Ronald Keijzer Wins Event #8: Texas PLO Roundup High Roller #3: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha for $40,150

Ronald Keijzer defeated Arthur Morris heads-up to win event number eight, Texas PLO Roundup High Roller #3: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha at Champions Club Texas for $40,150 in prize money and 40 PGT points.

This is Keijzer's ninth cash and second PGT title of the season, bringing his total live tournament earnings to more than $3,200,000 according to The Hendon Mob. 

Keijzer is known as an Omaha specialist and has collected PGT, WPT, and WSOP wins, with his best live cash of nearly $700,000 coming from a fourth-place finish at last summer's WSOP $50,000 buyin PLO high roller.

The 22 player field generated a prize pool worth $110,000 and the top four players took home at least $12,100. Players looking to take down the final high roller of the series included PGT regs Jim Collopy, Adam Hendrix (who won high roller number one), Isaac Kempton, Alex Livingston, Ren Lin, and Jonathan Tamayo. 

The turbo structure drove the action and after the eliminations of Hendrix, Collopy, Lin, Tamayo, Livingston, and others, the field was whittled down to a seven-handed final table that included Kempton, Ky Nguyen, Mark Ioli, and David Wang. 

Keijzer was able to amass a large stack early on and came into the final table as the overall chip leader. He was also the first player to cross the million chip mark and only fell below it once after losing a big pot to Morris four-handed, where Morris tabled two pair to take it down.

Wang and Gary Horn both came in as final table short stacks and neither were able to find their footing, with Wang the first elimination in seventh, and Horn following shortly after in sixth. 

Kempton was eliminated on the bubble when, short on chips, he moved all-in from the big blind over the button raise of Keijzer. Kempton's overpair was unable to fade the drawing hand of Keijzer and was out the door when Keijzer's open-ended straight draw completed on the river.   

Ioli maintained a middling stack for most of the final table, but would move toward the top of the chip counts when he beat both Morris and Keijzer in big pots during five-handed play. However, Ioli would start to lose his grip after losing a flip to Morris, then would find his exit in fourth place a short while later after his ace-king-queen-five lost to the ace-queen-queen-five of Keijzer.  

Ky Nguyen started three-handed play as the shortest in chips and was able find a good hand to try and double with, but unfortunately, his pocket aces fell to the flopped set of jacks of Morris, sending Nguyen to the payout desk in third to collect a payday of $17,600. 

Keijzer started heads-up with a three-to-one chip lead over Morris, but Morris was able to double early by winning an all-in flip with ace-king-ten-seven to Keijzer's king-queen-queen-nine to even up the chip stacks. At that point, a deal was made and the two players decided to chop the money and play for the belt buckle trophy.

The tournament would end a few hands later when Morris raised Keijzer's button limp and then bet the pot on ace-eight-four. Keijzer moved all-in with king-ten-eight-four and Morris called with ace-jack-jack-deuce. Keijzer's two pair found a hold to secure the trophy and deliver Morris his second consecutive runner-up finish of the high roller series.

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 $5,100 High Roller Results

With this win, Keijzer moves into 54th on the PGT leaderboard with 791 PGT points. Morris moves into 85th with 569 points, Nguyen currently sits in 436th position with 93 points, and Ioli takes position 380 with 101 PGT points. 

PGT Leaderboard Top 10 

These are the leaderboard standings as of Sunday, November 10, 2024. The complete and current PGT leaderboard is at pgt.com/leaderboard.

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