2024 Fall Super Stack – Event #11: $800 PLO Megastack

The PLO game is over after the final two players decided on an ICM chop at the end of the night. It was just over 12 hours after they started the game, though runner-up Garett Maybery said he was a max-late entry today.

They had to make their way through a pretty stacked final table that included Ronnie Dattani, Myles Budd, Andy Truong, and Zeyu Huang. In the early running of the FT, third-place finisher Budd had the lead, but by the time it was five-handed, York had the big stack and he held it for the rest of the way.

This is York’s second recorded win and it’s pretty clear he likes the Omaha games. His first win (and first recorded cash) was in a 5 card Omaha event last October. York pocketed $14,045 in the ICM deal with the biggest stack while Maybery secured an extra $1,500 or so with a bump up to $12,918 from the original 2nd-place payout of $11,484.

Maybery jokingly commented after that deal that he only made it because he “doesn’t give a F about the picture.”

Garett Maybery potted to 90k from the button, then called with more when Myles Budd shoved his big blind.Maybery had Q♠Q♣7♠3♦ against A♥J♦7♦6♠. Budd flopped straight outs, then turned his ace for the double.

That didn’t last long, however, as a couple of hands later Maybery flopped a set of fives against his top pair, and he was out in 3rd place.

Garett Maybery raised to 90k from the button, and Myles Budd called from the big blind. Budd check-called for 85k on the 2♦3♦8♥ flop, then potted the 2♣ turn.

Maybery shoved and Bud called off with a bit more. He had a pair of fives with straight outs holding six-five-five-four, but Maybery turned trip ducks with queen-queen-jack-deuce. The river bricked and Maybery doubled, leaving Budd the short stack at about 120k. Skyler York is still the chip leader.

Zeyu Huang typical nickname is Skytrain, but tonight he jokingly said he was “PLO Fish” instead. The “Fish” did pretty well, playing his short stack to 4th place tonight.He got it in over a raise from small blind Garett Maybery and Maybery called it down with more.

Zeyu Huang: J♣9♦8♣6♦
Garett Maybery: J♦J♠10♥9♥

Board: 2♥A♠10♣8♠K♦

<aybery was ahead with jacks against the running cards for Huang. The flop favoured Maybery, but the turn gave Skytrain some outs to the straight with a pair. The river bricked for him though and he was off to collect 4th-place money.

Garett Maybery raised to 60k from the small blind and Andy Truong called from the big. It all kicked off on the [invalid notations] flop when Maybery shoved and Truong called with a bit more.

Garett Maybery: A♦J♦7♠2♠
Andy Truong: K♣10♣5♠3♠

Truong had a pair of threes with flush and open-ended draws while Maybery was playing a jack with the bigger flush draw. Maybery turned a seven for two pair and though Truong rivered two pair on the 7♦5♦ runout, it was smaller than Maybery’s.

That left Truong very short and he hit the rail in the very next to leave 4 players in the game with the average stack at about 27 big blinds.

There hasn’t been a lot of showdowns since they got five ways with most pots ending before a flop. In a recent hand, Myles Budd potted from the button to 40k, but then folded when Andy Truong repotted it to 128k from the big blind.

Zeyu Huang has potted a few times to take down blinds and antes, but Skyler York has been the one collecting the most chips, as he is now the leader with around 660k.

Garett Maybery opened under the gun with a pot to 42k and Myles Budd defended his big blind with a call. Budd check-called for 40k on the 2♥A♦4♠ flop and they both checked the 4♦ turn.

Budd checked again on the Q♠ river, but mucked when Maybery shoved.

There are five left now after Umang “Ronnie” Dattani hit the rail for 6th place. He limped under the gun and Andy Truong came along from the button before Skyler York make it 60k to go from the big blind.

Dattani called while Truong mucked before the A♥8♠6♦ flop. York put out 70k, then snap-called when Dattani shoved all-in. It was set over set as Dattani was on Q♣J♥8♥8♣ for middle set against A♦A♠J♠3♣ for top set. The rest of the board bricked for Dattani and the set of aces for York took it down.

Myles Budd has more than 1/3rd of the chips in play going into Level 19.

They are down to 6 left in the PLO game now after Michael Wo was the first one out in the money. He was very short coming into the bubble play, but managed to ladder into a min-cash.

Theya are down to 8 players now on the bubble to the money. Andy Truong is among the players still alive at the table, and after the recent bust down to 8, he called to the floor to pause the for hand-for-hand play. It took him a couple of seconds to start laughing and realize that they were playing a single table and were already “Hand-for-Hand.”

The next player out will go home empty-handed, while the rest will get some sort of payday. Full prizes are posted under the Payouts tab.

They are down to 9 players left on the final table of the PLO game now with Level 16 just beginning. The average stack is about 40 big blinds to start Level 16.

The average stack now is just under 40 big blinds with 11 players left in the game. They’ve just returned from a break and there are just over 20 minutes to play in Level 15. Among the players still alive are Zeyu Huang, Chris Clisby, Ronnie Dattani, and Leo Zhang.

They are down to the final two tables now in the PLO game with 18 left. Among the players still in the game are Deven Land, Harp Padda, Ronnie Dattani, Zeyu Huang, Greg Genge, George Mounsef, Michael “Berny” Bernstein, Chris Clisby, and Leo Zhang

Entries are closed for the PLO Megastack and the prizes are up. With 73 entries in the pool. the total prizes came to $49,932. There will be seven players taking a chunk of that prize pool with the winner set to pocket almost $15.5k.

Event #11: PLO Megastack Payouts

I’m still watching the final table of the NLH Megastack so I don’t have eyes on this game, but the field is up to 64 entries with 36 players still at the felt. That puts almost $44k into the prize pool so far with about 2 hours left to enter this game.

The PLO Megastack is in Level 2 with 24 players in action. Among the players in the game so far are Greg Genge, Sean O’Reilly, Jason Tomei, Mal Hagan, Karim Chatur, Kirk Nilson, and the winner of last night’s NLH/PLO Mix Julius Roque.

The side game on Thursday is the PLO Megastack, set to ply out alongside Day 2 of the NLH Megastack. The four-card action kicks off at 2 pm and players will sit down with 30k in chips. Blinds will be 30 minutes long from start to end and players can buy into the game until the start of Level 11, which should be around 7:45 PM tonight.

I won’t be paying much attention to this game early in the day as I’ll be focussed on the two-card Mega, but once a winner is decided in that one, I’ll move over to finish out the PLO. I expect this will be a late one, depending on the field size, so buckle in for perhaps a 4 AM finish.