ESPN Premieres World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha Event

Pot-limit Omaha is a growing game, a fact made more evident by this year’s $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker world championship pot-limit Omaha (PLO) event. Showing a 21-percent increase in attendance from the year before, the 2008 event attracted 381 entrants, generating the largest PLO tournament prize pool in poker history. Tonight, ESPN is premiering this event at 5 p.m. PST.

Last year’s winner was Robert Mizrachi. He did not cash the event this year, but his brother, 2006 Card Player Player of the Year Michael Mizrachi, went on to make the final table.

Here are chip counts of the players going in to final table:

Seat 1: Thang “Kido” Pham — 1,080,000
Seat 2: Brandon Moran — 1,286,000
Seat 3: Peter Jetten — 492,000
Seat 4: Michael Mizrachi — 1,767,000
Seat 5: Billy Argyros — 729,000
Seat 6: Greg Hurst — 637,000
Seat 7: Tom Hanlon — 192,000
Seat 8: Marty Smyth — 1,068,000
Seat 9: Richard Harroch — 372,000

(Warning: The following links contain spoilers!)

Complete results on this event, including winner photos, updates logs, videos, and payouts, can be found by clicking the WSOP link under the Tournaments tab in the top navigation of CardPlayer.com.

Card Player TV sat down with the winner of this event shortly after his win. That video can be found in the Card Player TV Archives.

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