This year at the WSOP, Phil Galfond now has a total of three bracelets to his name, after he won Event #60: $10,000 PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship which had a player field of 237 entrants. Along with the bracelet and the title, he took home the first-place cash prize worth a whopping $567,788.
A very prominent online high-stakes cash player known as "OMGClayAiken", Galfond has put a lot of time playing on the felt, but playing a PLO 8-or-better tournament was still quite new to him.
He said after he won, "I've basically never played PLO8 online. There is a mix game I've been playing live for two and a half years, 12 games, and one of them is PLO8. So, I've played a little bit. Honestly, I don't think it helped me very much. So, I was figuring out as I went. I think I definitely ended the tournament a better tournament PLO8 player than I started."
Galfond, who has been very busy the past couple of years launching a poker website and has recently announced a new addition to his family, earned his first bracelet in 2008 at the $5,000 PLO event, winning $817,781. His second bracelet was when he won the 2015 $10,000 No-limit 2-7 Lowball event for $224,383.
The 33-year-old from Maryland now has almost $2.9 million earned from live tournament wins.
He battled the chip leader Michael McKenna for his 3rd bracelet win.
Event #60: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship Final Table Results
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Place
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Player
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Country
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Prize
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1
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Phil Galfond
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United States
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$567,788
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2
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Michael McKenna
|
United States
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$350,922
|
|
3
|
Ali Abduljabbar
|
United States
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$240,497
|
|
4
|
Chad Power
|
United States
|
$168,275
|
|
5
|
Kwang Lee
|
United States
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$120,263
|
|
6
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Marco Johnson
|
United States
|
$87,830
|
|
7
|
David Baker
|
United States
|
$65,579
|
|
8
|
Chase Steely
|
United States
|
$50,086
|
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9
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Yong Wang
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China
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$39,149
|
|
10
|
Assani Fisher
|
United States
|
$39,149
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Source:
https://www.pokernews.com/news/2018/07/galfond-wins-3rd-bracelet-wsop-plo8-31330.htm?itm_content=pn-hp-hero-3
