Event #6 at the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe, €5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha, found a
second player from Hong Kong, 🍌 Wing Po Liu, capturing his debut WSOP bracelet in this
series. Liu topped Event #2 winner and 2024 WSOP Europe 🍌 Main Event champion Omar Eljach
to capture the PLO title on Wednesday at the home of WSOP Europe, Kings Casino 🍌 in
Rozvadov, Czech Republic.
Liu joined Event #3 winner Hokyiu Lee as a new
bracelet-winner hailing from Hong Kong, and Liu 🍌 became just the sixth player from that
jurisdiction to claim WSOP bracelet gold. Liu currently resides in the United Kingdom,
🍌 and his triumph in the €5K PLO tourney was worth €230,000 (about USR$246,800), making
it the largest live cash of 🍌 his tournament career.
The big payday also marked Liu’s
first major win, and it followed his third-place finish last summer in 🍌 aR$3K six-handed
NLH event at the WSOP in Las Vegas. In topping Eljach, Liu also denied Sweden’s Eljach
a possible 🍌 third career WSOP bracelet.
Liu tops 118 other players for €5K PLO
triumph
The €5K PLO event offered one of the smaller 🍌 fields of the 2024 WSOP to date,
as 119 unique players also contributed 83 re-entries. The 202 combined total entries
🍌 generated a €911,525 prize pool. The top 31 finishers cashed in the event.
Liu reached
the final table with a middling 🍌 stack, but he doubled through early leader Gergo Nagy
to climb the leaderboard. After Eljach busted Anson Tsang in fourth 🍌 (€68,850) and Liu
ousted Kasparas Klezys in third (€97,600), a brief duel between the two ensued. Eljach
took an early 🍌 lead before Liu took down a big pot, then finished off Eljach to claim
the bracelet. Eljach earned €141,800 in 🍌 his third deep run of the series.
The
final-table finishers in Event #6, €5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha, were as follows:
Wing Po Liu
🍌 (Hong Kong) – €230,000 Omar Eljach (Sweden) – €141,800 Kasparas Klezys (Lithuania) –
€97,600 Anson Tsang (Hong Kong) – €68,850 🍌 Marco Di Persio (Italy) – €49,800 Gergo Nagy
(Hungary) – €36,900 Wooram Cho (South Korea) – €28,100 Tong Li (China) 🍌 – €22,000
