Winter Poker Open PLO Championship Continues Today at Champions Club
The second of three opening flights in the Champions Club Winter Poker Open Pot-Limit Omaha Championship is set to get underway Tuesday afternoon.
The $1,100 buy-in event with a $150,000 guarantee saw 46 entries take their shot in the opening flight Monday with six players advancing on to Day 2 on Thursday, led by Ethan Bennett, who bagged 700,000 chips.
They ended play with around a minute left in Level 13 with blinds at 2,000/4,000 with a 2,000 big blind ante.
Day 1a Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ethan Bennett | 700,000 | 175 |
| 2 | Kris Burchfield | 322,000 | 81 |
| 3 | Dejuante Alexander | 310,000 | 79 |
| 4 | Lawrence Chang | 196,000 | 49 |
| 5 | Brad Ruben | 193,000 | 48 |
| 6 | Gabriel Andrade | 187,000 | 47 |
Those players, as with the final 12.5% from Tuesday and Wednesday's Day 1b and 1c will all be in the money and on to Day 2, where they will play down to a winner, with the final table featured on the Champions Club live stream.
Play gets underway at 4 p.m. local time with 30-minute levels and a 15-minute break after every four levels. Players will start with 40,000 chips, and registration and re-entry will be open until the start of Level 9 (approximately 9:30 p.m. CT).
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