2024 Fall Super Stack – Event #10: $450 NLH/PLO Mixed

It’s probably safe to say Julius Roque likes this game. He cruised through the final table tonight with the chip lead from start to end, but this is far from the first time he’s crushed this game.

He won this same event in August 2023 at the Summer Super, then he followed that up earlier this year with a WSOP-C ring in this event in the May series. His son was on hand to celebrate his birthday and rail his dad for that ring.

He had no rail tonight, but Roque was just as dominant in the game. He was running pure, but he was also using his big stack to perfection pressuring the smaller stacks in crucial spots.

He had about 1.3 million out of 1.5 in play when he got heads-up with Patrick H and made quick work of it. In one of the first hands of HU play, Roque flopped a set of nines and the money went in with Patrick on an overpaid with the 9 blocker. Patrick bricked his thin draw on the turn and river to send yet another Mix game title to Roque.

It was a quick heads-up match tonight. Patrick H has a massive mountain to climb as he had only about 200k to Julius Roque’s 1.3 million. The money went in pretty quickly on a glop of [invalid notations] runout and hit the cage for second-place money.

Julius Roque is a bit of a wrecking ball tonight as he just sent Ismar Delic to the rail for 3rd place. Delic limped the button, then called when big blind Roque potted it to 48k. Roque potted again on the [invalid notations] and Delic called off his stack. He had pocket tens with a straight draw but Roque was drawing to the flush, which he turned with A♠.

It was another brutal exit for Ty Adams tonight as he busted shortly after getting rivered by Julius Roque for the big pot. As he left the room, he confirmed to me that he had Roque crushed until the river of the previous hand, turning deuces full of kings, before Roque rivered a two outer to the bigger boat.

Julius Roque has a ring in this Mix Game from last May, and he is pushing the table around with his big stack. He’s been potting relentlessly since they moved to PLO, getting most of them through. I the most recent hand, he didn’t pot, but still managed to get there for a nice chip up.

Ty Adams opened under the gun to 30k and it turned into a family pot with three callers. the 2♦2♠5♠ flop checked to Roque on the button and he fired 35k. Adams was the only caller to the 2♣ turn and both players checked it to the 10♠ river.

Adams checked and Roque fired out 175k. Adams snap-called it but was visibly frustrated when Roque rolled over 10♥10♦7♥7♠ for tens full on the river.

“You had to hit that ten, eh?” Adams said as he paid off the bet.

They are down to 4 now after Deven Lane followed Dean Morrone out of the game. I missed the action while writing the previous bust, but Lane pocketed $1,915 for his work today.

Dean Morrone was the first player out in the money after his ace-king couldn’t find a card against the pocket eights of Patrick H. Patrick shoved the cutoff and Morrone called with less from the button to set up the race.

They are in the money now with 6 players left after Teo Sanchez was the unfortunate bubble tonight. See below for a look at the final seven players tonight.

They are down to 7 players left with Julius Roque in the lead with more than 500k. Chasing him are Deven Lane, Teo Sanchez, Ty Adams, Ismar Delic, Dean Morrone, and Patrick H.

They are down to the final table of 10 players as Level 14 begins. There are only 9 stacks with players in front of them though as DJ Sharma’s ghost stack is still in the game. There are still 4 players who will go home empty-handed tonight and Sharma may well be one of them as he’s down to 41k, less than 10 bigs.

His day is nearly over in the Mega stack though, so he’ll be at his chips in this one in 10 minutes or so hoping to spin it up again. He’ll likely be back just in time for the end of this PLO round and the start of the next NLH round with NLH being his better game.

They are down to 12 left in the Mix game, though only 11 stacks have players in front of them. DJ Sharma’s stack is unattended while he finishes out the final hour of the Megastack, but it looks like he’ll still have chips when they bag over there. He is only allowed to play in this one during breaks of the Mega, so he won’t be able to touch his stack again until after the Mega bags come out.

They are just 9 off the money in the Mix Game now with 15 players left in the action. Zeyu Huang, Nicholas Lee, Christian Stanbury, Peter Darlington, Deven Lane, Julius Roque, and Ty Adams are among the players still in the hunt for cash tonight.

The prizes are in and there were 63 entries for the NLH/PLO Mix. That means 6 players will share $23,940 in prizes later tonight with the winner expecting $8,140. There are 18 players remaining in the game so they are 12 eliminations away from getting paid.

They are up to 58 entries in the Mix with about 15 minutes to play in Level 9. Entries will still be open through the break following this level, but will be closed when they sit down for Level 10. DJ Sharma has a ghost stack in this one while he focuses on the Megastack play where he has about 130k. His stack in this one is mostly blinding down, but he’s playing it from time to time and hoping he’ll still have chips when they bag up the Mega in a couple of hours.

There are just over 10 minutes to play in Level 7 with two cards being dealt. The field is now at 50 entries for prizes of $19k with a bit more than an hour left to enter or rebuy.

There are just under 10 minutes to play till the first break of the day in the Mix game with the field at 37 entries for prizes of just over $14k. There are still about 2.5 hours left to enter the game tonight.

The Mix game is underway with action in Level 2 now and 19 entries on the board. That puts the prizes right now at just over $7k with more than 4 hours left to enter the game.

The side game on Thursday is the NLH/PLO MIx. This game tends to be one of the more popular formats in the series so it should see a pretty good turnout.

The action gets going at 4 PM on Wednesday and players sit down with 25k to start. Levels will be 30 minutes long throughout the night and they’ll have 9 levels to enter the game. That should put the last chance to enter at about 9 PM.

The Mix format means that they’ll switch games every level. The first level, and every odd-numbered level, will be played in the NLH format with two cards, while Level 2 and all even-numbered levels play PLO with four cards.

I won’t be watching this game until later in the day as my main focus will be Day 1b of the Megastack, but I expect this to go very late, so I’m sure I’ll be over for the endgame at the very least.