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The Texas PLO Roundup $3,300 Main Event continued from Champions Club in Houston, Texas, on Friday, featuring a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Day 1D saw the largest field of the series, attracting a total of 108 entrants and adding $324,000 to the prize pool to bring the total so far to $771,000. With two more flights left to play, the $1,000,000 guarantee is in sight. Qingyu Lu built the series' first seven-figure stack and leads the field with 1,427,000, describing the feeling of being the overall tournament chip leader as "better than sex." Behind him is Sterling Savill with 1,018,000, and rounding out the podium is Michael Cox with 596,000.

The unfortunate bubble boy was LaDarren Banks when he got a big draw all-in against Dean Ostera's kings. Banks had ace-queen-king-ten against Ostera's king-king-queen-nine on a jack-nine-five flop. Unfortunately for Banks, the board bricked out, and the 14 survivors were onto Day 2.

All Day 1 survivors will combine for Day 2 on Sunday, November 23rd, at 3 p.m. CT and be in the money. Prize pool and payout info will be posted as soon as it becomes available.

Texas PLO Roundup Day 1D Chip Counts

Rank Player Country Chip Count
1 Qingyu Lu United States 1,427,000
2 Sterling Savill United States 1,018,000
3 Michael Cox United States 596,000
4 Jim Collopy United States 542,000
5 Bruno Furth United States 501,000
6 Dean Ostera United States 475,000
7 Bryce Yockey United States 355,000
8 Trenton Pippin United States 329,000
9 Andrew Ige United States 300,000
10 Matthew Cosentino United States 285,000
11 Alex Livingston Canada 233,000
12 Frederic Normand Canada 194,000
13 David Mzareulov Azerbaijan 124,000
14 Nitin Gupta United States 101,000

Day 1D concluded with 24:28 remaining in Level 17, with blinds of 5,000/10,000 and a 10,000 big blind ante.

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Bryce Yockey, Alex Livingston, Jim Collopy, Bruno Furth, David Mzareulov, Frederic Normand, Andrew Ige