Wing Po Liu Denies WSOPE Main Event Champ Omar Eljach His Third Bracelet in $5K PLO
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The sixth gold bracelet of the 2023 World Series of Poker Europe has been awarded to Wing Po Liu here at King's Resort in Rozvadov. Liu overcame a 202-player field and defeated Omar Eljach heads-up to claim their first gold bracelet along with the �230,000 first-place prize in Event #6: �5,000 Pot Limit Omaha.
Liu has had a couple of close calls as far as tournament wins go, including a third-place finish earlier this year in a WSOP $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed event in Vegas. Liu's victory today marks a career-best cash, along with his first-ever tournament win.
Winner's Reaction
Humble in victory, Liu explained that playing Pot-Limit Omaha tournaments is still relatively new to him, with most of his past results coming from Hold'em events.
"I still cannot believe I won because I rarely play PLO tournaments," Liu said. "I wanted to try some new games because No-Limit Hold'em can be boring. Some days just fold fold fold fold."
As far as winning the tournament, Liu explained that some of his skills in No-Limit tournaments can be applied to PLO tournaments as well.
"I don't really study PLO, but some [strategy] is similar to No-Limit tournaments, like ICM pressure or something like that. I'm mostly just learning while I'm playing... it's actually so ridiculous because my first professional win was a PLO tournament."
Event #6: �5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Final Table Results
Place | Player | Country | Prize |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Wing Po Liu | Hong Kong | �230,000 |
2 | Omar Eljach | Sweden | �141,800 |
3 | Kasparas Klezys | Lithuania | �97,600 |
4 | Anson Tsang | Hong Kong | �68,850 |
5 | Marco Di Persio | Italy | �49,800 |
6 | Gergo Nagy | Hungary | �36,900 |
7 | Wooram Cho | South Korea | �28,100 |
8 | Tong Li | China | �22,000 |
Day 2 Action
Day 2 began with 52 hopefuls, all looking to claim the lion��s share of the �911,52 prize pool. Eliminations came swiftly, with many notables busting out within the first few levels. Among the less fortunate were Jerry Odeen, Roland Israelashvili, Jan-Peter Jachtmann, and Felipe Ramos �� all of whom were eliminated before making the money.
The money bubble burst after Daniel Dvoress ran trips into a full house, at which point the rest of the field was assured a min-cash of �7,875.
It didn't take long for the remaining field to work its way down to a final table, with Ren Lin (31st - �7,875), Dario Alioto (29th - �7 875), Michael Rodrigues (19th - �9,850), Renji Mao (15th - �10,900), and Michael Rocco (13th - �12,425) all bowing out short of the finale.
Despite coming into the final table with a significant chip lead, the tone was set for what ended up being a rough day for Gergo Nagy after Tong Li doubled through him immediately after play began. After Oleksii Kovalchuk, Li, and Wooram Cho exited in ninth, eighth, and seventh place respectively, Liu began his ascent at the final table after cracking Nagy's pocket aces in a massive pot.
From that point on, Nagy failed to gain any momentum back and was eliminated in sixth place after getting all-in preflop and falling to Kasparas Klezys' aces.
Liu continued his rise after eliminating Marco Di Persio in a two-hand combo that left Liu vying for the chip lead.
Anson Tsang was able to hang on and double up multiple times throughout the final table before finally hitting the rail in fourth place thanks to Eljach, who spiked an ace on the turn after getting Tsang all in on the flop.
Liu claimed one more victim in Klezys, who was sent out in third place after Liu flopped two pair against him �� setting up what would be a brief heads-up battle between him and Eljach.
Eljach, who has been on an absolute tear this series after getting fourth place in Event #3: �1,350 Mini Main Event and flat-out winning Event #2: �550 Pot Limit Omaha 8-Max, entered heads-up play at a chip disadvantage but quickly assumed the lead after getting paid off with a full house.
Liu wouldn't be denied, however, as just a few short hands later, he put a big move on Eljach to win a massive pot. Liu finished the job after getting all in with queens and cracking Eljach's kings to make his first tournament victory official.
In this Series
- 1 Check Out the �15M Guaranteed 2023 WSOP Europe Festival Schedule
- 2 Three Must-Play Bracelet Events at the WSOPE
- 3 The Five Biggest Poker Scores of King's Resort Owner Leon Tsoukernik
- 4 WSOPE 2023: Bigger Guarantees and High Stakes Action at King's Resort
- 5 Lukas Pazma Claims First Bracelet of 2023 WSOPE in Event #1: �350 NLH Opener (�110,000)
- 6 WSOP Europe Main Event Champ Omar Eljach Wins Second Bracelet in Rozvadov
- 7 Cash Game Specialist Hokyiu Lee Triumphs in 2023 WSOPE Event #4: �2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (�91,183)
- 8 Sokratis Linaras Triumphs in WSOP Europe Mini Main Event (� 310,350)
- 9 Third Time's the Charm as Ermanno Di Nicola Catches a Miracle to Win the �550 Colossus
- 10 Wing Po Liu Denies WSOPE Main Event Champ Omar Eljach His Third Bracelet in $5K PLO
- 11 Daniel Dvoress Wins First Live Bracelet and �600,000 in WSOPE Event #8: �25,000 GGMiliion�
- 12 Seasoned Pro Tobias Peters Ends 11-Year WSOP Bracelet Pursuit
- 13 Poker's Ted Lasso? Assistant Soccer Coach Becomes First-Ever WSOP Europe Mystery Bounty Champion (�92,300)
- 14 WSOP Europe �2K 8-Game Bracelet Goes to Lithuania's Dainius ��Dainiux�� Antanaitis
- 15 Joakim Andersson Sprints His Way to the WSOP Europe �1,100 Turbo Bounty Hunter Bracelet
- 16 Santhosh Suvarna from HCL's PLO Week Wins WSOP Europe �50K Diamond High Roller (�650,000)
- 17 Poker Villain Martin Kabrhel Cracks Kings Twice to Beat Johan "YoH ViraL" Guilbert in $294,920 Pot
- 18 Record-Breaking WSOP Europe Main Event to Award �1,500,000 to the Winner
- 19 2023 WSOPE Hands of the Week PLO Edition: Runner, Runner & a Royal Flush Triple Up
- 20 Bernd Gleissner Captures Maiden Bracelet in WSOP Europe �1K Turbo Freezeout (�46,700)
- 21 Amateur Poker Player Turns �500 into �60,000 and a WSOP Bracelet
- 22 Poker Vlogger Eric Tsai Leads the Final Table of the WSOP Europe Main Event
- 23 The Giant of Rozvadov: Former Pro Basketball Player Max Neugebauer Wins the WSOP Europe Main Event