Glaser Leads The Final Trio into Day 4 of Mixed Omaha
Pot-Limit: 200,000 Ante, 100,000/200,000 Blinds, 400,000-900,000 Pot Limit Raise
From the massive starting field of 1,239, only 25 players returned for Day 3 of Event #15: $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo to Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas for the 2025 World Series of Poker. After 12 hours of play, the field was reduced to just 3 survivors that will return to play at 1 p.m. Thursday. Each of the three have secured at least $121,736, but their eyes will rest upon the WSOP gold bracelet and the $258,193 that will be awarded to the bracelet’s new owner.
A WSOP bracelet is a very familiar sight to the chip leader, six-time WSOP bracelet winner Benny Glaser. It was just three days ago when Glaser joined the short list of players with six titles to their name, when he took down Event #8: $1,500 Dealers Choice for $150,246. Not wasting any time, Glaser registered for this tournament the following day and managed to come into Day 3 with the second biggest stack. Nearly 10 years out from his first WSOP bracelet and just a few days out from his most recent one, Glaser looks to repeat the feat that he accomplished in the 2016 WSOP and win two bracelets in back-to-back events. With 12,125,000 in his stack and a wealth of experience to boot, he looks to join an even more exclusive seven-time WSOP bracelet winner list.
End of Day 3 Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Benny Glaser | United Kingdom | 12,125,000 |
| 2 | Travis Pearson | United States | 11,800,000 |
| 3 | David Shmuel | United States | 7,050,000 |
Sitting just behind him in the counts is Las Vegas player Travis Pearson, who put 11,800,000 into his bag. Pearson came into the final table as one of the shorter stacks, but ended up being the executioner of half of the players at the final table. With 20 years of poker playing experience, Pearson is no stranger to the big stage of a WSOP final table. He has final-tabled four events, including the 2023 WSOP $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha where he collected a career best score of $407,915. His final tables come in all different game types, including a runner-up finish in the $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo back in 2021. He now looks to claim his first WSOP bracelet, sitting neck-and-neck with the chip leader.
Having one player final table an event days after winning a WSOP bracelet is rare, but having two in the final three is extremely unlikely. David Shmuel won his first WSOP bracelet just four days ago in the $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo for $205,333, and now sits with 7,050,000 in the final three of another Omaha event looking for his second. Having learned poker in the mid 1990s, Shmuel has proven himself on the Florida tournament circuit and is becoming one of the early contenders for WSOP player of the year (along with Glaser). Shmuel’s day had been quite swingy, at one point taking the lead and at another point dropping to the shortest stack. He now sits with a chance to get a matching bracelet in another Omaha tournament, which he has professed is his favorite game.
Final Table Remaining Payouts/Results
| Place | Player | County | Prize |
| 1 | $258,193 | ||
| 2 | $172,077 | ||
| 3 | $121,736 | ||
| 4 | Sean Remz | United States | $87,325 |
| 5 | Shane Howeth | United States | $63,527 |
| 6 | Alan Sternberg | United States | $46,879 |
| 7 | Bashar Trad | United States | $35,098 |
| 8 | Tyler Brown | United States | $26,666 |
Day 3 Action
It just took one hand for Patrick Leonard to take out Ruomeng Dong (25th-$8,480). The players got their chips in on a flop where Leonard had flopped a set of nines and his pocket pair of tens failed to improve, leaving the final three tables of the tournament set.
Andrew Yeh (24th-$8,480) came into the day as the shortest stack and could not find the pay-jump ladder as his money was chopped up between chip leader Abdyl Konjuhi and Itzhak Weltfreid. Weltfreid (23rd-$10,336) busted shortly after, beginning Tyler Brown’s ascent up the chip counts.
At the other table, WSOP bracelet winner Rep Porter (22nd-$10,336) was not be able to improve against Derek Bugg’s aces and the third table saw Federico Ottenio (21st-$10,336) fall to Shmuel.
The next pair of eliminations came just a couple of minutes apart on separate tables as Bart Hanson (20th-$10,336) fell to Konjuhi and David Hunt (19th-$10,336) fell to Sean Remz on the other table. Despite the earlier success from Konjuhi, a massive pot shifted the tides against him as Tyler Brown became the first player to eclipse five million after he jammed on Konjuhi to take the chip lead. Bugg’s (18th-$10,336) fortune also came to an end at the hands of Remz and Dustin Dirksen (17th-$10,336) found himself being chopped up by Shane Howeth and Paul Vang.
Brown came into the final two tables with a sizable lead, but a massive pot with Glaser saw him increase that lead, with the elimination of Aaron Rogers (16th-$10,336), further cementing his status as tournament leader. Falling to one of the shorter stacks, Brown found a boost to his stack as he eliminated Michael Lacer (15th-$12,800) to put himself back towards the middle of the pack. At the same table, Sterling Lopez (14th-$12,800) fell to Howeth shortly after and the players headed off to a break.
Start of day chip leader Konjuhi (13th-$12,800) was not able to rebound after the massive pot with Brown and found himself getting scooped by Shmuel. Shmuel was the executioner again as he took out Vang (12th-$16,100) when he made the nut low and counterfeited his two pair. Two straights were rivered in a pot after that, with Bashar Trad making Broadway and WSOP bracelet winner Dennis Weiss (11th-$16,100) making an inferior straight to bust. At the other table, Glaser added more to his chip lead as his aces held up against Thomas Taylor (10th-$16,100) to bring the field down to just ten.
Leonard was the final casualty of the field prior to the final table. He got involved in an all-in pot with Trad where they both flopped top two, with Trad holding a flush draw to boot. The runout gave Trad a flush and Leonard collected $20,564 for his ninth place finish.
Final Table Action
Glaser entered the final table with an overwhelming chip lead, holding half of the chips in play. Remz and Shmuel sat as the second- and third-biggest stacks coming in and it was Shmuel getting active early. He called off against Brown’s short-stack shove with aces and faded the myriad of straight, flush, and low outs that Brown flopped. Shmuel rose up to second in chips and Brown exited in eighth place, collecting $26,666 for his efforts.
Once the final seven came back from dinner break, the big clashes began as Howeth doubled and took one sizable pot off of Glaser right away, pushing him up to second in chips. The leaderboard changed after Alan Sternberg doubled up through Howeth, and what followed for the next couple of hours was lots of exchanges and clashes among all seven players at the final table. For over two and a half hours, no player left the table.
A massive all-in confrontation saw Remz and Shmuel get in their chips against Glaser, who held the covering stack and aces, but Remz made sixes-full and nut low to scoop, with Shmuel scooping Glaser in the side pot. This still left Glaser as the chip leader, but with the other stacks of the final table flipping around once more.
Trad was unable to gain any momentum, and eventually found himself down to just one big bet. He got all in against Pearson, out-kicking his opponent. Unfortunately for Trad, Pearson paired two of his cards to make two pair and eliminate Trad from the tournament. Pearson began an ascent up the counts while Trad collected $35,098 for his seventh-place finish.
At this point, Shmuel doubled up against Howeth, to leave him short, and he took a pot off of Glaser to overtake the chip lead. Glaser and Pearson sat right at his heels, while Remz, Howeth, and Sternberg sat as the shortest stacks remaining.
Shortly after, Sternberg finished in sixth place, also at the hands of Pearson. Sternberg defended his big blind and flopped a set of kings, getting all of his chips in on the turn only to find that Pearson had turned a straight. An unpaired board left the WSOP bracelet winner collecting $46,879 for his efforts.
Howeth’s momentum had halted; he sat as the shortest stack courtesy of his confrontation with Shmuel. He was down to just three big bets and got his last chips in with nines and some low cards, while Glaser called him with ace-queen and some low cards. An ace on the turn saw Glaser take back the chip lead, while Howeth finished the tournament in fifth place for $63,527.
It was mere minutes after that when Remz and Pearso clashed on a king-high flop, with Remz holding aces with a gutshot and Pearson holding a set. The turn completed Remz’ straight draw, but a board-pairing river gave Pearson the full house to send the pot his way while Remz became the final casualty of the day, collecting $87,325 for his fourth-place finish.
The final three players played a couple of minutes longer before bagging up for the night, with plans to return Thursday at 1 p.m.
Be sure to check back in to PokerNews for the conclusion of Event #15: $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo.