Long Tran is the Chip Leader For the Final Table of Event #90: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed
Day 2 of Event #90: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has concluded. Six players remain of the 1,306 who entered the event and the 89 that made it to Day 2. As the day wrapped up after ten one-hour levels of play, Long Tran was at the top of the leaderboard with a stack of 9,990,000 chips.
Tran came into the day with a healthy stack of almost 100 big blinds, but was in the middle of the pack for the last portion of today‘s play. He was able to take the chip lead at the very end with just eight players remaining, after winning a hand against Zachary Reinbold and later eliminating him.
Tran has $752,674 in live tournament winnings, including a seventh place in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship at the 2023 WSOP.
Final Table Seat Draw
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dustin Nelson | United States | 2,540,000 | 25 |
| 2 | Anatoliy Zlotnikov | Russia | 2,105,000 | 21 |
| 3 | Mike Leah | Canada | 5,960,000 | 60 |
| 4 | Long Tran | United States | 9,990,000 | 100 |
| 5 | Alfred Karlsson | Sweden | 7,615,000 | 76 |
| 6 | Joseph Sanders | United States | 4,500,000 | 45 |
Second in chips is the Swedish player Alfred Karlsson, who has $229,673 in career tournament winnings, including a win from a WSOP Circuit event in 2018.
There is one bracelet-winner remaining in the field — Mike Leah, who is ending the day with the third-largest stack. Also making it to Day 3 are Joseph Sanders, an experienced pot-limit Omaha player with over 500,000 in tournament winnings; Dustin Nelson with over $900,000 in live tournament winnings, including a fifth place in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty Event at the 2021 WSOP; and, with the shortest stack of 24 big blinds, the Russian Anatoliy Zlotnikov who has over $1,000,000 in live tournament winnings.
The experienced final six will battle for the biggest chunk of the $1,740,840 prize pool, the $269,530 first prize, and, of course, the coveted WSOP bracelet.
Action of the Day
Among those who came to play today were five $25k Fantasy Draft players — John Racener, Chris Hunichen, Brad Ruben, John Riordan, and Renji Mao. However, they all busted close to each other in the early levels of play.
2022 WSOP Ladies No-Limit Hold'em champion Jessica Teusl made it to the middle levels of the day but busted in 47th place, while Scottish pro Ludovic Geilich got 65th place. Other bracelet winners that busted today included Cesar Garcia, Nenad Medic, and Pedro Neves.
Among players that made a very deep run but fell just short of the final table were Day 1 chip leader David Shaw, who busted in 16th place and and Swiss player Jannick Schöb, who was out in 15th place.
Schöb held the likely chip lead during a long stretch in the middle of Day 1, getting to over 400 big blinds fairly early. He also had a good start to Day 2. However, he lost a lot of his stack in a hand against Tsugunari Toma and had to work with a somewhat shorter stack for the rest of the day.
Toma surged into the club of big stacks in the middle of the day after scoring a double knockout, but hit a big bump on the road in the cooler of the day, where his quads lost to straight flush made by Zachary Reinbold. He was eliminated in tenth place, good for $19,681.
Reinbold started the day as one of the chip leaders and had a lot going for him throughout the day, but lost big pots late against Nelson and Tran before being ousted in eighth place.
Patrick McCullough, who busted during the last minutes of the day, just missed out on the official final table and got a prize of $34,170 for his seventh-place finish.
Others that came very close but missed the final table were Jose Ramos, who was eliminated in 9th place for $25,719; Michael Maddocks, out in 11th Place ($19,681); Xuming Qi, who made 12th place for ($15,317) and Samuel Fuller, who fell to a river one-outer in 13th place ($15,317). Kyle Bowker was the only other bracelet winner besides Leah that made a deep run; He was eliminated in 14th place. Czech pro Patrick Jaros was also in late; he made it to 17th place.
Play will resume at 12 p.m local time at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Follow the coverage brought by PokerNews for all the details about the conclusion of the event and the crowning of another WSOP winner.