Josh Arieh Wins Fourth WSOP Bracelet After Taking Down Event #66: $10k Pot-Limit Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship

Josh Arieh has taken down WSOP Event #66: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship to win his fourth bracelet. The American collected his second bracelet in three weeks, once again proving his class in the four-card variant.

Class Act

Josh Arieh has been around the live poker scene for many years. After winning his first WSOP bracelet in 1999 in Limit Hold’em, he really rose to prominence when he finished third in the WSOP Main Event in 2004 behind Greg Raymer, the year after Chris Moneymaker’s famous victory.

The following year he added another bracelet, this time in his favourite game of Pot-Limit Omaha, but until this year no more had been forthcoming and suddenly he doubles his tally.

It took three long days of grinding to claim his victory. A 208 strong field made a prize pool of $1,939,600 of which the winner’s share was a tidy $484,791. Arieh is now perched on the $9 million mark for his live poker career, bumping him up to 118th on the all-time list.

Speaking to PokerNews after his victory, Arieh said: "I noticed a lot of mistakes that I made, but I also noticed a lot of gameplay mistakes that they made. There was a point where they were letting me see flops when I shouldn't see flops, they were gambling when they shouldn't have been gambling. Just my experience in pot-limit really helped me figure out what I should be doing."

The PLO specialist sounded more than a little perplexed at this amazing run he is currently on, sounding as if he feels his career has been completely invigorated.

“I really want my kids to say that their dad is a Hall of Fame poker player and I knew that I had to do a lot more than I have already done. Hopefully, this run 25 years into my poker career will give me a chance."

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