After four starting flights and 12 days total of action on the felt, the 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event has reached the official final table. Out of the 9,208-strong field, there are now just nine potential champions left in contention. Each one of them has already locked up a guaranteed $1,000,000, with an incredible $10,000,000 awaiting the winner.
Potential history-makers fell on Day 8, with nine-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb, previous Main Event champion Hossein Ensan, and Hall of Famer Todd Brunson, son of the late Doyle Brunson, all hitting the rail and bringing their Main Event runs to an end.
Lucas Jumalon bagged the chip lead at the end of Day 8 with 194,000,000, putting himself well ahead of the rest of the field. The 22-year old is on track to become one of the youngest Main Event champions of all time, behind only Joe Cada, who won it when he was just 21-years and 357 days old.
Jumalon owns around a third of all chips in play. He finished the day with over twice the stack of second place Rami Hammoud, who bagged 79,000,000. Jamie Shaevel rounded out the podium positions with 56,000,0000.
Three-time bracelet winner Greg Mueller and four-time bracelet winner Michael Gagliano sat in fourth and fifth place, respectively, and are among the most experienced players still left in the Main Event.
End of Day 8 Chip Counts
| Position | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Lucas Jumalon | United States | 194,000,000 |
| 2 |  Rami Hammoud | Canada | 79,000,000 |
| 3 | Jamie Shaevel | United States | 56,000,000 |
| 4 | Greg Mueller | Canada | 48,500,000 |
| 5 | Michael Gagliano | United States | 46,500,000 |
| 6 |  Mario Boos | France | 44,000,000 |
| 7 |  Lauri Saaskilahti | Finland | 37,500,000 |
| 8 | Han Feng | United States | 25,000,000 |
| 9 |  Evagoras Evagorou | Cyprus | 22,500,000 |
Meet the Final Nine WSOP Main Event Players
Let’s get to know the Final Nine players who are still in contention for the 2026 WSOP Main Event bracelet. In order of chip counts, they are:
Lucas Jumalon – 194,000,000
A recreational player from the USA, Jumalon had just over $180,000 in live tournament winnings to his name prior to making the Main Event final table, so he has already crushed that amount whatever he cashes. The 22-year-old is looking to become the second youngest WSOP champion in history as he enters the Final Table with a substantial chip lead. A huge moment came for Jumalon when he flopped a set of jacks against Malcolm Trayner, improving to a full house and gaining maximum value with a large river bet.
Rami Hammoud – 79,000,000
Rami Hammoud is a Canadian player with a little over $500,000 in live tournament winnings. He’s had some deep runs in previous WSOP bracelet events, including a fifth place finish in the 2024 Salute to Warriors, which yielded his biggest score of $57,420. Hammoud adds at least a million dollars to that tally when he returns, and is well positioned for a top place finish.
Jamie Shaevel – 56,000,000
Jamie Shaevel is from the USA and had around $450,000 in live tournament winnings prior to his deep run. Don’t be deceived, though. Shaevel is mostly a cash game player and only really calls in on the tournament scene to play the World Series. The furthest he got was a 100th place finish in the 2011 edition, which he has now surpassed in the most impressive way possible. After four cashes this summer, he’ll be thrilled to make the final table of an event he has returned to time and time again.
Greg Mueller – 48,500,000
Greg Mueller is one of only two players left in contention who already has a WSOP bracelet, and has three to his name. With over $3.5 million in tournament winnings and plenty of WSOP final table results to his name, the Canadian pro poses a serious threat to the less experienced players who sit above him in the counts. Still, Mueller will need to spin up his 32 big blind stack to gain the leverage he needs to fully push that edge when the final table commences.
Michael Gagliano – 46,500,000
Sitting only a couple of million chips behind is the only other WSOP bracelet owner, Michael Gagliano. With just under $2.3 million in live tournament winnings before this run, Gagliano is certainly experienced on the felt. But that total under represents what he’s actually capable of. Known as ‘Gags30’, Gagliano is a prolific online pro and poker coach, and may well be the best player heading into the WSOP Main Event final table.
Mario Boos – 44,000,000
Mario Boos is a French player who had $233,868 in live tournament winnings prior to his run. Boos is relatively new to the world of live poker, with all of his recorded results coming in 2025 and 2026. His biggest cash so far was at the Italian Poker Sport series in Rozvadov, where he locked up a $54,659 prize for sixth place. Interestingly, if Boos won the WSOP Main Event he would skyrocket up to sixth place on the French all-time money list. We could be witnessing a rising star.
Lauri Saaskilahti – 37,500,000
Lauri Saaskilahti is one of several players who made the 2026 WSOP Main Event final table who it’s fair to say is recreational. Saaskilahti has $138,454 in live tournament winnings. His two biggest results come from deep runs in the EPT Barcelona Main Event in 2023, and later in 2025 when he came 14th for € 70,900. This will be his first result outside of Barcelona and his largest by far as Saaskilahti becomes the deepest running Finnish player in WSOP history.
Han Feng – 25,000,000
Han Feng of the USA is one of the more experienced players to make the 2026 WSOP Main Event final table. He’s already racked up close to $2 million in live tournament earnings, with much of that coming in the form of five and six-figure scores from mid-stakes events across the States, for which he won the 2024 GPI Mid-Major Player of the Year. Feng stands near the bottom of the pack and returns to the final table in need of a spin up with 17 big blinds.
Evagoras Evagorou – 22,500,000
Coming to the Main Event final table as the shortest stack is Evagoras Evagorou with 22,500,000, just 15 big blinds. The Cypriot will be happy to have already locked up $1,000,000, dwarfing his previous live winnings of $252,164 and his earlier runs in the summer, such as his 15th place finish in the $600 Deepstack Championship for $13,848. The only tournament Evagorou has won before is a $100 Daily at Caesars, so you can only imagine what this means to him.
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Legends, Champions and Chip Leaders Fall on Day 8
Several legendary players were among those to fall on Day 8. Nine-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb’s run came shortly after the dinner break, finally bringing to a close a dilemma that had apparently been bugging Deeb for days. He came 15th for $410,475.
He could then finally register other events and continue racking of those Player of the Year points. Deeb wasted little time, immediately regging the $500 Summer Saver, then the $25,000 High Roller H.O.R.S.E.
Todd Brunson, the son of poker legend Doyle Brunson, and himself a bracelet winner and Hall of Famer, returned on Day 8 with 15 big blinds. Brunson managed to spin up that stack, tripling up with A♦K♦ against Q♥Q♣ and K♥K♣ when he hit an ace on the river to find top pair.
Brunson’s run, however, came to an end soon after when he pocket aces were cracked by Malcolm Trayner’s A♣J♣ when Trayner rivered his flush. The father-son final table story was not to be, as Brunson crashed out in 20th place for $325,000.
Hossein Ensan was also one to watch on Day 8 as the only former Main Event champion still in the mix. Looking to make it two, Ensan got his A♠Q♣ all-in preflop, only to run into Gagliano’s pocket kings. Gagliano improved to a set, and Ensan’s dream of making it two ended as he was eliminated in 13th place for $510,000.
Start of Day 8 chip leader Malcolm Trayner was the last to bust before the final table was set. Trayner was left short when Evagorou doubled up through him, then shoved the turn with two pair only to get counterfeited by Jumalon with king-high. Trayner hit the rail in tenth for $750,000, while Jumalon added to his massive stack as players bagged up their chips.
What’s Next at the 2026 World Series of Poker?
With the final table now set, all that’s left is for the final nine players to compete for the championship. This will take place across three days on August 3, 4 and 5th, and will be televised on ESPN.
The remaining players have each locked up $1,000,000, with the pay jumps at the final table jumping from the hundreds of thousands to the millions. The winner is set to take home $10,000,000.
| Date | Time | Day |
| Monday, August 3 | 6:00 PM | Final Table Day 1 |
| Tuesday, August 4 | 6:00 PM | Final Table Day 2 |
| Wednesday, August 5 | 6:00 PM | Final Table Day 3 |
2026 WSOP Main Event in Numbers
- Day 1a – 722 entries, 543 players advanced
- Day 1b – 1,038 entries, 759 advanced
- Day 1c – 1573 entries, 1166 advanced
- Day 1d – 4,694 entries, 3638 advanced
- Day 2abc – 2,780 returned or late regged, 1,260 advanced
- Day 2d – 4,458 returned or late regged, 2,034 advanced
- Day 3 – 3,294 returned, 1,389 advanced
- Day 4 – 1,389 returned, 533 advanced
- Day 5 – 533 returned, 174 advanced
- Day 6 – 174 returned, 62 advanced
- Day 7 – 62 to return, 21 advanced
- Day 8 – 21 returned, 9 advanced to final table
- Final Table Day 1 – 9 players set to return
Total entries – 9,208
Prize pool – $85,634,400
Top Prize – $10,000,000
2026 WSOP Main Event Remaining Payouts
| Place | Prize |
| 1 | $10,000,000 |
| 2 | $6,000,000 |
| 3 | $3,750,000 |
| 4 | $2,750,000 |
| 5 | $2,250,000 |
| 6 | $1,750,000 |
| 7 | $1,500,000 |
| 8 | $1,250,000 |
| 9 | $1,000,000 |
