Mehmet Cetinkaya is our $500 PLO Championship Event Winner!
The $500 PLO Championship Event from Lone Star Poker Series at Prime Social was a huge success. The field of 85 runners grew the $10,000 guarantee up to a shocking amount of 36,550! The first-place prize ended up being larger than the published guarantee for the event!
PLO is definitely alive and well in Houston, Texas. The final table had some impressive names including three-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Rep Porter and WSOP Circuit ring winner with $2.3 Million in live earnings, Dejuante "DJ" Alexander. Alexander's final table appearance was really special as he was born and raised in Houston, graduating from Hastings High School.
In the end, the big names fell away and it was just Mehmet Cetinkaya and Christopher Authement battling for the money and the Trophy Belt Buckle. While Authement came to the final table as the chip leader, he could not hold on in the end.
Cetinkaya hit a straight on the river of the final hand to lock up the win. Cetinkaya scored his second cash of the Lone Star Poker Series and more than doubled his previous Hendon Mob cashes in one event. The Main Event begins Friday, October 30th and hopefully, Cetinkaya can find one more deep run before the Lone Star Poker Series wraps up this weekend.
Congrats to Mehmet Cetinkaya!
$500 PLO Championship Payouts
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mehmet Cetinkaya | $10,770 |
| 2 | Christopher Authement | $7,180 |
| 3 | Tucker Stone | $4,870 |
| 4 | Logan Hewett | $3,430 |
| 5 | Dejuante "DJ" Alexander | $2,500 |
| 6 | Rep Porter | $1,900 |
| 7 | Andrew Dennis | $1,510 |
| 8 | Lisa Fleishman | $1,250 |
| 9 | Drake Roetker | $1,080 |
| 10 | Fendy Price | $1,080 |
| 11 | David Nguyen | $980 |