$250 PLO Deepstack Down to 23 — A Lithuanian Leads the Chase

Twenty-three players remain in Event #386, the $250 Daily Deepstack Pot-Limit Omaha at the Horseshoe, and the chip leader is a Lithuanian you've almost certainly never heard of.

Vincas Tamasauskas Has the Pole Position

Vincas Tamasauskas — $94,166 in lifetime tournament earnings, one career final table, zero bracelets, zero rings — leads the field as the event grinds past midnight in Las Vegas. He's from Lithuania, and if he reaches this final table, it'll double his career count.

The buy-in is $250. This is the cheapest PLO bracelet event still running at the 2026 WSOP. That price tag draws a specific kind of field: part-timers, PLO addicts on a budget, and the occasional seasoned name looking for an easy path to gold.

This is the cheapest PLO bracelet event still running at the 2026 WSOP.

The Field Around Him

The names behind Tamasauskas tell the story of who shows up for a $250 PLO deepstack at 1 a.m. Emerson Baroni, a Brazilian with $4,730 in lifetime earnings, is among the remaining 23. So is Christophe Kemp from France, Zhong Liao out of Great Britain, and Vittorio Quero from Peru — none with a bracelet or ring to their name.

Earlier in the event, when 49 players remained, Stefanie Christiana held the chip lead at 265,000. Germany's Markus Anheier ($60,108 lifetime) was also in the mix alongside Chris Barfield ($10,632 lifetime). Whether any of them are still in at 23 is unclear from the latest counts, but the theme hasn't changed: this is a field of grinders, not headliners.

Why You Should Be Watching

A $250 buy-in PLO bracelet event is a strange animal. The stacks play deep, the action gets wild post-flop, and the players at this stage are one heater away from the most meaningful result of their careers. Tamasauskas has cashed for under six figures in his entire playing life. A bracelet here would rewrite his bio overnight.

The stream is live now from the Horseshoe. Twenty-three left, blinds climbing, and a guy from Vilnius is trying to do something he's never done before.