Sunday, July 3, 2016 4:52 PM Local Time
Allan Le Wins $1,500 Mixed Omaha
Allan Le is the newest member of poker’s gold bracelet club.
The professional poker player from Huntington Beach, CA won the $1,500 buy-in Mixed Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low Split/Omaha High-Low Split/Big O tournament, which was played over three days and nights and just concluded on the ESPN main stage at the Rio in Las Vegas.
Le collected $189,223 in prize money, making this one of the biggest wins of his career. Le previously won a High Roller tournament. He now has 30 cashes at the WSOP.
Le won his victory by coming out on top at a final table which included a mixture of newcomers and tournament veterans. The moment of triumph came when Le had a huge chip lead and scooped the final pot of the tournament against Phillipp Elrisch, from Germany, who finished as the runner up.
Le is one of three prominent poker-playing brothers. He’s the youngest of a family that also includes Nam Le and Tommy Le. However, Allan is the first to win the coveted gold bracelet.
This was a first-time event on the WSOP schedule. The format included three varieties of Omaha High-Low Split – pot-limit, limit, and Big O.
This tourney attracted 668 entrants which created a prize pool totaling $901,800. The top 101 finishers collected prize money.
Aside from the winner, here’s a brief report of the other top finishers who made the final table:
Second Place: Phillip Elrisch (Berlin, Germany) -- $116,915
Third Place: Cody Crouch (Amarillo TX) -- $79,403
Fourth Place: Gavin Smith (Guelph, ON – Canada) -- $54,889
Fifth Place: Keith Ferrera (Las Vegas, NV) -- $38,634
Sixth Place: Yuval Bronshtein (Tel Aviv, Israel) -- $27,696
Seventh Place: David Bach (Athens, GA) -- $20,229
Eighth Place: Gary Bolden (Las Vegas, NV) -- $15,059
Ninth Place: John Monnette, from Palmdale, CA $11,431
This was the 53rd official event on this year’s schedule. This leaves 16 gold bracelet events still to go at the 2016 WSOP.