Although pot limit 6-card Omaha is an unusual game variant, it proved popular on June 13 at the Wynn Summer Classic.
The festival's $2,200 6-Card PLO event attracted 92 runners, for a prize pool of $182,620.
This turnout meant the $100,000 guarantee was more than exceeded and that the top prize, after a two-way deal was cut still a healthy $45,967. This top prize went to Sameer Batra who made the deal with James Jagger.
Jagger earned $42,000 for his second-place finish.
Saturday, June 13 at the Wynn Summer Classic will see three events run. However, the main focus will be on the $3,500 No Limit Hold'em event with its $5m guarantee. Day 1C of the event starts at midday, local time today.
Previous Day 1 flights of this event have attracted some big names, including Shannon Shorr on Day 1B.
This event has four Day 1 flights total with a combined Day 2 on Monday, June 15.
The other two events today are a $2,200 6-Card Pot Limit Omaha 6-Max event with a $10,000 guarantee and a $500 Milestone Satellite to $3,500 NLH event.
The 6-card PLO event starts at midday and the satellite at 6:00 p.m. Both events have late registration.
Day 1B of the $5 million guaranteed $3,500 No Limit Hold'em was a much bigger flight than the first. Day 1B brought in 295 new entries, bringing the event's total to 491 players and exceeding the Day 1A turnout of 196 entries.
In total, this puts the prize pool at $1,558,925 and counting. This number will increase over the next few days as there are still a Day 1C and Day 1D to come.
To the 30 Day 1A survivors, Day 1B added 48 more for a total Day 2 field of 78 players.
Michael Berk finished the day with the field's biggest stack, though his 771,000 in chips was only good for second place overall so far. The Day 1 chip leader, Guillermo Sanchez Otero remains at the top of the leaderboard with 1,041,000.
Ardit Kurshumi (547,000) finished with the second biggest stack of Day 1B, and Kevin Schulz (508,000) finished in third.
Daniel Smiljkovic.
Today's survivors also included Shannon Shorr who ended the day with the 36th biggest stack overall with 192,000 and Daniel Smiljkovic (472,000), who won back-to-back tournaments earlier in this Wynn Summer Classic.
They will join Thomas Muehloecker and Brek Schutten from the Day 1A field.
Day 1C begins at midday on Saturday, June 13. With Day 1D playing out on June 14. All the Day 2 survivors will join a combined Day 2 on Monday, June 15.
After six Day 1 flights and two days of combined field action at the Wynn Summer Classic, the $1,600 No Limit Hold'em event crowned a winner on Friday, June 12.
Mihai Manole took the $2 million guaranteed event down. Due to a high turnout, the prize pool far exceeded the guarantee, reaching $2,615,470. Manole got $431,474 of that pile of cash for his victory.
In the final hands of the tournament, Manole was up against Zheming Zhu. Zhu lost the heads-up confrontation, taking home $283,699 for second place.
Francis Cruz Pena came third for $217,735, rounding out the top three of a field that included Thomas Middleton (4th-$169,295), Olivier Busquet (14th-$15,246), Jeremy Becker (42nd-$6,193), and John Juanda (173rd-$3,562),
Kevin Gomez won the $1,100 Pot Limit Omaha Turbo event on June 12 at the Wynn Summer Classic. He took home $41,750 for winning the $100,000 guaranteed event.
A total of 20 players made the money. These players were the last to bust from a from a field of 167 entries. This made for a solid turnout that set the final prize pool at $162,825.
Gomez's heads up opponent was Nino Junior Pansier who came second, losing the heads-up showdown with Gomez. Pansier earned $25,072 for his second-place finish.
Qiaonan Liu came third for $17,899, completing the podium positions.
One of the biggest events of the summer kicked off at the Wynn Summer Classic on Thursday. The tournament we're speaking of is the $3,500 No-Limit Hold'em, which guarantees at least $5 million in the prize pool.
There are four Day 1 starting flights in the one, one per day. Day 1b is scheduled to begin at noon PT today. One completed flight in the books (1a) yesterday and it's clear this is going to end up with a large field.
Day 1a had 196 entrants, 30 of whom moved on to Day 2, which takes place June 15 at Wynn Las Vegas. No one left the casino last night feeling better about their performance than Guillermo Sanchez Otero, who bagged the chip lead at 1,041,000.
Not only did Otero finish the session with the most chips, he did so in convincing fashion. There's a wide gap between Otero and the second-largest stack, Daniel Maor, who ended play with a healthy stack of 616,000 chips. Talented pro Thomas Muehloecker is also off to a strong start to the tournament with 472,000 chips.
Day 3 of the $1,600 No-Limit Hold'em ($2 million guaranteed) event will kick off at noon PT from Wynn Las Vegas on Friday.
It's going to be an intense battle with nine players remaining, and the top four stacks are all close. There's some dropoff from the big stacks and the small stacks, but even the shortest stack, Francis Cruz Pena, will start play at the final table with 13 big blinds (2,650,000).
Mihai Manole has the chip lead at 13,225,000, but it's a slim advantage over Yuekai Liu (12,650,000). Zheming Zhu (11,225,000) and Tom Middleton (11,125,000) are right behind the chip leader. And then Alexander Baek isn't too far back at 9,475,000.
There's a sizable gap between fifth and sixth place, but Cenk Nigbolu (4,775,000) and Chao Duan (4,425,000) can easily spin it up into a big stack quickly.
The tournament, which has over $2.6 miillion in the prize pool, will play down to a winner today. We'll have a recap of the action right here tomorrow.
Last night's $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo, a $100,000 guaranteed event, saw 159 players register, creating a prize pool of $155,025.
Five players would end up in an ICM chop after Michael Frost busted in sixth place ($7,306). Zachary Baron was crowned the winner for $23,960.
Baron, a Texas poker pro, now has over $600,000 in live tournament cashes recorded by The Hendon Mob database. Four others won over $19,000, including runner-up Maxwell Vandever ($20,182), Joe Harry McLoughlin (third place for $20,000), Kent Lacob (fourth place for $19,596), and Pedro Ingles Garcia (fifth place for $19,735).
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