€10,300 PLO Championship
Day 2 Started
2024 PLO Grand Slam
€10,300 PLO Championship
Day: 2
Event Info
2024 PLO Grand Slam
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
Buy-in
€10,300
Prize Pool
€1,203,200
Entries
128
Level
27
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000
Entries
69
Players Left
11
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Earlier this week, the relatively unknown Aaron Pahlawani burst onto the high-stakes PLO scene at the PLO Grand Slam by shipping the first-ever Diamond Poker Series event for €176,100. However, Pahlawani is looking to add another trophy to his collection in the €10,300 PLO Championship, of which the second day kicks off today at 3 p.m.
Pahlawani is among the 37 returning players who survived a Day 1 field of 96 entries. He will return to the tables with a stack of 1,019,000, worth over 100 big blinds, placing him in fifth position on the leaderboard. Pahlawani has to overcome some tough competition if he wants to go back-to-back, however, as PLO crushers such as Alex Livingston, Ka Kwan Lau, and Joni Jouhkimainen surround him in the top ten chip counts, not to mention Harun Ertural, whose 1,488,000 will be the biggest stack at the start of the day.
Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
| 1 | Harun Ertural | Germany | 1,488,000 | 149 |
| 2 | Alex Livingston | Canada | 1,258,000 | 126 |
| 3 | Ka Kwan Lau | Spain | 1,200,000 | 120 |
| 4 | Daniel Montagnolli | Austria | 1,134,000 | 113 |
| 5 | Aaron Pahlawani | Austria | 1,019,000 | 102 |
| 6 | Joni Jouhkimainen | Finland | 911,000 | 91 |
| 7 | Vlado Banicevic | Montenegro | 886,000 | 89 |
| 8 | "Sie Pie" | 772,000 | 77 | |
| 9 | Lautaro Guerra | Spain | 750,000 | 75 |
| 10 | Vadim Zakharyan | Israel | 711,000 | 71 |
Other familiar names at the start of Day 2 include the ever-jovial Imad Derwiche (620,000), Irishman Chris Dowling (473,000), bracelet winners Oleksii Kovalchuk (455,000) and Nikolaos Lampropoulos (377,000), Norwegian high roller regular Tom-Aksel Bedell (256,000), and the short-stacked PLO specialists Gergo Nagy (92,000) and Maksim Shuts (57,000).
The €1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool just needs a few more entries to be reached, and with two levels of late registration to go, it seems all but certain that it will be smashed. Players who want to hop in from the start will begin in Level 10: 5,000/10,000 with a big blind ante of 10,000. Those who reenter during the day or simply like to start later can do so until the start of Level 12: 10,000/15,000 (15,000), which is scheduled for 5:15 p.m. local time.
From Day 2 onward, all levels will be 60 minutes in length and a break will had after every two of them. Day 2 is set to play down to 16 players remaining, who will bag up and return for the finale on Day 3.
Stay tuned to PokerNews as the €10,300 PLO Grand Slam Championship will have its prize pool confirmed and gets in the thick of it on Day 2 of the event.
Level: 10
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
Level 10
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
The 37 returning players have found their seats and have been joined by four new entries as the cards are in the air for Day 2 of the €10,300 Championship.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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200,000
200,000
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200,000 |
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200,000
200,000
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200,000 |
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200,000
200,000
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200,000 |
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200,000
200,000
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200,000 |
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Level 10
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
On the first deal of the day, Joni Jouhkimainen raised to 30,000 in the hijack before the shortest stack in the field, Maksim Shuts, committed his stack of 57,000 on the button.
"Pie Sie" in the big blind then four-bet the pot, which forced Jouhkimainen out.
Maksim Shuts: Q♠Q♦J♣10♣ 
"Pie Sie": K♥K♣Q♣3♥
Shuts was dominated and sent to the rail when the 2♠7♥5♠A♦10♦ board did not improve his hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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881,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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864,000
92,000
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92,000 |
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Busted | |
Level 10
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Cutoff "Diego Armando got his stack of 121,000 in on a flop of 8♠A♦7♠ against Nikolaos Lampropoulos in the big blind.
"Diego Armando": A♠K♣3♠2♦
Nikolaos Lampropoulos: A♣Q♠J♣9♠
The 8♥8♣ runout gave both players trips, with "Diego Armando"s ace-king kicker awarding him the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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525,000
125,000
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125,000 |
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375,000
189,000
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189,000 |
Level 10
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Nikolaos Lampropoulos checked under the gun to Sergio Martinez Gonzalez in the cutoff on a flop of 8♦Q♠5♥. Martinez Gonzalez then bet the pot of 115,000, after which Lampropolous put him all-in for not much more.
Martinez Gonzalez snap-called and the cards hit their backs.
Sergio Martinez Gonzalez: K♠K♥10♠3♣
Nikolaos Lampropoulos: Q♦Q♣J♦6♣
Lampropoulos had hit top set. The 8♥ turn left Martinez Gonzalez with two outs, which did not come on the 10♥ river, sending him to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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665,000
140,000
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140,000 |
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Busted | |
Level 10
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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200,000 | |
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200,000
200,000
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200,000 |
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200,000
200,000
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200,000 |
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200,000
200,000
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200,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
Level 10
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
In a pot worth 150,000 "Dan" was seen committing the last of his chips on the button against Joni Jouhkimainen under the gun on a flop of 7♣A♣J♠.
"Dan": A♥K♠K♥2♦
Joni Jouhkimainen: 9♣8♥8♣7♥
Jouhkimainen hit one of his many outs on the 7♠ turn, and the 7♦ river gave him quads to seal the deal and send "Dan" out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,300,000
419,000
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419,000 |
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Busted | |
