The Archive

September 06, 2026

Day 104 - The Correction Edition

Correction first, because it is also the lead. Yesterday this brief said no new WSOP bracelet had been reported anywhere since September 1. That was wrong. Card…

September 05, 2026

Day 103 - The Four Price Tags Edition

For eleven days this brief has asked whether GGPoker would run an Ontario online bracelet series in 2026, and for eleven days the honest answer was that GGPoker…

September 04, 2026

Day 102 - The One Household Edition

Yesterday this brief predicted that Hard Rock Tulsa would dump eighteen ring results in a single batch on or about September 8. Wrong again, in a smaller and mo…

September 03, 2026

Day 101 - The Retraction Edition

We have been wrong about the biggest thing we have been saying. For fifteen consecutive days this brief has reported that no GGPoker WSOP Online bracelet had be…

September 02, 2026

Day 100 - The Eighteen Champions Edition

We were right on Sunday, wrong yesterday, and the correction arrived while we were still typing. Two days ago this brief predicted WSOP.com would publish the en…

September 01, 2026

Day 99 - The Ninety-Three Percent Edition

We have been wrong about the rake, and we can prove it with our own back numbers. For two weeks this brief has argued that WSOP Online prize pools return exactl…

August 29, 2026

Day 96 - The Missing Fifty-Three Edition

We have been counting wrong, and so has everybody else. For eleven days this brief has been arguing about whether the 2026 bracelet ledger is eight short. It is…

August 27, 2026

Day 94 - We Were Wrong Edition

We owe a correction. Yesterday this brief said neither PokerNews nor WSOP.com had written a word about the WSOP Online bracelets and that a sportsbook affiliate…

August 26, 2026

Day 93 - Three Stops Open at Once Edition

The bracelet we have been chasing for four days has a name. Stefan Schillhabel won WSOP Online Event #5, the $100 Flip & Go, and the name did not surface on WSO…

August 25, 2026

Day 92 - Results Edition

For twelve days the Harrah's Atlantic City WSOP Circuit produced no champions on the record. Today all eighteen landed at once. Brian Luo won the Main Event out…

August 24, 2026

Day 91 - Late Edition

Everybody has been counting the record. Nobody has been counting the other number. The WSOP's own boilerplate says the 2026 Las Vegas series drew 251,899 entran…

August 20, 2026

Day 87

Bracelet 102 has a name, and it took a site none of us had cited this month to publish it. Lucas Teixeira Rodrigues of Brazil won WSOP Online Event #2, the $300…

August 19, 2026

Day 86

Cherokee has a champion and the coverage vacuum has broken, mostly. Curtis King, seventh in chips when Day 2 ended, won the WSOP Circuit Main Event at Harrah's …

August 17, 2026

Day 84

We owe Cherokee a correction. For four straight briefs we have reported that no field size, no chip count and no payout figure existed for the 2026 WSOP Circuit…

August 16, 2026

Day 83

The ratings finally landed, nine briefs after we started asking. The WSOP Main Event finale on ESPN drew 593,000 viewers, the night before it drew 451,000, and …

August 15, 2026

Day 82

Raoul Kanme won the biggest tournament that finished anywhere yesterday, a $1,250,000 career-best in North Cyprus that came with a hand where his queens beat ki…

August 13, 2026

Day 80

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open finished on Tuesday and produced something that had never happened once in the history of the festival: three separate players…

August 11, 2026

Day 78

We read the WSOP Online schedule line by line this morning, which apparently nobody else has, and eight of the 33 events are dated in the wrong month. One of th…

August 10, 2026

Day 77

A police officer from Granite City, Illinois won the biggest poker title in America last night, and the payout sheet he signed is funnier than the win. Meanwhil…

August 09, 2026

Day 76

The bill arrived. Russ Fox published his annual accounting and Card Player ran the numbers Saturday: of the $30,250,000 paid to the 2026 Main Event final table,…

August 07, 2026

Day 74

The felt is cold and the business pages have taken over. Flutter Entertainment, which owns PokerStars and FanDuel, posted a $296 million quarterly loss and push…

August 06, 2026

Day 73

It took less than two hours. Lucas Jumalon, 22 years four months and 28 days old, beat Lauri Saaskilahti heads-up on Wednesday night to win the 2026 WSOP Main E…

August 05, 2026

Day 72

Two players, one bracelet, four million dollars of daylight between first and second. Lucas Jumalon carries 328,000,000 and 109 big blinds into heads-up play ag…

August 03, 2026

Day 70

Today. Cards in the air at Paris Las Vegas, nine players, ten million dollars, and the hundredth bracelet of the summer decided by Wednesday. Two things landed …

August 02, 2026

Day 69

One sleep. The seat assignments are finally public and they are the most consequential thing anyone has published in three weeks: Evagoras Evagorou, the 15 big …

August 01, 2026

Day 68

Two days out and the WSOP finally started talking, which is how we got two of today's stories. Late Friday the operator published official bios for all nine Mai…

July 31, 2026

Day 67

Three days out and the WSOP blinked. On Thursday evening the operator announced it will not use a shot clock at the Main Event final table after all, undoing a …

July 30, 2026

Day 66

Four days out and the offseason is settling its side bets. Daniel Negreanu won his own 25K Fantasy League for the first time in fifteen years as commissioner, t…

July 29, 2026

Day 65

The Nielsen numbers finally landed and they are not the ones the WSOP wanted. Card Player's Tim Fiorvanti reported that the first block of edited Main Event epi…

July 28, 2026

Day 64

Six days to the restart, and the offseason finally handed us something better than ratings math. Phil Hellmuth sat down with PokerNews and reasserted, out loud,…

July 27, 2026

Day 63

Day eleven of the offseason, seven days to the restart, and poker's big TV comeback got its report card. The Nielsen numbers are in for the July 21 ESPN2 debut:…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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, …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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 …

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,…

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…

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…

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…