Cristos wins $10,000 PLO at US Poker Open

(PRESS RELEASE) -- Jordan Cristos beat a field of 64 entries that created a prize pool of $640,000 to take home the first prize of $179,200 on Friday night. Cristos defeated Manig Loeser heads up to complete a dominant performance that saw his eliminated all five final table opponents.

"It's cool. It's sweet," Cristos said about his win before praising his opposition in this event.

"The structure was turbo-ish and I feel like I didn't out-skill anyone here. There were 50 people in the field and I was probably the 44th best player, honestly. It feels good to come out on top though. I don't think I made many mistakes but I can't really gauge whether or not I did because I'm no PLO expert, but I won so that's good."

Also at the final table was Sean Winter, runner-up to Stephen Chidwick in Event #1. Winter finished sixth to collect 40 points for the U.S. Poker Open Championship to put him in third place overall behind Cristos and Chidwick in the standings.

Cristos, who leads by a slim margin over Chidwick, said the following about his prospects of potentially winning the trophy and the $100,000 first prize.

"I want to win the overall championship. If you do good the first two tournaments and you're leading, you might as well finish it out. There's no reason to stop now. It would be awesome to win the U.S. Poker Open. I would love to have the trophy at home to just stare at them every day for a year until it comes back again and be the U.S. Poker Open champion."

Official U.S. Poker Open Event #2 Results

Name/Points/Prize Money

1) Jordan Cristos/200/$179,200

2) Manig Loeser/140/$128,000

3) Martin Zamani/100/$83,200

4) Adam Hendrix/80/$64,000

5) Cary Katz/60/$51,200

6) Sean Winter/40/$38,400

7) Brent Roberts/40/$32,000

8) Dan Shak/40/$25,600

9) Ben Yu/40/$19,200

10) Anthony Alberto/40/$19,200

2019 U.S. Poker Open Championship Standings

Name/Points/Prize Money

1) Jordan Cristos/240/$206,200

2) Stephen Chidwick/200/$216,000

3) Sean Winter/180/$195,900

4) Manig Loeser/140/$128,000

5) Joseph Cheong/100/$112,500

6) Martin Zamani/100/$83,200

7) Joseph Cappello/80/$90,000

8) Adam Hendrix/80/$64,000

9) Lazaro Hernandez/60/$72,000

10) Cary Katz/60/$51,200