PLO really is his jam: Watch Daniel Negreanu bag up a monster stack in the $100K PLO High Roller.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1
WSOP Day 37: The summer camp schedule keeps rolling – here's what's happening today.
Day 2 of the $1,000 Mini Main Event gets underway. Across the three Day 1 starting flights, 12,560 entrants ponied up the entry fee – now only 935 remain.
The $5K 6-Handed NLH will play down to a winner. Markus Gonsalves leads the 7 remaining players.
The $10K Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship will also crown a winner today. With 13 players still in the hunt, Maxx Coleman is in pole position in the chip counts.
After a slow start to registration, the $100K PLO High Roller attracted 50 entrants on Day 1. Of that number, only 19 remain – but late registration remains open for the first two levels of Day 2. Artur Martirosian holds a commanding lead over the field – with Alex Foxen and Daniel Negreanu not far off.
Omar Sader
The $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball continues today with Day 2 action. Dong Chen leads the field while celebrity poker enthusiast James Woods bagged up a Top 5 stack.
We've got three events kicking off today: the $600 Deepstack Championship NLH, the $3,000 Freezeout NLH, and the $10K 8-Game Mixed Championship.
And then there were 7: Day 3 play in the $5K 6-Handed NLH saw 60 players become just 7.
Markus Gonsalves leads the pack headed into the final day of play – check out the full chip counts below.
- Markus Gonsalves - 17.2M
- Oliver Weis - 13.4M
- Xiaoyao Ma - 11.0M
- Dominykas Mikolaitis - 8.2M
- Jeremy Noguero Izquierdo - 7.8M
- Joshua Boulton - 6.7M
- Daniel Rezaei - 5.3M
$10K Stud Championship ends day with 13 remaining: Maxx Coleman will start the final day of play with the chip lead.
- Maxx Coleman - 2.4M
- Jack Germaine - 1.5M
- Walter Chambers - 1.1M
- Nicolas Milgrom - 1.0M
- Mark Rubbathan - 955K
- Matthew Grapenthien - 890K
- Paul Volpe - 715K
- Christopher Brewer - 679.9K
- Matthew Vengrin - 640K
- Koji Fujimoto - 640K
- Bradley Jansen - 545K
- Caitlin Comeskey - 505K
- Jose Paz Gutierrez - 375.5K
Hayley Hochstetler
Artur Martirosian leads $100K PLO after Day 1: Daniel Negreanu held the lead after entering on the dinner break, but Martirosian found a sun run to end with almost 6 million chips. Negreanu bagged close to 2 million, with 19 players progressing from a field of 50. Check the full report below.
Benjamin Miner bubbles $10K Seven Card Stud: Caitlin Comeskey has survived for at least a min-cash of $20,320. Can she find a spin-up?
$10K Seven Card Stud on stone bubble: 30 players are left, 29 get paid the min-cash of $20,320. Caitlin Comeskey is hanging in there but she's one of the shortest stacks in the room.
Monique Marestein
Daniel Negreanu at the top in $100K PLO High Roller: PLO is his game, and after entering at the dinner break today, he's wasted no time turning up the heat. He's more than tripled his starting stack and is sitting on over 2 million chips. Just 29 players remain from a field of 48.
Shaun Deeb wins his ninth WSOP bracelet! It was touch and go today. He almost went out in ninth but found a wheel in triple draw to survive. He was short in the heads-up against Dean Joe, but he battled back to win in a hand of PLO. "Too many seconds," he said as he was congratulated by his rail. Can he find another first this summer?
Shaun Deeb heads-up for a bracelet: He's got a slight lead over Dean Joe in the $1,500 8-Game Mixed and a win would be huge for him both in terms of the gold and the Player of the Year points.
Lennart Hennig
WSOP livestream starts at 6:30pm: Phil Hellmuth is on the Countdown Show and if you like watching him fall over, you won't want to miss it. Then it's all the action from the $5K 6-Handed event from 7pm.
ICYMI: Rampage won his second bracelet last night in the hybrid online/live $5K 6-Max. He's very grateful.
Ultimate spin-up ends: Phillipp Mellon has been eliminated from the $100K PLO after getting it in with top two against Sergio Martinez Gonzalez' set.
Monique Marestein
TUESDAY, JUNE 30
Three eliminated from $100K PLO: Four full levels are in the bag, and the field has grown to 27 entries, with three players already eliminated. Gruffudd Pugh-Jones and Eelis Pärssinen hit the rail but have both re-entered. Jesse Lonis also busted his first bullet but has yet to re-enter. Jason Koon is the current chip leader with 1.2 million chips.
First break of the day done in $100K PLO: And our satellite qualifier Phillipp Mellon is leading the 14 players with just over 1 million in chips from a starting stack of 600K. Jesse Lonis and Jason Koon are also playing now.
Hayley Hochstetler
How would you react to bounty pulls? Over at Aria where we're covering the $1,100 BetMGM PLO Mystery Bounty event today, we particularly liked the, "I'm late, let's just get this over with" technique.
TDA Summit Day 2: Matt Savage and the crew are still debating the rules that will impact you in the future. You can watch the livestream below.
Deeb going for ninth bracelet today: Talking of Deeb, cards are now in the air in the $1,500 8-Game Mixed event. 13 remain and Deeb is currently the chip leader. Can he stake a big claim for the 2026 POY?
The magnificent seven! The first 60-minute level of the day is complete in the $100K PLO and there are now seven players registered, which means play is starting. Arthur Morris, Gruffudd Pugh-Jones, Alex Foxen and Phillipp Mellon have joined. Last year, this event got 121 runners and Shaun Deeb beat Ike Haxton heads-up. Hear him talk after his win below.
Time incentives needed for WSOP high rollers? Jeremy Ausmus thinks so.
Don't be first to the party: 30 minutes gone in Level 1 of the WSOP $100K PLO and there are just three brave souls registered: Robert Cowen, Eelis Paerssinen and Chris Frank. Late reg is open until 2:15pm tomorrow. We are expecting more players.
Is this the spin-up of the summer?: From a $120 satellite to the $100,000 PLO High Roller – with a few more stops along the way.
Shoutout to Phillipp Mellon. Now go win the thing.
Jeremy Ausmus breaks down the 2026 Poker Hall of Fame nominees: Ausmus takes a look at each player's poker resume – and offers up his opinion on which of them will make the cut.
Another day, another deep run on the DNegs vlog: This time around, it's the $1,500 8-Game Mixed – check it out below.
WSOP Day 36: Here's what's on the docket.
The $1,000 Mini Main Event will play out its final Day 1 starting flight today – expect a big field.
The $5K 6-Handed NLH enters Day 3 play with 60 players remaining. Andrew Lichtenberger is in the hunt with a Top 10 stack.
Shaun Deeb's cold summer might come to an end as he leads the 13 remaining players in the $1,500 8-Game Mixed.
Hayley Hochstetler
After Day 1 play in the $10K Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship, only 75 players remain.
We've also got two events kicking off today – the $100K High Roller PLO and the $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball.
Watch out for late-reg traffic jams: Especially if any Brits are driving on the wrong side of the road.
The UK's Patrick Leonard witnessed a last second influx of 187 Euros "scooping up max late reg ev" in the $5K NLH on Monday.
And yes, he did fess up to being one of the 187 himself.
Shaun Deeb leads the field in $1,500 8-Game Mix: The 2025 WSOP Player of the Year will hit Tuesday's final day at the head of a 13-strong pack that also features Blaz Zerjav and Viktor Blom - the latter still (somehow) searching for his first WSOP bracelet.
Everyone's guaranteed $9K but will be playing for the $181K up top.
Hayley Hochstetler
The $5K 6-Max is halfway there: 2 of the scheduled 4 days are in the books, with 60 of the 1,402 entrants still shooting for the $979K first prize.
They'll return on Tuesday at noon to blinds of 10K/20K and an average stack of around 1.1M. The current top 10 includes the likes of Boris Angelov, Paulius Vaitekunas and Andrew 'LuckyChewy' Lichtenberger.
Omar Sader
75 survive Day 1 of $10K Stud 8 Championship: Matt Grapethien and Bryce Yockey (below) are within a single chip of each other at the top of the chip counts.
The 156-entrant field was cut in half during the first day's play, but expect the field to grow a little more on Day 2 as registration remains open for a full level after the 1pm restart on Tuesday.
Hayley Hochstetler
Rampage wins second WSOP bracelet: He beat a star-studded final table that included Adrian Matoes and Nick Schulman. It started online but ended at Paris Las Vegas, where Rampage celebrated his $228,825 win. Check out the full report below.
Michael Mizrachi wins $10K PLO ($1,350,203): It took longer than Mizrachi thought it would but the result is the same – he is now a nine-time WSOP bracelet winner. "They took away from my dinner plans a little bit," Mizrachi told us afterward. "I thought it would take about 44 minutes." Zurvan Tumboli takes home $900,088 for second.
Tyler Abrams
Matthew Higgins wins $1K Mystery Millions ($1,000,000): He maneuvered his way through a field of 22,811 to claim his first WSOP bracelet. Dominik Panka has to make do with $640,000 for second place.
Tyler Abrams
Matthew Higgins vs. Dominik Panka heads-up in Mystery Millions: Higgins has a big chip lead, 700M to 200M, with the winner taking home $1 million. They're playing for a $360K pay jump heads-up from a $1K buy-in. Incredible stuff.
$10K – Michael Mizrachi hits speed bump: Zarvan Tumboli has just won a big pot to almost double up. Both players made full houses, but Tumboli's was better. Mizrachi still holds the chip lead, but it's not as big as it was.
- Michael Mizrachi: 35M
- Zarvan Tumboli: 15M
$10K PLO – Michael Hahn eliminated in 3rd ($627,832): It's taken a while for Mizrachi to get his first scalp, but he finally claimed Hahn's and is now heads-up for his ninth bracelet with a 5:1 chip lead.
Hayley Hochstetler
Dylan Smith wins $2,500 Mixed Big Bet ($182,591): It didn't take Smith long to rattle through the last remaining players. Matt Vengrin found one double-up heads-up, but it wasn't enough to stop Smith from claiming his first WSOP bracelet.
Naoya Kihara eliminated in 3rd ($78,984): There will be no third bracelet for Kihara tonight, but he came close. The $2,500 Mixed Big Bet is now heads-up. Dylan Smith holds a commanding chip lead of 10.9M to Matt Vengrin's 2.7M.
Michael Mizrachi up next in $10K PLO: With such a huge chip lead, is it a matter of when, not if, The Grinder wins his ninth bracelet? Get the stream on now or you might miss it.
$1K Mystery Millions – David 'ODB' Baker eliminated in 7th ($176,000): An epic run comes to an end for Baker, who picks up a load of fantasy points and a great payday from a $1K buy-in. He's followed out the door by Vinay Boob in 6th, who takes home $225,000.
Tyler Abrams
Joe Stapleton has an important message: He stuck his neck out yesterday while commentating on the Ladies Championship. On the Countdown Show, he read out a message from a fan named Paul that we're repeating here.
"Last night you all became heroes in our home. The poker community showed my transgender daughter what I've been telling her for years – the real poker community welcomes all.
"I'm 55 years old, married to my wife for 29 years, and mostly conservative. When our daughter Luna became Luna five years ago, it was a world I knew nothing about, but Jenny and I know about love, and Luna is one of the most loving people on the planet.
"I also have a passion for poker. Luna does not yet play poker outside our home but she does watch the World Series of Poker with me. Last night we watched every hand and more importantly, at least in our family, we watched the reactions of those at the event. We heard the support for Aubrey. We witnessed that support not only in the room but also in the broadcast booth.
"Luna is a great mathematician, and I believe she will be great at the game. I hope she now has a better understanding of the poker community as well. And now Luna has seen that even on poker's biggest stage, everyone is welcome."
Shaun Deeb leads the $1,500 8-Game Mixed: He's had a tough summer so far, but he's got daylight at the top of the chip counts. Daniel Negreanu is fourth with 50 players remaining.
Hayley Hochstetler
WSOP Countdown Show is live: Get your daily dose of what's to come – and what just happened – with Joe Stapleton and crew.
25th Anniversary TDA Summit: If you're a rules nerd, you can watch all of Day 1 from the 2026 TDA Summit with Matt Savage below. Day 2 is tomorrow.
$1K Mystery Millions – Eddie Pak eliminated in 9th ($110,003): We're down to the final eight in the Mystery Millions. Matthew Higgins is the chip leader, followed by Dominik Panka. David 'ODB' Baker is still in, but now playing the short stack.
- Matthew Higgins: 210M
- Dominik Panka: 200M
- Vinay Boob: 115M
- Thomas Hall: 110M
- Imre Makranyi: 83M
- Brian Smith: 73M
- Leo Lombardozzi: 71M
- David 'ODB' Baker: 51M
Tyler Abrams
Ladies Championship highlights: If you missed the final table on Sunday, you missed a treat. Check out the 25-minute highlights package here – you've got just enough time before today's Countdown Show begins.
MONDAY, JUNE 29
Will Kassouf back and unbanned: The bad boy of 2025 (and 2016) is back. Kassouf is currently playing the $1K Mini Main Event with a stack of 220K.
Omar Sader
Brad Owen eliminated in 8th ($15,128): He lost a big flip in NLH before Naoya Kihara took the rest of his chips to set up the final table in the $2,500 Mixed Big Bet.
- Dylan Smith: 3.7M
- Naoya Kihara: 3M
- Matt Vengrin: 1.9M
- Hiroyuki Noda: 1.7M
- Renan Bruschi: 1.3M
- Steve Billirakis: 950K
- Danny Chang: 890K
It's time to sweat: The $1,000 Mystery Millions and $2,500 Mixed Big Bet events are live now and, with less than 20 players remaining in each tournament, it's crunch time.
And there are serious WSOP Fantasy implications at play – read below for more.
Good news: If the $10K PLO Championship finishes early – entirely likely, given Michael Mizrachi already has nearly every chip in play with three remaining – the WSOP stream will switch to coverage of the hybrid online/live High Roller 6-Max.
That means we'll have a front row seat to what might be one of the most stacked final tables of the summer.
Brad Owen is still in search of WSOP Bracelet #1: Is today his day?
