Ryan LaPlante Wins Largest Live PLO Tournament
This was published 12-06-2016Ryan LaPlante, who by his own admission does not play much PLO, managed to win the largest pot-limit Omaha tournament in live poker history when he bested the 2,483-player field for an amount of $190,328, which was his best live cash and his first bracelet.
The Minnesota-based pro commented on his fantastic win by saying that if this is the first record that he will have, then he is excited to try to get as many more as possible.
While Colossus champ, Cord Garcia, admitted that he was hoping to hold the record of largest live field beaten for a while longer, LaPlante revealed that he is hoping that this event will get even bigger next year.
The final table results were as follows –
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
| 1 | Ryan LaPlante | Brainerd, MN | $190,328 |
| 2 | Sean Shah | Delray Beach, FL | $117,531 |
| 3 | Tesfaldet Tekle | Tukwila, WA | $85,870 |
| 4 | Richard St. Peter | Susonville, CA | $63,304 |
| 5 | Charles Coultas | Seattle, WA | $47,092 |
| 6 | Adil Khan | Coral Springs, FL | $35,353 |
| 7 | Matt Livingston | North Las Vegas, NV | $26,786 |
| 8 | Darryll Fish | Las Vegas, NV | $20,484 |
| 9 | Grant Ellis | Whitby, Canada | $15,813 |
According to LaPlante, PLO is not one of his best or most played games and he only ever plays it during the World Series of Online Poker and Poker Stars’ two huge online series although he has lots of experience playing the split-pot version of the game and regards himself as one of the best tournament players out there.
LaPlante revealed that he personally believes that he is one of the better PLO-8 tournament players in the world. He got extremely emotional after his massive win and needed a moment to gather himself when a member of the media asked what the win meant to him. He replied that he decided at a very young age that he was going to do what he loved for a living and that he would not care about the money. He went on to say that to get something like this when he has been working so hard for it for so long, is absolutely incredible.
