The winner said that he hopped into the tournament to win some points for the Player of the Year leaderboard. Then he ended up with the title and the gold piece of WSOP Circuit jewelery.
Kolo bested a tough field of 39 entries. However, most of the participants took advantage of the $100-worth re-buy option. As many as 191 re-buys were recorded and that heated action at the host casino even more. A prize pool of $30,800 was generated eventually and was split among the top four finishers.
Kolo entered the unofficial final table third in chips with approximately 38 big blinds. Joseph Irgon was the chip leader at that point with 46 big blinds left. It was eventually fellow former ring winner Matt Stout whom Kolo faced heads-up.
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On what turned out to be the final hand of the evening and the tournament, chips went in post-flop. Stoud had two pair and a straight draw against his opponent’s pair and a flush draw. Kolo completed his flush to eventually scoop the title at around 3 am in the morning. Stout collected $9,240 for his runner-up finish in the Pot-Limit Omaha event.
Kolo won his first WSOP Circuit gold ring. However, he has one more piece of WSOP jewelery, a gold bracelet from the WSOP in Las Vegas. He captured it during the 2014 edition of the series for winning a $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em tournament. He also received $169,225 for his performance. To date, the player has collected nearly $380,000 from both WSOP and WSOP Circuit winnings.
After his victory last night, Kolo told WSOP Circuit staff that he actually entered the event chasing Player of the Year points. The season-long leaderboard grants seats into the season-ending Global Casino Championship to the 50 players who accumulate the most points throughout the season, and Kolo is looking to lock a seat and try his luck in the major event, which is set to take place this summer. The Pot-Limit Omaha the player entered and eventually won gave him the chance to rack up some points and increase his chance to accomplish his goal.
Earlier this season, Kolo finished runner-up in another Pot-Limit Omaha event, a $580 one. The player mused last night that he could have won the tournament, which took place at Horseshoe Hammond, if he had not lost a big hand for a lot of chips.
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