Ka Kwan Lau and Stephen Chidwick find themselves in a familiar position, on the cusp of the final table in a big buy-in Omaha event.
Lau and Chidwick are among the 11 players who return for Day 3 of Event #57: $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller at noon local time as they both try to add another PLO bracelet to their collection. Lau won the $25,000 Omaha event in 2023, and was second in that same event in 2021. Chidwick, meanwhile, is looking to go back-to-back after winning the $50,000 Omaha event at the WSOP Paradise in December. His first WSOP bracelet was also in an Omaha High Roller in 2019.
Lau (7,265,000) enters second in chips, while Chidwick (6,955,000) sits fourth on the leaderboard. But to get to the end, they’ll have to overcome a stacked field full of PLO specialists, WSOP bracelet winners, and elite high rollers that have made it this far out of 194 entries. Biao Ding is the chip leader with 11,000,000. The Chinese high roller has more than $16 million in live career earnings and multiple wins, but his only WSOP final table came at the $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller in 2023.
Day 3 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|
| 1 | Biao Ding | China | 11,000,000 | 92 |
| 2 | Ka Kwan Lau | Hong Kong | 7,265,000 | 61 |
| 3 | Richard Gryko | United Kingdom | 7,205,000 | 60 |
| 4 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | 6,955,000 | 58 |
| 5 | Dirk Gerritse | Netherlands | 5,350,000 | 45 |
| 6 | Gergo Nagy | Hungary | 4,900,000 | 41 |
| 7 | Manuel Stojanovic | Austria | 3,795,000 | 32 |
| 8 | Quan Zhou | China | 3,600,000 | 30 |
| 9 | Dylan Linde | United States | 3,580,000 | 30 |
| 10 | Frank Crivello | United States | 3,300,000 | 28 |
| 11 | Youness Barakat | United Kingdom | 1,340,000 | 11 |
Bracelet winner Richard Gryko (7,205,000) and Dirk Gerritse (5,350,000) round out the top five. Others still in the hunt include Gergo Nagy (4,900,000), Quan Zhou (3,600,000), and Dylan Linde (3,300,000), while Youness Barakat (1,340,000) is the short stack at the start of the day.
The action on Day 3 picks up on Level 22 with blinds of 60,000/120,000 and a 120,000 big blind ante. With the average stack worth more than 40 big blinds at the start of the day, there is still plenty of room for maneuvering on the way to the final table. The final table will be streamed by PokerGO beginning at 5 p.m. Play is scheduled to go down to a winner today, with the champion taking home $2,146,414.
Stay tuned as PokerNews follows all the action from one of the most anticipated final tables on the WSOP calendar.
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Biao DingDirk GerritseDylan LindeFrank CrivelloGergo NagyQuan ZhouRichard GrykoStephen ChidwickYouness Barakat
