The PokerGO Tour (PGT) is set to return to Houston for the PGT Texas PLO Roundup, which will run from November 16-25 at Champions Club Texas. The series follows up on a successful inaugural PGT series that ran this past spring at the same venue.
The PGT Texas PLO Roundup features a nine-event schedule consisting of entirely Pot-Limit Omaha tournaments. Five of those events have guaranteed prize pools, including the $1 million guaranteed Championship Event, which has a $3,300 buy-in and runs from November 21-25.
Tournament buy-ins range from $300 to $5,300 throughout the festival, catering to PLO fans at all levels. The schedule features four events between the $300 and $600 price points in addition to three single-day high roller events on back-to-back-to-back days.
PGT Texas PLO Roundup Schedule Of Events
- Event #1 (Nov. 16-18): $300 PLO Multi-Flight Event ($50K guaranteed)
- Event #2 (Nov. 18): $400 PLO Single-Day Event ($50K guaranteed)
- Event #3 (Nov. 19: $600 PLO Single-Day Event ($50K guaranteed)
- Event #4 (Nov. 20) $1,100 PLO Single-Day Event ($100K guaranteed)
- Event #5 (Nov. 21-25) $3,300 PLO Championship Event ($1 million guaranteed)
- Event #6 (Nov. 22) $5,300 PLO High Roller Single-Day Event
- Event #7 (Nov. 23) $5,300 PLO High Roller Single-Day Event
- Event #8 (Nov. 24) $5,300 PLO High Roller Single-Day Event
- Event #9 (Nov. 25) $500 PLO Single-Day Event
The $3,300 Championship Event features a $1 million guarantee and will offer seven starting flights between Thursday, November 21, and Sunday morning, November 24. The tournament has a 60,000 starting stack with 40-minute levels on Day 1 and one-hour levels thereafter. Turbo flights have 20-minute levels, and all Day 1 flights play until the field reaches the money.
Day 1 Flights
- Thursday, Nov. 21: Day 1A at 12 p.m.
- Thursday, Nov. 21: Day 1B (turbo flight) at 9 p.m.
- Friday, Nov. 22: Day 1C at 12 p.m.
- Friday, Nov. 22: Day 1D (turbo flight) at 9 p.m.
- Saturday, Nov. 23: Day 1E at 12 p.m.
- Saturday, Nov. 23: Day 1F (turbo flight) at 9 p.m.
- Sunday, Nov. 24: Day 1G (turbo flight) at 8 p.m.
All players who advance to Day 2 return for a 3 p.m. start on Sunday the 24th and will play until the tournament reaches the final table of seven. Those seven will return on Monday, the 25th, to determine a champion.
Additional PGT Texas PLO Roundup Info
The initial event features two starting flights on Saturday and Sunday, November 16 and 17, with all advancing players returning on Monday the 18th to play to a winner. The seven remaining events will all be single-day tournaments.
All single-day non-high-roller events begin at noon—the three $5Ks start at 6 p.m.
Lastly, Championship Event satellites will run daily at 4 p.m. ($550 buy-in) and 7 p.m. ($250 buy-in) from November 16-23. There will also be 11 a.m. ($250 buy-in) satellites beginning November 21.
Four-Card Action Aplenty In Houston
Texas has a unique and thriving poker landscape that has tremendously increased its influence in the game in recent years. Dozens of Texas poker rooms thrive today, many in large metropolitan areas like Houston.
These rooms operate in a legal gray area as “social clubs” and charge a membership fee, which allows them to stay in business. Some poker tours, such as the PGT, have ventured into Texas and connected with its players, while others have not ventured into the unregulated, largely untapped market. Despite these circumstances, most rooms operate as legitimate businesses.
With a nine-day stop in H-Town, PGT will focus fully on four-card poker. Houston is the largest city in Texas by population and represents the nation’s fifth-largest metropolitan area. It has everything you want and need for a poker trip and/or a vacation, including nice weather during this time of year.
It will also have amazing poker action.
PGT Season Race Heats Up
In addition to PGT-branded events, the tour runs a leaderboard race for many worldwide qualifying high stakes poker tournaments. These include high-roller events with buy-ins of $5,000 and above and multi-flight events with buy-ins of at least $3,000.
The top 40 players on the leaderboard earn a $1 million freeroll seat at the end of the season. The tournament pays $500,000 to the winner. Additionally, the leaderboard winner earns a championship bonus paid as a PGT passport for future PGT events held at the PokerGO Studio, in Las Vegas.
The Texas PLO Roundup is the penultimate chance for contenders to make their way into the season-ending freeroll. Players will also have the opportunity to earn points during the PGT Last Chance series, which runs in Las Vegas from January 2-8, 2025.
Reminder: PokerGO will provide a live stream of its PLO Roundup Main Event, available to all annual subscribers. Also available on PokerGO in November are continued episodes from No Gamble, No Future, and a return of High Stakes Duel.
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