The fantastic one-day $300 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament gathered a field of 77 entries as part of the 2016 Seneca Niagara Fall Summer Slam. The 33-year-old Geoff Saxton won the competition, outlasting all the competitors to win the $5,356 first-place prize and the special trophy of the tournament.
The $300 Pot-Limit Hold’em event which ended on Thursday night surpassed its guaranteed prize of $15,000 and created a prize pool that totalled $19,385 and was distributed between the players who finished at the top eight places. The minimum payout granted at the tournament amounted to $775, and the day before Geoff Saxton got the largest part of the prize pool and the trophy of the tournament as an award as many as 24 levels were paid.
Until the final table bubble, the play was fast and quite loose up, but at the end things got considerably rougher. The money was bubbled by Abe Reinhardt, who got eliminated by Evan Shaughnessy, who at this point of the game was the leader at the final table. Domenic Olivo was left in the 8th position and total payout amounting to $775.
Then, Mark Roberts occupied the 7th place in the event as he was eliminated by Shaughnessy. He got a prize of $892. The next player who left the final table of the $300 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament was Max Shuster, who hit the rail in 6th place after being beaten by Elvis Palmeri. Shuster’s chunk of the overall prize pool amounted to $1,086.
The next to leave was Michael O’Hallaran who was left 5th after being eliminated by Geoff Saxton. Leaving the table 5th in line secured him with a prize of $1,396. Elvis Palmeri was the next player who got busted by Evan Shaughnessy, collecting a chunk that totalled $1,880.
At this point of the game, right at the start of the three-handed play, it was Geoff Saxton who was the chip leader. In addition, a three-way deal was agreed between the last three players standing, according to which each of the three finishers was to receive $4,000 of the total prize pool, and the tournament trophy and the remaining chunk of $1,356 were to be granted to the winner.
Ray LaRouech got third, so Evan Shaughnessy and Geoff Saxton faced each other heads-up at the end of the tournament. At this stage, Saxton held the chip lead in a 2 to 1 ration against his last standing opponent and got the first place.
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Harry Evans
