Masashi Oya Leads Event #1: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Final Table
Event #1: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em of the 2022 U.S. Poker Open took center stage at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, as the 93-entrant field created a prize pool of $930,000.
Following a full day of play, Japan’s Masashi Oya leads the final six players into Thursday’s streamed final table with a sizable stack of 4,325,000 chips. Shannon Shorr (2,340,000) and Ren Lin (1,705,000) are next on the leaderboard, while Daniel Negreanu (1,550,000), Erik Seidel (1,240,000), and Joseph Cheong (565,000) also bagged and will return for the final table.
Oya accumulated a large stack early on in the day and added to it when eliminating Alex Foxen on the bubble by flopping a set of jacks over Foxen’s kings. The 14 remaining players earned themselves a piece of the prize pool, and soon after, only nine players remained and they converged on a single table.
Rok Gostisa was the first to fall there when running into Lin’s flopped set of eights, and Nick Schulman made his exit next after finding himself up against Shorr’s superior ace. Soon after, Kristina Holst found a short-stacked double through Seidel’s aces, but ultimately lost a flip to Negreanu to end her run in seventh place, and the remaining players bagged and tagged for the night.
The remaining players have locked up $55,800, but all eyes are on the $213,900 first-place prize. Negreanu is the only player at the final table currently in the top ten on the 2022 PokerGO Tour Leaderboard, and he has the opportunity to move up from tenth to sixth on those standings if he can pull out a victory.
Event #1: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Final Table |
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| Seat | Name | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 1,550,000 |
| 2 | Shannon Shorr | United States | 2,340,000 |
| 3 | Masashi Oya | Japan | 4,325,000 |
| 4 | Joseph Cheong | United States | 565,000 |
| 5 | Ren Lin | United States | 1,705,000 |
| 6 | Erik Seidel | United States | 1,240,000 |
When play resumes, Level 15 will continue with 19:24 remaining and the button will be in Seat 3.
The final six players will return to the PokerGO Studio on Thursday, March 17, at 12 p.m. PT with the final table airing on PokerGO.com and the PokerGO YouTube channel at 1 p.m. PT.
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