WSOP 2026: Rainer Tews Leads DACH Players into Day 2B of the Colossus

The second starting day of the $1 Colossus at the World Series of Poker 2026 ended with 612 players remaining.At Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas, the second flight of the $1 No-Limit Hold’em Colossus (Event #34) of WSOP 2026 took place. 15 blind levels were played, and during the first twelve levels, players could register or make a re-entry. Another $1.3 million has been added to the prize pool.At the end, 612 players bagged their chips. Cody Little from the USA is in the lead with 1.09 million. Rainer Tews (42nd/540,000) from Germany made it into the top 50. Jan-Henrik Westerhoff (361,000), Frank Stumpf (308,000), Alexandre Besse (258,000), Matthias Kaltenberger (209,000), Jandrik Faulhaber (194,000), Nicole Eisenblätter-Todtmann (179,000), Sung-Woo Hwang (171,000), Andre Ostrowski (100,000), and David Wintersberger (54,000) also advanced.

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World Series of Poker 2026

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WSOP Event #34: No-Limit Hold’em Colossus

Buy-In: $1 Entries: tba (2,684/3,129/-/-) Prize Pool: tba Paid Places: tbaRemaining Players: tba (501/612/-/-) Blinds: 4,000/8,000; BB Ante: 8,000Reports: Day 1A

Top Chip Counts from Day 1B

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Cody Little	United States	1,094,000
2	Kristaps Kalva	United States	1,011,000
3	Brian Bishop	United States	1,000,065
4	Qun Dang	China	874,000
5	Bin Duan	United States	853,000
6	Davide Marangio	Italy	810,000
7	Bryan Wienhoff	United States	791,000
8	Ruman Meman	United States	787,000
9	Paulo Villena Gini	Brazil	780,000
10	Todd Butts	United States	779,000
11	Santiago Sanchez	Spain	758,000
12	Jason Sills	United States	757,000
13	Brandon Waller	United States	749,000
14	Mihail Kocevski	United States	746,000
15	Alexander Greenblatt	United States	737,000
16	Andrew Sanchez		728,000
17	Henry Black		713,000
18	Joseph McGowan	United States	705,000
19	Francisco Pulido	Spain	658,000
20	Rhys Price		655,000
21	Gene Boyer	United States	650,000
22	Jonathan Kerfman		640,000
23	Mikhail Zavoloka	Russian Federation	637,000
24	Stanley Weiss		635,000
25	Ben Ross	United States	633,000

For other chip counts, see the WSOP LIVE App