Two-Time Bracelet Winner Sascha Wilhelm Takes Borgata Fall PLO Championship for $20,360

A Short Trip With One Goal

Some players fly into Atlantic City to grind a full festival. Sascha Wilhelm came for one thing: a trophy to take home to Germany.

He got it. Wilhelm beat a 60-entry field to win the $1,100 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship at the Borgata Fall Poker Open, defeating Canada’s Sebastian Crema heads-up on a brief Day 2. The win was worth $20,360, and he’s not sure he’ll play anything else this week.

“The trophy,” he said simply, when asked what he’d come for. He added that he likes the resort and has visited a few times before.

The result is small next to Wilhelm’s biggest scores, but it fits a clear pattern. He’s quietly become one of Europe’s most dangerous four-card specialists, and he puts it down to plain volume. He says he started playing PLO around 15 years ago and has simply played a lot of it.

Final Table Results

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Sascha Wilhelm	Germany	$20,360
2	Sebastian Crema	Canada	$12,506
3	Nohad Teliani	Canada	$8,156
4	Stuart Glassmith	United States	$5,655
5	Robert Klein	United States	$4,187
6	Harry Rubin	United States	$3,508
7	Ethan Cahn	United States	$3,019
8	Matthew Brady	United States	$2,609

How Day 2 Played Out

Only four players returned for the final day. Crema had the chip lead, Wilhelm was second, and Nohad Teliani, Crema’s partner, was the short stack.

Teliani’s early lifeline

Teliani didn’t wait long to find a double-up, and it came at Wilhelm’s expense. It kept her in the tournament and briefly made the final four look wide open.

Glassmith out in 4th

Stuart Glassmith was next to fall, running into Crema’s top set. Glassmith thought he’d got lucky when the river completed his flush, but Crema had already turned his set into a full house. Glassmith took $5,655.

PLO lesson for beginners: in Hold’em, making a flush on the river usually means you’re winning. In Omaha, where every player has four cards, the board pairs and full houses are far more common. If the board is paired, a flush is often a bluff-catcher at best.

Teliani’s two pair runs into a set (3rd place)

Teliani got her final 530,000 chips in with aces and threes, two pair. Wilhelm had a set of fours. She was out in 3rd for $8,156.

PLO lesson: two pair is one of the most overrated hands in Pot-Limit Omaha. Sets and straights come along so often with four hole cards that two pair, even top two, is frequently behind once the money goes in.

The Heads-Up Battle

Wilhelm started heads-up with a 2-to-1 lead: 1,600,000 chips to Crema’s 800,000.

Crema hit back fast. He made four of a kind for the second time that day and pulled level. For a few minutes, it looked as if the Canadian might finally turn a week of near-misses into a title.

Then the momentum swung for good:

• The big pot: Wilhelm flopped trip queens against Crema’s pocket aces, cracking them and opening up a big lead again.
• The final hand: Crema moved all in on the flop for his last 300,000 with a pair of tens. Wilhelm called with a pair of sevens, needing help. The river brought a third seven, and the title was his.

From the start of heads-up to the winning river took less than 90 minutes.

Wilhelm said afterwards that he hadn’t known Crema before the final table but came away impressed. He called Crema a great player and said the match was tough, even though it was short.

Who Is Sascha Wilhelm?

If you don’t follow Pot-Limit Omaha closely, the name might be new. Among PLO regulars, it isn’t. Wilhelm has won two WSOP bracelets in the last two years, both in PLO:

Year	Event	Field	Prize
2024	WSOP $1,000 Mystery Bounty PLO (Las Vegas)	4,280 entries	$282,290
2025	WSOP Europe €1,000 PLO 8-Max (Rozvadov)	811 entries	€148,600 (about $173,900)
2026	Borgata Fall Poker Open $1,100 PLO Championship	60 entries	$20,360

His 2024 Las Vegas win came in one of the biggest PLO fields in WSOP history and remains his largest career score. A year later he beat Denmark’s Daniel Bang-Ortmann heads-up in Rozvadov for his second bracelet.

Before this week, Wilhelm had about $573,000 in recorded live tournament earnings. This title takes him closer to $600,000.

Sebastian Crema: A Tough Week of Second Places

You have to feel for Sebastian Crema. The Canadian lawyer, who has more than $1.3 million in live tournament earnings, was runner-up twice in three days at the same festival:

Event	Result	Prize
$600 Fall Deepstack Kick Off (1,862 entries)	2nd, after a three-way deal	$125,171
$1,100 PLO Championship (60 entries)	2nd	$12,506

That’s around $137,700 in a single week, which is a festival most players would happily take. Crema had the chip lead coming into both final days, though, so the missing trophies will sting.

He also shared the final table with his partner, Nohad Teliani, who finished 3rd. Between them, the couple took more than $20,600 from this event alone.

The Numbers Behind the Event

Stat	Figure
Buy-in	$1,100
Entries	60
Prize pool	60,000(1,000 per entry)
Places paid	8 (13.3% of the field)
Minimum cash	$2,609 (about 2.4x the buy-in)
Winner’s share of prize pool	34%
Heads-up duration	Under 90 minutes

A 60-entry field is small next to the Fall Poker Open’s headline events. The $600 Kick Off drew 1,862 entries. But that’s normal for PLO in Atlantic City, where No-Limit Hold’em still dominates. And small fields bring an upside: the winner’s share is big compared with the buy-in. Wilhelm turned $1,100 into $20,360, about 18.5 times his buy-in.

Practical insight: if you’re a strong PLO player, smaller live PLO championships like this can be excellent value. The fields are tight, but they’re often softer than you’d expect, because many entrants are Hold’em players trying a new game. Specialists like Wilhelm thrive in exactly these spots.

What’s Next at the Borgata Fall Poker Open?

The festival runs until November 17, 2026, with more than $4 million in guarantees in total. All eyes now turn to the $2,700 Borgata Fall Poker Open Championship, which carries a $1,000,000 guarantee. Day 1A is on Friday, November 13 and Day 1B on Saturday, November 14, with the final table on November 17.

The 350Mini-Main(500,000 guaranteed) also continues to run flights through the festival for players on a smaller budget.

For a full preview, see our Borgata Fall Poker Open 2026 Championship guide and our report on Jason Nguyen’s win in the $600 Kick Off.

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