2018 WSOP: Event #60: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship won by Phil Galfond for $567,788

This year at the WSOP, Phil Galfond now has a total of three bracelets to his name, after he won Event #60: $10,000 PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship which had a player field of 237 entrants. Along with the bracelet and the title, he took home the first-place cash prize worth a whopping $567,788.

A very prominent online high-stakes cash player known as "OMGClayAiken", Galfond has put a lot of time playing on the felt, but playing a PLO 8-or-better tournament was still quite new to him.

He said after he won, "I've basically never played PLO8 online. There is a mix game I've been playing live for two and a half years, 12 games, and one of them is PLO8. So, I've played a little bit. Honestly, I don't think it helped me very much. So, I was figuring out as I went. I think I definitely ended the tournament a better tournament PLO8 player than I started."

Galfond, who has been very busy the past couple of years launching a poker website and has recently announced a new addition to his family, earned his first bracelet in 2008 at the $5,000 PLO event, winning $817,781. His second bracelet was when he won the 2015 $10,000 No-limit 2-7 Lowball event for $224,383.

The 33-year-old from Maryland now has almost $2.9 million earned from live tournament wins.

He battled the chip leader Michael McKenna for his 3rd bracelet win.

Event #60: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship Final Table Results

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Phil Galfond	United States	$567,788
2	Michael McKenna	United States	$350,922
3	Ali Abduljabbar	United States	$240,497
4	Chad Power	United States	$168,275
5	Kwang Lee	United States	$120,263
6	Marco Johnson	United States	$87,830
7	David Baker	United States	$65,579
8	Chase Steely	United States	$50,086
9	Yong Wang	China	$39,149
10	Assani Fisher	United States	$39,149

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