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At Wednesday's final table, six players returned to action. Troha was out in front, but he only narrowly edged out Michael Wang at the top of the leaderboard. In the end, it would be Troha against Wang for the title. Wang started with a sizable lead, but it didn't take long for Troha to move to the front with a big double. Troha sealed the deal shortly thereafter to grab the $200,000 prize.
Place | Player | Country | Points | Prize |
1st | Sean Troha | United States | 200 | $200,000 |
2nd | Michael Wang | United States | 136 | $136,000 |
3rd | Paul Zappulla | United States | 104 | $104,000 |
4th | Yuval Bronshtein | United States | 80 | $80,000 |
5th | Nick Guagenti | United States | 64 | $64,000 |
6th | Jake Schwartz | United States | 48 | $48,000 |
7th | Maxx Coleman | United States | 40 | $40,000 |
8th | Ben Yu | United States | 32 | $32,000 |
9th | Zhen Cai | United States | 32 | $32,000 |
10th | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 24 | $24,000 |
11th | Allan Le | United States | 24 | $24,000 |
12th | Jordan Spurlin | United States | 16 | $16,000 |
The final table was a fast one, with Sean Troha finding himself in the winner's circle after just about two hours of action. Jake Schwartz was the first player to bust, then it was Nick Guagenti falling in fifth place. Early on during the final day, Michael Wang was the player winning all the pots, including the pot that took out Guagenti, and extended a pretty big chip lead.
Wang then busted Yuval Bronshtein in fourth place, before Troha scored an elimination by busting Paul Zappulla in third. By busting Zappulla, Troha moved IP to 3,220,000 in chips entering heads-up play, but he was still trailing the 6,780,000 of Wang.
It didn't take long for the match to turn. After just a few hands of heads-up action, Troha had doubled into the chip lead. A few hands after that, the tournament was over and Troha had his hands on the trophy.
On the final hand, Troha had queen-queen-six-five in his hand against Wang's ace-queen-seven-three. The pair of queens held for Troha and there was no eligible low, so he scooped the entire pot to eliminate Wang. Wang took home $136,000 for his runner-up finish.
The $200,000 that Troha won also gave him 200 PGT leaderboard points. Combined with the 40 points he earned in the first event of the series, Troha jumped to the top of the series leaderboard with 240 total points. He's now the player to catch in the race for the PGT PLO Series title and $25,000 championship bonus.
Rank | Player | Country | Winnings | Points |
1st | Sean Troha | United States | $240,000 | 240 |
2nd | Nacho Barbero | Argentina | $234,000 | 234 |
3rd | Eelis Parssinen | Finland | $174,000 | 174 |
4th | Jonas Kronwitter | Austria | $169,000 | 169 |
5th | Daniyal Iqbal | United States | $160,000 | 160 |
6th | Michael Wang | United States | $136,000 | 136 |
7th | Adam Hendrix | United States | $130,000 | 130 |
8th | Roussos Koliakoudakis | Greece | $120,000 | 120 |
9th | Allen Shen | Canada | $111,290 | 111 |
10th | Paul Zappulla | United States | $104,000 | 104 |
To follow the entire PGT PLO series, stay tuned to the PGT.com live reporting section.
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