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The Texas PLO Roundup $3,300 Pot-Limit Omaha Main Event continued at Champions Club in Houston, Texas, featuring a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. After a final Sunday morning turbo flight, the tournament drew 474 runners and generated a $1,422,000 prize pool.

Lawrence Chang leads the final seven players with 9,430,000 in chips after nearly 10 hours of play. Chang entered the day with an above-average stack of 637,000 and built his stack to more than 1,800,000 before the first break of the day. He shot to 3,425,000 after eliminating Tai Vo shortly before the three-table redraw, where he sat atop the counts. With nine left, he eliminated Matthew Macioce in a pot of more than 5.5 million to vault well clear of the field.

Kyle Arora (5,960,000) will enter the final table second in chips. Arora made a call for his tournament life with 15 players remaining to cross the three-million-chip mark and continued his ascent during shorthanded play, taking advantage of an hour-long final table bubble. Senovio Ramirez (4,140,000) finished play in third, his day defined by a consistent upward trajectory after entering the day with 320,000, well into the second half of the leaderboard at the time.

Sean Rafael (3,275,000), start-of-day chip leader Andrew Ige (2,475,000), LaDarren Banks (1,815,000), and Sterling Savill (1,350,000) round out the final table of seven. Banks survived the day after finding himself down to 30,000 and tripling with four tables remaining.

The final seven players will be competing for the following prizes:

Place PGT Points Prize
1 300 $300,000
2 200 $200,000
3 120 $120,000
4 80 $80,000
5 60 $60,000
6 51 $51,000
7 43 $43,000

Fifty-five players advanced to Day 2 and made it into the money. Notable in-the-money finishers included PGT Texas PLO Roundup Event #4 winner Stephanie Chung (11th - $29,000), Anthony Hu (18th - $14,000), Ben Ludlow, (24th - $11,000), Ren Lin (26th - $11,000), 2024 WSOP Main Event runner-up Jordan Griff (27th - $11,000), Event #6 winner Adam Hendrix (34th - $9,000), and Alex Livingston ($44th - $6,500).

At the season's end, the top 40 eligible players on the PGT leaderboard will qualify for the PGT Championship. The 2024 PGT Championship will be a $1,000,000 freeroll with a $500,000 first-place. Along with the top 40 eligible players, limited PGT Championship "Dream Seat” winners will be awarded through special events and promotions. Information on the Dream Seat promotions can be found here.

This tournament series is part of the PokerGO Tour (PGT), and players earn points based on the amount they cash in PGT-qualifying buy-ins of $3,000 or more. The full PGT schedule and current leaderboard can be found here.

Texas PLO Roundup $3,300 Main Event Final Table Seat Draw

Seat Player Country Chip Counts
1 Sean Rafael United States 3,275,000
2 Sterling Savill United States 1,350,000
3 Andrew Ige United States 2,475,000
4 Kyle Arora United States 5,960,000
5 LaDarren Banks United States 1,815,000
6 Lawrence Chang United States 9,430,000
7 Senovio Ramirez United States 4,140,000

Day 2 ended with 57:43 remaining in Level 26 (40,000/80,000 blinds and a 40,000-big blind ante)

The final table will resume on Monday, November 25th, at 3 p.m C.T. and will be live-streamed on the PokerGO YouTube channel on a 30-minute delay.

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