When you want to find the best Pot Limit Omaha online, your search needs to begin with David Benyamine. When it comes to PLO online, Benyamine is hands down the best in the world right now. So far in 935 sessions he has made an astounding $6,816,536.60. This is over 1121 hours. His is currently pulling home $6080 per hour. How utterly insane is that. On top of that, he won the bracelet this year at the World Series of Poker for the $10,000 Omaha 8 or Better World Championship. Regarding cash games, it is clear that PLO is the form of Omaha best suited for Benyamine. If one looks at his earnings in Limit Omaha 8 or Better, you will see that he is a $5.7 Million loser.
Second in the world right now isn’t even close in terms of amount won at the table. Phil Galfond “OMGClayAiken” is in a distant second with $2,453,719.35. He has actually put in 1250 sessions and 1465 hours at the tables. This equates to a paltry $1962 an hour. Galfond took his first bracelet this year at the World Series of Poker when he won the $5,000 PLO with Rebuys event. He took home $817,781 for this win. In winning his bracelet, he outlasted David Benyamine, Johnny Chan, John Juanda, Daniel Negranu, and Phil Hellmuth at the final table. That was quite an accomplishment for this young player.
When you think of online poker Tom Dwan “durrrr” comes to mind, and he comes in third on this list. Dwan actually has put in more sessions and hours than anyone in the top five. He put in 1604 sessions and 1926 hours to “grind out” a $2,277,014.30 win so far.
Number 4 on our list is rumored to be a young Dutch player. “ICallSoWhat” started out 2008 on quite a tear, moving up to almost $4 Million in winnings at one point. He has fallen back a bit. So far in 1261 sessions he is up $2,184,318.15 in about 1580 hours. He is said to talk on all challengers and doesn’t back down from a confrontation. This may explain some of his swings at the table. Either event, $2 Million just starting out at high stakes is not bad at all.
Our last player in the top 5 is one that has been around for a while. Richard “Chufty” Ashby has been a member of both the online and live poker scene for several years now. Out of our top five, only durrrr has played more sessions in PLO this year. In 1415 session covering 1776 hours, Ashby has won $1.873.315.20. His live tournament earning has been a little off this year with only 2 cashes, both at this years WSOP. It appears that perhaps he is focusing on cash games online.
Of course there are still over 2 months left in this year and swings at this level can be dramatic. It should be interesting to see if Benyamine can continue his dominance in this game or if someone else will step up and challenge him.
