Event 81: $1,100 Pot-Limit Omaha/Pot-Limit Omaha 8-or-Better/Big O $100,000 Guarantee
Level 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Entrants: 101
Players Remaining: 8
The first level of play at the Event 81 final table did not see any major confrontations. Chip leaders Mark Dube and Veerachai Vongxaiburana have been content to play small pots and overall, there has not been any showdowns of note.
All stacks have remained stagnant with the exception of John Cernuto. “Miami John” has doubled his stack through aggressive play and is climbing up the leaderboard. In a PLO8 pot, Cernuto and Jeremy Tinsley were heads up on a flop of K♣K♠3♥. Tinsley bet 20,000 into a pot of 30,000 and Cernuto raised to 85,000. Tinsley let it go and Cernuto took in the pot.
With the blinds now up, short stacks are likely to get involved at some point with the average stack below 25 big blinds.