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The Texas PLO Roundup $3,300 Main Event kicked off at Champions Club in Houston, Texas featuring a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.

The Day 1A field attracted a total of 76 entrants, with Ravee Sundara bagging 921,000 to lead the surviving nine players.

Matthew Macioce (770,000), Samuel Fuller (657,000), Arthur Morris (573,000), and Curtis Muller (562,000) round out the top five players who bagged in the first of seven flights.

It was a steady climb up the leaderboard for Sundara, becoming one of the first players to cross the 300,000 chip mark early in the day, and scoring a number of eliminations along the way, including Andrew Denick and Mark Ioli to end Day 1A. 

Other notable players who found a bag include PGT regulars Adam Hendrix and Isaac Kempton, as well as 2024 Poker Masters Purple Jacket winner Jim Collopy. 

Morris would cross the 200,000 chip mark early on and build from there after eliminating Hall of Famer Erik Seidel and this year's Main Event winner, Jonathan Tamayo, in the same hand. Morris was able to crack Tomayao's aces by flopping an ace-high flush, and although an ace on the turn would give Tamayo life, the river bricked to secure Morris the double knockout. 

Macioce and Sundara would collide in a hand that saw Sundara fold trip aces face-up on a double-paired board to river check-raise from Macioce, and this hand would propel Macioce over the 300,000 chip mark. 

Fuller was another player with a steady climb throughout the day. At different points, he would double through Morris and Martin Zamani, and win a sizeable three-bet pot against Kempton when Kempton check-folded the turn to a pot-sized bet from Fuller. 

Day 1A Surviving Nine Chip Counts 

Place Name Country  Chip Count
1st Ravee Sundara United States 921,000
2nd Matthew Macioce United States 770,000
3rd Samuel Fuller Canada 657,000
4th Arthur Morris United States 573,000
5th Curtis Muller Canada 562,000
6th Adam Hendrix United States 365,000
7th Isaac Kempton United States 287,000
8th Jim Collopy United States 233,000
9th Yigit Aktulga United States 196,000

All Day 1 survivors will combine for Day 2 on Sunday, November 24th, at 3 p.m. CT.

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