The $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em (Event #26) of the World Series of Poker 2026 at Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas is down to twelve players. Erwann Pecheux from France is leading the way.The $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em (Event #26) of the WSOP 2026 started Day 2 with 160 players remaining. The money spot was reached by rank 146. The Money Bubble burst during the first blind level.Zexiang Sun went all-in preflop with
, while Wangcheng Yuan held
. The board
gave no help to Sun. The DACH players, including Nicolas Schnoz (141st/$1,004), Bernhard Binder (134th/$1,004), Oliver Bösch (115th/$1,004), Harald Sammer (106th/$1,004), and Hannes Jeschka (83rd/$1,361), were eliminated prematurely.At the end, twelve players bagged their chips. French player Erwann Pecheux (5,460,000 chips) is leading, followed by Ioannis Kapnopoulos (4,690,000 chips) from Greece. The finalists are guaranteed $1,430 each, with the winner taking home $1,064 and the bracelet.
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World Series of Poker 2026
Date: May 26 to July 15 /
Main Event Final Table August 3 – 5
Location: Horseshoe Las Vegas
Events: 100 live & 30 online
Buy-Ins: $1 to $1,000, online starting at $1
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Buy-In: $1,000
Entries: 968
Prize Pool: $1,723,040
Paid Places: 146Remaining Players: 12
Blinds: 30,000/60,000; BB Ante: 60,000Reports:
Day 1Chip Counts from Day 2
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|
| 1 | Erwann Pecheux | France | 5,460,000 |
| 2 | Ioannis Kapnopoulos | Greece | 4,685,000 |
| 3 | Braxton Dunaway | United States | 4,290,000 |
| 4 | Ivan Poroliev | Bulgaria | 2,230,000 |
| 5 | Sami Bechahed | France | 2,080,000 |
| 6 | Albert Calderon | United States | 2,050,000 |
| 7 | Yaniv Peretz | Latvia | 1,825,000 |
| 8 | Briant Alavez | Mexico | 1,620,000 |
| 9 | Kimon Fountoukidis | Poland | 1,615,000 |
| 10 | Brandon Mueller | United States | 1,600,000 |
| 11 | Flavien Guenan | France | 1,050,000 |
| 12 | Craig Mason | United States | 535,000 |
Payouts
| Rank | Player | Country | Payout |
|---|
| 1 | | | $1,064 |
| 2 | | | $1,997 |
| 3 | | | $1,294 |
| 4 | | | $1,783 |
| 5 | | | $1,300 |
| 6 | | | $1,862 |
| 7 | | | $1,868 |
| 8 | | | $1,600 |
| 9 | | | $1,912 |
| 10 | | | $1,031 |
| 11 | | | $1,031 |
| 12 | | | $1,430 |
| 13 | Jonathan Lawson | United States | $1,430 |
| 14 | Ryan Hiller | United States | $1,748 |
| 15 | Miguel Capriles | Venezuela | $1,748 |
| 16 | Bartlomiej Swieboda | Poland | $1,748 |
| 17 | Francis Petrillo | United States | $1,748 |
| 18 | Zachary Mcdiarmid | United States | $1,733 |
| 19 | Jason Darland | United States | $1,733 |
| 20 | Michael Newman | United States | $1,733 |
| 21 | Carlos Guerrero | United States | $1,733 |
| 22 | Aobo Li | United States | $1,733 |
| 23 | Edward Ochana | United States | $1,733 |
| 24 | Zephyr Peling | United States | $1,733 |
| 25 | William Gard | United States | $1,733 |
| 26 | Xuan Liu | Canada | $1,733 |
| 27 | Genady Mayzel | United States | $1,207 |
| 28 | Loic Debregeas | France | $1,207 |
| 29 | Konstantin Generalov | Russian Federation | $1,207 |
| 30 | Srivinay Irrinki | United States | $1,207 |
| 31 | Alexander Duvall | United States | $1,207 |
| 32 | Keyavash Hemyari | United States | $1,207 |
| 33 | Adrian Gouveia | United States | $1,207 |
| 34 | Juho Suutari | Finland | $1,207 |
| 35 | Zdenek Zizka | Czechia | $1,207 |
| 36 | Shiina Okamoto | Japan | $1,046 |
| 37 | Yulian Bogdanov | Bulgaria | $1,046 |
| 38 | James Baker | United Kingdom | $1,046 |
| 39 | Benjamin Lizares | United States | $1,046 |
| 40 | Frank Selldorff | United States | $1,046 |
| 41 | Adam Hendrix | United States | $1,046 |
| 42 | Chang Yu Chung | Taiwan | $1,046 |
| 43 | Lisa Xie | United States | $1,046 |
| 44 | Michael Berk | United States | $1,046 |
| 45 | Ran Yi | Canada | $1,162 |
| 46 | Jason Ryan | United States | $1,162 |
| 47 | Jose Nadal | Mexico | $1,162 |
| 48 | Freddy Fermin | United States | $1,162 |
| 49 | Takahiro Kidokoro | Japan | $1,162 |
| 50 | Yuefan Wang | United States | $1,162 |
| 51 | Jason Raber | United States | $1,162 |
| 52 | Michael Misikoff | United States | $1,162 |
| 53 | Aaron Kupin | United States | $1,162 |
| 54 | Ivan Deyra | France | $1,490 |
| 55 | Thai Ha | Vietnam | $1,490 |
| 56 | Brian Paneth | United States | $1,490 |
| 57 | Dennys Ramos | Brazil | $1,490 |
| 58 | Olivier Busquet | United States | $1,490 |
| 59 | George Peiov | Romania | $1,490 |
| 60 | Mark Richardson | United States | $1,490 |
| 61 | Ilan Boujenah | Israel | $1,490 |
| 62 | Jeremy Kerbel | United States | $1,490 |
| 63 | David Mcgowan | United States | $1,986 |
| 64 | Boshuang Gao | United States | $1,986 |
| 65 | Daniel Mcnally | United States | $1,986 |
| 66 | Joshua Faris | United States | $1,986 |
| 67 | Kristin Bertilson | | $1,986 |
| 68 | Daniel Lee | United States | $1,986 |
| 69 | Johnathan Cuevas | United States | $1,986 |
| 70 | Peter Kaemmerlen | United States | $1,986 |
| 71 | Kanishka Reddy | United States | $1,986 |
| 72 | Long Nguyen | United States | $1,617 |
| 73 | Hannes Van Wauwe | Belgium | $1,617 |
| 74 | Jonathan Tamayo | United States | $1,617 |
| 75 | Zinan Xu | China | $1,617 |
| 76 | Michael Klein | United States | $1,617 |
| 77 | John Palermino | United States | $1,617 |
| 78 | Joshua Schindler | | $1,617 |
| 79 | Casey Sandretto | United States | $1,617 |
| 80 | Wangcheng Yuan | United States | $1,617 |
| 81 | Michael Nia | United States | $1,361 |
| 82 | Manuel Estol | Argentina | $1,361 |
| 83 | Hannes Jeschka | Austria | $1,361 |
| 84 | Antoine Goutard | France | $1,361 |
| 85 | Ivaylo Mitrev | United States | $1,361 |
| 86 | Dean Eyman | United States | $1,361 |
| 87 | Stanton Tentnowski | United States | $1,361 |
| 88 | Justin Hankinson | United States | $1,361 |
| 89 | Ivan Ruban | Russian Federation | $1,361 |
| 90 | Dustin Wills | United States | $1,204 |
| 91 | Alex Tran | United States | $1,204 |
| 92 | Jovan Kenjic | Serbia | $1,204 |
| 93 | Brent Young | United States | $1,204 |
| 94 | Ankit Ahuja | India | $1,204 |
| 95 | Gang Xiong | United States | $1,204 |
| 96 | Petros Karadimos | Greece | $1,204 |
| 97 | Alex Alavi | United States | $1,204 |
| 98 | Aliaksandr Shylko | Belarus | $1,204 |
| 99 | Vadzim Lipauka | Belarus | $1,004 |
| 100 | Jason Palker | United States | $1,004 |
| 101 | Xiaohu Liu | China | $1,004 |
| 102 | Alexander Sokolovsky | Serbia | $1,004 |
| 103 | Shannon Fahey | United States | $1,004 |
| 104 | Joel Prelog | United States | $1,004 |
| 105 | Nikolay Yosifov | Bulgaria | $1,004 |
| 106 | Harald Sammer | Austria | $1,004 |
| 107 | Ali Ayub | United Kingdom | $1,004 |
| 108 | Ronald Mcginnity | United States | $1,004 |
| 109 | Jaime Haletky | United States | $1,004 |
| 110 | Nezar Aweida | United States | $1,004 |
| 111 | Edward Orlando | United States | $1,004 |
| 112 | Antonios Poziadis | Greece | $1,004 |
| 113 | Peter Dykes | Australia | $1,004 |
| 114 | Jack Loraine | United Kingdom | $1,004 |
| 115 | Oliver Bosch | Austria | $1,004 |
| 116 | Yu Liu | Canada | $1,004 |
| 117 | Guozhi Li | China | $1,004 |
| 118 | Sohale Khalili | United States | $1,004 |
| 119 | Brendan Shiller | United States | $1,004 |
| 120 | Peter Yang | United States | $1,004 |
| 121 | Ruoxiao Shi | United States | $1,004 |
| 122 | Jeffrey Silverstein | United States | $1,004 |
| 123 | Nicholas Rogers | United States | $1,004 |
| 124 | Allen Kerlin | United States | $1,004 |
| 125 | Chun Wong | United States | $1,004 |
| 126 | Clinton Wolcyn | United States | $1,004 |
| 127 | Antonius Samuel | United Kingdom | $1,004 |
| 128 | Eric Stangel | United States | $1,004 |
| 129 | Dorian Rios | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | $1,004 |
| 130 | Stephen Hubbard | United States | $1,004 |
| 131 | Mitchell Collins | United States | $1,004 |
| 132 | Gabriel Fuller | United Kingdom | $1,004 |
| 133 | Pengfei Wang | United States | $1,004 |
| 134 | Bernhard Binder | Austria | $1,004 |
| 135 | Brett Murray | United States | $1,004 |
| 136 | Jemson Gamet | France | $1,004 |
| 137 | Honcheong Lee | Hong Kong | $1,004 |
| 138 | Omer Rotman | Israel | $1,004 |
| 139 | Caleb Dagenhart | United States | $1,004 |
| 140 | Frank Brannan | United States | $1,004 |
| 141 | Nicolas Schnoz | Switzerland | $1,004 |
| 142 | Clemen Deng | United States | $1,004 |
| 143 | Robertson Yap | Philippines | $1,004 |
| 144 | Chad Lipton | United States | $1,004 |
| 145 | Darrell Funk | United States | $1,004 |
| 146 | Chahnhoon Jung | United States | $1,004 |
, while Wangcheng Yuan held 
. The board 
gave no help to Sun. The DACH players, including Nicolas Schnoz (141st/$1,004), Bernhard Binder (134th/$1,004), Oliver Bösch (115th/$1,004), Harald Sammer (106th/$1,004), and Hannes Jeschka (83rd/$1,361), were eliminated prematurely.At the end, twelve players bagged their chips. French player Erwann Pecheux (5,460,000 chips) is leading, followed by Ioannis Kapnopoulos (4,690,000 chips) from Greece. The finalists are guaranteed $1,430 each, with the winner taking home $1,064 and the bracelet.