With about 45 minutes to go before the adjournment of the $500 + $50 PLO Event, Nicolas Le Floch leads with a little over 200K. Manfred Gunther is not too far behind with about 180K, and they both rule their respective tables. In PLO, having a much bigger stack than your opponent(s) is an immense advantage, and these two sure know how to work it.
As if to make things worse for his opponents, Manfred, on top of playing his stack, hits boards! Here is a hand that he tabled on a showdown with Ivan Driard. On the river, there was about 21K in the pot, and Manfred bet 6.5K. Ivan asked for the pot size, and thought for about a minute, looking at the 
board. He finally called, and Manfred casually announced: ”Nutter butter”, and showed 
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Players halt play at around 2:10 am, at which point they will bag their chips onto Day 2, held tomorrow night at 7pm.
