The 2014 World Series of Poker Player of the Year runner-up has made his mark on the 2016 festival by winning the Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship, and most importantly, he did it the right way.

The year is 2014, and Brandon Shack-Harris is closer to the top of the world as he has ever been. With nine cashes, five final tables, and his first-ever gold bracelet, earned after beating 1,128 entrants in a $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) event, he finishes second to George Danzer in one of the most riveting finishes to a Player of the Year (POY) race in recent times.

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And yet, quite remarkably, there were some doubts from the terraces. Shack-Harris’s four close shaves, including two runner-up finishes to John Hennigan in the Poker Player’s Championship, and that man Danzer in the Seven Card Razz Championship, prompted some to question whether he had what it took to ‘get the job done’.