$268,555 pay-day for Sebastian Langrock in NLHE-PLO 8-handed Mixed competition
This year’s World Series of Poker schedule of competitions has almost completed, with the main event due to kick off on July 8; among the last few contests was Event 64, the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Mix, in which Austrian poker pro Sebastian Langrock scored a bracelet and the $268,555 main prize after a short 22-hand heads up tussle with US pro Ryan Laplante.
This competition attracted a total of 1,056 entries, with 159 of them ultimately cashing.
Langrock is no stranger to WSOP, where he has competed for the past five years running without clinching a winner’s bracelet; this time he made sure, empowered by his focus on PLO in recent years.
He powered through the final table and by the dinner break on the final day held almost half the chips in play, with four more opponents to beat.
Langrock continued to build a formidable stack following the break, and when French pro Victor Choupeaux busted at third despite a valiant comeback, the heads up between Langrock and Laplante was set, with the Austrian holding the lead.
It was a short, 22-hand finale in which Laplante was unable to get sufficient traction to seriously challenge Langrock, and was dispatched with a runner up proze worth $165,983.
Other final table pay-outs included:
Victor Choupeaux $118,190
Esther Taylor $85,225
Shannon Shorr $62,242
Zahir Gilani $46,048
Jerry Callahan $34,515
Fernando Brito $26,216
Jagdeep Singh $20,181
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