Stephen Chidwick Wins British Poker Open £25K PLO for £202,500
Stephen Chidwick continued his 2019 run of smoking hot results in pot-limit Omaha. His latest score was a win in the Poker Central British Poker Open £25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha as he got topped a small field of 15 entries for a first-place prize of £202,500 (~$249,000).
Chidwick also won the $25K PLO at the WSOP this summer for more than $1.6 million, and that win came a few months after he won the U.S. Poker Open $25K PLO for $351,000.
It's also Chidwick's fourth cash out of the first seven events. In total, he's banked about £350,000.
Final Table Paid Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | £202,500 | $249,038 |
| 2 | George Wolff | United States | £112,500 | $138,354 |
| 3 | Sam Soverel | United States | £60,000 | $73,789 |
According to the live updates, the tournament went into the final day on the bubble with four players left and Ben Tollerene on by far the shortest stack. He only had about a quarter of the chips held by Chidwick, the next-shortest stack, and the action was set to be streamed on PokerGO.
While Tollerene would make it work for a bit, he'd ultimately fall to £10K PLO champ George Wolff when top pair and a gutter ran smack into Wolff's top set.
Soverel Cashes Yet Again
Sam Soverel started the final day with a nice chip lead but found himself barely squeaking into the money after a rough first few levels on Day 2.
He ran afoul of Wolff, who pulled off a monster hero call against Soverel. The board read J♣4♣2♠3♥J♥ and Soverel, after calling a small bet on the flop with Q♣10♣9♣7♣, found himself with total air on the river. He tried bluffing with a bet of about half the size of the pot, but Wolff found the call button with A♦Q♥10♦8♥ for just ace-high.
Soverel lost the rest of his chips in a standard preflop all in, but he added to his own excellent run at the BPO. He now has two second-place finishes and a win in a £25K to go with this third-place run, and that all adds up to the lead in the points race for the festival.
Wolff Can't Go Back-to-Back
The elimination of Soverel left Wolff looking to win his second straight Poker Central PLO event and sitting pretty with more than a 2-to-1 edge against Chidwick.
Chidwick would pull himself into a slight lead with a big double in a three-bet pot with aces, though. A little after that, a huge hand went down when Chidwick limped with K♠8♠6♥5♣ and called a pot-sized raise from Wolff, who had A♦K♣6♣5♦. Wolff three-barreled it off on a board of 9♠3♦Q♠J♠8♦.
Chidwick snap-called him and reduced him to a very short stack. Wolff lost his remaining few blinds in short order.
The British legend credited the win and his recent PLO success to a hot run of cards.
"I don’t think I have an edge," he told Poker Central. "There’s a lot of very experienced PLO players here. But I really enjoy playing PLO even though I don’t do it that much. Just try and do the best that I can."
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