Frederic Normand Wins First WSOP Bracelet In Event #21

Frederic Normand now has both a WPT title and a WSOP bracelet. The French-Canadian pro won Event #21: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better at the 2026 WSOP for $235,337.

Good to Know

• Frederic Normand won Event #21: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better for his first WSOP bracelet.
• The event drew 1,093 entries and created a $1,450,957 prize pool.
• Normand also won the 2023 WPT bestbet Scramble, giving him major titles on both tours.

Normand did not need a deep history in this exact format to beat the field. He had plenty of PLO results and one prior WSOP cash in Big O, but pot-limit Omaha hi-lo was still a newer tournament lane for him.

That made the win sharper. Event #21 had a large field, a specialist format and a final table filled with bracelet winners. Normand started the final day as chip leader with 13 players left, then closed it out against a table that included Josh Arieh, Dennis Weiss and Michael Rodrigues.

The result pushed Normand near $3.5M in career tournament cashes. It also placed him in a smaller group of players with both a World Poker Tour title and a World Series of Poker bracelet. His WPT win came in the 2023 bestbet Scramble.

Arieh entered the final table chasing an eighth WSOP bracelet, but Normand stopped that run in third place. Michael Rodrigues then reached heads-up play in this same event for the second time in his career, only to finish second again.

The final table did not last long once play got short. Normand eliminated Jordan Polk, Rocky Paradise, Ryan Hansen and Arieh, while Rodrigues knocked out Dennis Weiss and Luteng Li had already made the top three. Heads-up lasted one hand. Both players connected hard with a queen-jack-nine flop, but Normand had a straight against a set of nines, and the board did not save Rodrigues.

Normand earned $235,337 for first place. Rodrigues collected $156,863 as runner-up, while Arieh took $110,085 for third and moved past $15.2M in career live earnings.

Pot-limit Omaha hi-lo, also called PLO8, splits many pots between the best high hand and the best qualifying low hand. That makes stack pressure and hand selection different from regular PLO, especially late in tournaments.

Final Table Results 2026 WSOP Event #21: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better

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