A starting field of 259 hopefuls has been reduced to just 13 going into Day 3 of Event #24: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship inside the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. They will all be chasing the top prize of $536,713 resulting from a $2,408,700 prize pool. Robert Tanita leads the pack after bagging up 2,990,000 last night, which is more than a million more than his next-closest competitor Joao Simao, who ended with 1,840,000.
Also still in contention are a pair of four-time bracelet winners — Yuri Dzivielevski (1,275,000) and Brad Ruben (565,000). Both players have seen massive success in mixed games and, interestingly, none of the duo’s combined eight bracelets have come from Hold’em events. Ruben won his last bracelet in a $1,500 Dealer’s Choice event back in 2022, while Dzivielevski’s most recent came from a $10,000 PLO event during the 2023 WSOP Online last September.
Start of Day 3 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|
| 1 | Robert Tanita | United States | 2,990,000 | 100 |
| 2 | Joao Simao | Brazil | 1,840,000 | 61 |
| 3 | Tyler Brown | United States | 1,705,000 | 57 |
| 4 | Luis Velador | Mexico | 1,700,000 | 57 |
| 5 | Sterling Lopez | United States | 1,695,000 | 57 |
| 6 | Yuri Dzivielevski | Brazil | 1,275,000 | 43 |
| 7 | Joshua Thibodaux | United States | 1,030,000 | 34 |
| 8 | Jonathan Cohen | Canada | 855,000 | 29 |
| 9 | Brad Ruben | United States | 565,000 | 19 |
| 10 | Magnus Edengren | Sweden | 545,000 | 18 |
Day 3 is set to begin at 1 p.m. local time and continue until just five players remain. The tournament will resume on Level 21, which features 15,000/30,000 blinds with a 30,000 big blind ante. Fifteen-minute breaks will be held after every two levels and an extended 60-minute break will take place after Level 26, which should occur at approximately 7:30 p.m.
Remaining Payouts
| Place | Prize | Place | Prize |
|---|
| 1 | $536,713 | 7 | $70,585 |
| 2 | $357,807 | 8 | $54,499 |
| 3 | $247,874 | 9 | $43,065 |
| 4 | $175,321 | 10-11 | $34,827 |
| 5 | $126,662 | 12-13 | $28,891 |
| 6 | $93,512 | | |
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