WSOP 2026: Niederreiter and Fröhli as Big Stacks in the Summer Celebration Final

Day 1B of the $1 Summer Celebration at the World Series of Poker 2026 at Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas ended with 217 players. Fabian Niederreiter and Andreas Fröhli are in 2nd and 10th place.The second flight in the $1 No-Limit Hold’em Summer Celebration (Event #81) of the WSOP 2026 attracted an additional 4,219 entries, bringing the total prize pool to $1.76 million.633 participants secured a cash payout. Among them were Nicolas Balet (624th/$1,600), Tobias Rohe (551st/$1,600), Timo Trems (529th/$1,600), Christian Winkler (506th/$1,600), Tobias Matuschek (493rd/$1,600), Phillip Bruns (468th/$1,600), Manuel Fischer (462nd/$1,600), Tomislav Peric (404th/$1,680), Fabio Muhr (381st/$1,680), Andreas Mages (376th/$1,680), Andreas Staschewski (332nd/$1,830), and Garlef Rinner (252nd/$1,260).At the end of the day, 217 players remained at the tables. American player Kamran Jamal (2.20 million) leads, closely followed by Fabian Niederreiter (2.20 million). Andreas Fröhli (1.44 million) is also well positioned. Also making it to the final day are Fabio Franchini (765,000), Andreas Krause (745,000), Harald Sammer (465,000), Robert Rohr (430,000), and Samir Al-Massri (325,000).

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World Series of Poker 2026

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WSOP Event #81: No-Limit Hold’em Summer Celebration

Buy-In: $1 Entries: 6,803 (2,584/4,219) Prize Pool: $1,762,100 Paid Places: TBARemaining Players: 341 (124/217) Blinds: 20,000/40,000; BB Ante: 40,000Reports: Day 1A

Top Chip Counts from Day 1B

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Kamran Jamal	United States	2,200,000
2	Fabian Niederreiter	Germany	2,150,000
3	Yi Klassen	United States	2,070,000
4	Naushad Ali	United States	1,895,000
5	Ozren Cvijanovic	Serbia	1,735,000
6	Ryan Southworth		1,700,000
7	Yijie Zhang	United States	1,669,000
8	Mauro Sosa	Argentina	1,470,000
9	William Steinmetz	United States	1,460,000
10	Andreas Frohli	Austria	1,440,000
11	Toby Price	United States	1,435,000
12	Shane Thorne	United States	1,435,000
13	Aaron Craig		1,420,000
14	Cedric Seguin	France	1,420,000
15	Michael Moncek	United States	1,410,000
16	Anthony Dery	France	1,400,000
17	Sungwoo Tae	United States	1,385,000
18	Diego Dos Santos	Argentina	1,375,000
19	Franck Jacon	France	1,335,000
20	Nathan Tang	Canada	1,325,000
21	Justus Marsico	United States	1,305,000
22	Robert Lewison	United States	1,305,000
23	Jason James	Canada	1,300,000
24	Jhon Rua		1,285,000
25	Jiacheng Wang		1,245,000

Final chip counts can be found in the WSOP LIVE App.