Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot at the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas started with a lot of familiar faces like Phil Hellmuth, Huck Seed, Jeremy Ausmus and Erik Seidel, but by the end of Day 1, just 162 players remained.
The chip leader going into Day 2 is Samuel Stranak, who became the first Slovakian bracelet winner when he won a €2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event at WSOP Europe in 2021.
Behind him comes another bracelet winner in Robert Nehorayan, who won his bracelet in 2018, although it came in Limit Hold'em. Both players will return looking to become the inaugural PLO Double Board Bomb Pot bracelet event champion.
With a tally of 1,452 entrants that generated a prize pool of $2,002,671 and a 1st place prize of $290,400, the final 218 places paid, with a min-cash being $3,027.
Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Name | Country | Chip Counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samuel Stranak | Slovakia | 783,000 |
| 2 | Robert Nehorayan | United States | 727,000 |
| 3 | Oleksandr Trokhymenko | Ukraine | 718,000 |
| 4 | Wonjun Jeong | South Korea | 701,000 |
| 5 | Robert Klein | United States | 623,000 |
| 6 | Avetik Charchyan | United States | 569,000 |
| 7 | Maximilian Marroquin | United States | 553,000 |
| 8 | Richard Green | United States | 526,000 |
| 9 | Matthew Tamura | United States | 521,000 |
| 10 | Sebastian Crane | United Kingdom | 517,000 |
Plenty of notables remain in contention, including 25k Fantasy Draft pick Kane Kalas, who tripled up late in Day 1 to stay alive.
Three-time bracelet-winner David "ODB" Baker sits in the middle of the pack with Michael Mizrachi not far behind him. Last year's champion in the $1,500 Mixed NLH / PLO Double Board Bomb Pot Xixiang Luo also bagged chips, looking for his third career bracelet.
Players will return to Level 15 with a 5,000 ante for 10 minutes at the start of Day 2, followed by 60-minute levels starting with Level 16 and a 6,000 ante. The tournament will play down to five players, with the final table taking place in the Horseshoe Event Center.
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