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"That's A Legacy Moment"; Nathan Gamble Becomes The Most Decorated PLO8 Player in WSOP History
In the 2026 WSOP, another championship event has come to its conclusion. Event #33: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo drew out a total of 390 players to generate a massive prize pool of $3,627,000 that 59 players saw a piece of. Only one player, though, was able to don a new WSOP bracelet on their wrist at night’s end and claim the first place prize of $767,359.
Nine years ago, Nathan Gamble took down his first ever WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo for $223,339. He added a second bracelet in the same game type a few years later, and now today he sits with a new high score and the accomplishment of becoming the only player in the WSOP’s history to win three bracelets in PLO8.
“I can't even put it into words right now,” Gamble said just moments after his win. “I was looking at last night, and I was fairly sure I was the number one player in the world for PLO8 bracelet cashes, and now I know unequivocally, that I'm number one in the world for PLO8 bracelets. That's a legacy moment that cements me in the lore of history for poker. That is something I've dreamed about since being a 12 year old kid, watching Negreanu and Ivey and everyone who's come before.”
Event #33: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Gamble | United States | $767,395 |
| 2 | Justin Liberto | United States | $511,580 |
| 3 | Matthew Beinner | United States | $351,037 |
| 4 | Martin Zamani | United States | $245,467 |
| 5 | Nino Pansier | Netherlands | $174,981 |
| 6 | Marco Johnson | United States | $127,208 |
| 7 | Jarod Minghini | United States | $94,347 |
| 8 | Matthew Schreiber | United States | $71,419 |
Despite having cashes in many different game types at the series dating back to 2011, Gamble still cites this game as his favorite with a particular history that benefits him in tournaments.
“Honestly, it just goes back in time. When I was in college, I found a fascination with the game, and that's when Full Tilt was still around, and I played thousands and thousands of sit and gos for PLO Eight or Better specifically. Then online poker disappeared. So I think I literally have more repetitions than anyone in the world at this particular game in a tournament setting, and because it's no longer spread as a sit and go or tournament on a regular basis, I just have a wealth of knowledge that no one else is able to access.”
Once heads up began, there were two players looking for their third bracelet, with Justin Liberto looking for his second of the summer after winning Event #14: $1,500 Mixed Omaha, an event that does include PLO8 as one of the games.
"This is actually the first time I've ever played with Justin Liberto. Great player. Huge shout out to him. We shared an overlap of rail. I'm friends with a lot of those guys and gals,” said Gamble.
Gamble then talked a bit about his preparation for today’s final table.
“I think last night I got two or three hours of sleep. I just wasn't able to fall asleep. But I'm going to give a shout out to Elliot Roe. I have been using his Prime Mind app. Every day I show up to the series, I get here about 30 minutes early. I'm in the car. I listen to one of his primers. It's a 10-15 minute primer and it works. I've been playing A+ poker for four days straight now, and hopefully for another month to come.”
This score sits as the largest on Gamble’s resume and, with some life changes in the works, Gamble has ideas for how the funds will be utilized.
"I moved to New York about a year and a half ago,” Gamble said. “I actually haven't played a hand of live poker this year before the World Series of Poker. First day I got out here, my wife texted me and said, hey, I may buy more goats. We have two goats at home, Calvin and Hobbes, and she's always looking to expand our farm. We have eight acres that we're living on and we're always just looking to expand and grow. I love poker, but it's a different world out there, and I think it helps put me in a different frame of mind. So I think it's just going towards some livestock.”
As the tournament came to a close, Gamble’s rail grew larger and larger. As he won the bracelet, Jules Cornelius had called Gamble’s wife to have her on face time as her husband became the most decorated PLO8 bracelet holder in history.
"We were both in the military, so we met overseas, but we got married June 2nd, and then I won my first bracelet, I believe it is 25 days later. So she knew me before the fame, before the success, before the money. There's not a lot of any of it. But she knew me before it all. She's been through it, thick and thin.”
He continued to talk highly of his close friends on the rail, even mentioning how they encouraged him to play this event when he wasn’t sure he was going to enter.
“Z, a good friend of mine for a very long time, flew in last night for this rail. Calen McNiel, another World Series of Poker bracelet winner, he was not planning on coming in this year. He's flying in tomorrow to celebrate with me. Jules and Darren have been an absolutely integral part. I've met up with them every day for lunch or breakfast or dinner, they're the best support system anyone could ever ask for. I told Jules the day that this event started that I was not going to play it. I had a bad 24-hour run beforehand. I just wasn't running well at anything I did. And she said, trust your instincts to do what you need to do. And she's been here from literally the 'I'm not playing it', all the way to right here, right now.”
Player of the year questions do loom and it was something that Gamble had thought about prior to the win.
“I did think about it last night. There's still some very big events for me in particular coming up. I don't know right now what the future holds. Tomorrow is the 10k Big O, after that it’s the $2.5k O/E, after that comes Triple Draw. I've always wanted to play a 50k, so maybe I will sell off and we have a little 50k sweat this year. If that comes true, you'll see me in the Bahamas, but we'll see how these next few weeks come.”
Day 4 Action
Out the gate there were already some big pots, as Martin Zamani found himself in an early confrontation with Nino Pansier, in which Pansier’s pair of aces and second nut low got scooped by Zamani’s two pair and nut low. After that, Pansier found the rest of his chips going to Zamani, as he would get a pair of kings in against an ace, jack, ten, wheel. Three tens would appear for Zamani and Pansier finished in fifth place just a few minutes into the day, collecting $174,981 for his finish.
Despite that early boost to his stack, Zamani’s run was the next to end, as he ended up losing sizable pots to Matthew Beinner and Gamble to be back as the shortest stack. The two-time WSOP bracelet winner got his top pair in against Justin Liberto’s wheel draw. A wheel would materialize on the runout to give the chip leader more chips, while Zamani collected $245,467 for his fourth place finish.
After the first break, Liberto’s sizable chip lead shifted over to Gamble after a few preflop confrontations, and he took over half of the chips in play, while Beinner and Liberto began to fall down the counts.
The battle between the short stacks came to a head when Beinner got in double suited ace-queen up against Liberto’s single-suited ace-king. Beinner flopped an open ended straight draw and the nut flush draw against Liberto’s pair of kings, but no help came to Beinner, and he collected $351,037 for his efforts. With his third place finish, Liberto and Gamble would begin the heads up portion of the tournament.
Gamble initially held a near 3:1 lead over Liberto, but the tournament continued onward as the lead shrank to 2:1 and eventually became an even match. As the level went up once more, and with less than 60 big blinds remaining in play, Gamble began to pull back ahead in the match. The final hand saw Gamble flop top two on a king high board, up against Liberto’s aces and nut flush draw. No help came to Liberto, and he finished in second place, good for $511,580 to add to his massive cashes from the 2026 WSOP.
That concludes today’s coverage of the Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Championship. Be sure to check back in tomorrow to Pokernews for all of the exciting updates on the ground at the 2026 WSOP at Paris Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.