Dylan Weisman's $104K PLO Cash Hands Team Lucky the Fantasy Lead

Dylan Weisman finished 6th in the $5,000 PLO for $104,359 on the night of May 29 — the fattest individual cash in the 2026 WSOP fantasy contest so far.

That score didn't land on the roster you'd expect. It went to Team Lucky, Shaun Deeb's squad on 25kfantasy.com, which now holds 82 locked fantasy points from Event #5 alone with a ceiling of 152 and seven players still remaining in the field.

That score didn't land on the roster you'd expect — it went to Team Lucky, Shaun Deeb's squad, which now holds 82 locked fantasy points from Event #5 alone.

The Biggest Single Cash of the Contest

To put Weisman's $104,359 in context: this is the new high-water mark for any individual result across the first five events of the 2026 WSOP. The Badugi runner-up payout that reshuffled the leaderboard a day earlier? Weisman topped it.

What makes this significant for fantasy isn't just the raw dollar amount — it's the magnitude score. Weisman's cash registered a magnitude of 104,359 on the sweat page, dwarfing the typical cashes that move the needle in a salary-cap contest built around bracelet events.

And the kicker: Team Lucky didn't draft the PLO field most aggressively. Deeb's roster construction leaned elsewhere. Weisman's deep run was found money — the kind of asymmetric hit that separates winning fantasy teams from losing ones.

Blades & Shades Has Its Own PLO Horse

Team Lucky isn't the only squad sweating the $5,000 PLO. Blades & Shades, managed by Nick G, has Jesse Lonis alive in the same event. As of the latest lock, Lonis has delivered 60 locked points for the team with a ceiling of 107 and four players still in contention.

That's a solid return on its own. But the gap between 82 locked and 60 locked — with Team Lucky also holding the higher ceiling (152 vs. 107) — means Blades & Shades needs Lonis to run deep just to keep pace on this single event.

The math is straightforward: Weisman's 6th-place exit already banked Team Lucky's points. Lonis is still live, which means Blades & Shades has upside remaining, but they're chasing from behind.

What This Means for the Leaderboard

Five events into the 2026 WSOP, the fantasy contest is starting to separate into tiers. Teams that caught a big PLO cash — specifically, a $104K PLO cash — now have a cushion that's hard to replicate in lower buy-in bracelet events.

Team Lucky's 82 locked points from Event #5 represent a single-event haul that most rosters won't match across two or three smaller fields combined. The ceiling of 152 means there's still room for more if other Team Lucky rostered players survive deeper into the PLO field.

For anyone building or adjusting rosters on 25kfantasy.com, the takeaway is simple: the PLO events are where the fantasy volatility lives. One deep run in a $5,000 buy-in can outpace a dozen min-cashes in $600 events.

Dylan Weisman probably isn't a name most fantasy managers circled before the series. He is now.