Carlo Van Ravenswood Is the Cheapest Stack at the $100K PLO Final Two Tables

Sixteen players remain in WSOP Event #76, the $100,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha, and the name sitting among them that doesn't pattern-match is Carlo Van Ravenswood — a Dutchman with a single career final table and less than half a million in lifetime earnings.

His $476,050 in lifetime cashes wouldn't cover five buy-ins to this event. The buy-in alone — $100,000 — represents more than a fifth of everything Van Ravenswood has ever cashed for, across his entire tracked career. And yet, as Day 2 ground the field down to two tables at the Horseshoe, he's still there.

The company he's keeping makes the contrast sharper.

His $476,050 in lifetime cashes wouldn't cover five buy-ins to this event.

The Table Is Stacked in Every Direction

Michael Mizrachi is in this field. Eight bracelets. $26 million in lifetime earnings. Thirty-eight career final tables. The Grinder has been playing $100K events since before some of these fields existed, and he's still hunting.

Nick Schulman is in this field. Also eight bracelets, two Circuit rings, $11.1 million in lifetime earnings, and 46 career final tables — a number that borders on absurd for a player who gravitates toward the highest buy-ins on the schedule.

Klemens Roiter, an Austrian with one bracelet already on his wrist, has $5.13 million in lifetime earnings and eight final tables. Sean Rafael, an American with $1.8 million in earnings and six final tables, rounds out the named stacks.

That's five players the WSOP is tracking at the top of the counts. Four of them have combined for 17 bracelets, 99 final tables, and $44.07 million in lifetime earnings.

The fifth is Van Ravenswood.

The Math of Being Here

Pot-Limit Omaha at this buy-in is not a lottery. The $100K High Roller PLO draws a concentrated pool of players who consider six-figure buy-ins part of their regular rotation. Recreational tourists don't stumble into Day 2 of a $100K PLO event. The game punishes imprecision faster and harder than No-Limit Hold'em — four cards, pot-limit bet sizing, and equity runouts that demand a player actually understand where they are in a hand.

Van Ravenswood's one prior final table isn't nothing. But it exists in a career that, by the standards of this particular field, is a rounding error. Mizrachi has made 38 final tables. Schulman has made 46. Van Ravenswood has made one — and he's now alive to make his second in the most expensive open bracelet event on the 2026 schedule.

What's Left

Sixteen players. Two tables. The next elimination cycle will collapse them to a final table, and from there the dynamic shifts entirely. In PLO, stacks move fast. A single pot can reorder the entire leaderboard, and with players of this caliber, nobody at the table is folding their way to a bracelet.

For Mizrachi, a ninth bracelet would be historic — only a handful of players in WSOP history have ever reached that number. For Schulman, same story, same math. For Roiter, a second bracelet in a $100K event would cement a high-roller reputation that's already building.

For Van Ravenswood, the calculus is different. He doesn't need a ninth anything. He needs a first. A bracelet, a major final table, a result that rewrites the number next to his name from $476K to something that belongs in the same sentence as the players across the felt from him.

He's still alive. The field is still shrinking. And the most expensive open event of the summer has a protagonist nobody predicted.