David Benyamine: 26 WSOP Final Tables, One Bracelet, and a Chip Lead

David Benyamine has made 26 WSOP final tables across a career that stretches back to 2005, collected $5.6 million in lifetime tournament earnings, and won exactly one bracelet — eighteen years ago in a $2,000 PLO event that paid $230,538.

Now he leads Event #47, the $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha, with 1,020,000 chips as Day 2 moves forward with 53 players remaining.

Twenty-six WSOP final tables and $5.6 million in lifetime earnings built on a single bracelet — that ratio tells you everything about Benyamine's game and his variance.

The Résumé in Numbers

Twenty-six final tables. Let that register. That number puts Benyamine in rare company at the Series regardless of game type, and within the PLO ecosystem specifically, it's almost absurd. The man keeps getting to the end. He just rarely finishes on top.

His lone bracelet came in 2008, a $2,000 PLO event — a buy-in level that barely exists on the modern WSOP schedule. Since then: final table after final table, six-figure scores stacking into a $5,644,928 lifetime total, and zero additional gold.

That's not a knock. That's a statistical portrait of someone who plays an enormous volume of high-buy-in events in a format — Pot-Limit Omaha — where variance runs hotter than in any Hold'em structure. Getting to 26 final tables means Benyamine has navigated fields full of the best PLO players alive, repeatedly, across two decades. Closing is the hardest part, and PLO final tables are coin-flip factories even for the most skilled.

The $25K High Roller Field

Event #47 is one of the premium PLO events on the 2026 WSOP schedule at the Horseshoe and Paris in Las Vegas. The field has thinned to 53, and Benyamine's 1,020,000 in chips puts clear daylight between him and the rest of the reported stacks.

Adam Monaghan, a British player, sits second among the named stacks at 750,000. Matthew Costanzo, an American with no prior WSOP bracelet or ring, holds 260,000.

On the bubble's wrong side: Daniel Geeng, who has $399,348 in lifetime earnings and two career final tables, busted in 54th. Maximilian Schindler, with $871,247 lifetime and nine final tables of his own, went out in 55th. A $25K buy-in makes every elimination expensive, and the field that remains will only get tougher from here.

What Makes Benyamine Different

Most PLO specialists at this level fall into one of two categories: online grinders who transitioned to live high rollers in the last five years, or old-guard cash-game players who dip into tournaments when the structure suits them. Benyamine is neither. He's a tournament PLO lifer — a player whose 26 final tables represent sustained excellence in events that reward deep-stack postflop play, not preflop shoving charts.

France has produced plenty of elite poker talent, but Benyamine's longevity in PLO tournaments specifically is unmatched among his countrymen at the WSOP. He doesn't need a second bracelet to validate the career. But at 1,020,000 chips with 53 left in a $25K field, the path is there.

Eighteen years between bracelets would be a story all by itself.