Congratulations to @Dan__Zack on winning his 4th gold bracelet today in Event #96: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha!
Dan wins the bracelet and $471,170 top prize after outlasting the 1,088 player field.
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— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) July 17, 2025
2022 World Series of Poker Player of the Year Daniel Zack captured his first bracelet since his two-win performance that year, taking down the 2025 WSOP $3,000 pot-limit Omaha six-max event on the last day of this year’s festival to bring his total count to four.
The Princeton, New Jersey native first broke through at the series in 2021 with a win in a $2,500 mixed triple draw tournament. His pair of triumphs a few years ago both came in $10,000 events. The first was the Omaha eight-or-better championship, the latter the stud eight-or-better championship.
This latest triumph saw the 32-year-old poker pro overcome a field of 1,088 entries to lock up the hardware and the top prize of $471,170. This was his second-largest payday yet on the circuit, trailing only the $488,095 he took home for an eighth-place showing in the $250,000 high roller at the series during his POY run. His career tournament earnings now sit at more than $5.1 million.
In addition to the money and the bracelet, Zack also earned 1,440 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win. This was his first POY-qualified score of the year.
Fourth Day Needed In This Four-Card Showdown
The strong turnout for this event built a prize pool of $2,904,960, with the top 164 finishers all taking home a piece. Among the big names to run deep were three-time bracelet winner Alex Foxen (28th), three-time World Poker Tour champion Chino Rheem (21st), two-time bracelet winners Elior Sion (19th) and JC tran (18th), bracelet winner and 204 WSOP main event eighth-place finisher Joe Serock (16th), and three-time bracelet winner Ryan Leng (9th).
Jeremy Ausmus. Photo by Drew Amato for Card Player.
Six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus was the first to be eliminated at the official final table of six. He ran double-suited pocket kings into the pocket aces with suited side cards of Zachary Schwartz. The larger pocket pair played through a queen-high runout and Ausmus was sent to the rail with $78,504. This was his eighth final-table finish of 2025. The 480 points that came with this run moved him into 12th place in the 2025 POY standings presented by Coin Poker.
Bulgarian high-stakes player Fahredin Mustafov soon followed Ausmus to the payout desk. He ran sevens full of nines into the queens full of sevens of bracelet winner Richard Gryko to finish fifth for $108,231.
Play was eventually halted with four remaining, necessitating an unscheduled fourth day for this event that was slated to wrap up in three.
Gryko was out in front when day 3 came to a close, with Zack in second chip position.
From Four To One
Zack overtook the lead in the early going of day 4. Gryko ended up finishing fourth despite starting the day on top. In his final hand, he ran K♥K♣9♥5♥ into the A♠A♥Q♠J♥ of Joshua Ladlines. The board came down 8♠8♦2♠8♥7♣ and Ladlines’ superior full house earned him the knockout. Gryko was awarded $151,802 as the fourth-place finisher, growing his lifetime tournament haul to more than $5 million in the process.
Ladines climbed to the top of the chip counts for a bit during three-handed play, but soon fell back thanks to doubling up Zachary Schwartz and losing a big clash with Zack. He then lost two more all-in confrontations with Schwartz to fall to the bottom of the leaderboard.
Ladines flopped eighths full of aces in his final hand, but when his stack went in on the end, his hand was second best to the rivered kings full of Zack. Ladines earned $216,539 as the third-place finisher.
Zack held more than a 5:1 chip advantage heading into heads-up play with Schwartz. He was soon able to convert that lead into the title. In the final hand, Schwartz limped in for 500,000 total with A♣J♣5♥5♣ and Zack raised to 1,500,000 with K♣Q♣J♦6♦. Schwartz called and the flop came down Q♦8♥8♣. Zack bet 700,000 and Schwartz called. The 7♣ turn gave both players flush draws. Zack checked and Schwartz moved all-in for 3,600,000. Zack made the call and the K♠ completed the board, giving him kings and queens for the win. Schwartz, who finished third in an eight-max PLO event in 2024, took home a career-best score of $314,056 as the runner-up.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points |
| 1 | Daniel Zack | $471,170 | 1440 |
| 2 | Zachary Schwartz | $314,056 | 1200 |
| 3 | Joshua Ladines | $216,539 | 960 |
| 4 | Richard Gryko | $151,802 | 720 |
| 5 | Fahredin Mustafov | $108,231 | 600 |
| 6 | Jeremy Ausmus | $78,504 | 480 |
Featured image credit: WSOP / Jazmyn Le.
