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WSOP 2026: Strong Field at the $2,500 NLH Freezeout

Mark Michael
A strong field presented itself at the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Freezeout (#49) of the World Series of Poker 2026 at Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas, with the payout spots within reach after Day 1. Matthias Auer leads the DACHs into Day 2.Last year, Cary Katz won the bracelet with 1,299 entries. This year, 1,561 players came to the tables, creating a pot of $1,473,225. The top 235 positions were paid, with a minimum cash of $1,000. The winner will not only receive the bracelet but can also look forward to $1,885.As always, many familiar faces were found at the tables, although many had already exited before the end of Day 1. 15 levels of 40 minutes each were completed, reducing the original field of 1,561 participants down to 275. James Goldblatt secured the lead with a chip count of 708,000. The German-speaking players are not quite at the top, with Matthias Auer being the best at rank 34.
RankNameCountryChip Count
34Matthias AuerAustria338,000
50Karo NuriSwitzerland278,000
78Adi RajkovicAustria228,000
87Sebastian SchulzeGermany217,000
208Stefan KiwischAustria93,000
266Nils PudelGermany39,000
271Siegfried FriedlAustria35,000
Day 2 begins 40 places before the payout spots at the blinds of 3,000/6,000/6,000, with level duration increasing to 60 minutes.
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World Series of Poker 2026

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WSOP Event #49: No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout

Buy-In: $1,500 Entries: 1,561 Prize Pool: $1,473,225 Paid Positions: 235Remaining Players: TBA Blinds: 3,000/6,000/6,000

Payouts

RankPayout
1$1,885
2$1,970
3$1,800
4$1,210
5$1,170
6$1,590
7$1,390
8$1,780
9$1,840
 10 – 11$1,230
 12 – 13$1,050
14 – 17$1,610
18 – 26$1,470
27 – 35$1,300
36 – 44$1,830
45 – 53$1,920
54 – 62$1,420
63 – 71$1,240
72 – 80$1,310
81 – 89$1,580
90 – 98$1,010
99 – 125$1,570
126 – 152$1,240
153 – 235$1,000

Chip Counts from Day 1

RankNameCountryChip Count
1James GoldblattUnited States780,000
2Gerald StognerUnited States646,000
3Thomas HallUnited Kingdom635,000
4Honghao ZhangUnited States510,000
5John YpmaUnited States495,000
6Marco JohnsonUnited States490,000
7Faraz JakaUnited States482,000
8Alexander CondonUnited States460,000
9Scott DrobesUnited States457,000
10Srivinay IrrinkiUnited States452,000
11Christian RobertsVenezuela452,000
12Loris GauthierFrance448,000
13Michael MizrachiUnited States437,000
14Vamerdino MagsakayPhilippines436,000
15Michael LetalCanada428,000
16Joseph MckeehenUnited States425,000
17Konstantin CugunovCosta Rica420,000
18Benoit FiassonFrance418,000
19Adam WaltonUnited States416,000
20Hernan NovickUruguay405,000
21Ruslan Zakharchuk398,000
22Yifu HeUnited States383,000
23Joshua StewartUnited Kingdom378,000
24Anton Mr Dragos-Florin376,000
25Ihor PopykUkraine374,000
26Yohwan LimKorea. Republic of371,000
27Sebastian HarasimPoland367,000
28Joel VanettenUnited States362,000
29Tyler PattersonUnited States362,000
30Joshua ManusUnited States357,000
31Zhi YangCanada355,000
32Kenzo IshidaJapan350,000
33Antonios PoziadisGreece340,000
34Matthias AuerAustria338,000
35Yossi EluzIsrael334,000
36Felipe Fontoura KetzerBrazil327,000
37Jordan SchneibleUnited States319,000
38Union LungUnited States319,000
39Edgard SalibaCanada309,000
40Ning ChuChina304,000
41Kazuhiro ShirasawaJapan303,000
42Tony LinChina303,000
43Hao-Shan HuangTaiwan302,000
44Yu CenChina301,000
45Caleb FurthUnited States296,000
46Timothy MilesUnited States294,000
47Joseph Dirosarojas294,000
48Christopher DombrowskiUnited States289,000
49Daniel JacksonUnited Kingdom280,000
50Karo NuriSwitzerland278,000
51Joseph RileyUnited States277,000
52Ravi RaghavanUnited States276,000
53Naoya KiharaJapan274,000
54Nikolay YosifovBulgaria271,000
55Amit KaushikIndia270,000
56Phillip HuiUnited States269,000
57Won LimUnited States267,000
58Thomas MccormickUnited States264,000
59Yunlei Lu264,000
60Tyler MontoyaUnited States263,000
61Guillermo Sanchez OteroSpain260,000
62Radoslav StoyanovBulgaria258,000
63Ke GongUnited States258,000
64Diana KalietinaUkraine257,000
65Arthur ThiriartBelgium254,000
66Xiaozhe LiuChina253,000
67Ian OharaUnited States253,000
68Elliot SmithCanada250,000
69Michael MoffettUnited States248,000
70Hewr Tarkhany243,000
71Filipp KhavinUnited States243,000
72Stanley LeeUnited States242,000
73Rudy CervantesUnited States241,000
74Jaime ReyesUnited States240,000
75Brandon SheilsUnited Kingdom240,000
76Hans Phifer234,000
77Joseph KuetherUnited States228,000
78Adi RajkovicAustria228,000
79Pyeongkang KimKorea. Republic of227,000
80Jamey MckayUnited States225,000
81Renat BohdanovUkraine225,000
82Daniel EscherichUnited States225,000
83Yuan LeiChina221,000
84Tanner PrayUnited States220,000
85Tom ShahamIsrael220,000
86Christos ArgyriadisGreece220,000
87Sebastian SchulzeGermany217,000
88Nikola Boseovski217,000
89Danilo RagasaUnited States210,000
90Daniel ColpoysUnited States209,000
91Victor ParedesUnited States209,000
92Eric BlairUnited States209,000
93Lawrence BrandtUnited States209,000
94Junfeng WangAustralia208,000
95Zheming ZhuChina206,000
96Brandon ConradUnited States205,000
97Wen LyuChina203,000
98Ran YiCanada198,000
99Michael AllenUnited Kingdom198,000
100Hayasaki Yoshitaka198,000
101Adam OwenUnited Kingdom194,000
102Rohan SanganeriaUnited States192,000
103Andrew FrankenbergerUnited States191,000
104Fred LiUnited States189,000
105Khoi Le NguyenNam189,000
106David Rheem187,000
107John OnealUnited States186,000
108Michael UngUnited States185,000
109Tristan WadeUnited States185,000
110Gabriel SchroederBrazil183,000
111Javier GarcirreynaldosSpain180,000
112Oscar SosaMexico180,000
113Anthony Larocca179,000
114Rania NasreddineUnited States177,000
115Ryan HillerUnited States177,000
116Joseph CheongUnited States176,000
117Leonor MargetsSpain174,000
118Rafael MotaBrazil174,000
119David ShortUnited States173,000
120Jessica RichardsUnited States172,000
121Tyler Gentry169,000
122Adrian CurryUnited States169,000
123Sebastien GraxFrance168,000
124David JenkinsUnited States167,000
125Yi LiUnited States167,000
126Michael AmatoUnited States166,000
127James MacmillanUnited States166,000
128Yuanzhi CaoUnited States165,000
129John RipnickUnited States164,000
130Paul NeweyUnited Kingdom160,000
131H Hinton160,000
132Maria KonnikovaUnited States159,000
133David PetersUnited States158,000
134Anze SmajdSlovenia157,000
135Ryan Galpern157,000
136Jorge UfanoSpain156,000
137Cedric SchwaederleFrance156,000
138Gytis LazauninkasLithuania156,000
139Jonathan TamayoUnited States156,000
140Konstantin ShukhmanCanada156,000
141Marco ZevolaArgentina155,000
142Tyler KolnessUnited States152,000
143Wenxin HuangUnited States150,000
144Yuya TakahashiJapan150,000
145Jakub SterbaCzechia149,000
146Michael LavenburgUnited States148,000
147Aram OganyanUnited States147,000
148Timothy ChungHong Kong145,000
149Aditya AgarwalIndia143,000
150Antonio RuelasUnited States142,800
151Antonin HaysFrance142,000
152Toby JoyceIreland142,000
153Jake SchwartzUnited States140,000
154Piotr KrupaUnited States138,000
155Chang Yu ChungTaiwan135,000
156Dennis AlonzoUnited States134,000
157Rajesh VohraUnited States134,000
158Jiyang GanChina133,000
159Michael DolleUnited States133,000
160Caio De Lucca SobralBrazil133,000
161David DibernardiUnited States132,000
162Jinho HongKorea. Republic of132,000
163Mukul PahujaUnited States132,000
164Dean RuanUnited States131,000
165Jose RodriguezHonduras131,000
166Caleb PideritUnited States131,000
167Timothy Hempleman130,000
168Eli RossUnited States129,000
169Fang MeiUnited States128,000
170Ori HassonIsrael128,000
171Earl GoodmanUnited States127,000
172Tristan ForgeFrance126,000
173Adrian StateRomania125,000
174Obada Mustafa122,500
175Daniel SepiolUnited States121,000
176Leo SomaFrance120,000
177Gerardo RodriguezPeru120,000
178Aleks DimitrovBulgaria120,000
179Nicolas Halvorson119,000
180Benjamin UnderwoodCanada118,000
181Daniel LazrusUnited States118,000
182Shawn BuchananCanada117,000
183Marcelo MerelesParaguay117,000
184Caleb Harris117,000
185Daniel LefebvreCanada115,000
186Alexander YenUnited States113,000
187Jed FriedmanUnited States112,000
188Juan SanchezSpain112,000
189Hiroki KaratsuJapan109,000
190Jonathan Stabb108,000
191Mei SeowMalaysia107,000
192Alex AntonUnited States105,000
193David LinUnited States105,000
194Jan SvecSlovakia105,000
195Johannes StraverNetherlands104,000
196Jiang PuUnited Kingdom104,000
197Michael LavinUnited States103,000
198Alexander MassmanUnited States101,000
199Justin JonesUnited States100,000
200Maria LampropoulouArgentina100,000
201Alexandre HeranFrance100,000
202Altynai FungUnited States98,000
203Vassilios Maniotis98,000
204Derek DewittUnited States98,000
205Sriharsha DoddapaneniIndia97,000
206Kyosuke NagamiJapan95,000
207Max PinnolaUnited States93,000
208Stefan KiwischAustria93,000
209Joseph SkinnerUnited States92,000
210Leo LombardozziFrance90,000
211Michelle ChinUnited States90,000
212Chang TanHong Kong90,000
213Mattias HansenDenmark90,000
214Michael ShivnenUnited States89,000
215Timothy Flynn89,000
216Richard DubiniArgentina86,000
217Michael HoltzUnited States86,000
218Lee Haikal86,000
219Sirak Oganisian86,000
220Adrian TivadarRomania84,000
221Robert RenaudCanada83,000
222Alexander SokolovskySerbia83,000
223Hyndi KhomutetskyUnited States82,000
224Siddhesh KudtarkarUnited States82,000
225Cody BrinnUnited States81,000
226Kasey Armstrong80,000
227Timur MargolinIsrael79,300
228Paul MullerUnited States79,000
229Artem MetalidiUkraine78,000
230Bradley JansenUnited States78,000
231Tony MilesUnited States78,000
232Can MiralTurkey76,000
233Raymond LeoneUnited States76,000
234Bob ShaoUnited States73,000
235Tyler HirschfeldUnited States72,000
236Sacha RymlandFrance72,000
237Brooks FloydUnited States71,000
238Aaron OvertonUnited States71,000
239Ryan Hollaender71,000
240Hui WangChina70,000
241Joey WeissmanUnited States70,000
242Christopher VitchUnited States70,000
243Corey Hudson70,000
244Gabriel CunhaBrazil70,000
245Rabia LewUnited States67,000
246Louis LeboisselierFrance67,000
247Antoine SankariCanada65,000
248Andrew KelsallUnited States65,000
249Hugues GirardFrance64,000
250Jeffrey TanouyeUnited States62,000
251Joseph SerockUnited States62,000
252David Carvalho60,000
253Sihao ZhangLuxembourg59,300
254Chunhui JiChina59,000
255Demetrius CampbellUnited States59,000
256Gaston CatzmanArgentina58,000
257Ibrahim NaimUnited States58,000
258Sang SimUnited States58,000
259Sandeep DevarshettyUnited States58,000
260Justin ZakiUnited States56,000
261Mark TeltscherUnited Kingdom55,500
262Vincent MoscatiUnited States55,000
263Nikesh Chawla50,000
264Anatoly FilatovRussian Federation49,000
265Rafi ElhararIsrael46,000
266Nils PudelGermany39,000
267Clemen DengUnited States35,000
268Robert Zend-Gabori35,000
269Shannon ShorrUnited States35,000
270Frederic NormandCanada35,000
271Siegfried FriedlAustria35,000
272Michael PerskyUnited States35,000
273Christopher ShebatUnited States25,000
274Joao MatosPortugal15,600
275Daniyal GhebaUnited States4,000
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