Is Maurice Hawkins about to win his first bracelet in the $3K Mid-Stakes Championship? He was down to one big blind earlier today but survived, and has now built his stack up to 20 big blinds to sit bang in the middle of the five remaining players. Punnat Punsri was eliminated in 6th for $250,110. Roberto Romanello exited in 8th for $149,093.
Hossein Ensan eliminated in 13th ($510,000): Winning the Main Event twice in the modern era is said to be unthinkable. Ensan has fallen agonizingly short. He jammed over an open with 
and ran into the kings of Michael Gagliano in the big blind in a 55.8 million pot.
Daniel Savas eliminated in 14th place ($410,475): Savas ripped through most of his 39 million stack by four-betting tens and getting called by Lauri Saaskilahti, who had jacks. And Saaskilahti got his remaining 3.9 million the next hand when A-9 beat 9-6. Saaskilahti is up to 79,300,000.
Shaun Deeb eliminated in 15th ($410,475): A win here would almost certainly have guaranteed him back-to-back Player of the Year titles. As it is, Deeb will have to go in search of points elsewhere.
And he wasted no time, doing his bustout interview, jumping into the $500 Summer Saver, busting that, and registering for the $25K HORSE.
Deeb's Main Event exit came when he shoved his last 13.6 million with 
on a 
flop. Rami Hammoud called with and Deeb couldn't find any help on the runout.
Johnny Oshana wins $300 Gladiators of Poker ($250,000): Can you think of another way to turn $300 into a quarter of a million in a few days without getting lucky on a memecoin? Oshana beat Kenneth Baime heads-up to claim the cash and his first WSOP bracelet.
Go right for his f-in heart: The young Lucas Jumalon has a big rail here at the WSOP Main Event feature table, but his support extends beyond that.
Today Jumalon received a good luck message from none other than Amit Algawar, the same guy who abandoned his Main Event stack several times on Day 1 to go watch the film 'Obsession.'
Algawar's advice to Jumalon? Go after the Aussie and go right for his f-in heart.
Brock Wilson eliminated in 16th ($410,475): Wilson went for it with 
, and Daniel Savas called with 
.
The board? 
. Wilson out in 16th place.
Romain Lewis eliminated in 17th ($410,475): Lewis shipped it with the second-best hand, but Greg Mueller was on a power play.
No king. Lewis out in 17th. Mueller up to 30.1 million.
Thomas Clack eliminated in 18th ($325,000): Clack is out after a clash with Hossein Ensan.
Clack had aces and fives, but Ensan had aces and sevens. So it goes.
Meanwhile, just before that, Ensan was paid out for a nut flush to jump up the leaderboard to the second-biggest stack.
Hossein Ensan - 66.6M
Final two tables. Their chips (in millions):
Will Givens eliminated in 19th ($325,000). Givens has come and gone as he pleased at the 2026 Main Event. Now he will leave for good after taking his shot with 
and around 3.6M.
Unfortunately, Luke Jumalon had . The runout had outs, but Givens couldn't find any of them.
Todd Brunson eliminated in 20th ($325,0000). Brunson had 
against the of Malcolm Trayner.
The chips went in on the 
turn after Trayner called a big shove, but a 
on the river ended Brunson's magical run.
Givens on the ropes. Luke Jumalon just got it in with 
against Will Givens and his 
.
A in the window was followed by another on the flop, and Givens was left with just two million.
Luke Jumalon - 56 million
Dylan Smith eliminated in 21st ($325,000). It was a 7.4 shot with against Luke Jumalon's 
, but a flushy runout of 
sent Smith to the rail.
Brunson is so back. Todd was all in against Brock Wilson and Malcolm Trayner with a chance to triple up.
It ran out 
and the river ace did it. Wilson ended up right back where he started.
Trayner - 47 million
Brunson - 24 million
Wilson - 15 million
We're on the air. The ESPN telecast is now live with Joe Stapleton, David Williams, and Maria Ho on the call.
Cards are in the air on TV, and Will Givens isn't here yet. Lock in.
Day 8 of the 2026 WSOP Main Event is underway: We're in for some thrilling action as we find out who will make the final table in August. Join us for all the big moments direct from the floor at Paris Las Vegas. All updates will be in line with the ESPN+ stream, which starts at 12pm.
Heaps of POY points available for Deeb in the Main Event: He's currently 415 points behind Alex Foxen at the top of the leaderboard.
Are you pro or anti shot clocks in the Main Event? Dnegs wades into the argument in his latest vlog.
Coming up on Monday at the WSOP: It's Day 8 of the Main Event, which should end with the final 9 players, but that's not all that's taking place.
Here's what's happening on Monday, July 13 at Paris and Horseshoe.
Yes, like that: Martin Kabrhel has bagged a top 5 stack in Day 1A of the $500 Summer Saver event.
192 players have advanced from the first starting flight. Day 1B starts at 10am on Monday, with the field combining to play to a winner on Tuesday.
WSOP $10K 6-Max NLH Championship has more bracelets in the field than players: The 33 survivors of Day 2 have 35 bracelets between them.
Two-time bracelet-winner Fahredin Mustafov leads the pack, which still includes Justin Liberto (2 WSOP bracelets), Calvin Anderson (7), David Peters (3), John Racener (3) and Asi Moshe (5).
They'll be back to play it out at 1pm on Monday.
The $3K Mid-Stakes Championship has a runaway leader: Yanting Jiang has almost 31M chips, while her nearest challenger Chahn Jung has 16.5M.
Just 16 players remain from the 3,668 who entered, chasing a top prize of $1.1M. They include the likes of Maurice Hawkins (below), Punnat Punsri and Mark Newhouse.
They'll return to play down to a winner at noon.
$300 Gladiator event is down to a dirty dozen: 11,185 entries are down to just 12 survivors.
Luis Genel of the USA has a healthy lead and will be the only player to start Monday's final day with over 50bb. Blinds will be 600K/1.2M with a 1.2M big blind ante when play resumes at 11am.
The overnight top 5 looks like this:
Sterling Lopez defeats Jesse Lonis in $3K TORSE event: Alaska's Lopez has secured his first WSOP bracelet and $247K after beating high-stakes pro Lonis to the final punch.
Here's how the final table ended up:
The WSOP Main Event has a different story in every seat: just 21 players remain heading into Monday, and the potential for drama feels unmatched in WSOP history.
Check out our Day 7 recap for a primer on what should be a legendary run for a new world champion.
This is easy for Shaun Deeb: His aim is to final table the Main tomorrow and then jump straight into the $25K HORSE. Does anyone love it more?
$3k TORSE is heads-up: Jesse Lonis is looking for his third WSOP bracelet but Sterling Lopez has the majority of the chip heads-up, with a near 5:1 lead.
21 players progress to Day 8 of the Main Event: Play restarts at 11am on Monday and will end when there are nine players left. We'll see you then for what's set to be a very exciting day of action.
Zhao Liu eliminated in 22nd ($325,000): He had a monster stack earlier today, but he's been trending downwards and hit rock bottom when he shoved and got looked up by Lucas Jumalon with . Any hope was wiped when two aces dropped on the flop.
Will Givens is walking early: He's got a stack of 32,800,000 and he's not waiting for the official end of the night. Why? "I have my reasons," is all he was willing to say. "It takes so much mental power, takes so much stamina, takes so much out of you, so you gotta pace yourself." We'll see him tomorrow, at some point.
16 left in $3K Mid-Stakes Championship: Yanting Jiang is the big chip leader and looking to become the third woman to win a bracelet at the 2026 WSOP after Michelle Chin and Skye Chen. Some big names are lurking too, including Punnat Punsri (4th), Roberto Romanello (5th), Maurice Hawkins (6th) and Mark Newhouse (8th). Th restart is Monday at 12pm.
Kyosuke Nagami eliminated in 23rd ($325,000): The Main Event field is getting thinner by the minute. Nagami got it in bad with jacks against the queens of Daniel Savas, but had to suffer the agony of flopping a jack, only to see Savas turn a queen.
Berkeley Yuan eliminated in 24th ($325,000): He was ahead preflop with 
, but he didn't stay ahead of Romain Lewis' 
after a jack hit the flop.
Giuseppe Pantaleo eliminated in 25th ($325,000): Tolga Karakaya found a near triple-up in the same hand with queens. Zhao Liu had and Pantaleo hit the rail with .
Mark Tropp eliminated in 26th ($325,000): Will Givens continues to fly in the Main Event. He just took out Tropp, with 10s coming out best over . Givens is up to 35,250,000.
$300 Gladiators of Poker: Barbara Enright eliminated in 13th ($16,000): A true gladiator of the game, Enright has been eliminated on one of the final hands of the night. 12 players will bag up and resume play for the bracelet tomorrow. Luis Genel is the chip leader with a stack of 61.8 million.
"Fly phoenix, fly!" Will Givens just won a huge pot against Hossein Ensan, with . On a 
flop, Ensan bet 1.5 million with 
and then called a raise from Givens to 4 million. Givens drilled a king on the turn, checked and then moved all-in over a 4 million bet from Ensan.
Givens is now up to 34,300,300, while Ensan slips down to 27,575,000.
Main Event down to three tables: With the eliminations of Tianle Wang (28th – $265,000) and Maxime Chilaud (27th – $265,000), the Main Event is now down to 26 players and just three tables. All 26 players are now guaranteed at least $325,000.
It's only fair to give the WSOP's side of the Patrick Leonard accusation: Jeff Platt doesn't agree with the claim that Pads was shadow-banned.
David Baker: Patrick Leonard was shadow banned: Some players prefer to stay off the feature tables, but we'd have liked to have seen more of Pads over the past few days.
Barbara Enright in final 18 of the $300 Gladiators of Poker: The first woman inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, Enright famously made the WSOP Main Event final table in 1995. Now, she's battled through a field of 11,185 entries to reach the final 18.
Patrick Leonard eliminated from the Main Event in 32nd ($265,000): Pads told Jeff Platt earlier today that he was living his dream – and the dreams of the friends he used to watch the WSOP Main Event broadcasts with. Sadly, his epic run came to an end when he lost a flip with pocket tens against the A-K of Berkeley Yuan.
We're now down to 29 players and heading for the final three tables in a hurry.
No ROW Main Event YouTube stream until tomorrow at least: The Night Shift is streaming now on ESPN+ with Ali Nejad and Nick Schulman, but the ROW YouTube stream is down. If you're French, the Winamax YouTube stream is also live.
More time banks for everyone: After all the hubbub about a shot clock being instituted in the Main Event, it's clear things can change at any moment around here.
To wit: when the remaining players in the Main return from dinner, they will all get four more time bank cards. Stay tuned for whatever is next!
Main Event chip leader Tom Clack got all of his chips from Ralph Perry. Clack flopped a set of fives and put Perry all-in on a 
runout. Perry had pocket eights and 8.7 million behind, but with 15.6 million already in the middle, he wasn't a believer and made the call.
Time for some food: The 42 remaining players in the Main Event are on their dinner break. Ralph 'On your bike' Perry was eliminated in 44th ($215,00). The chip leader is Tom Clack with 28,850,000, followed by Malcolm Trayner on 28,100,000. Will Givens also has a big stack of 25,475,000. Shaun Deeb has chipped up to 17,850,000.
WSOP Main Event livestream down on YouTube: The ESPN+ stream is still working, as is the French-language Winamax YouTube stream. They're currently being badgered in the chat by viewers asking them to do the commentary in English instead. So far, their on-screen replies have been very polite.
How does it feel to get knocked out deep in the Main Event? Dutch Boyd nails it in conversation with Jeff Platt.
Shaun Deeb on shot-clock controversy: "I think it's a necessary evil at this stage of the tournament... it's the best solution to the problem at hand."
