A World Cup of PLO to be Won Today
First there were 596. Then 102. And now just 12. Two days of action-fueled poker has brought us to the third and final day of Event No. 28, the $2,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha event, by the end of which we'll see our next WSOP bracelet winner.
Miguel Proulx of Canada will enjoy a slight lead over France's Patrick Hanoteau when play recommences today. With stacks over 800,000, those two have created some distance between themselves and the remaining ten. However, as we saw yesterday -- when chip leaders became eliminations within just a hand or two -- much can change quickly in pot-limit Omaha, or, as Bob Ciaffone once dubbed it, "the action game."
No matter who survives the first three eliminations today to make the final nine, our final table appears destined to have an international feel, as six countries are represented by our final dozen players. In addition to Canada and France, we'll see players from Germany, England, Bulgaria, and the U.S. coming back today to fight for the Event No. 28 bracelet. Kind of a World Cup of PLO, one could say.
Join us at 3 p.m. local time when the action begins again.