It's a splattering in the $5K Pot-Limit Omaha tournament at the 2026 WSOP.
The final seven players will return on Saturday, and Jesse Lonis, two-time WSOP bracelet winner and all-around big-fisted crusher, has half the chips on the table.
Lonis started Day 2 in the second slot on the leaderboard, trailing only Dylan Weisman on a list of 120 returnees. After a trail of destruction in the later levels, there are now only six players left for Lonis to beat.
Weisman is still among those six, but his 34 big blinds are well behind the 220 of Lonis. Also returning are Stephen Hubbard, Evan Krentzman, Jarred Graham, Yang Wang, and Justin Scott.
Can any of them stop Lonis? Or will this be our first major debellatio of the summer series? Hubbard, the nearest player to Lonis, has 5 million chips. Lonis has 17.6 million.
What are the odds?
It begs the question, as posed by Allen Kessler on X: what are the approximate odds that Lonis wins the $5K PLO bracelet?
Kessler's thread suggests it might be a coin flip, with the longest odds thrown out at 5-to-1. If you can get that price, bet the house on it.
The other six players will return to the big stage in the Paris Ballroom on Saturday at noon to try to stop Lonis, and good luck to them. They're going to need it.
2026 WSOP $5,000 PLO final table chip counts (per WSOP Live)
- Jesse Lonis - 17.6 million (220bb)
- Stephen Hubbard - 5 million (62bb)
- Evan Krentzman - 4.2 million (52 bb)
- Dylan Weisman - 2.8 million (34 bb)
- Jarred Graham - 2.4 million (30 bb)
- Yang Wang - 1.7 million (20 bb)
- Justin Scott - 1.4 million (17 bb)
Play will resume on Saturday in Level 26 with blinds at 40K/80K/80K.
