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Event #91: $1,500 Pick Your PLO
Day 3 Completed
2026 World Series of Poker
Event #91: $1,500 Pick Your PLO
Day: 3
Event Info
2026 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 3
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,137,667
Total Entries
857
Level
32
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
250,000
Entries
10
Players Left
1
Players Left 1 / 857
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Level 32
: Blinds 125,000/250,000, 250,000 ante
Sergio Benso had long dreamed of winning a gold bracelet at a World Series of Poker event. He brought that vision into reality with a dominant performance in closing out the inaugural $1,500 Pick Your PLO tournament.
Benso surged to the chip lead early on at the final table and never wavered in outpointing Farhad Jamasi heads-up to claim the $196,431 first-place prize at the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas.
As soon as he realized he had scooped the pot that gave him all the chips left in the event, Benso didn't even try to conceal his excitement. The smile he would be wearing for the next half hour, at least, came before hugs with everyone near. From dealers to tournament directors to media, he had to spread the joy.
Benso outlasted a field of 857, which generated a prize pool of $1,137,667, without a single person on his rail.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sergio Benso | Italy | $196,431 |
| 2 | Farhad Jamasi | United States | $130,904 |
| 3 | Steven Liu | United States | $90,762 |
| 4 | Justin Liberto | United States | $64,007 |
| 5 | Maxx Coleman | United States | $45,925 |
| 6 | Joshua Stewart | United Kingdom | $33,536 |
| 7 | Jon Turner | United States | $24,931 |
| 8 | Zachary Fischer | United States | $18,874 |
A Win For Joy
Benso was all by his lonesome, and he didn't mind. Benso's wife was at home in The Netherlands with their year-and-a-half old daughter Joy.
"This is a great gift for Joy and I can't wait to travel and celebrate with them," the native of Genova, Italy said. "This is something you dream about all your life."
"I was like the solitary wolf. Not because I think I'm not nice or friendly, but I like to focus when I play. Solitary wolf, that's me."
Benso certainly devoured the competition. This was a run of which he knew he was capable.
He has been posting cashes for some 20 years, with a significant number of them in Omaha variants, and coming to the WSOP since 2015, but had never captured a bracelet.
"I usually (mess) up on the last day, but not today," Benso said. "I got lucky and I played well."
Final Table Action
Only 10 players sat down for the final run to a title on Saturday, and half of them were eliminated in the first two hours of play.
The final table came together some 15 minutes into the day when Michael Lenz and Brevin Andreadis were erased in quick succession.
Meanwhile, in the first hand in which he was involved, Benso doubled up the dangerous Justin Liberto and entered the final table sixth in chips with less than 20 big blinds.
Then he went to work.
He got many of those chips back from Liberto with a scoop of a double board PLO hand, the last time his tournament life would be at risk on his march to the title.
Maxx Coleman was the short stack at the final table with only two big blinds after a tough beat, but he clawed his way back to respectability, deftly dodging danger to finish in fifth place.
Benso knocked out Jon Turner in seventh place, then gutted Liberto for more than 3,000,000 chips to vault into the chip lead when Liberto made a questionable call.
Shortly thereafter, Benso eliminated Liberto, whom he considered to be the chief competition.
Last Man Standing
It was somewhat fitting that the two players who entered the day first and second in chips would eventually meet heads-up for the bracelet.
Jamasi and Benso led the knockout parade on Day 2, erasing players left and right as they climbed up the leaderboard. Jamasi took command and held a third of the chips in play entering the final day.
He still had around that number when heads-up play began, but Benso had become the overwhelming chip leader. And Benso was all but flawless down the stretch.
He didn't overplay his chip stack, instead he let Jamasi come to him in almost four hours of one-on-one. Jamasi won just a handful of pots that Benso invested any chips into aside from the blinds.
"I made a lot of mistakes in the first two days, everyone does, but it's about who makes fewer, and the last six hours I didn't make any," Benso said. "That's why I won it. The solitary wolf got it done."
That concludes the PokerNews coverage of Event# 91: $1,500 Pick Your PLO. Stay tuned for more live updates from all the event at the 2026 WSOP.
Level 32
: Blinds 125,000/250,000, 250,000 ante
Sergio Benso has taken down Event #91: $1,500 Pick Your PLO, for his first WSOP Bracelet, as well as a first place prize of $196,431.
Stay tuned as PokerNews brings you a full recap of the day's action, as well as a reaction from the champion.
Level 32
: Blinds 125,000/250,000, 250,000 ante
Big O
Farhad Jamasi raised to 750,000 from the small blind. Sergio Benso called on the button.
When the flop hit 3♠4♥10♦, Jamasi immediately moved all in.
Benso was quick with the call.
Farhad Jamasi: K♥10♣10♠7♦6♥
Sergio Benso: J♥8♠7♥5♣2♦
When the turn and river 6♦J♦ hit, Benso had a seven-high straight and a six-low for the scoop.
Level 32
: Blinds 125,000/250,000, 250,000 ante
Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board
2♣3♥6♠4♦10♣
8♣Q♦A♣K♣K♥
Farhad Jamasi limped in, and Sergio Benso checked.
The flop checked through, and Benso check-called a bet of 400,000 from Jamasi on the turn.
On the river, Benso opted to lead out for pot. The bet totaled 1,400,000, and Jamasi thought for a few moments before sticking in the call.
Benso tabled 9♣8♥7♣5♥ for the nut straight on top and a flush on bottom. In disbelief, Jamasi returned his cards face down.
Level 32
: Blinds 125,000/250,000, 250,000 ante
Level: 32
Blinds: 125,000/250,000
Ante: 250,000
Level 31
: Blinds 100,000/200,000, 200,000 ante
After playing nearly three one-hour levels heads-up, Sergio Benso and Farhad Jamasi have decided to take a 20-minute break.
They should return to action around 8:20 p.m. local time.
Level 31
: Blinds 100,000/200,000, 200,000 ante
Five Card PLO Double Board
K♦8♣9♣A♣9♥
4♣7♥J♣5♦10♦
On the last hand of the level, Farhad Jamasi raised to 500,000 on the button. Sergio Benso made the call.
Jamasi moved all in on the flop, and Benso made the call.
Farhad Jamasi: A♠K♥J♠8♥5♣
Sergio Benso: A♥Q♥Q♠7♠7♦
Jamasi had flopped two pair on the top for the lead there. Benso had a set of sevens on the bottom. In the full runout, Jamasi's hand improved to aces up on top, but he still managed just a split of the pot.
Level 31
: Blinds 100,000/200,000, 200,000 ante
Five Card PLO
Farhad Jamasi potted to 600,000, and Sergio Benso stuck in the call.
The Q♠J♠10♠ flop checked through to the 5♦ turn, at which point both players tapped the table again.
The river 8♦ peeled off, and Benso led out for 600,000. Jamasi snap-called, and Benso showed K♣J♥J♦10♣4♣ for a set of jacks. Jamasi had the best of it with A♣K♥6♣3♦2♠ for Broadway, as he raked in the pot.
