The biggest buy-in of the 2026 World Series of Poker also comes with the biggest bubble of the summer.
By the time late registration closed in the $250K Super High Roller, 15 entries on Day 2 had brought the field up to 56. Nine players would get paid.
The winner would get $4,334,411. Ninth place would get $518,518. Tenth place would leave empty-handed.
Daniel Negreanu was one of the players to do just that. He started Day 2 with the fourth-biggest stack but couldn't get anything going and was eliminated in 35th place.
He had some words for Martin Kabrhel before he left.
Kabrhel later joined Negreanu on the rail, along with Christoph Vogelsang, who had started the day third in chips.
Alex Foxen was eliminated and hopped straight into the $10K Super Turbo Bounty. An hour later he had a top-ten stack, while wife Kristen was still hanging tough in the $250K. By the end of the night, he'd won his fourth bracelet – but that's another story.
How did the late-reggers do?
Phil Ivey was one of several players who max late-regged Day 2 and played just a single bullet.
He was joined by Peter Wang, a regular in Hustler Casino Live's biggest games, Taylor Vonkriegenbergh, Yosuke Miki and Chris Brewer, who won this event in 2023.
Leon Sturm bought in again after getting eliminated by Kabrhel. Klemens Roiter and Bryn Kenney were also late-reggers, just not quite as late. Jans Arends, Danny Tang, Michael 'Texas Mike' Moncek and Eelis Parssinen fired second bullets.
With 12 left, Ivey, Kenney and Texas Mike were still in.
Vonkriegenbergh, Brewer, Sturm, Wang, Tang, Roiter, Miki, Arends, and Parssinen had all been eliminated.
Adrian Mateos took a big chip lead when he eliminated Matthias Eibinger with queens vs. eights in an all-in preflop pot. In the commentary booth, Jared Bleznick called it a massive mistake from Eibinger. We'll defer to him.
Foxen suffers brutal exit as bubble bursts
Foxen's tournament ended in 11th place, and it came in brutal fashion. She moved all in UTG for her last seven big blinds with 
and was looked up by Samuel Mullur in the big blind with 
.
Foxen flopped the nuts. The 
flop gave her a straight and 96% equity, leaving Mullur drawing almost dead.
Instead, the 
turn and 
river gave him a full house.
"That is unbelievable," said Bleznick.
It left two tables of five on the stone bubble.
One table featured Mateos, businessman David Einhorn, Mullur, Kenney and Nick Petrangelo.
The other was stacked with Brandon Wilson, Michael 'Texas Mike' Moncek, Jason Koon, Ivey and Sean Winter.
Bubble bursts, Kenney soars
The bubble lasted almost 90 minutes. During that time Mateos made some moves that led to Bleznick calling him "the best no-limit tournament player in the world."
Kenney chipped up with some well-timed aggression and ended the night with the biggest stack after Petrangelo was eliminated on the bubble.
Phil Ivey was the shortest stack, but still in with a shot at his 12th bracelet tomorrow when play resumes at noon. All nine players are guaranteed $518,518, with $4,334,411 for the winner.
$250K Super High Roller stacks
- Bryn Kenney (USA) – 19.4 million
- Adrian Mateos (Spain) – 16.9 million
- David Einhorn (USA) – 13.4 million
- Brandon Wilson (USA) – 9.6 million
- Samuel Mullur (Austria) – 7.8 million
- Sean Winter (USA) – 6.5 million
- Jason Koon (USA) – 4.5 million
- Michael Moncek (USA) – 3.3 million
- Phil Ivey (USA) – 2.8 million
How do the 2026 numbers stack up?
Last year’s $250K Super High Roller got 63 entries, leaving 2026 around 10% down. That follows a trend among nearly all the High Roller events so far this summer.
The only one to buck that trend was the $100K High Roller, won by Yuri Dzivielevski for $2.8 million. That was up 12 entries from 103 last year.
The 2026 champion will earn $4,334,411, around 9% less than the $4,752,551 Seth Davies collected for winning the event in 2025.
