The PokerGo Tour set a brand new attendance file over the weekend and, for as soon as, it wasn’t a Texas Maintain’em event that introduced out the lots.
Daniyal Iqbal, an engineer from the US, has crushed a few of poker’s greatest gamers in a record-breaking PokerGo Tour PLO Sequence occasion. (Picture: PokerGo)
PokerGo has turn out to be the go-to platform for streaming and video content material since launched in 2017 however, during the last two years, it’s turn out to be equally revered for its live events.
The PokerGo Tour (PGT) began in 2021 and, on March 11, its first Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) pageant obtained underway. The professionals had been out in pressure however it was novice poker participant, Daniyal Iqbal, who gained the $5,000 buy-in opening occasion
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The PGT PLO Sequence follows one other latest innovation, the Mixed Game festival, which occurred in February. The prospect of enjoying Omaha, reasonably than Texas Hold’em, was clearly interesting to a variety of poker execs, because the opening occasion attracted 200 entries.
Of that determine, 140 had been distinctive buy-ins. These are file numbers for a event solely owned and operated by the PokerGo Tour. With new information for the variety of whole and distinctive entries set, consideration quickly turned to the prizepool.
There was $1 million to play for over the weekend. The prizepool, plus the very fact acquainted faces akin to David Williams, Jeff Madsen, and Ethan ‘Rampage’ Yu made Day 2, ensured it could be an entertaining finale.
Certainly, when the finale obtained underway inside PokerGo’s Las Vegas studio on Sunday, it didn’t disappoint. The aforementioned names placed on sturdy shows, as did among the finest PLO gamers on the earth, Eelis Parssinen. Nonetheless, when the betting was over, Daniyal Iqbal stood victorious.
PokerGo Tour PLO Sequence Occasion #1 outcome
- Daniyal Iqbal – $160,000
- Roussos Koliakoudakis – $120,000
- Stanislav Halatenko – $90,000
- Eelis Parssinen – $70,000
- Peng Zheng – $60,000
- Jeff Madsen – $50,000
- Sean Troha – $40,000
- Ethan Yau – $40,000
- David Williams – $30,000
Not like his opponents on the ultimate desk, Iqbal doesn’t play poker full-time. By day, he’s an engineer. Nonetheless, he performs poker in his spare time, together with PLO money video games. What he could have lacked in expertise, Iqbal made up for inside persistence and timing.
Newbie beats execs in PokerGo Tour PLO opener
He began Day 2 with the chip lead however needed to bide his time after dropping it in the direction of the latter a part of the finale. This technique served Iqbal properly as he quickly obtained again in entrance after hitting a set to remove Parssinen in fourth place.
From there, he by no means appeared again. As soon as he’d taken out Stanislav Halatenko and Roussos Koliakoudakis, Iqbal lifted his first PokerGo Tour trophy. Not solely that, he picked up $160,000, which is the largest win of his profession.
Beating a record-breaking discipline is spectacular, as is the very fact Iqbal needed to face among the prime PLO gamers on the earth. Nonetheless, it’s extra spectacular that Iqbal’s victory was a mic drop second.
Though he’s planning to play just a few extra PokerGo Tour PLO Sequence occasions, he gained’t be staying for lengthy due to work. So, like a boss, Iqbal has taken down a record-breaking PokerGo Tour occasion and, identical to that, he’s strolling away along with his trophy and a bag full of money.
