2020 WSOP Circuit – February
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
$400 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Entries: 166
Prize Pool: $54,780
February 6-7, 2020

The $400 Pot Limit Omaha tournament was not the first on the WSOP Circuit schedule but it did award the first rings of the series. Event 2 was a two-day tournament and it drew a big 165-entry crowd to the new Event Center. Tampa cash game regular Michael Raimon made his return to a tournament field and walked away with the win along with $13,894.

For the first, big non-Hold’em game played in the tournament area, the turnout was fantastic. The big field created a prize pool worth $54,780 and once again proved the area loves its PLO. The last 25 players made the money and the final table nine advanced to Day 2.

Raimon had the chip lead coming back but Austin Clanton quickly built a huge stack after five players busted before the first break. He held 75% of the chips in play three-handed but that’s where the good news ended for him.

Raimon found a huge double against Clanton when he turned a full house versus a flopped straight then Likang Berninger finished him off. Raimon stayed hot and ended the tournament shortly after the heads-up match began by defeating Berninger for his second career WSOP ring.

“We just played slow all three of us. This guy (Clanton0 had 2,000,000 and we each had like 150,000 for about an hour and a half but we all picked our spots.” Raimon said of his run. “He kept doubling everybody up one after another, then I finally got one big hand with him where he flopped a straight and I turned a full house.”

Event 2 results:

1st: Michael Raimon – $13,894 + WSOP Circuit ring
2nd: Likang Berninger – $8,586
3rd: Austin Clanton – $5,985
4th: Ramses Rosa – $4,274
5th: Joseph Orsino – $3,127
6th: Bruce Gans – $2,346
7th: Peter Walsworth – $1,807
8th: Blake Whittington – $1,428
9th: Jessica Francis – $1,161
10th: Alan Fidelo – $970
11th: Robert Winsler – $970
12th: William Herzing – $970
13th: Melisa Singh – $834
14th: Griffin Komar – $834
15th: Michael Lim – $834
16th: Phillip Grimes – $738
17th: Matthew Rose – $738
18th: Austin Marks – $738
19th: Joshua Gilkerson – $674
20th: Duff Charette – $674
21st: Max Shuster – $674
22nd: Benjamin Miner – $635
23rd: Jeffrey Higgins – $635
24th: Dennis Moroni – $635
25th: David Prociak – $619