July 21, 2026
Day 57
Day five of the offseason, thirteen days to the restart, and the fantasy ledger finally closes. The Foxens, who already own a sixth bracelet and a bracelet-winn…
Read Brief →July 20, 2026
Day 56
Day four of the offseason and the countdown gets a television schedule. Tomorrow night poker returns to the airwaves: the first two edited Main Event episodes a…
Read Brief →July 19, 2026
Day 55
Day three of the offseason and the ledgers are open. PokerNews finalized the 25K Fantasy standings, and the commissioner won his own league: Daniel Negreanu's T…
Read Brief →July 18, 2026
Day 54
Day two of the offseason brought the ugliest story of the summer. Video surfaced via KSNV News 3 of poker pro Jared Griener, duct-taped and barefoot, begging a …
Read Brief →July 17, 2026
Day 53
Day one of the great poker silence, and the paperwork arrived. The WSOP dropped its official series wrap Friday: a record 251,899 total entries and $469,975,059…
Read Brief →July 16, 2026
Day 52
The summer is over, and it went out swinging. All four final-day bracelets landed Wednesday, and the biggest one got away from the biggest name: Phil Hellmuth s…
Read Brief →July 15, 2026
Day 51
The summer ends today, and Tuesday cleared the runway. Three more bracelets landed on Day 50: David Peters won the $10,000 6-Max Championship for $1,001,391 and…
Read Brief →July 14, 2026
Day 50
The August Nine is set, and it belongs to a 22-year-old. Lucas Jumalon turned a third-place stack into 194,000,000 chips on Day 8, cracked Malcolm Trayner's que…
Read Brief →July 13, 2026
Day 49
Zero bracelets on Sunday, and somehow it was the most consequential day of the summer. The Main Event chopped 62 down to 21 on a Day 7 that executed all three o…
Read Brief →July 12, 2026
Day 48
Two bracelets, one fairy tale, and a Main Event that has stopped being polite. Jamie Dwan, a 26-year-old from the UK whose previous best live cash was $76,254, …
Read Brief →July 11, 2026
Day 47
The back-to-back dream is dead, and a fellow champion killed it. Michael Mizrachi's title defense ended in 241st place on Day 5 of the Main Event, king-queen in…
Read Brief →July 10, 2026
Day 46
The bubble took three hands, and it took Chris Moneymaker with it. The man who invented the poker boom called off his last chips playing the board and got shown…
Read Brief →July 09, 2026
Day 45
The bubble is seven bustouts away and the chip leader plays PLO cash for a living. Sasha Liu, who bought in at the start of Day 2 and had six starting stacks wi…
Read Brief →July 08, 2026
Day 44
The number is in: 9,208 entries, an $85.6 million prize pool, and the fourth-largest Main Event in history. Registration slammed shut Tuesday afternoon, but not…
Read Brief →July 07, 2026
Day 43
Day 2abc was a wood chipper. Of the 2,780 players who took a seat Monday, including 312 fresh late entries, only 1,260 bagged for Day 3, and Argentina's Gaspar …
Read Brief →July 06, 2026
Day 42
Day 1d did what Day 1d does. The final starting flight drew 4,694 entries, the biggest opening day of the series, pushing the Main Event to 8,077 total entries …
Read Brief →July 05, 2026
Day 41
The bracelet logjam broke. All three events we flagged as unresolved yesterday now have winners, plus three more we did not even have on the board: six bracelet…
Read Brief →July 04, 2026
Day 40
Happy Fourth. The Main Event is in its holiday stretch: Day 1C fires today at 11 a.m., and the official Day 1A numbers are finally in. They are smaller than exp…
Read Brief →July 03, 2026
Day 39
Day 38 was the kind of day that makes the WSOP. Daniel Negreanu won the $100,000 PLO High Roller for $2,257,718 and bracelet number eight on the same afternoon …
Read Brief →July 02, 2026
Day 38
The Main Event is finally here. Day 1A fired today at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, opening the 10-day sprint to the August 3 ESPN finale. While the biggest to…
Read Brief →July 01, 2026
Day 37
Michael Mizrachi closed out the PLO Championship on the river with a gutshot straight to beat Zarvan Tumboli heads-up, completing bracelet number nine and $1,35…
Read Brief →June 30, 2026
Day 36
Benny Glaser won the $50,000 Poker Players Championship to claim the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy and his ninth WSOP bracelet, beating Josh Arieh heads-up in a fi…
Read Brief →June 29, 2026
Day 35
Skye Chen won the Ladies Championship last night in what is one of the better WSOP bracelet stories in recent memory - a rookie who had never entered a live tou…
Read Brief →June 28, 2026
Day 34
Sunday brought three events running simultaneously and none of them finished. The $1,500 Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better bagged ten players overnight with Daniel Geeng l…
Read Brief →June 27, 2026
Day 33
Koji Fujimoto, a Japanese poker teacher who coaches his students for free three times a week, beat Hall of Famer Nick Schulman heads-up Saturday to win the $10,…
Read Brief →June 26, 2026
Day 32
Benny Glaser put the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy in a British carry-on bag Friday, winning the $50,000 Poker Players Championship for his ninth WSOP bracelet and…
Read Brief →June 25, 2026
Day 31
Joseph Liberta completed a 13-year Millionaire Maker odyssey - four cashes, one champion - beating Michael Monroig heads-up on trip fives to take $1.25 million.…
Read Brief →June 24, 2026
Day 30
Prashanth Nataraj won his first bracelet in the $500 Salute to Warriors after starting the final day with 10 big blinds, then donated nearly $180,000 to veteran…
Read Brief →June 23, 2026
Day 29
Michelle Chin came back from two big bets to win the $1,500 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw and her first bracelet. Daniel Negreanu's PPC comeback story ended when Kane…
Read Brief →June 22, 2026
Day 28
Joao Simao came from behind to win the $50K PLO High Roller for $1.37 million and a fourth bracelet - the biggest individual score of a strong Brazilian summer.…
Read Brief →June 21, 2026
Day 27
Calvin Anderson won the $10K H.O.R.S.E. Championship on Sunday for his seventh WSOP bracelet and his second of this series -- both in $10K mixed game events, se…
Read Brief →June 20, 2026
Day 26
Three bracelets fell on Day 26 and the biggest was the most dramatic: Eelis Parssinen won the $25,000 PLO High Roller for $2,161,056 after flopping quads in the…
Read Brief →June 19, 2026
Day 25
Marco Johnson wins his third bracelet in a No-Limit Hold'em event for the first time in his career, denying Chino Rheem a maiden title in a heads-up battle that…
Read Brief →June 18, 2026
Day 24 Updated Edition
Alex Foxen has taken the Player of the Year lead overnight. Three bracelet winners from June 15 never got their due because Adrian Mateos won $4.3 million on th…
Read Brief →June 14, 2026
Day 20 Edition
The big buy-ins finally paid out their winners, and the setups we left hanging two days ago all resolved with the chip leaders losing. Yuri Dzivielevski won the…
Read Brief →June 12, 2026
Day 18 Edition
Day 17 produced zero bracelets and a historic amount of personal suffering for Artur Martirosian, who had his pocket aces cracked twice in a row - first by Chri…
Read Brief →June 11, 2026
Day 17 Edition
The two developing stories from yesterday's brief both resolved on Day 16 - and in both cases the chip leader entering the final day lost. Santhosh Suvarna won …
Read Brief →June 10, 2026
Day 16 Edition
The 2026 WSOP produced seven bracelet winners on Day 15 - the most in a single session of the series so far. Brayden Lou, 21 years old and playing in just his f…
Read Brief →June 09, 2026
Day 15 Edition
Three events are converging on bracelets today and one man is running away with a fourth. The $500 Freezeout woke up heads-up this morning: Jason Hoffman holds …
Read Brief →June 08, 2026
Day 14 Edition
The results from yesterday's three final tables landed and they were worth the wait. Kristen Foxen won the $25,000 High Roller for $1,773,083, a sixth bracelet,…
Read Brief →June 07, 2026
Day 13 Edition
A Canadian player won a bracelet yesterday in a game he'd never played before - he entered for fantasy points. Kristen Foxen and Galen Hall headline the $25K Hi…
Read Brief →June 06, 2026
Day 12 Edition
Jeff Madsen picked up his fifth bracelet this morning, declared he wants POY to go with it, and is apparently playing his best poker in a decade. Meanwhile, Hus…
Read Brief →June 05, 2026
Day 11 - Chip and a Chair, and Now a Dealer's Choice
Day 10 closed with three bracelets and the best comeback story of the summer - Naoya Kihara, down to a single chip on Day 1, winning the $10K NL 2-7 Lowball Cha…
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