Lucas Jumalon won the 2026 WSOP Main Event and $10 million earlier this month. It’s a crazy sum for anyone to win, let alone a 22-year-old.
But has he actually received it yet? And has he already spent some of it? What’s the plan for the rest?
We spoke with Jumalon to find out.
Has he received the $10 million?
“I actually got it fairly quickly as they [the WSOP] were able to wire it to me,” Jumalon tells us.
“It was a couple of days after I won, and I saw the $10 million in my bank account. That was a weird feeling.”
Jumalon says that before the Main Event he had around $50K in the account.
The $10 million isn’t there anymore, though.
Don’t panic – he hasn’t ripped through it already. He moved the bulk of it to an investment account where it’s busy making him even more money. Jumalon has grand plans.
“This feels really lofty and crazy,” he says, “but I want to die with a quarter-billion net. I know that sounds outrageous and we’ll have to do some things outside poker to get there, but I think it’s attainable.”
His ultimate motivation, he says, is creating generational wealth for his family.
He did buy himself a Corvette
Jumalon did treat himself to one thing before the money went to work for him.
“I bought a Corvette,” he reveals. “I didn’t buy a brand new one. It’s a couple of years old and has 3,900 miles on it. It does 0-60 in like 2.9, it’s super fast. It’s a lot of fun.”
That might not sound entirely consistent with his newfound financial caution. But Jumalon insists he’s no speed demon.
“It’s enough fun from 0-45,” Jumalon adds. “I don’t need to get going all that fast to have fun.”
Why Jumalon won’t jump into $200K events
Some players on X had expressed ‘concern’ about Jumalon suddenly having $10 million in the bank. They needn’t have worried.
Winning the Main Event might have given Jumalon the ability to take all the shots he wants, but he's not going to start playing $100K and $200K Triton events entirely on his own dime anytime soon.
If anything, winning $10 million has made him more averse to risk.
“Where I am now, there’s no point in taking big risks," he says. "Like, why would I? I can sit the money in the market and make 7-10% annually and be fine for the rest of my life.”
He still has the ambition to be the best poker player in the world and he believes he can win at any level, but he’s not willing to lose what he’s won to do it.
“I want to be one of the best in the world,” he says, “but I’m not willing to risk mine or my family’s security to go do that. As Chris [Moneymaker] said, ‘Never play for free.’ There’s got to be something involved to sweeten the pot.”
Jumalon knows there will be people who think he’s a luckbox or a one-hit wonder, but he doesn’t care.
“Me playing from here on out is for me, not for anybody else,” he says. “I’m going to prove them wrong for me, not for them.”
