Carlos Leiva Takes Down PLO Bracelet After Last-Minute Decision to Play

Carlos Leiva wasn’t planning on taking part in Occasion #42: $1,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha on the 2025 World Collection of Poker. However on a whim, and with some encouragement from his fellow Argentines, he jumped in. Three days later, he discovered himself posing for pictures together with his first gold bracelet and $237,852 in prize cash.

The match drew an enormous 1,932 entries, making a $1,700,160 prize pool and delivering the sort of wild, four-card motion PLO followers have come to count on. Leiva entered the ultimate day as chip chief and by no means seemed again. Runner up, Hooman Nikzad did his finest to shut that hole at a number of phases of the ultimate desk, however ultimately, he couldn’t acquire the momentum to overhaul Leiva.

$1,000 PLO Last Desk Outcomes

Winner’s Response

Upon successful his first bracelet, Leiva had this to say about how he felt (translated from Spanish):

“I really feel good, after all, I really feel good. I’m stunned nonetheless. I’m so pleased to be right here with my associates who supported me on the rail.”

When requested about what it felt like to return into the day with the chip lead, Leiva mentioned nerves had been extra of a difficulty than they might have been if he had been on a brief stack; he felt he had extra to lose with such a lead. He did not let himself down, successful each chip in play little by little and pot by pot.

This win marks Leiva’s second largest profession rating, however he says it received’t change any of the plans for the summer time. He did say that it takes the stress off and permits him to fireplace the remainder of the summer time with full confidence.

Usually, No-Restrict Maintain’em is Leiva’s recreation of selection, however he performed this occasion on a whim. He credit the assist of his associates and fellow Argentines in serving to him succeed alongside the best way. A number of of these on his rail skipped occasions they deliberate on taking part in to be there for his or her compatriot’s deep run. Leiva made point out that those that make the pilgrimage to the WSOP are a tight-knit neighborhood fast to root for one another.

Day 3 Motion

Solely seven hopefuls battled by way of to Day 3 and once they returned, Carlos Leiva was the one competitor with over 100 large blinds. Though Brian McKain citing the rear 25 large binds deep meant it was nonetheless anybody’s recreation.

Florian Ribouchon tried to run a bluff that Leiva picked up, distancing himself even farther from the sphere with greater than half the chips in play. Ribouchon moved considerably down within the counts after that hand and, finally, Dylan Weisman’s aces held over his kings double-suited to dispatch him in seventh.

With all of the quick stacks shut within the counts, it was Joshua Palmer who was subsequent to fall by the hands of the chip chief. This allowed Leiva to return from the primary break of the day with almost 4 instances what the second place stack had.

Kyle Rosnes was assured a profession excessive rating coming into the day and confirmed aid at discovering two large ladders however finally he misplaced the final of his chips, pressured all in, after shedding a giant pot.

A earlier champion of this occasion, within the type of Weisman, performed a surgical recreation using limps from numerous positions to bob and weave by way of the ICM implications of the ultimate desk. In the long run, Weisman had his aces cracked by the danglers of Nikzad’s kings.

A brief-stacked McKain fought valiantly, doubling a number of instances in three-handed play to remain in competition. McKain had come into the day in ache, affected by some kind of ailment however regardless of making an attempt his finest, his set of threes was unable to enhance to a ship in opposition to the flopped straight of Leiva.

With an almost 2:1 chip benefit going to Leiva, heads-up was a brief affair that noticed him win a sequence of small pots earlier than getting it in in opposition to Nikzad’s straight draw and flush draw. Nikzad caught a straight however with the next connecting card, Leiva made a superior straight to win the match and ship his rail into an uproar.