Day 1 of the €5,000 PLO High Roller Mystery Bounty has concluded after 13 levels of play. Only six players remain, but they still have work to do to earn any return on investment, with play finishing on the stone bubble.
The tournament attracted a total of 28 entries, generating a prize pool of €129,696, split evenly between cash payouts and mystery bounties. Klemens Roiter of Austria (432,000) leads the way, closely followed by Shamil Patel (334,000) and Markus Ristola (241,000). They are joined by Finnish poker legend Juha Helppi, Fabian Rolli and Irish Open ambassador Chris Dowling, who is seeking his second PLO trophy of the week after his victory in the Big O Championship.
Roiter boasts recorded cashes of just over $2.1 million, and is fresh off a huge $441,000 score in a mystery bounty event from the Triton Series in Jeju, so he clearly knows how to pull an envelope. Helppi comes in as the short-stack, while the rest of the field is tightly packed, with some interesting ICM and bounty implications sure to be a factor in play.
€5,000 PLO High Roller Mystery Bounty End of Day 1 Chip Counts
1. Klemens Roiter (Austria) – 432,000 (72 bb)
2. Shamil Patel (United Kingdom) – 334,000 (55 bb)
3. Markus Ristola (Finland) – 241,000 (40 bb)
4. Chris Dowling (Ireland) – 186,000 (31 bb)
5. Fabian Rolli (Switzerland) – 138,000 (23 bb)
6. Juha Helppi (Finland) – 69,000 (11 bb)
Cash Payouts
1 – €24,648
2 – €15,900
3 – €10,550
4 – €7,600
5 – €6,150
Mystery Bounty Payouts
1 – €24,648
2 – €15,900
3 – €10,550
4 – €7,600
5 – €6,150
The players will return at 1 p.m. on 12 April to blinds of 3,000/6,000 (6,000) to do battle until a winner is crowned, with mystery bounties in play once the money has been reached.
