"That's A Legacy Moment" Nathan Gamble Becomes Most-Decorated PLO8 Player in WSOP History

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Jun 13, 2026 5 min read

Nine years ago, Nathan Gamble took down his first-ever WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo for $223,339. He added a second bracelet in the same game type a few years later, and now today he sits with a new high score after winning
Event #33: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, becoming the only player in WSOP history to win three bracelets in PLO8.

“I can't even put it into words right now,” Gamble said just moments after his win. “I was looking at last night, and I was fairly sure I was the number one player in the world for PLO8 bracelet cashes, and now I know unequivocally that I'm number one in the world for PLO8 bracelets. That's a legacy moment that cements me in the lore of history for poker.

"That is something I've dreamed about since being a 12-year-old kid, watching Negreanu and Ivey and everyone who's come before.”

The latest Championship event on the 2026 WSOP drew out a total of 390 players to generate a massive prize pool of $3,627,000 that 59 players saw a piece of. However, only Gamble was able to don a new WSOP bracelet on their wrist at night’s end and claim the first-place prize of $767,359.

Event #33: $10,000 PLO8 Championship Final Table Results

Winner's Reaction

Despite having cashes in many different game types at the series dating back to 2011, Gamble still cites this game as his favorite with a particular history that benefits him in tournaments.

“Honestly, it just goes back in time. When I was in college, I found a fascination with the game, and that's when Full Tilt was still around, and I played thousands and thousands of sit and gos for PLO Eight or Better specifically. Then online poker disappeared. So I think I literally have more repetitions than anyone in the world at this particular game in a tournament setting, and because it's no longer spread as a sit and go or tournament on a regular basis, I just have a wealth of knowledge that no one else is able to access.”

"I just have a wealth of knowledge that no one else is able to access"

Once heads up began, there were two players looking for their third bracelet, with Justin Liberto looking for his second of the summer after winning Event #14: $1,500 Mixed Omaha, an event that does include PLO8 as one of the games.

"This is actually the first time I've ever played with Justin Liberto. Great player. Huge shout out to him. We shared an overlap of rail. I'm friends with a lot of those guys and gals,” said Gamble.

This score sits as the largest on Gamble’s resume and, with some life changes in the works, Gamble has ideas for how the funds will be utilized.

"I moved to New York about a year and a half ago,” Gamble said. “I actually haven't played a hand of live poker this year before the World Series of Poker. First day I got out here, my wife texted me and said, hey, I may buy more goats. We have two goats at home, Calvin and Hobbes, and she's always looking to expand our farm. We have eight acres that we're living on and we're always just looking to expand and grow. I love poker, but it's a different world out there, and I think it helps put me in a different frame of mind. So I think it's just going towards some livestock.”

Obvious Player of the Year questions now loom, and it was something that Gamble had thought about prior to the win.

“I did think about it last night. There's still some very big events for me in particular coming up. I don't know right now what the future holds. Tomorrow is the $10,000 Big O, after that it’s the $2,500 O/E, after that comes Triple Draw. I've always wanted to play a $50,000, so maybe I will sell off and we have a little [PPC] sweat this year. If that comes true, you'll see me in the Bahamas, but we'll see how these next few weeks come.”

Day 4 Action

Out the gate there were already some big pots, as Martin Zamani found himself in an early confrontation with Nino Pansier, in which Pansier’s pair of aces and second nut low got scooped by Zamani’s two pair and nut low. After that, Pansier found the rest of his chips going to Zamani, as he would get a pair of kings in against an ace, jack, ten, wheel. Three tens would appear for Zamani and Pansier finished in fifth place just a few minutes into the day, collecting $174,981 for his finish.

Despite that early boost to his stack, Zamani’s run was the next to end, as he ended up losing sizable pots to Matthew Beinner and Gamble to be back as the shortest stack. The two-time WSOP bracelet winner got his top pair in against Justin Liberto’s wheel draw. A wheel would materialize on the runout to give the chip leader more chips, while Zamani collected $245,467 for his fourth place finish.

After the first break, Liberto’s sizable chip lead shifted over to Gamble after a few preflop confrontations, and he took over half of the chips in play, while Beinner and Liberto began to fall down the counts.

The battle between the short stacks came to a head when Beinner got in double suited ace-queen up against Liberto’s single-suited ace-king. Beinner flopped an open ended straight draw and the nut flush draw against Liberto’s pair of kings, but no help came to Beinner, and he collected $351,037 for his efforts. With his third place finish, Liberto and Gamble would begin the heads up portion of the tournament.

Gamble initially held a near 3:1 lead over Liberto, but the tournament continued onward as the lead shrank to 2:1 and eventually became an even match. As the level went up once more, and with less than 60 big blinds remaining in play, Gamble began to pull back ahead in the match. The final hand saw Gamble flop top two on a king high board, up against Liberto’s aces and nut flush draw. No help came to Liberto, and he finished in second place, good for $511,580 to add to his massive cashes from the 2026 WSOP.

• Tags WSOP26 Nathan Gamble Matthew Beinner Martin Zamani Nino Pansier Marco Johnson Jarod Minghini Matthew Schreiber