I’ll tell you straight out – I don’t get it. There are a few players today playing in the $10,000 PLO Championship that have another commitment today – a final table in the biggest event in poker.

Barry Greenstein and Erick Lindgren are in the field today. They are going to play in the PLO as long as they can until its time to go play at a final table where the top prize is just under $2 million dollars.

In addition, Kirill Gerasimov, who is third in chips at the final table of the $2,000 No Limit Hold Em Event (first prize $700,000+) is also in the PLO field.

Focusing is a big deal in poker, and I know, speaking for myself, that if I was playing PLO, it might distract from my focus about playing for the $2million later in the day. One of my PokerNews colleagues noted that it might be worth ‘sacrificing’ the $10k on the PLO to these guys so they could be distracted for a few hours.

I asked Kirill why he chose to play both, and he noted ‘because it (PLO) is my favorite game.’
Fair enough, but I can’t imaging playing until 2am (or 5am in Kiriil’s case), and then thinking “I’d like to get in a couple hours of PLO before I play the biggest final table of the year. I don’t get it, but then again….that’s why I cover, and that’s why they play.