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Two Venoms, Two Champions: Abarzuza and Palau Sweep a $6.86M Night
- Oihan Abarzuza won the NLH Venom PKO, earning $536,577 after a comeback at the final table.
- Daniel Palau captured the PLO Venom title for $239,819 after regaining the lead and making a deal heads-up.
- Spanish players claimed both Dual Venom finals, collecting a combined $776,396.
By the end of Wednesday night, the two largest Dual Venom finals had gone to players under the same national flag.
Oihan Abarzuza won the $5 million guaranteed NLH Venom PKO for $536,577, while Daniel Palau took the $1.5 million guaranteed PLO version for another $239,819. When the night was over, Spanish poker left the two finals with both titles and a combined $776,396 for its champions alone.
Abarzuza Waits, Then Makes His Move
Abarzuza’s route through the NLH final table was not built around holding the lead from the start.
Playing as “PushLightYear,” he returned sixth of nine with 49 big blinds, far behind Nyts14 at the top of the counts. Fellow Spaniard Ignacio Morón, playing as “TIKITAKA11,” also reached the final table but entered ninth and became the first player eliminated, earning $78,833 once his bounty money was included.
Abarzuza lasted through the quieter early exchanges before the table began to turn against him four-handed. ArkaduktusFrRM had surged ahead and Abarzuza was down at the bottom when he picked up queens against Lappy’s ace-five. A queen-high flop gave him a set and doubled him back into contention.
He made a straight against ArkaduktusFrRM, then flopped a set with pocket sevens in another confrontation with the leader. A river shove was called, bringing Abarzuza much closer to first place before he knocked out Pepareg1 in third.
Heads-up still began with ArkaduktusFrRM in front, but not for long. Abarzuza moved ahead after making two pair and winning a large pot, then called the final river shove with ace-two after pairing his deuce to make two pair against ace-jack.
| Place | Player | Regular Prize | Bounties | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PushLightYear | $332,932 | $203,645 | $536,577 |
| 2 | ArkaduktusFrRM | $332,931 | $85,893 | $418,824 |
| 3 | Pepareg1 | $240,369 | $41,101 | $281,470 |
| 4 | Lappy | $173,550 | $84,248 | $257,798 |
| 5 | Nyts14 | $125,306 | $54,492 | $179,798 |
Palau Has to Give Up the Lead Before Taking It Back
Daniel Palau’s PLO story began from the opposite position.
The player behind “tigerseyes” reached the seven-handed final table first in chips, with 60.9 million. Yuri Dzivielevski was second, Brian Hastings third and Pepareg1 seventh.
Being first at the start did not mean staying there without interruption. Palau lost the lead during the session, then regained control as the final table moved toward its last three players. Dzivielevski was unable to turn his second-place starting stack into a podium finish and went out fifth, while Hastings climbed to third.
That left Palau against Pepareg1, who had started the final table last.
Their heads-up encounter was brief. Pepareg1 won a sizeable pot after making a full house on the river, but only a few hands later the players agreed to a deal that effectively split the remaining regular prize money.
| Place | Player | Regular Prize | Bounties | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tigerseyes | $128,622 | $111,198 | $239,820* |
| 2 | Pepareg1 | $128,621 | $36,050 | $164,671 |
| 3 | Brian Hastings | $93,194 | $25,903 | $119,097 |
| 4 | Blessed33 | $67,526 | $15,217 | $82,743 |
| 5 | Yuri “vousconfus” Dzivielevski | $48,927 | $23,706 | $72,633 |
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