20 Years After His First Omaha Bracelet, Scott Clements Crushed A Stacked WSOP Field To Grab His 4th Title

(AsiaGameHub) –   Jake Marlow, former WSOP mixed game bracelet winner and long-time tournament strategy analyst, shared his take on the result right after the final hand wrapped. I’ve covered Omaha Hi-Lo tournaments for 18 years, and Scott’s win here is the perfect reminder that mastery of a format beats short-term heat every time. Most fans fixate on No-Limit Hold’em headlines, but this Event #9 field packed more cumulative bracelet hardware than half the 2025 Main Event final tables. The fact that a player who cut his teeth on this exact format 20 years ago can still run through a table of Hall of Famers says everything about how deep skill runs in mixed game poker.

The 2026 WSOP Event #9 $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship drew 204 total entries, building a $1,897,200 prize pool. Scott Clements walked away with the top prize of $450,176 and his fourth career WSOP bracelet, almost 20 years after he won his first bracelet in a $3,000 Omaha eight-or-better event. The 44-year-old’s resume also includes a 2007 $1,500 pot-limit Omaha title and a 2019 $1,500 dealers choice win, with this latest score pushing his total live tournament earnings close to $8.7 million.

The field was small but brutal, with the final day lineup carrying a combined 40 bracelets between players other than Clements, 17 of those belonging to Phil Hellmuth alone. Dylan Weisman came out swinging when the official final table kicked off, eliminating John Esposito in eighth place before knocking Hellmuth out in seventh with a nut flush paired with a low draw. James Obst ended Ryan Bambrick’s title defense run in sixth, and Todd Brunson sent Nam Le home in fifth, before Clements took control of the table. He called James Obst’s river bluff with a flush to end Obst’s run in fourth, then hit a nut flush against Brunson’s straight to lock in heads-up play, carrying an almost 8:1 chip lead over Weisman going into the final stretch. The final hand played out on a paired board, where Weisman held trips and a low, but Clements had a seven-high straight with a better low to scoop the entire pot and claim the bracelet.

Final Table Results

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

Mixed game poker has long lived in the shadow of No-Limit Hold’em for mainstream attention, but entry figures for high-stakes WSOP mixed game events have risen 18% across the past three years. Most of that growth comes from younger players who learned the formats on online cash game platforms before shifting to live tournament play, raising the baseline competition level even for small field events like this one. We’ll keep seeing more clashes between legacy format specialists and young, aggressive online-trained talent over the next few WSOP cycles. Prize pools for the $10k Omaha Hi-Lo championship are on track to cross the $2 million mark by 2027, as more casual fans discover the format through creator content focused on non-hold’em poker variants.