Action continued on Saturday in the 2024 PokerGo Tour PLO Series in Las Vegas, where Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu claimed victory in Event #3, $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha. Negreanu entered Day 2's six-player, live-streamed final table with the chip lead, and he stayed atop the counts through most of the day before closing out Anuj Agarwal for the win.
Negreanu's triumph was worth $147,500 and pushed his career live-event winnings to more than $52.4 million. It was also Negreanu's second PGT title of 2024, following an early-January win in the PGT Last Chance series. Negreanu has also logged eight PGT final-table finishes so far in 2024, the most of any tour participant.
Negreanu overcame late surge from Agarwal
Though he finished Friday's Day 1 action with the chip lead, it wasn't quite a wire-to-wire Day 2 romp for Negreanu. He reached heads-up play against Agarwal with a 2:1 edge in chips, then watched as Agarwal went on a brief rush to take over the lead. Negreanu eventually doubled through Agarwal and into the lead in a hand where Agarwal missed his draw and a chance to close out the victory himself.
The end came just one hand later, when a short-stacked Agarwal ran the last of his chips into Negreanu. Both players began with ace-high holdings but Negreanu had better kickers and sealed the hand and the win by making a flush on the turn. An inconsequential river card closed the action, leaving Agarwal to collect $91,450 for his second-place run. Third place and $64,900 went to Bruno Furth.
Event #3, $5,100 PLO, drew 118 total entries and built a $590,000 prize pool. Seventeen players made the money when the event's bubble burst on Friday evening.
Negreanu's Event #3 win moved him into third position on the 2024 PGT PLO Series leaderboard with seven events still remaining. Event #1 winner Allan Le continues to top the leaderboard, with Event #2 winner Eelis Parssinen close behind.
Event #3: $5,100 Pot-Limit Omaha results
Place
Name
Country
Payouts
1
Daniel Negreanu
Canada
$147,500
2
Anuj Agarwal
United States
$91,450
3
Bruno Furth
United States
$64,900
4
Curtis Muller
Canada
$50,150
5
Dylan Weisman
United States
$38,350
6
Lance Patel
United States
$29,500
Data / winner's photo courtesy PokerGO
