Tobias Schwecht Defeats EPT Champion to Claim $301K GGPoker Score

The $20 million guaranteed PLO Series continues to crown champions online at GGPoker, and Tobias Schwecht is just one of the stellar names who have helped themselves to a title.

Schwecht was one of 80 entrants in the $10,000 GGMillion$ Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty. Those entrants created a $1,010,000 prize pool, with half of the prize money shared by the top eight finishers, and the remaining 50% going on each entrant’s head as a progressive bounty.

Russian superstar Artur Martirosian was the first player to cash. Including bounties, his eighth-place finish earned him $31,679, but it also meant he fell shy of yet another final table appearance.

$10,000 GGMillion$ Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty Final Table Results

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As you would expect from a $10,000 PLO tournament, the final table was a star-studded affair.

The final seven became six after Cesar Garcia busted; he took home $55,423. Dutchman Marcus Dieleman was the next to fall; his exit in sixth came with a $46,391 bankroll boost.

United Kingdom’s “TripleBarr” bowed out in fifth for $54,200 before Belarusian Artisom Lasouskii saw his deep run end in a fourth-place finish worth $76,949. Lasouskii was the only finalist not to help themselves to a bounty payment.

The final trio of title-seekers was now guaranteed a six-figure score regardless of where they finished. Any of the three would have made a worthy champion, having showcased their PLO skills over an extended time period.

Flying Finn Eelis Parssinen couldn’t quite get the job done and had to make do with a $126,289 reward for finishing in third. Parssinen’s elimination left Schwecht heads-up against Ronnie Kaiser, a high-stakes PLO cash game specialist who won the European Poker Tour (EPT) Tallinn Main Event in 2011.

Schwecht defeated the Liechtenstein-based Swiss star heads-up, resigning Kaiser to a still impressive $155,332 haul. However, that prize paled in comparison to the $301,133 that Schwecht added to his GGPoker account. Some $166,800 of that prize stemmed from bounties, and that alone was worth more than the total prizes anyone else took home.

PLO Series Runs Until November 17; Leaderboard Heats Up

The $20 million guaranteed PLO Series continues through November 17. This gives players plenty of time to accumulate leaderboard points for the PLO Series Leaderboard.

The leaderboard will award $200,000 worth of prizes to the top 1,500 performers of the series, including a top prize consisting of $10,000 worth of tournament dollars and a $10,000 ticket to a future GGMillion$ PLO High Rollers event.

Join GGPoker Today and Get Involved in the PLO Series

You will need a GGPoker account to play in the PLO Series. New customers who download GGPoker via PokerNews and who make a deposit of at least $20 can choose from one of two welcome bonuses.

The first bonus is $100 worth of free play spread across six days. You will receive $52.50 in free tickets over the first six days following your qualifying deposit, plus the opportunity to receive up to $37.50 in C$ for completing AoF Challenges.

If you prefer a traditional welcome bonus, you can choose a 100% matched up to $600 bonus, which clears at a rate of $1 per $5 paid in net rake/tournament fees; you have 90 days to release as much bonus as possible.

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Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.