Halloween weekend brings plenty of scary action at the World Series of Poker this weekend. Several major tournaments kick off as the Main Event approaches next week.
Some big names also grabbed some headlines over the last few days. Brian Rast scored his fifth bracelet and Farzad Bonyadi grabbed his fourth.
Tommy Le also showed his Pot Limit Omaha prowess by winning another PLO event after a runner-up only days earlier. Here’s a look at the news from this week in Las Vegas . Event 43: $1,000 Double Stack
This tournament wrapped up and Anthony Denove topped a huge field for a major score of $446,983 . The tournament produced a field 3,991 for a $3.6 million prize pool.
Canada’s David Guay took the runner-up spot for $276,269 . A cash game player, Denove had only $76,000 in live tournament winnings before this event.
The action was streamed as a side table on PokerGO . Jeff Platt would normally be hosting some of that action. However, Platt was actually at the final table – finishing fourth for $160,662 . Platt used his No Gamble, No Future podcast to interview himself about the big run. You asked for it, you got it. @jeffplatt interviews @jeffplatt after his fourth place finish in the @WSOP Double Stack event pic.twitter.com/MIuzWt7DKA — No Gamble, No Future (@ngnfshow) October 28, 2021 Event 45: $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Eight-Handed Championship
One win, one runner-up. That’s how things have gone over the last week for Tommy Le . He scored a second-place finish in the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha for $126,549 last Friday.
Then on Tuesday, this part-time part-time player from Orange County, California , won this $10,000 version for $746,477 . This was his second bracelet win after also striking gold in 2017 in this exact same event.
The win moves the lifetime WSOP winnings for this PLO savant to $3.5 million . Jordan Spurlin finished runner-up for $461,360 and the event produced 344 players for a $3.2 million prize pool. Tommy Le scored a win and a runner-up in PLO events over the last week. ( The big win capped […]
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