Poker Leaderboard: Career Pot-Limit Omaha Tournament Earnings

Pot-Limit Omaha is a tournament game on the rise, with more options available for fans of the popular four-card big bet variant, whether they play entry-level buy-ins or the highest stakes in the world. Given the increase in opportunities for PLO specialists to ply their trade on the tournament circuit, the all-time earnings leaderboard for the game has seen plenty of movement recently. Our most recent update on this issue came in May of 2022. Since then, nine of the current top ten have added six figures or more to their lifetime totals.

Second-ranked Ben Lamb added nearly $920,000 to his PLO tally since our last look, bringing his total to nearly $3.4 million. Lamb, who has a bracelet win in the game, managed two six-figure PLO scores in that span, with the largest being the $622,861 he earned as the third-place finisher in the 2022 WSOP $50,000 high roller. His other marquee cash was a $145,800 payday for a runner-up showing in a $10,000 event at the 2022 Poker Masters.

Five-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus picked up two titles in PLO events, adding more than $747,000 to his lifetime earnings. His results were headlined by a runner-up finish in a €25,000 buy-in PLO high roller held at the 2022 Triton Madrid festival for $208,950. His largest score in the game remains the $1,188,918 he banked as the winner of the 2021 $50,000 high roller event at the WSOP.

Dash Dudley has cashed for more than $915,000 in PLO events since last May. The two-time PLO bracelet winner fell one spot shy of securing a third bracelet in the game in the 2022 WSOP $50,000 high roller for $861,442. He did end up getting a third bracelet a couple of weeks after his runner-up showing, but it came in a no-limit hold’em event.

Josh Arieh backed up his WSOP POY-winning performance in 2021 with a strong outing at the 2022 series. The four-time bracelet winner (two PLO victories, one PLO8 win, and a limit hold’em win) finished third in the $25,000 buy-in event at last year’s series for $644,365, the fourth-largest score of his career. He now has more than $2 million in cashes in the game, recently taking seventh in the PGT PLO Series championship event.

The top-10 player who won the most over the past ten months is two-time bracelet winner Robert Cowen. The UK poker pro’s two wins at the series both came in PLO, with his second being a massive victory in the $50,000 high roller for $1,393,816. ♠