Playing Day 1 of the Main? Here's some timely advice from some top pros on how to make Day 2.

Ask the pros: How to survive Day 1 of the WSOP Main Event We wanted to know how to survive day one of the WSOP Main Event, so we asked the pros.

Craig Tapscott / July 5, 2026

New rules? Forget Dua Lipa; Justin Hammer and the Tournament Directors Association have been busy working through the nuts and bolts of poker tournaments at the TDA Summit.

And a few things are changing, like:

• Chips must be stacked in piles of 20.
• All-in? Put in all your chips or none, nothing in between.
• Passive action out-of-turn can't become aggressive if action changes.
• Smart glasses likely to be banned.

Justin breaks it all down for you, below.

Everything the TDA Summit changed (and the one new rule I hate) Tournament Director Justin Hammer reviews the changes and edits to the tournament rules at the recent TDA Summit in Las Vegas during the WSOP.

Justin Hammer / July 5, 2026

Telling a poker player to 'work on your mindset' is like telling an athlete, 'get fitter'. Vague, generic and impractical.

Instead, as psychologist Paul Gibbons writes in the latest edition of 'The Modern Psychology of Poker', you should be identifying which areas of your mental game need work, and focusing up.

Full article below.

The Modern Psychology of Poker: ‘Mindset’ is for fish 'Work on your mindset' is advice that's too broad to be useful, says psychologist Paul Gibbons. Instead, break your mental game into components and fix what's actually broken.

Paul Gibbons / July 5, 2026

One more Day 1 to go in the Main: Sunday is Day 1D of the WSOP $10K Main Event and your last chance to get in on the ground floor.

Registration stays open until the end of level 7 in Day 2, though. With Day 2s running on both Monday and Tuesday, that means the latest possible moment to enter should be around 3:40pm PT on Tuesday afternoon.

If you do, you'll start with a stack of 60,000 and blinds of 600/1200 with a 1200 big blind ante.

Still, plenty of time to shake off any July 4 hangovers.

Here's what's taking place at the WSOP on Sunday, July 5.

• 10am: $600 Ultra Stack NLH Day 1A
• 11am: $1,000 NLH final day
• 11am: $10,000 Main Event Day 1D

Justin Fawcett closes out the $1,500 PLO Double Board Bomb Pot: In a late finish on Saturday night, Fawcett defeated Abdul Amer heads-up to win the $322,564 first prize.

1. Justin Fawcett: $322,564
2. Abdul Amer: $214,946
3. Hok Lee: $153,802
4. Julio Trimmer: $111,414
5. Antoine Labat: $81,720
6. Daniel Walmsley: $60,701
7. Paul Fehlig: $45,669
8. Jesse Lonis: $34,806

Justin Fawcett.

Omar Sader

How do you have a great Main Event when you've been running bad all summer?

There's no magic bullet, but psychologist Alan Longo has some ideas that can help.

Variance doesn't care that it's the Main Event Having a bad series? You might be focusing on the wrong things, says psychologist Alan Longo.

Alan Longo / July 5, 2026

Toby Price wins $800 Summer Celebration ($500,000): Deniz Oeney couldn't find a way back to parity heads-up and Price has won his first WSOP bracelet.  

53 players survive Day 1 of $1K NLH: Former Main Event champ Greg Merson will come back tomorrow to play for the bracelet and $219,391 first prize.