Dylan Weisman is actually good at pot-limit Omaha. In truth, he’s the most effective, and there’s a robust argument to be made that he at the moment stands on the prime of the mountain.
The PLO specialist earned his second profession World Series of Poker bracelet late Friday night time, topping an enormous discipline of 1,469 entries within the $1,500 pot-limit Omaha occasion for $294,311.
“It’s very unique when you win a tournament,” Weisman stated. “It usually takes a day or two to have it sink in, but I feel a lot of gratitude.”
His first bracelet got here in 2021, successful the $1,000 PLO occasion for $166,461. He now has six closing tables on the WSOP, all coming in PLO. In truth, his prime 20 deep runs on the collection have all included some variation of the sport.
With almost $4.1 million of his $5.6 million in profession earnings coming in PLO, he’s now the winningest PLO event participant ever, narrowly edging out the likes of Eelis Parssinen, Stephen Chidwick, Ka Kwan Lau, Ben Lamb, Tommy Le, Shaun Deeb, and Jared Bleznick, in accordance with the HendonMob.
Much of Weisman’s PLO earnings have are available in excessive curler occasions away from the collection, nevertheless, together with a runner-up displaying at Triton Montenegro for $1,666,090 just some weeks in the past. He additionally has PLO wins on the U.S. Poker Open, and PGT PLO Series.
The closing stretch of his newest win might have felt like a excessive curler, regardless of the smaller buy-in and large discipline, with PokerGO Tour regulars Steve Zolotow and Chino Rheem battling it out with Weisman three-handed.
Zolotow finally bowed out in third place for $140,077, which was truly the most important WSOP money of the two-time bracelet winner’s profession.
Rheem, who stays one of many extra completed event gamers with out a bracelet, settled for $196,191 because the runner up. This was his third second-place end on the collection.
Other notables who made a deep run included three-time bracelet winner and WSOP POY winner Dan Zack (tenth), and PLO bracelet winners Matthew Parry (eleventh) and Richard Ashby (twelfth).
Earlier this 12 months Weisman additionally gained each a PGT Kickoff occasion and a PokerGO Cup occasion in no-limit maintain’em. As a results of his newest victory, Weisman is now sitting in fifth place within the Card Player POY rankings.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points |
| 1 | Dylan Weisman | $294,311 | 960 |
| 2 | Chino Rheem | $196,191 | 800 |
| 3 | Steve Zolotow | $140,077 | 640 |
| 4 | Grzegorz Derkowski | $101,284 | 480 |
| 5 | Jon Zable | $74,178 | 400 |
| 6 | Jhojan Rivera | $55,034 | 320 |
| 7 | Abdul Al-Magableh | $41,371 | 240 |
| 8 | Leslie Roussell | $31,516 | 160 |
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