451 entries are down to just 5 in WSOP Event #47: $25K High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha, and the end result of getting all these PLO badasses in the same room is a prizepool in excess of $10 million.
The winner will walk away with $2.1M. Whoever gets knocked out first after play resumes on Friday at 2pm will still bank almost half a million dollars.
Here are the remaining payouts:
- $2,161,056
- $1,440,680
- $990,849
- $694,268
- $495,769
But who is going to play their way to glory under the lights of the WSOP featured table?
There’s one obvious frontrunner — who holds over half the chips in play — while 3 of the final 5 enter the final session with fewer than 13 big blinds.
Our runaway chip-leader is strong, and Finnish, but can he finish strong?
Blinds will be at 200K/400K with a 400K big blind ante when play restarts on Friday. Here’s who will be fighting for the $25K PLO bracelet, from biggest to smallest stacks.
Eelis Pärssinen 36.7M (91bb)
With over $18M in recorded tournament earnings, Pärssinen is currently 2nd on Finland’s all-time money list.
The trouble is, the man above him is Patrik Antonius, and with $34M to his name he’s going to take some catching.
If anyone can do it, it’s Pärssinen, and if he does it will likely be his successes in PLO that get him there.
An Omaha specialist, Pärssinen picked up his WSOP bracelet in 2021 playing a NLH/PLO mix. He’s continued to rack up big scores and major titles, including a PLO win at EPT Monte Carlo earlier this year.
Pärssinen is one of two players left in the field who aren’t playing for an all-time best score, with the $2.16M up top just shy of the $2.27M he won for first place in the $104K PLO Main Event at Triton Monte Carlo in 2024.
With his skills and experience — not to mention most of the chips — Pärssinen is the man to beat.
Levon Khachatryan 20.1M (50bb)
Second in the overnight chip counts — with close to half the stack of the chip leader — is California’s Khachatryan.
The man from Glendale is looking at a major upgrade to his best-ever result, a $32K score for a deep run in a $10K WPT event in 2018.
Whatever happens in Las Vegas on Friday, he’ll be winning multiples of his lifetime earnings, which stand at $185K heading into this PLO finale. This will be his first cash in a $25K live poker event.
While not a PLO specialist like Pärssinen — most of Khachatryan’s results have come in no-limit hold’em — his one recorded tournament win was a PLO event, at the LA Poker Classic in 2015.
Aaron Mermelstein 5.3M (13bb)
13 big blinds puts Mermelstein right in the jitter zone, but technically he’s sitting in the middle of the pack.
The payjumps are large at this point, but don’t expect Mermelstein to play scared. He’s won $25K high rollers before, and is into double digits when it comes to six-figure scores.
8th on Pennsylvania’s all-time money list, Mermelstein has over $5M in lifetime earnings with a personal best of $712K coming back in 2015 at the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open. And he’s shown he has the chops to play elite-level Omaha, with a win in the PokerGO Tour’s PLO Series in March.
Sergio Martinez Gonzalez 4.2M (10bb)
Madrid native Gonzalez may be getting a sense of deja vu, having previously made the final table of this very event in 2023.
On that occasion he finished second to Ka Lau of Hong Kong, adding $1.4M to lifetime earnings which now total over $4.2M.
Like Pärssinen, Gonzalez won’t set a new high score if he wins on Friday, having previously won $2.34M in a Triton PLO event in March 2025. And while he has the kind of stack that will require good things to happen sooner rather than later, he’s in good form; Gonzalez made the final table of the WSOP $10K Super Turbo Bounty earlier this week, where he finished 6th for $99K.
Jeremy Druckman 2.9M (7bb)
Like Mermelstein, Druckman hails from Pennsylvania but can be found a ways further down the state’s money list in 111th with $526K in lifetime earnings.
And also like Mermelstein, Druckman bagged a win in the PokerGO Tour’s PLO Series in March, banking $182K — just $100 or so short of his all-time best result, recorded at the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open in 2013.
His previous 10 tournament results have all come in PLO, and while he’s already guaranteed a new personal best Druckman will be hoping to spring a comeback — or at least a ladder-up — given that he comes to the final table so lacking in chips.
The final day of action in the $25K PLO High Roller kicks off at 2pm PT on Friday.
Images courtesy of the WSOP, with thanks to The Hendon Mob for historical tournament data.
