WSOP 2026: Thomas Graupner advances as a Big Stack in the Mystery Millions

125 players survived Day 1B of the $1,000 Mystery Millions of the World Series of Poker 2026 at Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas. Thomas Graupner played his way to 4th place.In the second flight of the $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mystery Millions (Event #63) of WSOP 2026, there were 2,278 total entries. 342 players made it into the money, including Memik Sezer ($1,320), Joachim Meisolle ($1,320), Sandro Carucci ($1,320), Dirk Lünzer ($1,320), and Andreas Staschewski ($1,320).After 22 blind levels, 125 players remained at the tables. British player Simon Higgins leads the field with 2.89 million chips. Thomas Graupner (1.72 million) sits in 4th position, and Rene Majed (680,000) also made it to Day 2.

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World Series of Poker 2026

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WSOP Event #63: No-Limit Hold’em Mystery Millions

Buy-In: $1,000 Entries: tba (1,643/2,278/-/-/-/-) Prize Pool: tba Paid Places: tbaRemaining Players: tba (76/125/-/-/-/-) Blinds: 20,000/40,000; BB Ante: 40,000

Chip Counts from Day 1B

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Simon Higgins	United Kingdom	2,890,000
2	Hayato Kitajima	Japan	2,100,000
3	Avrohom Kraminer		1,820,000
4	Thomas Graupner	Germany	1,720,000
5	Wesley Garver	United States	1,710,000
6	Shachar Haran	Israel	1,685,000
7	Ha Kwan	United States	1,615,000
8	Julio Novo	United States	1,540,000
9	Thiago Arcapalo	Argentina	1,520,000
10	Victor Fryda	France	1,500,000
11	Gal Naim	Israel	1,440,000
12	Reiji Kono	Japan	1,345,000
13	Huu Nguyen	Viet Nam	1,315,000
14	Jacob Thibodeau	United States	1,310,000
15	Kevin Kent	United States	1,195,000
16	Sophos Song		1,170,000
17	Carlos Ferreiradasilva	Brazil	1,155,000
18	James Anderson	United States	1,130,000
19	Nicholas Browning	United States	1,115,000
20	Michael Byers	United States	1,085,000
21	Ryan Eamon	United States	1,075,000
22	Oswaldo Rojas	United States	1,050,000
23	Alfredo Sousa	Portugal	1,035,000
24	Shlomi Bracha		1,028,000
25	Bin Weng	United States	980,000
26	Timothe Labassa	France	975,000
27	Baptiste Carteau	France	960,000
28	Zong Zhang		955,000
29	Cindy Chen		945,000
30	Rusen Mat	Turkey	930,000
31	Charles Tabor	United States	920,000
32	Yuan Ding	United States	915,000
33	Steven Myers		865,000
34	Joan Crespi	Spain	855,000
35	Shumian Zhang		845,000
36	Josef Snejberg	Czechia	835,000
37	Miguel Tavares	Portugal	830,000
38	Thomas Pinaud	France	830,000
39	Yair Mergi		830,000
40	Arthur Hamra		830,000
41	Yaniv Peretz	Latvia	820,000
42	Daniel Cavazos	United States	775,000
43	Sanjeev Vora	United States	760,000
44	Aaron Hendi	United States	733,000
45	Hagai Ben Yair	Israel	730,000
46	Kevin Ayow	Canada	715,000
47	Dragana Mackelprang	United States	705,000
48	Furkan Beg	Turkey	700,000
49	Austin Tian	United States	695,000
50	Rene Majed	Germany	680,000
51	Shariq Khan	India	675,000
52	Chenxiang Miao	China	660,000
53	Tomoyuki Yoshimiya	Japan	655,000
54	Joel Legorreta		640,000
55	Liubomyr Melnyk	United States	630,000
56	Jonathan Tamayo	United States	625,000
57	James Bogart		625,000
58	Amirpasha Emami	Canada	620,000
59	Adam Croffut	United States	610,000
60	Tyler Filz		605,000
61	Nenad Medic	United States	600,000
62	Kaiwen Wei	United States	595,000
63	Ran Kadur	Israel	595,000
64	Shengming Luo		595,000
65	Hajime Watanabe	Japan	590,000
66	Georgios Tsouloftas	Cyprus	585,000
67	Valentyn Shabelnyk	Ukraine	585,000
68	Manuk Khazikyan	United States	575,000
69	Seth Toomer		575,000
70	Frederic Delval	United States	570,000
71	Leo Margets	Spain	560,000
72	Darryll Fish	United States	555,000
73	Jamey McKay	United States	550,000
74	Renta Krisgatos	Greece	545,000
75	Michael Katz	United States	540,000
76	Jeremy Routier	France	535,000
77	Ben Warrington	United Kingdom	530,000
78	Mei Seow	Malaysia	510,000
79	Arthur Gavrilov	United States	505,000
80	Brandon Zuidema	United States	500,000
81	Terri Turner	United States	500,000
82	Zachary Smiley	United States	475,000
83	Ignacio Sagra	Argentina	475,000
84	Andrew White	Australia	465,000
85	Daniel Li		465,000
86	Jaeheum Yu	Korea, Republic of	465,000
87	Felix Truelle		465,000
88	Michael Bills	United States	455,000
89	Rami Koren	Israel	455,000
90	Nicholas Funaro	United States	450,000
91	Carlos Guerrero	Colombia	450,000
92	David Leese	United States	445,000
93	Mohammad Habib Nia	United States	445,000
94	Vladislav Donchev	Bulgaria	435,000
95	Michael Estes	United States	415,000
96	Geronimo Timerman	Argentina	385,000
97	Sungwoo Tae	United States	385,000
98	Daniel Mcginnis	United States	385,000
99	Max Kingstone	United States	380,000
100	Shuhei Yoshida	Japan	375,000
101	Farhad Davoudzadeh	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	365,000
102	David Ivers	United States	355,000
103	Jonathan Park	United States	350,000
104	Gevork Alajajian		345,000
105	Bin Yuan	China	340,000
106	Cynthia Isip		335,000
107	Anderson Huang	United States	330,000
108	Florian Duta	Romania	315,000
109	Victor Caballero	Spain	315,000
110	James Gonzales	United States	280,000
111	Ramon Ugalde		253,000
112	Clinton Mcdonald	United States	240,000
113	Christopher Dombrowski	United States	235,000
114	Inh Vongvone	United States	230,000
115	Jacob Rich	United States	225,000
116	Matthew Kelly	United States	220,000
117	Blair Hinkle	United States	190,000
118	Cole Griffith	United States	190,000
119	Daniel Makowsky	Switzerland	175,000
120	Thomas Wingfield		170,000
121	Mason Jones	United States	155,000
122	Aaron Georgelos	United States	150,000
123	Nicholas Muranaka		140,000
124	Thomas Laviano	United States	117,000
125	Joseph Ebanks		105,000