI | HOUSTON, TX | $2,300 |
| * denotes four-way deal |
Andrade Makes Zelaya the Day's First Elimination
Level 2
: Blinds 100/200, 100 ante
Michael Zelaya was just seen returning to the field with a new entry slip after using one of his unlimited available re-entries.
As told by the man who eliminated him, Gabriel Andrade, Zelaya fired 1,500 on a flop of Ax10♣5♣ before being raised to 8,500 by Andrade and calling.
Then on a 5x turn, Zelaya bet 8,500 and was called again before moving all in on the 6x river and getting called by Andrade who held AxKxXxXx for two pair and the winner to sent Zelaya back to the registration cage.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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87,000
47,000
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47,000 |
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Busted |
Level: 3
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 100