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The 2025 ARIA High Roller Series continued on Thursday with Event #6: $10,100 Pot-Limit Omaha from the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was the final Omaha event of the series, as the remaining five events beginning July 3rd are No-Limit Hold'em.

Emerging victorious was Marc Rivera, winning outright for $133,200 and 133 PGT points. Rivera joined the field a little before the first break, but it wasn't until a few levels later just before the close of registration when Rivera's run to the top began.

He doubled through eventual second-place finisher Sean Winter with aces against queens, and followed that up whth a double through eventual third-place finisher Talal Shakerchi with a flopped full house against Shakerchi's flopped trips. He then doubled through Ben Tollerene with aces again to give himself a comfortable stack entering the final table, and doubled through chip leader Jim Collopy at the final table with aces aginast kings to take hold of the chip lead with five players left. He never relinquished it from that point en route to his victory. 

The sixth and final Pot-Limit Omaha event of the 2025 ARIA High Roller Series drew a 37-entrant field, setting the prize pool at $370,000. The final six players finished in the money and just missing out was the aforementioned Ben Tollerene.

Martin Dam was the first to depart in the money, followed by Veselin Karakitukov in fifth place. Karakitukov got his chips in with an open-ended straight draw against Rivera's top two pair, but no help came for the Bulgarian. However, it capped a solid first half of the series for Karakitukov with four cashes in the six PLO events.

Collopy was the next to fall, getting his stack in with a wrap against the flopped full house of Rivera. Shakerchi was eliminated in third place, also at the hands of Rivera who by this point had whittled Shakerchi's and Winter's stacks down to a combined nine big blinds. 

Heads-up play lasted one hand, as Rivera flopped top two pair and held up against Winter's bottom pair and straight draw to win outright for $133,200 and 133 PGT points.

2025 ARIA High Roller Series Event #6: $10,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Payouts

Place Player Country Prize PGT Points
1st Marc Rivera Philippines $133,200 133
2nd Stephen Chidwick United States $88,800 89
3rd Talal Shakerchi United Kingdom $55,500 56
4th Jim Collopy United States $40,700 41
5th Veselin Karakitukov Bulgaria $29,600 30
6th Martin Dam Denmark $22,200 22

The 2025 ARIA High Roller Series resumes on Thursday, July 3rd, with the first of five $15,100 No-Limit Hold'em events.

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