Every stop on the European Poker Tour is now a full blown poker festival of multiple events (we're talking 20+) with buy-ins ranging from €220 satellites and €330 turbos all the way up to the main event and €10,300 High Roller (live updates of which can be found here). One of the more niche events, albeit one that picked up 94 buy-ins, is Event #22: PLO €990. Ten spots pay out and with just two tables left from the 26 players which restarted at 3pm today, the bubble is closing fast. One player that is unlikely to fall before the money is Lauri Varonen who has 180,000, around 15% of the chips in play. Dermot Blain is still in and swinging trying to join Jason Tompkins in a double Irish knees up.
Table one
1. Ozzy Sheikh, United States, 47,300
2. Ruslan Lukash, Ukraine, 86,800
3. Aubin Cazals, United States, 16,000
4. Mikko Turtiainen, Finland, 60,000
5. Oleg Larichev, Russian Federation, 44,400
6. Michele Mangieri, Italy, 80,900
Table two
1. Tania Scremin, Italy, 70,500
2. Alessandro Nocerino, Italy, 115,700
3. Lauri Varonen, Finland, 33,700
4. Grzegorz Derkowski, Poland, 28,800
5. Witold Homka, Poland, 37,200
6. Ali Azabdaftar, Austria, 43,500
Table three
1. Wouter Van den Bijgaart, Netherlands, 28,400
2. Piero Alioto, Italy, 53,400
3. Giuseppe Profeta, Italy, 24,000
4. Roger Hairabedian, France, 38,800
5. Philippe Boucher, Canada, 60,800
6. Pier Paolo Ruscalla, Italy, 5,600
7. Dermot Blain, Ireland, 48,000
Table four
1. Andras Kovacs, Hungary, 34,400
2. Will Jaffe, United States, 23,300
3. Park yu Cheung, Hong Kong, 9,000
4. Rens Feenstra, Netherlands, 39,100
5. Sergio Benvenuti, Italy, 24,300
6. Attilio Donato, Italy, 29,100
7. Sebastian von Toperczer, Germany, 43,800
The payouts
1. €28,700
2. €16,400
3. €9,800
4. €7,400
5. €5,700
6. €4,162
7. €3,300
8. €2,500
9. €2,050
10. €2,050
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Rick Dacey is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.