The Super High Roller Bowl added a new PLO event this year, and it was a huge success
Jared Bleznick battled with Stephen Chidwick and Isaac Haxton for six hours to win the inaugural $100,000 Super High Roller Bowl Pot-Limit Omaha championship at PokerGO Studio. The trio beat out 38 total players to battle for the $1,292,000 top prize from the $3,800,000 prize pool.
Haxton held the chip lead over Bleznick in heads-up play but would finish in second place for $836,000. Chidwick took home $570,000 for third, with Isaac Kempton (4th for $418,000), Aaron Katz (5th for $304,000), Frank Crivello (6th for $228,000), and Chino Rheem (7th for $152,000), the remaining players to cash at the event.
Rheem went down first on Day 2 when Kempton doubled up after dodging his flush draw, leaving him with the short stack that Bleznick took after hitting a Broadway straight. Haxton was the early leader before the short-stacked Katz doubled up against Bleznick to stay in the game after Crivello fell in sixth place.
Katz later picked up a double through Haxton but was still the only player under 1 million chips. He would soon bust in fifth place after Kempton took the last of his stack. Haxton would hold a slim lead over Bleznick and Kempton, with Chidwick now short-stacked but still within striking distance with 65 big blinds.
The chips eventually began falling Bleznick’s way until he led with 6.8 million over Haxton’s 2.2 million. Chidwick then doubled through Kempton, who was soon eliminated in fourth place by Bleznick.
Play continued three-handed for six hours before Chidwick fell in third place. Bleznick and Haxton would go back and forth in a brief heads-up fight, which ended with Bleznick turning three nines to top Haxton’s pair of queens.
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