For a PLO game, it was a pretty quick affair today, with the action finishing up about 11 hours after it started. That was despite this being the second-biggest open-entry field so far this series, falling behind the 109 entries for the $230 NLH by just one entry with 108.
That put the combined prizes at $30,780 ($19,980 prizes, $10,800 bounties), and of the nearly $20k to be won by the top 11 players, Lynn Norris powered her way through to the win worth $5,671. This looks to be her first live win in just her third recorded live cash, and the 1st-place money is almost double her previous lifetime earnings.
She came into the FT with the big stack, but also had defending champ Anthony Madden and Ryane Sanders nipping at her heels.
Early in the FT she lost some chips to Tom T, then found herself chipped down, and all in at risk against Ryane Sanders. She found a straight to get a huge double up back to the top of the counts, while leaving Sanders the shortest of the three remaining players. He managed to spin a bit back with a double through runner-up Kenneth Budd, but he wasn’t able to make it last, ending in 3rd place.
That left what looked to be a potentially long heads-up battle, with Norris in a slight lead over Budd. Instead, a poker cooler showed up that was pretty much always going to be a pot, repot, shove situation heads up in a PLO game.
Norris was double-suited with a nut suit and a pair of eights, against the kings with trey-deuce for Budd. The money went in, and Norris ran out to the nut hearts for the win.
