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Scott Clements returned to one of his best games and won WSOP Event #9: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship for $450,176 and his fourth bracelet.
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Clements won his first WSOP bracelet almost 20 years ago in a $3,000 Omaha eight-or-better event. Now he has another one in the same format, this time in the $10,000 championship.
The 44-year-old has now won four WSOP bracelets. His Omaha record also includes a 2007 $1,500 pot-limit Omaha title and a 2019 $1,500 dealers choice win. The latest score pushed his live tournament earnings close to $8.7m.
The field was small but brutal. Only 204 players entered, yet the final day included 40 bracelets among the other remaining players. Hellmuth having 17 of them alone. That gave Clements one of the toughest early championship final tables of the 2026 WSOP. WSOP schedule listings identify the tournament as Event #9: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship.
Dylan Weisman started the official final table in front and quickly removed John Esposito in eighth. He then knocked out Hellmuth in seventh after making the nut flush with a low draw, before James Obst ended Ryan Bambrick title defense in sixth. Todd Brunson sent Nam Le out in fifth, but Clements then took over. He picked off Obst river bluff with a flush to end his run in fourth, made the nut flush against Brunson straight to reach heads-up, and started heads-up with almost an 8:1 lead over Weisman. The final hand came on a paired board, where Weisman had trips and a low, but Clements held a seven-high straight with the better low to scoop and win the bracelet.
Omaha hi-lo often rewards patience more than pure aggression because many pots split between high and low hands. That made the final table even harder, especially with so many bracelet winners still alive.
| Place | Player | Payout |
| 1 | Scott Clements | $450,176 |
| 2 | Dylan Weisman | $299,228 |
| 3 | Todd Brunson | $203,242 |
| 4 | James Obst | $141,126 |
| 5 | Nam Le | $100,231 |
| 6 | Ryan Bambrick | $72,849 |
| 7 | Phil Hellmuth | $54,214 |
| 8 | John Esposito | $41,334 |