Sadly, my brain shut off at about 4 am this morning while this game was still 6-handed, but in the end, it was Sandy Lam from Toronto who ended up with all the chips. She bested what was a pretty stacked final table that included Dylan Descheneaux, who finished 6th in the opening PLO game and is a regular feature at four-card final tables around these parts, as well as 3rd place from the PLO Monster Stack Juss Viet.

They were joined by PLO crusher Leo Zhang, who picked up a PLO win here at Deerfoot during 2023's Summer Super Stack, and Whitehorse's Craig Caldwell, who was working on his second cash of the day after 10th place in the Flip & Go game earlier in the evening. Lam stood out above all of them, holding one of the biggest stacks at the FT for the periods I was watching.

In the end, Lam took down the title over Caldwell, who pocketed almost $13k for his two cashes yesterday. Viet bagged third place again, a finish he actually predicted when the game was still at two tables. With two third-place cashes in four-card events, that almost certainly puts Viet as the most consistent PLO player for this series. Descheneaux, for his part, did one better than his 6th place in the opening PLO with 5th last night while Zhang bagged 6th place.

But it was Lam who ended up with the glory as she bagged her first Ring and first live win. It also looks like this was her first cash in a PLO game according to Hendon Mob, but based on what I saw of her play last night, it absolutely was NOT her first time playing with four-cards. The $18k win is her biggest live score by quite a bit and amounts to more than half her previous lifetime scores on Hendon Mob.

Even though this final table is stacked like crazy, even I have my limits. It's been a very long week, and tomorrow promises to be a big day in the Main Event that I want to be on the floor for as early as possible so I've packed up my stuff to get some sleep tonight. Good luck to the final six players, and I apologize for not sticking it out until the end.

I'll update the final results tomorrow from the floor of the Main.

Roger Gossett was short for the whole final table, but he managed to ladder up to 7th place. In the final hand, he potted under the gun to 210k, then called off the dregs after Sandy Lam raised to 600k.

Roger Gossett:
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Lam's kings held and Gossett was out for 7th place, and another good showing for the Die Hard Poker League, their fourth final table this week.

It's quite a field at this final table. Craig Caldwell from Whitehorse is on his second cash of the day after he took 10th place in the Flip & Go earlier, then jumped into this one and is now at the final table.

Dylan Descheneaux was 6th in the opening PLO game this series, so he's at his second final table. Joining him at FT #2 is Juss Viet, who was 3rd in the PLO Monster earlier this week, and while Leo Zhang hasn't been deep in a PLO game this series, he's a regular face deep in four-card games, and two-card ones for that matter as well.

They are down to 7 players left now in the PLO Bounty, but I haven't been able to follow the action very closely as I'm still working on the Main Event posts for tomorrow. Harvey Cox took 8th place tonight for $2,141.

They are down to 8 left now after Darnell Kuzek ended his night in 9th place for $1,705.

The first player off the final table tonight was Ryane Sanders in 10th place for $1,380.

They are down to 10 left in the PLO bounty after a double knockout sent NLH/PLO Mix Ring winner from January 2022 Wei Hou and Stefan Maloney. Jackson Yang followed in 11th place shortly after on the other table and it's down to the ten-handed final table now.

I've been a bit late getting to the PLO Bounty game as the Flip & Go just finished about half an hour ago and I've been finishing that up, but the prizes are now in for this game. 60 players are splitting $131,340 in prizes tonight, and most of the early payouts have already been claimed with the field down to 19 remaining now.

See the Payouts tab for a full look at tonight's prizes and the cashing players so far.

Registration is now closed for the PLO Bounty tonight, and it looks like they topped out at 398 entries for $131,340 in prizes. If that number holds, 60 players will be getting a piece of that money, but I'll confirm all the numbers when the payouts are posted shortly.

There is still more than 2 hours left ti enter the PLO Bounty game, and the field is already at 267 entries for prizes of more than $88k. This field may well explain why the Main Event field was lower than expected today as many of the players in this one may have chosen to play the Main today but didn't want to miss the PLO game tonight.

If that's the case, then we can expect a much bigger field for the Main tomorrow as tonight's PLO players will be planning to make their Main runs on the final opening flight.

The PLO Bounty game is underway with 134 entries on the board to start the game. I'll try to update numbers on this one, but I won't likely be paying too much attention to it until after the Flip & Go Day 2 ends.

Event #13: $400 PLO Bounty ($230 + $100 + $70)
Jan 19, 2024, 6 pm
Starting Stack: 20k
Blinds: 20 Minutes
Registration: 9 Levels (~9:30 pm)

The second side game on Friday is the PLO Bounty game. $100 of the buy-in goes to the bounty pool while the rest goes into end-of-day prizes.

They'll sit down to the felt with 20k in chips for 20-minute levels throughout the day. Entries and reentries will be open for 9 levels, which should put the final chance to enter the game at about 9:30 tonight.

I'll be following this game after the Flip & Go ends but I'm not certain I'll be there until the end. I'd like to be in the room for most of the final flight of the Main Event tomorrow, and I suspect the PLO could be a late one. I'll make a decision later in the evening about what my plans are.