2026 WSOPC Calgary Jan – Event #13: $400 PLO Bounty

Jerry Li likes to say, “I got lucky,” when you congratulate him on a win. And, as a poker player, it’s good to acknowledge the part that luck plays in winning any tournament in this game. Players rarely win a tournament without getting there from behind at least once.

But equally, when a player racks up 3 rings and a bracelet in the same discipline, it’s safe to say there’s more going on than JUST luck. This was Li’s 3rd ring in 4-card poker, and he won a bracelet in the game a couple of years agi in Las Vegas as well, so it’s a safe bet that Li knows his 4-card poker.

In the earlier part of the day, Li was chasing leaders like Michael Khan (3rd, $11,372), but as they got to 3 tables, he started to turn up the heat. By the time they got to the final ten, he was sitting on the big stack, and he never gave it up.

Li was a bit of a wrecking ball at the final table, scoring most of the knockouts on his way to the win, and at the end, he had a stack of bounties worth at least $2k to go with his win. When he got heads up with Scott Fingland, he had a huge lead of about 3:1.

Fingland made it a game, however, getting into it with Li on several pots, and doubling up once to get within another double of the lead. But that was as far as he got, as Li’s relentless aggression at the FT kept him chipped down and on his heels.

In the final confrontation, the money went in on the 9 high rainbow flop, when Li check-shoved over a pot of 840k from Fingland. He called with aces and a queen-deuce of clubs, while Li was wrapped up like a mummy with eight-seven-six-six on the 5♠9♥2♣ flop.

The 7♣ turn gave Fingland a club draw, but it gave Li the made straight. When the river 6♦ came, Li’s straight held the day, and he had his 3rd PLO ring.

Scott Fingland raised to 300k, then called when Jerry Li made it 900k to go. Li shoved the big stack on the flop of 5♣A♣4♦ and Fingland called for his tournament life.

Li was ahead with A♥Q♣5♥2♥ against K♥J♠8♠4♥, but Fingland tripped up on the turn when the board ran out 4♣3♦.

The players are now on a break, with Li still in the lead with more than 7 million, while Fingland has around 4 million now.

They are heads up now after Michael Khan hit the rail for 3rd place tonight. I missed the action writing up the Peters bust.

That leaves Jerry Li heads up with Scott Fingland, and while the average stack is technically more than 50 bigs, Li ha most of the chips in play right now.

Jerry Li raised to 240k from the small blind before Wesley Peters potted the big to 720k. Li shoved, and Peters called his dregs behind.

Peters was on queens with a ten-four, while Li was playing ace-nine-eigh-five. Li hit aces & eights on the flop and never looked back as the board ran out A♣6♦8♦K♦6♣. Neither player had diamonds, and Li’s two better was better than Peters’.

They are down to 4 now after Nu Teliani and Thomas Taylor busted immediately after Jinny Nguyen lost his chips. I missed the action while writing the previous hand.

Place	Player	Prize
5	Thomas Taylor	$5,596
6	Nu Teliani	$4,056

Jerry Li raised the middle to 150k in the final hand of the previous level. Michael Khan flatted from the small blind before Jinny Nguyen potted to 600k. Li falt-called, while Khan Tank-folded.

Nguyen shoved the J♥10♠6♦Q♣4♣ flop, and Li snapped it off. Nguyen had a pair of sixes and a gutty with ace-queen-seven-six, but li was on two pair and open-ended with king-queen-jack-ten. Q♣4♣ on the runout kept Li ahead, and he chipped up to more than 5 million for the big lead, while Nguyen hit the cage for 7th place.

Robert Orosz raised to 100k early, and Wesley Peters called from the middle, as did the button, Hai Oan. The flop is where it all went wild.

It checked to Oan who shoved for 115k. Orosz was next to act, and he reshoved for 345k. Peters asked for a count and then called from the biggest stack.

Oan was on two pair and a straight draw with A♣7♠6♣4♥, Orosz was on aces with a jack-deuce, while Peters was playing queens and nines. The turn hit Peters where it counts, giving him a set of nines, and the river bricked when the board ran 9♥J♣.

That left Peters with the best of it, and Oan took 9th place tonight, while Orosz got 8th.

Place	Player	Prize
8	Robert Orosz	$2,280
9	Hai Xuan Oan	$1,770

Michael Elborn busted from the final table while I was processing the pictures, so the field is now down to 9 left.

Hai Xuan Oan checked his option after Michael Elborn limped the button. Oan check-called for 40k on the 9♥4♦8♦ flop, and they both checked through the A♠6♣ turn and river.

Elborn said he had two pair, but Oan showed a set of fours with ace-four-four-deuce and took it down. Meanwhile, two players hit the rail to set up the final table. Final table pictures will come shortly.

Place	Player	Prize
11	Olivier Brodeur	$1,408
12	Steven Labelle	$1,148
13	Derek Dufour	$1,148

The action continues to move more quickly than I can keep up with. The field is now down to 13 with the final table looming. Every time I head over to the tables to watch some action, I notice a few more busts that need to be recorded.

Place	Player	Prize
14	Enrequito Arceo	$960
15	David Zoerb	$960
16	Illia Hulenko	$960
17	John Marino	$960
18	Kostantinos Segounis	$823

They are down to 17 remaining now, with Kostantinos Segounis as the first player to bust from the final two tables just before the recent break. See below for a look at how the final 17 players stack up, with Michael Khan still leading the way.

The pace tonight isn’t slowing much as they get deeper into the money. They are now setting up the final two tables with 18 players left. About 7 minutes remain in Level 21, and I’ll grab some chip counts for the remaining players after this level.

Place	Player	Prize
19	Josh Wallace	$823
20	Aamer Hussain	$823
21	Sinisa Kovacevic	$823
22	Matthew Osorio	$823
23	Jason Williams	$823
24	Firoz Pirani	$823
25	Chris Hak	$823
26	Denis Mujcin	$823

The action continues to move relatively quickly in tonight’s game, with the field now down to 26 players left. The average stack is just 21 big blinds right now, which is likely driving some of the action. There’s a break coming at the end of Level 21, and I’ll get full chip updates then, but it looks like Michael Khan still has a very big stack, and Jerry Li, who has two rings and a bracelet in four-card poker, just sent a couple of players to the rail to set the final three tables and build a nice stack himself.

Place	Player	Prize
27	Sebastian Crema	$726
28	Roneen Shaffer	$726
29	Kayvan Payman	$726
30	Dante Arevalo	$726
31	Haven Taylor	$726
32	Gregory Wood	$726
33	Pav Braich	$726
34	Ashkan Razavi	$726

The players are dropping quickly so far in the PLO Bounty, with the field now down to 39 left. It looks like the action might be slowing a bit now as they approach the final four tables, and I’m still expecting another 3-4 hours at least before this game ends.

Place	Player	Prize
40	Steven Schartner	$657
41	Charles Christensen	$657
42	Hari Aujla	$657
43	Brady Ohara	$657
44	Carlos Alaniz	$657
45	Christina Armstong	$612
46	Jordon Johnstone	$612
47	Billy Davenport	$612
48	Daniel Wojcik	$612
49	David Dickie	$612
50	Christopher Watson	$612
51	Kyle Rosnes	$612
52	Tony Ma	$612
53	Irwin Montesa	$612
54	Varanpreet Sidhu	$587
55	Jonathan Dikih	$587
56	Richard Kosterman	$587
57	David Jones	$587
58	Edwin Kuntz	$587
59	Jordan Mcknight	$587
60	Jordan Pennock	$587

The field is down to 61 players left on the break following Level 15. I’ll get the payouts updated shortly, but I just had a look around the field while they were on break, and Michael Khan looks to be the clear leader with 687k. David Zoerb looks to be second with about 560k, and Pav Braich is on 550k for the top three stacks right now.

The numbers are dropping fast, and for at least the next few minutes, it’s going to be a game of catch-up with the bustouts. As always, full prizes will be visible under the payouts tab, with the recent busts in posts.

Place	Player	Prize
73	Ellen Brezina	$559
74	Vincent Lam	$559
75	Sami Alhaddad	$559
76	David De Vere	$559
77	Roger Grosset	$559
78	Arnulfo Alontave	$559
79	Robert Limpert	$559
80	Jeff Charlebois	$559
81	Tyler Bourassa	$559
82	Michael Leah	$559
83	Ryan Pittell	$559
84	Ruoxiao Shi	$559
85	Jacob Parent	$559
86	Raymond Lamy	$559

The bubble took just a couple of hands tonight before the final elimination before the money. All remaining players are now in the money, and it’s a race to the ring.

The action has been moving very quickly to this point, but I expect it to slow as they move through the money spots, and I’m expecting the game to go until around 5 AM at least.

The PLO Bounty is now on the bubble with 87 players left and 86 players paid. The clock is paused with 14:02 remaining in Level 14, and they are on the second hand of hand-for-hand play. Two minutes will come off the clock manually for each hand played until the next elimination.

They are down to 96 players left now, 10 off the money, and the action is moving quickly. There are about 7 minutes left in Level 13, and it looks like the bubble play will happen near the end of this level, or the start of the next one.

They are 22 off the money with 108 players left. The prizes are now in, with the field confirmed at 569 entries. That makes this the biggest PLO Bounty game ever here at WSOP-C Calgary, and it wasn’t even close. The previous record was set last January when this game got 432 entries, so today’s field is more than 130 above that previous record.

Final Table Prizes

Entries for the PLO Bounty are now closed, and the unofficial total was 569 entries. If that number holds when the prizes go up, it will mean 86 players getting paid later tonight.

There are just over 10 minutes remaining in entry, with the current players on a break following Level 9. The combined prizes are more than $180k, but I expect that number to grow still with players entering on the break. With the current numbers, it looks like 84 players will get paid tonight, but that number could go higher depending on how active the reg-desk is for this break.

The final level of entry has just begun with 527 entries on the board. The combined prizes are now closing in on $175k, wth more than $112k of that waiting for the prizes later tonight.

Craig Allen looks like the chip leader right now, playing 220k. He looks to be the only one with 200k or more, but Brady O’Hara is among a few players in the 100k range right now.

The PLO Bounty players are into the final three levels of entry tonight, and this is turning into a pretty massive field. This is already the biggest PLO Bounty field ever at WSOP-C, capping the Jan 2025 figure of 432 entries before the first break of the day. Given the pace of entries, there’s no question this game will see more than 500 entries, and there’s a good chance it’ll get to 600, as players seem pretty eager to re-enter this one tonight.

The PLO Bounty is on the first break, with entries still open until the end of the next break following Level 9. The field now is at 442 entries for combined prizes of $145k, and almost $95k of that waiting for prizes later tonight.

With the pace of entry so far, it looks like this game could easily end with over 600 entries. The game is already ahead of both fields in this event from 2025, so this is another example of the great turnout so far for this series.

The PLO Bounty field is now nearing 400 entries, with 234 players still active at the felt. That puts the total prizes just under $130k, with nearly $40k of that in the bounty pool.

Level 5 is about half finished, and entries remain open for just under 2 hours.

The combined prize pool is now over $110k, with more than $70k waiting for end-of-night prizes and almost $34k in the bounty pool.

JJ Johnstone, Steven Horak, Cuong Lieu, Chris Potter, Jen Peters, Sunny Lubana, Steven Dejarlais, Peter Darlington, Sunni Pil, Dallas Larson, and Thomas Taylor are among the players in tonight’s game.

The combined prizes are now over $85k, with almost 260 entries on the board. Level 2 is about half complete, and the end of entries is now about 3 hours away.

Less than 5 minutes remain in Level 1, and the field is pushing 230 entries. That puts the combined prizes over $75k, with almost $49k of the waiting for the prizes at the end of the night, and $22.9k in the flat bounty pool.

The PLO Bounty game is finally underway, about 20 minutes after the advertised start time. There were 192 entries on the board by the time cards went into the air, for a combined prize pool of almost $65k.

Gerry Edwards, Haven Taylor, Wesley Peters, Scott Stuve, Fraezor Caldwell, Stephen Scuderi, Shane Chief, Benny Sarnelli, and Pete Fylyma are among the players in their seats for the opening level of play. Entries are open for about 3.5 hours from the start of play, putting the end of entries at about 9:50 because of the late start.

The PLO Bounty game hasn’t quite kicked off yet, but the opening announcements are now being made, with the clock about to begin on Level 1. The entries before the game were already almost 150, with prizes just shy of $50k, so this looks like it could be a big one.

Event #13: $400 PLO Bounty ($330 + $70)

The big game on Friday is Day 1b of the Main Event, but the side game in the eveningis a PLO Bounty game. Cards go in the air at 6 PM, and players have 9 levels to get into the game.

Players get 20k to start, and they play 20-minute levels throughout the night, so this game will have both bounties and a turbo structure driving the action. Even still, players buying into this game should expect to be at the felt for 10-12 hours.

In October, Whistler’s Matt Hall took down this bounty ring. It was his first ring, defeating Sunni Pil for a prize of $16,829. 331 entries generated a prize pool of almost $110k, with $76,130 of that awarded for prizes.

Jerry Li likes to say, “I got lucky,” when you congratulate him on a win. And, as a poker player, it’s good to acknowledge the part that luck plays in winning any tournament in this game. Players rarely win a tournament without getting there from behind at least once.

But equally, when a player racks up 3 rings and a bracelet in the same discipline, it’s safe to say there’s more going on than JUST luck. This was Li’s 3rd ring in 4-card poker, and he won a bracelet in the game a couple of years agi in Las Vegas as well, so it’s a safe bet that Li knows his 4-card poker.

In the earlier part of the day, Li was chasing leaders like Michael Khan (3rd, $11,372), but as they got to 3 tables, he started to turn up the heat. By the time they got to the final ten, he was sitting on the big stack, and he never gave it up.

Li was a bit of a wrecking ball at the final table, scoring most of the knockouts on his way to the win, and at the end, he had a stack of bounties worth at least $2k to go with his win. When he got heads up with Scott Fingland, he had a huge lead of about 3:1.

Fingland made it a game, however, getting into it with Li on several pots, and doubling up once to get within another double of the lead. But that was as far as he got, as Li’s relentless aggression at the FT kept him chipped down and on his heels.

In the final confrontation, the money went in on the 9 high rainbow flop, when Li check-shoved over a pot of 840k from Fingland. He called with aces and a queen-deuce of clubs, while Li was wrapped up like a mummy with eight-seven-six-six on the 5♠9♥2♣ flop.

The 7♣ turn gave Fingland a club draw, but it gave Li the made straight. When the river 6♦ came, Li’s straight held the day, and he had his 3rd PLO ring.

Scott Fingland raised to 300k, then called when Jerry Li made it 900k to go. Li shoved the big stack on the flop of 5♣A♣4♦ and Fingland called for his tournament life.

Li was ahead with A♥Q♣5♥2♥ against K♥J♠8♠4♥, but Fingland tripped up on the turn when the board ran out 4♣3♦.

The players are now on a break, with Li still in the lead with more than 7 million, while Fingland has around 4 million now.

They are heads up now after Michael Khan hit the rail for 3rd place tonight. I missed the action writing up the Peters bust.

That leaves Jerry Li heads up with Scott Fingland, and while the average stack is technically more than 50 bigs, Li ha most of the chips in play right now.

Jerry Li raised to 240k from the small blind before Wesley Peters potted the big to 720k. Li shoved, and Peters called his dregs behind.

Peters was on queens with a ten-four, while Li was playing ace-nine-eigh-five. Li hit aces & eights on the flop and never looked back as the board ran out A♣6♦8♦K♦6♣. Neither player had diamonds, and Li’s two better was better than Peters’.

They are down to 4 now after Nu Teliani and Thomas Taylor busted immediately after Jinny Nguyen lost his chips. I missed the action while writing the previous hand.

Place	Player	Prize
5	Thomas Taylor	$5,596
6	Nu Teliani	$4,056

Jerry Li raised the middle to 150k in the final hand of the previous level. Michael Khan flatted from the small blind before Jinny Nguyen potted to 600k. Li falt-called, while Khan Tank-folded.

Nguyen shoved the J♥10♠6♦Q♣4♣ flop, and Li snapped it off. Nguyen had a pair of sixes and a gutty with ace-queen-seven-six, but li was on two pair and open-ended with king-queen-jack-ten. Q♣4♣ on the runout kept Li ahead, and he chipped up to more than 5 million for the big lead, while Nguyen hit the cage for 7th place.

Robert Orosz raised to 100k early, and Wesley Peters called from the middle, as did the button, Hai Oan. The flop is where it all went wild.

It checked to Oan who shoved for 115k. Orosz was next to act, and he reshoved for 345k. Peters asked for a count and then called from the biggest stack.

Oan was on two pair and a straight draw with A♣7♠6♣4♥, Orosz was on aces with a jack-deuce, while Peters was playing queens and nines. The turn hit Peters where it counts, giving him a set of nines, and the river bricked when the board ran 9♥J♣.

That left Peters with the best of it, and Oan took 9th place tonight, while Orosz got 8th.

Place	Player	Prize
8	Robert Orosz	$2,280
9	Hai Xuan Oan	$1,770

Michael Elborn busted from the final table while I was processing the pictures, so the field is now down to 9 left.

Hai Xuan Oan checked his option after Michael Elborn limped the button. Oan check-called for 40k on the 9♥4♦8♦ flop, and they both checked through the A♠6♣ turn and river.

Elborn said he had two pair, but Oan showed a set of fours with ace-four-four-deuce and took it down. Meanwhile, two players hit the rail to set up the final table. Final table pictures will come shortly.

Place	Player	Prize
11	Olivier Brodeur	$1,408
12	Steven Labelle	$1,148
13	Derek Dufour	$1,148

The action continues to move more quickly than I can keep up with. The field is now down to 13 with the final table looming. Every time I head over to the tables to watch some action, I notice a few more busts that need to be recorded.

Place	Player	Prize
14	Enrequito Arceo	$960
15	David Zoerb	$960
16	Illia Hulenko	$960
17	John Marino	$960
18	Kostantinos Segounis	$823

They are down to 17 remaining now, with Kostantinos Segounis as the first player to bust from the final two tables just before the recent break. See below for a look at how the final 17 players stack up, with Michael Khan still leading the way.

The pace tonight isn’t slowing much as they get deeper into the money. They are now setting up the final two tables with 18 players left. About 7 minutes remain in Level 21, and I’ll grab some chip counts for the remaining players after this level.

Place	Player	Prize
19	Josh Wallace	$823
20	Aamer Hussain	$823
21	Sinisa Kovacevic	$823
22	Matthew Osorio	$823
23	Jason Williams	$823
24	Firoz Pirani	$823
25	Chris Hak	$823
26	Denis Mujcin	$823

The action continues to move relatively quickly in tonight’s game, with the field now down to 26 players left. The average stack is just 21 big blinds right now, which is likely driving some of the action. There’s a break coming at the end of Level 21, and I’ll get full chip updates then, but it looks like Michael Khan still has a very big stack, and Jerry Li, who has two rings and a bracelet in four-card poker, just sent a couple of players to the rail to set the final three tables and build a nice stack himself.

Place	Player	Prize
27	Sebastian Crema	$726
28	Roneen Shaffer	$726
29	Kayvan Payman	$726
30	Dante Arevalo	$726
31	Haven Taylor	$726
32	Gregory Wood	$726
33	Pav Braich	$726
34	Ashkan Razavi	$726

The players are dropping quickly so far in the PLO Bounty, with the field now down to 39 left. It looks like the action might be slowing a bit now as they approach the final four tables, and I’m still expecting another 3-4 hours at least before this game ends.

Place	Player	Prize
40	Steven Schartner	$657
41	Charles Christensen	$657
42	Hari Aujla	$657
43	Brady Ohara	$657
44	Carlos Alaniz	$657
45	Christina Armstong	$612
46	Jordon Johnstone	$612
47	Billy Davenport	$612
48	Daniel Wojcik	$612
49	David Dickie	$612
50	Christopher Watson	$612
51	Kyle Rosnes	$612
52	Tony Ma	$612
53	Irwin Montesa	$612
54	Varanpreet Sidhu	$587
55	Jonathan Dikih	$587
56	Richard Kosterman	$587
57	David Jones	$587
58	Edwin Kuntz	$587
59	Jordan Mcknight	$587
60	Jordan Pennock	$587

The field is down to 61 players left on the break following Level 15. I’ll get the payouts updated shortly, but I just had a look around the field while they were on break, and Michael Khan looks to be the clear leader with 687k. David Zoerb looks to be second with about 560k, and Pav Braich is on 550k for the top three stacks right now.

The numbers are dropping fast, and for at least the next few minutes, it’s going to be a game of catch-up with the bustouts. As always, full prizes will be visible under the payouts tab, with the recent busts in posts.

Place	Player	Prize
73	Ellen Brezina	$559
74	Vincent Lam	$559
75	Sami Alhaddad	$559
76	David De Vere	$559
77	Roger Grosset	$559
78	Arnulfo Alontave	$559
79	Robert Limpert	$559
80	Jeff Charlebois	$559
81	Tyler Bourassa	$559
82	Michael Leah	$559
83	Ryan Pittell	$559
84	Ruoxiao Shi	$559
85	Jacob Parent	$559
86	Raymond Lamy	$559

The bubble took just a couple of hands tonight before the final elimination before the money. All remaining players are now in the money, and it’s a race to the ring.

The action has been moving very quickly to this point, but I expect it to slow as they move through the money spots, and I’m expecting the game to go until around 5 AM at least.

The PLO Bounty is now on the bubble with 87 players left and 86 players paid. The clock is paused with 14:02 remaining in Level 14, and they are on the second hand of hand-for-hand play. Two minutes will come off the clock manually for each hand played until the next elimination.

They are down to 96 players left now, 10 off the money, and the action is moving quickly. There are about 7 minutes left in Level 13, and it looks like the bubble play will happen near the end of this level, or the start of the next one.

They are 22 off the money with 108 players left. The prizes are now in, with the field confirmed at 569 entries. That makes this the biggest PLO Bounty game ever here at WSOP-C Calgary, and it wasn’t even close. The previous record was set last January when this game got 432 entries, so today’s field is more than 130 above that previous record.

Final Table Prizes

Entries for the PLO Bounty are now closed, and the unofficial total was 569 entries. If that number holds when the prizes go up, it will mean 86 players getting paid later tonight.

There are just over 10 minutes remaining in entry, with the current players on a break following Level 9. The combined prizes are more than $180k, but I expect that number to grow still with players entering on the break. With the current numbers, it looks like 84 players will get paid tonight, but that number could go higher depending on how active the reg-desk is for this break.

The final level of entry has just begun with 527 entries on the board. The combined prizes are now closing in on $175k, wth more than $112k of that waiting for the prizes later tonight.

Craig Allen looks like the chip leader right now, playing 220k. He looks to be the only one with 200k or more, but Brady O’Hara is among a few players in the 100k range right now.

The PLO Bounty players are into the final three levels of entry tonight, and this is turning into a pretty massive field. This is already the biggest PLO Bounty field ever at WSOP-C, capping the Jan 2025 figure of 432 entries before the first break of the day. Given the pace of entries, there’s no question this game will see more than 500 entries, and there’s a good chance it’ll get to 600, as players seem pretty eager to re-enter this one tonight.

The PLO Bounty is on the first break, with entries still open until the end of the next break following Level 9. The field now is at 442 entries for combined prizes of $145k, and almost $95k of that waiting for prizes later tonight.

With the pace of entry so far, it looks like this game could easily end with over 600 entries. The game is already ahead of both fields in this event from 2025, so this is another example of the great turnout so far for this series.

The PLO Bounty field is now nearing 400 entries, with 234 players still active at the felt. That puts the total prizes just under $130k, with nearly $40k of that in the bounty pool.

Level 5 is about half finished, and entries remain open for just under 2 hours.

The combined prize pool is now over $110k, with more than $70k waiting for end-of-night prizes and almost $34k in the bounty pool.

JJ Johnstone, Steven Horak, Cuong Lieu, Chris Potter, Jen Peters, Sunny Lubana, Steven Dejarlais, Peter Darlington, Sunni Pil, Dallas Larson, and Thomas Taylor are among the players in tonight’s game.

The combined prizes are now over $85k, with almost 260 entries on the board. Level 2 is about half complete, and the end of entries is now about 3 hours away.

Less than 5 minutes remain in Level 1, and the field is pushing 230 entries. That puts the combined prizes over $75k, with almost $49k of the waiting for the prizes at the end of the night, and $22.9k in the flat bounty pool.

The PLO Bounty game is finally underway, about 20 minutes after the advertised start time. There were 192 entries on the board by the time cards went into the air, for a combined prize pool of almost $65k.

Gerry Edwards, Haven Taylor, Wesley Peters, Scott Stuve, Fraezor Caldwell, Stephen Scuderi, Shane Chief, Benny Sarnelli, and Pete Fylyma are among the players in their seats for the opening level of play. Entries are open for about 3.5 hours from the start of play, putting the end of entries at about 9:50 because of the late start.

The PLO Bounty game hasn’t quite kicked off yet, but the opening announcements are now being made, with the clock about to begin on Level 1. The entries before the game were already almost 150, with prizes just shy of $50k, so this looks like it could be a big one.

Event #13: $400 PLO Bounty ($330 + $70)

The big game on Friday is Day 1b of the Main Event, but the side game in the eveningis a PLO Bounty game. Cards go in the air at 6 PM, and players have 9 levels to get into the game.

Players get 20k to start, and they play 20-minute levels throughout the night, so this game will have both bounties and a turbo structure driving the action. Even still, players buying into this game should expect to be at the felt for 10-12 hours.

In October, Whistler’s Matt Hall took down this bounty ring. It was his first ring, defeating Sunni Pil for a prize of $16,829. 331 entries generated a prize pool of almost $110k, with $76,130 of that awarded for prizes.