WSOP 2026: Sebastian Pauli among the Day 2 players in the small Omaha

There was a double-up on Day 1B of the $1,000 Pot Limit Omaha Event #57 of the World Series of Poker 2026 at Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas. Neo-bracelet winner Sebastian Pauli made it to Day 2 along with Dennis Weiss and several others.In addition to the 683 entries from Day 1A, there were 1,235 entries yesterday in the second of the three flights. Once again, 17 levels were played, during which the 186 money spots were reached. Enrico Rudelitz (182/$1,001), Paul Pradelt (156/$1,001), Nico Frenn (151/$1,001), Markus Anheier (111/$1,101), and Grzegorz Derkowski (84/$1,234) were among those who made it into the money but missed Day 2.Only 77 players finished the day successfully, with Craig Jones leading the field with 1,004,000 chips. Lars Nickolai ended with 251,000, while Sebastian Pauli sits close behind with 201,000 in 37th place, tied with Karim Ghozlani. Dennis Weiss (55/141,000), Manuel Fischer (64/100,000), and Andreas Krause (71/52,000) also made the cut. Today, the third flight will take place before the remaining players continue tomorrow at blinds of 5k/10k/10k.

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WSOP Event #57: Pot-Limit Omaha

Buy-In: $1,000 Entries: tba (683/1,235/-) Prize Pool: tba Paid Spots: tbaRemaining Players: 77 Blinds: 5,000/10,000Reports: Day 1A

Chip Counts from Day 1B

Rank	Name	Nation	Chip Count
1	Craig Jones	USA	1,004,000
2	Bradley Butcher	USA	869,000
3	Steven Sarmiento	USA	825,000
4	Christopher Jacobson	USA	810,000
5	Paulo Villena Gini	Brazil	650,000
6	Robert Emmerson	USA	644,000
7	Davin Anderson	USA	634,000
8	Farhad Jamasi	USA	573,000
9	Wang Liu	USA	559,000
10	Stephen Hubbard	USA	550,000
11	Bryan Frantz	USA	533,000
12	Edward Bergman	Canada	501,000
13	David Prociak	USA	497,000
14	Tyler Brown	USA	472,000
15	Andrew Ostapchenko	USA	456,000
16	Michael Welsh	USA	437,000
17	Gary Benson	Australia	432,000
18	Jeffrey Gale	USA	422,000
19	Jeff Madsen	USA	421,000
20	Nicolas Julien	France	418,000
21	Shiva Dudani	USA	393,000
22	David Shaw	USA	347,000
23	Darren Kennedy	Canada	306,000
24	Joe Serock	USA	304,000
25	Bobby James	United Kingdom	295,000
26	David Simon	USA	286,000
27	Patrick Mahoney	USA	283,000
28	David Mzareulov	USA	281,000
29	Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu	Romania	277,000
30	Toby Joyce	Ireland	266,000
31	Henrique Zilio	Brazil	265,000
32	Georgios Tsoupras	Greece	263,000
33	Qibang Cheung	United Kingdom	260,000
34	Michael Estes	USA	253,000
35	Lars Nickolai	Germany	251,000
36	Nicholas Malone	Clearing Field	234,000
37	Sebastian Pauli	Germany	201,000
38	Karim Ghozlani	Switzerland	201,000
39	Shuofei Geng	USA	200,000
40	Brendan Shiller	USA	199,000
41	Jay Harwood	United Kingdom	197,000
42	Rabah Aitabdelmalek	France	194,000
43	Matthew Levine	USA	194,000
44	Jaspal Brar	Canada	193,000
45	Steve Sebbag	USA	191,000
46	Brian Alioa	USA	185,000
47	Armando Collado	Nicaragua	180,000
48	Davis Aalvik	USA	171,000
49	Erik Perez	USA	164,000
50	Johnny Tabourin	Clearing Field	161,000
51	Tom McCormick	USA	158,000
52	Katsuhiro Mori	Japan	146,000
53	Yanshing Tsang	Hong Kong	142,500
54	Christopher Hannel	USA	141,000
55	Dennis Weiss	Germany	141,000
56	Matthew Park	USA	140,000
57	Alan Mehamed	France	135,000
58	Matthew Beck	New Zealand	129,000
59	Sergio Torres	Colombia	128,000
60	Werner Smit	South Africa	114,000
61	Timothy Batow	USA	114,000
62	Dmytro Bystrovzorov	Ukraine	111,000
63	Mieszko Mazurkiewicz	USA	103,000
64	Manuel Fischer	Germany	100,000
65	Tal Petrushka	Clearing Field	98,999
66	Hye Park	USA	98,000
67	Lorenzo Negri	Italy	88,000
68	Allen Kessler	USA	83,000
69	David White	United Kingdom	78,500
70	Douglas Costa	Clearing Field	56,000
71	Andreas Krause	Germany	52,000
72	Idan Raviv	Israel	45,000
73	Jiacheng Zhu	USA	31,500
74	Amin Chehade	Australia	30,000
75	Zachary Reinbold	USA	26,000
76	Antoine Saout	France	20,000
77	Kyle Ho	Canada	20,000