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

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.

The clock has reached zero in the final level of the day and the surviving six players have bagged up to return tomorrow for Day 3 at noon.

Stay tuned as a full recap of the day's events will be uploaded shortly here on PokerNews!

Long Tran	9,900,000	-90,000
Alfred Karlsson	7,615,000	-5,000
Mike Leah	5,960,000	0
Joseph Sanders	4,500,000	-40,000
Dustin Nelson	2,540,000	-40,000
Anatoly Zlotnikov	2,105,000	-515,000

Alfred Karlsson raised to 300,000 and received a call from the blinds.

The flop came     and both the blinds were quick to check. Karlsson continued for 250,000 and received a call from only Patrick Mccullough.

When the turn peeled off as the  , Mccullough moved all in for 1,300,000 and was called by Karlsson. Both players revealed their hands.

Patrick Mccullough:     
Alfred Karlsson:     

The board ran out with the   for Karlsson to take the pot.

Alfred Karlsson	7,620,000	2,270,000
Patrick Mccullough	0	-1,950,000

After an open from short-stacked Zachary Reinbold and a call from Long Tran, the two players went to a flop of    .

Tran checked, Reinbold bet 125,000, and Tran check-raised to cover him. Reinbold checked his cards once more and made the call to put his tournament life on the line.

Zachary Reinbold:     
Long Tran:     

Reinbold was ahead with his ace-king, but the runout came    to give Tran a flush on the river to send him out in eighth place.

Long Tran	8,375,000	1,475,000
Zachary Reinbold	0	-950,000

Joseph Sanders called from the cutoff and Patrick Mccullough called from the button. Anatoly Zlotnikov raised to 300,000 from the small blind. Only Mccullough found the call.

The flop came     and Zlotnikov continued for 150,000. Mccullough made the call.

While the turn peeled the  , both players were quick to check.

The river was the   and Zlotnikov checked to Mccullough. He fired for 150,000 and was called. Zlotnikov revealed      to take the pot.

Joseph Sanders	4,600,000	100,000
Anatoly Zlotnikov	4,080,000	-220,000
Mike Leah	4,000,000	1,050,000
Patrick Mccullough	3,240,000	420,000

After some back-and-forth betting preflop, Jose Ramos moved all in and was called by big stack Joseph Sanders to put him at risk.

Jose Ramos:     
Joseph Sanders:     

Ramos was well in the lead with his aces, but the flop of     was not his friend as Sanders made two pair to take a big lead. The   on the turn further improved him to three pair, leaving Ramos drawing only to an ace, three, or seven to stay alive. Unfortunately, the river   was none of the above and he was sent to the rail in ninth place.

Joseph Sanders	4,500,000	700,000
Jose Ramos	0	-1,450,000

The remaining 10 players have headed on the last 15 minute break of the night.

Before the flop, short-stacked Xuming Qi moved got it all in against Zachary Reinbold, who covered.

Xuming Qi:     [alin]
Zachary Reinbold:     

Qi was ahead with his queens, but the flop of     paired Reinbold's ace to give him the lead and the runout of    sent him to the rail in 12th place.

Zachary Reinbold	5,100,000	560,000
Xuming Qi	0	-300,000