Event 25: Lou Ojeda Evens It Up With a Set of Fives

$600 Deep Stack Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Prizepool:  $189,280  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 27:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 364

Lou Ojeda
Lou Ojeda

Lou Ojeda (small blind) and Anik Ajmera (big blind) put in 180,000 each to see a flop of 8h6d5h. Ajmera checked, Ojeda bet 225,000, and Ajmera called.

The turn card was the 10s, Ajmera checked, Ojeda bet 600,000, and Ajmera thought for a while before he called.

The river card was the 10d, and both players checked.

Anik Ajmera:  AcKc8d6c  (two pair, tens and eights)
Lou Ojeda:  Qd5d5c2c  (set of fives)

Ojeda won the pot with his set of fives to nearly even up the chip stacks.

Lou Ojeda  –  3,495,000  (58 bb)
Anik Ajmera  –  3,790,000  (63 bb)

Here are the final table payouts:

1st:  $36,900 + SHRPO Trophy
2nd:  $26,000

3rd:  Joel Gossett  –  $19,200
4th:  David Eller  –  $14,400
5th:  Gabriel Pardo  –  $10,900
6th:  Igor Tretyakov  –  $8,300
7th:  Andre Plaza  –  $6,400
8th:  Paul Zappulla  –  $4,960
9th:  David Ehrenfeld  –  $3,880