Ben Lamb Looking to Herd the Field on Day 2 of Pot-Limit Omaha Championship

A total of 294 players return today for Day 2 of Event #74: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship at the 2025 World Series of Poker inside the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas. The field of 793 entries has already been cut by more than half, and with late registration open until the start of Level 13, the final number is expected to increase before the prize pool is finalized.

Leading the pack is the Netherlands’ Javier Francort, who bagged 556,500 on Day 1 and is the only player to have crossed the half-a-million mark. He’s followed by Ben Lamb with a stack of 484,500, and Brandon Crawford, who starts today with 455,500.

Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Javier Francort	Netherlands	565,500	226
2	Ben Lamb	United States	484,500	194
3	Brandon Crawford	United States	455,500	182
4	Arunas Sapitavicius	Lithuania	450,000	180
5	Ken Fishman	United States	398,500	159
6	Dennis Weiss	Germany	395,000	158
7	Robert Mizrachi	United States	377,000	151
8	Mathew Johnson	Canada	372,500	149
9	Andreas Zampas	Greece	370,500	148
10	Michael Rocco	United States	368,500	147

Plenty of talented players are set to return to the baize today to try and build a stack. Among them are five-time bracelet winner Robert Mizrachi (377,000), Michael Rocco (368,500), Ronald Keijzer (337,000), Frank Brannan (318,000), Simon Lofberg (313,500), 2013 WSOP Main Event champion Ryan Riess (251,500), poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel (209,500), and six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus (136,000).

Day 2 kicks off at 1 p.m. local time with blinds at 1,500/2,500 and a 2,500 big blind ante. Players will battle through another ten 60-minute levels as the field plays into the money and well toward the final stretch of this four-day championship event.