It's the penultimate day of the 2026 WSOP, so it's time to get unstuck.
There are only two days left to save your summer. One last chance at romance.
David Peters, who had six relatively uneventful cashes in the summer series before Tuesday, jumped all over the opportunity and scored a fifth WSOP title in the $10K Six-Max Championship.
"My summer has been a lot of building big stacks, making runs, and then just kind of falling short," Peters told us. "It's been very disappointing up to this point."
'Bang bang bang'
The disappointment is now dust, and Peters is $1 million richer, but it was a white-knuckle ending.
"It happened so fast, just bang bang bang."
The speed at which the tournament ended cannot be overstated. If you stepped out of the room for a few minutes during three-handed play, you may have missed everything.
The tournament had needed an extra day, so four players returned for a bonus session on Tuesday. Fahredin Mustafov had bagged the chip lead when play was called around 2am the previous evening.
$10K Six Max Day 4 chip counts
- Fahredin Mustafov - 11,375,000
- David Peters - 9,025,000
- Calvin Anderson - 7,275,000
- Dominykas Mikolaitis - 6.050,000
Dominykas Mikolaitis was the short stack, and he couldn't spin it up, so he kicked rocks to leave the other three. The final trio traded some paint, but Peters held the lead when they went for a speedrun end game.
Don't blink
It started with Anderson, who opened to 600K with 
. Peters three-bet to 140Kwith 
and all of the chips went in. The board had no help for Anderson, and he was out before he could add a third bracelet of the summer to his win total.
It would be a matter of moments before the final two players were all in.
"We're still stacking chips and getting organized and before I blink, we're all in and playing for bracelets," Peters said about the sudden situation. "It was a wild emotional rollercoaster at the end for sure."
Mustafov limped with 
and Peters shoved with 
. The cards hit their backs and a 
gave Peters the lead. Mustafov hit blanks on the turn and river and he was out.
It's the fifth bracelet for Peters, who won his first since 2022.
David Peters WSOP bracelets
- 2016 - $1,500 NLH - $412,557
- 2020 - $10,000 Heads-Up Online - $360,480
- 2021 - $7,777 High Roller Online - $283,940
- 2022 - $75,000 High Roller Bounty - $1,166,810
- 2026 - $10,000 Six-Max - $1,001,391
What's next?
The curtain now drops on the 2026 WSOP, save for a few postlim events and the Main Event final table in August, and many players are going to go do something else (for now.) For Peters, it's the perfect setup for some family time.
"I might maybe do some traveling, but I have a two-year-old son, so I haven't wanted to travel a lot lately."
Instead, probably, a chance to reset.
"I'll see how I feel after the summer's over and figure it out from there. But for a little while, I'll chill out and relax at home."
2026 WSOP $10K Six Max Championship final table results
- David Peters - $1,001,391
- Fahredin Mustafov - $660,933
- Calvin Anderson - $445,268
- Dominykas Mikolaitis - $306,313
- Justin Liberto - $215,270
- Vladas Tamasuaskas - $154,625
Lead image courtesy of World Series of Poker.
