WSOP 2026: Justin Smith wins $550,000 in the Colossus

Justin Smith emerged victorious on Day 4 of the $1 Colossus at the World Series of Poker 2026 held at Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas, earning his first bracelet.Nine players returned for Day 4 in the $1 No-Limit Hold’em Colossus (Event #34) of WSOP 2026. In the very first blind level, Min Ji was eliminated ($1,171) with against Justin Smith’s .In the third knockout, Eric Baldwin ($1,000) ran his Baby Ace into the Aces of Myles German. Shortly after, Andrew Sanchez ($1,000) fell in a kicker duel with flopped top pair against Yuefan Wang.6th place went to Karabet Keshishyan ($1,000). The American was all-in with against Jose Orozco Gomez’s and the board was dealt . Orozco Gomez ($1,000) then departed with against Victor Chong’s .In the eighth blind level, the action moved to heads-up. Justin Smith hit with on the board against Yuefan Wang ($1,000) while Victor Chong ($1,000) went all-in with until the turn, which brought , against Justin Smith’s (River: ).The heads-up concluded shortly after. Myles German ($1,000) went all-in on the button with , Justin Smith called with and hit the board for the flush.

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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 –> WSOP Bracelet Schedule –> WSOP.com Online Bracelet Schedule –>> Las Vegas Poker  –> Daily Deepstacks Schedule –> WSOP Live Satellites –> 2026 World Series of Poker Official Tournament Rules

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

Buy-In: $1 Entries: 16,269 Prize Pool: $1,751,635 Paid Places (D3+): 303Reports: Day 1A – Day 1B – Day 1C – Day 1D – Day 2A – Day 2B – Day 2C – Day 2D – Day 3

Top 100 Payouts

Rank	Player	Country	Payout
1	Justin Smith	United States	$1,000
2	Myles German	United States	$1,000
3	Victor Chong	Malaysia	$1,000
4	Yuefan Wang	United States	$1,000
5	Jose Orozco Gomez	Mexico	$1,000
6	Karabet Keshishyan	United States	$1,000
7	Andrew Sanchez	United States	$1,000
8	Eric Baldwin	United States	$1,000
9	Min Ji	United Kingdom	$1,171
10	Justin Datloff	United States	$1,200
11	Michael Chesney	United States	$1,200
12	Minjoo Cho	Korea, Republic of	$1,600
13	Eric Baldwin	United States	$1,600
14	Matthew Blagg	United States	$1,100
15	Tyler Kolness	United States	$1,100
16	Luke Purcell	United States	$1,100
17	Joel Gilmore	United States	$1,100
18	Kentaro Okawa	Japan	$1,200
19	Andreu Lluch	United States	$1,200
20	Brennen Bryant	United States	$1,200
21	Junjie Tang	China	$1,200
22	Gal Naim	Israel	$1,200
23	Ben Fan	China	$1,200
24	Matthew Gross	United States	$1,200
25	Jeffory Saunders	Canada	$1,200
26	Wesley Cannon	United States	$1,200
27	Yurii Zabrodotskyi	Ukraine	$1,700
28	Ran Yi	Canada	$1,700
29	Jeannine Tonigold	Netherlands	$1,700
30	Renato Manalo	United States	$1,700
31	Tobias Dammeier	Germany	$1,700
32	Michael Elbilia	United States	$1,700
33	Clifford Mills	United States	$1,700
34	James Quiles		$1,700
35	Guozhi Li	China	$1,700
36	Koray Korkmaz	Turkey	$1,000
37	Jamie Martin	United States	$1,000
38	Stephen Song	United States	$1,000
39	David Dibiasio	United States	$1,000
40	Alon Messica	Canada	$1,000
41	Alan Nosonchuk	United States	$1,000
42	Ai Tsuchiya	Japan	$1,000
43	Mehmet Cetinkaya	United States	$1,000
44	Joseph Riley	United States	$1,000
45	Lin Zhou	China	$1,200
46	Forrest Kollar	United States	$1,200
47	Tyler Davila	United States	$1,200
48	Kelly Roper	United States	$1,200
49	Tomohiro Suzuki	Japan	$1,200
50	Timothe Labassa	France	$1,200
51	Kyle Grosshanten	United States	$1,200
52	Brent Crouch	United States	$1,200
53	Jason O’Loughlin	United States	$1,200
54	Ben Ramon	United States	$1,900
55	Van Tran	Netherlands	$1,900
56	Brian Lehman	United States	$1,900
57	Avraham Rosenberg	United States	$1,900
58	Zinan Xu	China	$1,900
59	Sebastian Molka	Germany	$1,900
60	Leonardo Santana	Brazil	$1,900
61	Nagaraju Bandiananthaiah	United States	$1,900
62	John Kim	United States	$1,900
63	Sean Jazayeri	United States	$1,100
64	Jonas Lauck	Germany	$1,100
65	Zilong Fang	United States	$1,100
66	Al Fallahi	United States	$1,100
67	Sejo Kasic	Croatia	$1,100
68	Hang Xu	China	$1,100
69	Jacky Lee	United States	$1,100
70	Adi Lip	United States	$1,100
71	Bennett McLaughlin	United States	$1,100
72	Frank Giaramida	United States	$1,600
73	Laurent Colet	Belgium	$1,600
74	Frederic Maniez	France	$1,600
75	Tanner Martinelli	United States	$1,600
76	David Neal	United States	$1,600
77	Christopher Morgan	United States	$1,600
78	Matin Talebi	Denmark	$1,600
79	Mei Seow	Malaysia	$1,600
80	Xing Wei	United States	$1,600
81	Bin Duan	United States	$1,400
82	Sihao Zhang	Luxembourg	$1,400
83	Rolf Nordstrom	United States	$1,400
84	Edward Capell		$1,400
85	Steven Gaush	United States	$1,400
86	Steven McCartney	United States	$1,400
87	Thiago Philipps Machado	Brazil	$1,400
88	Yucheng Liu		$1,400
89	Romik Vartzar	United States	$1,400
90	Min Zhang	China	$1,400
91	Brandon Navarrete	United States	$1,400
92	Kfir Nahum	Israel	$1,400
93	Adrian Jimenez	United States	$1,400
94	Jeremy Yap	United States	$1,400
95	Yuchen Jiang	United States	$1,400
96	Jeremy Armstrong	United States	$1,400
97	Lewis Jacobson	United States	$1,400
98	Garry Gurevich	United States	$1,400
99	Rami Slaieh	Israel	$1,600
100	Hasnain Sm	United States	$1,600

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