Super High Roller Bowl PLO Main Event Won by Jared Bleznick for $1.2 million

The final table of the PokerGO Tour Super High Roller Bowl PLO Main Event was a celebration of Pot Limit Omaha at the very highest level. The player of the year so far, the Poker Masters winner and the most in-form poker player in the world all played second fiddle to the eventual winner Jared Bleznick as the American claimed one of the most important victories of his career and by far the biggest prize.

An Incredible Field for a PLO Event

A total of 38 entries, each costing $100,000, made the prizepool of this record-breaking PLO event a whopping $3.8 million. Who would win the Super High Roller Bowl in this new format was anyone’s guess until the final day, where just seven players made the money and the final table.

It was a former Super High Roller Bowl champion who bowed out on the money bubble. Faniel Negreanu won over $3 million in the No Limit Hold’em version of this event in Las Vegas but couldn’t repeat the trick a mere matter of months on as he fell to both the eventual champion Bleznick and Chino Rheem, the recent PFT Mixed Games Series II Championship winner.

Rheem got out of the way after the flop, but Negreanu was all-in committing with bottom set. He needed a lot of help when he saw that Bleznick held a middle set, but a five on the turn gave him three cards to call for. Kid Poker didn’t disappoint, actively jumping out of his seat and shouting for either an eight, a six or a three. A seven on the river disappointed, giving Bleznick a better full house and sending the Canadian home with nothing in eighth place.

Rheem Heads to the Rail

Chino Rheem’s recent success meant that he was not only guaranteed to make money, but even if he busted in seventh place, it would mean that in recent weeks, he’d be banking over $1.2 million in winnings. That transpired to be exactly the case as he slid out next, losing with a pair of aces to both Aaron Katz’s set of tens and the winning hand in the pot, Bleznick’s Broadway straight. The first elimination of the final table on the last day produced a result worth $152,000 for Chino, who earlier this month poured his heart out to us on his battle for redemption against previous struggles with drug and gambling addictions.

At that stage, with six remaining, it was a tale of two Isaacs, with both Haxton and Kempton vying for control as the final half-dozen fought for the only seven-figure prize that would be awarded – to the winner. Frank Crivello was the next player to miss out on the chance of claiming the title, as he committed his chips holding 9♥8♦7♥6♦ on a flop of 9♠4♥3♥. With top pair and some serious draws, Crivello was unable to overtake Kempton’s pocket aces, though, and slid out for a cash of $228,000.

Aaran Katz soon joined Crivello on the rail. Again it was Kempton who bagged the pot, and again with pocket aces, as Katz’ Q♦J♦7♠6♠ failed to pick up or deliver on any draws, leaving him out in fifth place for $304,000. The final four were very close at the top, with Haxton (3,150,000) just an ante ahead of Bleznick (3,140,000) and Kempton (3,130,000), with Stephen Chidwick a little further back on 1,985,000.

Heroics at the Death

Four-handed play lasted some considerable time, during which Bleznick was the player to pull away without any eliminations being forthcoming. That suited the newly established chip leader, but he didn’t mind at all when the field was reduced to three. That was because Bleznick himself busted Kempton in fourth place for $418,000, whose pocket jacks were overtaken by Bleznick’s two pair.

Another extended period of play without anyone losing their stack followed, as Isaac Haxton built a chip leading stack. That was still the case after Bleznick busted Chidwick, the British player losing out in third for $570,000 when his pair of aces were usurped by Bleznick’s turned Broadway straight that sealed the hand.

Leading heads-up with 6.77 million chips to Bleznick’s 4.6 million, Haxton was a slight favorite to win, but Bleznick won several hands before building a better than 4:1 chip lead. At that moment, Haxton led when the chips went in but couldn’t hold as turn and river produced real drama. Here’s how the final hand played out on PokerGO:

After an incredible event, Bleznick’s result, at the expense of arguably the most successful poker professional to sit at the live felt in 2023, signposts him as a major player in mixed game and super high roller events. Put the two of them together and the American is a firm favorite.

This article originally appeared on PokerStake.com