Justin Liberto Has Six Pieces of WSOP Hardware and He's Not Done Yet

Six pieces of WSOP jewelry and Justin Liberto is still stacking chips on Day 2 of the $1,500 Pick Your PLO.

The two-time bracelet winner bagged 820,000 on the evening of July 10 with 52 players remaining in Event #91 at the Horseshoe/Paris complex. That stack sits second overall at the most recent count, trailing only Michael Lenz (1,035,000) and running just behind Benjamin Pockett (977,000). But neither Lenz nor Pockett carries anything close to Liberto's tournament pedigree.

Six pieces of WSOP jewelry and Justin Liberto is still stacking chips on Day 2 of the $1,500 Pick Your PLO.

The Résumé in Numbers

Liberto's career line reads like a mixed-game grinder's fantasy draft pick: two gold bracelets, four WSOP Circuit rings, $5,317,734 in lifetime tournament earnings, and 36 career final tables. That hardware collection puts him in rare company among active players still firing in mid-stakes WSOP events rather than retreating to high rollers or cash games.

What makes this run notable is the format. "Pick Your PLO" lets players choose between PLO and PLO-8 at each table draw, rewarding flexibility across Pot-Limit Omaha variants. It is a format that favors players with deep experience in both games, not specialists in one. Liberto's mixed-game background makes him a natural fit.

The Field Around Him

Liberto isn't the only decorated player still alive. John Racener, a three-time bracelet winner with one Circuit ring, $11,622,916 in lifetime earnings, and 39 career final tables, is grinding a shorter stack of 366,000. Racener's presence at the same final stretch underscores how strong the remaining field is at the top.

Tsz-Shing, a one-ring Circuit winner with $149,488 in career earnings and three final tables, holds 512,000. Below them, the contrast sharpens. Benjamin Pockett, an Australian with just $8,210 in tracked results, sits near the top of the counts at 977,000, while Michael Lenz, who has no recorded WSOP results in our database, leads the entire field at 1,035,000.

That mix of unknown stacks and veteran grinders creates exactly the kind of final-day dynamic where experience pays compound interest. Liberto has been through 36 final tables. Several players ahead of or near him on the leaderboard may be approaching their first.

Why This Matters for Liberto's Summer

A third bracelet would move Liberto into an even more exclusive tier. Plenty of players have two; significantly fewer have three. And with $5.3 million already banked, a deep cash here (the $1,500 buy-in typically pays six figures at the final table) would push his lifetime total closer to $5.5 million.

More telling than the money: Liberto keeps showing up in mixed-format PLO events and keeps going deep. That's not variance. That's a player whose skill set maps precisely onto these hybrid structures.

With 52 players left and his stack healthy, Liberto has a legitimate shot at bracelet number three. The field knows it, too. When a player with six pieces of WSOP hardware sits down with a top-three stack on Day 2, nobody at the table is comfortable.