Ocean KO PLO tournaments feature unpredictable bounty payouts, often exceeding finishing prizes.
L Bogachkin won $26,108.50 in bounties in the $1,000 Monday Ocean KO.
Upcoming Ocean KO events offer buy-ins from $10 to $1,000 with large guarantees.
BIG FIELDS. BIGGER BOUNTIES. Ocean KO turns PLO Series into a full-blown hunting season.
Ocean KO tournaments are making a serious impact among bounty hunters. The format's popularity may partly be down to its novelty, but the new PKO format also looks like a natural fit for Pot-Limit Omaha players who are used to swinging it wide.
We got a taste of that last week, when the PLO Series debut $25 Ocean KO PLO event averaged 16.2 entries per player. The same rapid-fire re-entry approach was on display this time around, with players seemingly happy to keep firing bullets in pursuit of more scalps. In Ocean KO, one bounty can change everything.
The biggest example came in the $1,000 PLO Monday Ocean KO [7-Max]. L Bogachkin won the tournament for $8,990.57, then added a whopping $26,108.50 in bounties to take his total haul beyond $35,000.
Runner-up Freenergy also collected $8,990.51 for finishing second, but earned just $425 in bounties. Two players, one position apart, yet a massive difference in their knockout earnings.
Check out the latest PLO Ocean KO results below.
Ocean KO Results: The Bounties Tell The Story
Here are some of the more interesting top finisher bounty figures from the recent PLO Ocean KO tournaments:
Tournament
Player
Finish
Bounty
Finishing payout
$1,000 Monday Ocean KO
L Bogachkin
1st
$26,108.50
$8,990.57
$100 Saturday Ocean KO
Dolae
1st
$8,223.12
$3,734.95
$1,000 Sunday Ocean KO
Narcis Nedelcu
1st
$10,776.74
$12,637.66
$100 Saturday Ocean KO
L Bogachkin
2nd
$5,388.27
$3,734.61
$100 Monday Ocean KO
kermapiirakka
1st
$3,019.03
$5,465.38
$10 Sunday Ocean KO
RoyalDealer_254
1st
$1,887.40
$2,541.71
The results show just how unpredictable the bounty payouts can be. In the $100 Saturday event, Dolae collected more than twice the first-place finishing payout in bounties alone. In the $1,000 Monday tournament, L Bogachkin's bounty was almost three times his winner's prize.
Another point worth mentioning is that players appear to be coming from a broader range of stakes, with higher-stakes regulars also taking shots at the lower buy-in Ocean KOs.
You'll find the latest PLO Ocean KO results below. I've included up to 20 finishing positions in each event to give you a better idea of just how much the bounty payouts can fluctuate.
The next batch of Ocean KO tournaments offers buy-ins from $10 to $1,000, with several big boy money guarantees on the line.
Date
Tournament
Buy-in
GTD
Nov 12
PLO Thursday Ocean KO
$500
$60,000
Nov 12
PLO Thursday Ocean KO
$50
$50,000
Nov 14
PLO Saturday Ocean KO [Deepstack]
$100
$40,000
Nov 14
PLO Saturday Ocean KO [Deepstack]
$10
$30,000
Nov 15
PLO Sunday Ocean KO
$1,000
$150,000
Nov 15
PLO Sunday Ocean KO
$100
$100,000
Nov 15
PLO Sunday Ocean KO
$10
$40,000
Nov 16
PLO Monday Ocean KO [7-Max]
$1,000
$75,000
Nov 16
PLO Monday Ocean KO [7-Max]
$100
$75,000
Nov 16
PLO Monday Ocean KO [7-Max]
$10
$50,000
PLO Mayhem Continues With $1M GTD Headliner and Other Big Events
There is also a heavyweight attraction on November 15, when the $10,000 buy-in GGMillions Pot-Limit Omaha tournament takes place with a $1M guarantee.
GGPoker's upcoming PLO schedule also includes three PLO Mystery Bounty Turbo events on November 13, with buy-ins of $15, $150 and $1,050 and guarantees ranging from $20,000 to $40,000.
With Ocean KO tournaments catering to bankrolls of all sizes and a million-dollar PLO guarantee on the schedule, there's no shortage of action for Omaha players.