Joshua Adkins Leads Five Players Into Final Day of the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship
The curtain has fallen on the penultimate day of Event #66: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship here at the 2024 World Series of Poker hosted at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Only five players remain from a field of 811, all of whom have locked up at least $315,098. Tomorrow, those five players will return for the fourth and final day to compete for the top prize of $1,320,945 and a WSOP gold bracelet.
Joshua Adkins sits atop the leaderboard with a massive lead over the rest of the field after finishing the night with 27,085,000, a stack worth more than half the total chips in play. Adkins has nearly three times the stack of his closest competitor Elie Nakache, who bagged 9,505,000.
Seat Assignments for the Final Day
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joshua Adkins | United States | 27,085,000 | 169 |
| 2 | Elie Nakache | France | 9,505,000 | 59 |
| 3 | Manh Nguyen | United States | 4,660,000 | 29 |
| 4 | Jonathan Bowers | United Kingdom | 5,930,000 | 37 |
| 5 | Oshri Lahmani | Israel | 1,425,000 | 9 |
Day 3 Action
Day 3 began with 48 players and because many short stacks were still left in the field the action was fast and furious during the opening levels. Some notables who made their exit during the first few levels include Jerry Wong (45th), Michael Mizrachi (44th) Niklas Astedt (22nd) and Stephen Chidwick (17th).
Adkins began the day with a top ten stack and soon found himself at the very top of the chip counts after making a full house on the river to double through start-of-day chip leader Jonathan Bowers. Adkins' momentum continued two levels later when he made the winning hand again on the river, this time against Richard Gryko who had flopped a set only for Adkins to river a straight to extend his lead over the rest of the field. From that point Adkins began relentlessly putting pressure on his remaining opponents en route to entering the unofficial nine-handed final table with nearly double the chips of any other remaining player.
Mandy Calara became the first to fall from the unofficial final table after moving in with bottom pair and a flush draw and failing to improve against Adkin's pocket aces. Not long after, the biggest pot of the night occurred between Adkins and Bowers, who was Adkin's closest rival at that point. Both players had turned the nut-straight but Adkins was freerolling with redraws to a higher straight in a pot worth over half the chips in play with eight players remaining. Adkins failed to improve and the pot, which Adkins told his rail was "for the tournament", was chopped between the two players.
Eight players still remained following the dinner break with Adkins and Bowers at the top of the counts, Eelis Parssinen and Krzysztof Magott as short stacks and all other players close together in the middle. Despite being short, both Parssinen and Magott found double ups while David Benyamine began tumbling down the counts after losing a series of pots in quick succession, ultimately leading to his elimination in eighth place. Benyamine was followed out the door by Parssinen, who couldn't keep his comeback going and exited in seventh.
By the time Parssinen was eliminated, Magott had made a respectable comeback after tripling up his short stack earlier and was fourth in chips out of six players remaining. That all changed after his three-bet was called by Adkins, who flopped a set while Magott had an overpair. Magott had already committed a significant chunk of his stack preflop and was snap-called by Adkins after moving all in on the flop. Magott failed to improve and became the final bustout of the night.
Final Table Results and Remaining Payouts
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize (in USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $1,320,945 | ||
| 2 | $880,621 | ||
| 3 | $615,251 | ||
| 4 | $436,751 | ||
| 5 | $315,098 | ||
| 6 | Krzysztof Magott | Poland | $231,101 |
| 7 | Eelis P?rssinen | Finland | $172,355 |
| 8 | David Benyamine | France | $130,748 |
When the action resumes tomorrow, June 29 at 2:00 p.m. local time there will be 12 minutes remaining in Level 28 at blinds of 80,000/160,000 with a big blind ante of 160,000. The action will be streamed on PokerGO with a one-hour delay.
As always, stay tuned to PokerNews for full Day 4 coverage, as the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha champion will be crowned.