Day 1 About to Start in Event #45: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship
The 52nd annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada continues today with Event #45: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship. Day 1 of the four-day tournament commences at 3 p.m. Pacific Time and will play for ten 60-minute levels before breaking for the day.
Players will begin with a starting stack of 60,000 and blinds at 100/200 with a 200 ante paid by the big blind. In the pot-limit tournament, the ante will only count as part of the pot after the flop.
Day 2 of the eight-handed tournament will take place on Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. and play for 10 levels, while Day 3 will commence the following day at the same time and will play down to five players.
Day 4 will take place on Oct. 26 at an undetermined start time and play down to a winner, who will earn the lion's share of the prize pool and a golden bracelet.
Dash Dudley of Lansing, Michigan is the reigning champion of the Pot-Limit Omaha Championship after taking down the 2019 event for a cool $1,086,967 by defeating James Park during heads-up play.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team is ready to bring you updates of today's PLO action. Be sure to check out the team's coverage of other WSOP events in the meantime.
and Garza's opponent checked. Garza fired a bet of 4,000 and the player in middle position went into the tank for nearly a minute before tossing his hand in the muck. 
and both players checked again. The river was 
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for three fives, but Donabedian had 
to make a straight and take the pot. 
on the board, Scott Ball was all-in for a little less than 10,000. There were three callers who checked all the way down to the river. 
for sevens full of tens to take the pot and send Ball to the rail early in Day 1.
and Wolff bet 6,000. The cutoff and button folded and Eric Hicks called. 
and the river 
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while commiserating over the disastrous river. 
and Sammartino's aces and nines held for the double.
