PLO Is the Bracelet Hunter's Best Friend

No one in WSOP history has ever won their sixth bracelet in a PLO event — and right now Robert Mizrachi is sitting on 1,080,000 chips with 23 players left in one.

Event #96, the $3,000 6-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha, is down to its final three tables. Mizrachi — five bracelets, $6.66M in lifetime cashes, 32 career final tables — is among the leaders. If he closes this out, he does something no player has done before: pick up bracelet number six in a four-card game.

If Mizrachi closes this out, he does something no player has done before: pick up bracelet number six in a four-card game.

Why PLO Keeps Producing Bracelet Runs

Here's the argument I keep coming back to: PLO is quietly the most bracelet-hunt-friendly format on the WSOP schedule.

The counter-take writes itself — PLO fields are smaller and softer, so the bracelets mean less. I don't buy it. Smaller fields mean fewer chances to play the event at all. The WSOP runs a handful of PLO tournaments each summer compared to dozens of No-Limit Hold'em events. You get fewer shots, not easier ones. And the players who do show up for $3,000 6-max PLO aren't tourists fumbling with pot-sized bets. They're specialists.

What PLO does offer is a genuine edge multiplier for players who've put in thousands of hours. Four cards create more decision points per hand. More decisions mean more spots where deep experience compounds. A five-time bracelet winner with 32 final tables has seen every river configuration twice. That matters more in PLO than in any other format.

The Field Around Him

Mizrachi isn't alone at the top. Mason Vieth — seven career final tables, $562K in earnings — actually leads the remaining 23 with 4,000,000 in chips. Yuhong Liu (895,000) and Qingyu Lu (900,000) are also in the hunt. None of the three has a bracelet.

That's the dynamic that makes this interesting. Mizrachi is surrounded by players chasing their first. He's chasing history.

What a Sixth Means

Five bracelets already puts Mizrachi in rare air. A sixth in PLO — a format he's built his reputation around — wouldn't just add another piece of gold. It would cement the idea that four-card poker rewards mastery more steeply than any other variant on the schedule.

I think PLO has been underrated as a bracelet vehicle for years. If Mizrachi finishes this, it won't be underrated anymore.