WSOP 2026: Dennis Weiss also leads in the small Razz

Dennis Weiss leads the field in the $1.50 Razz Event #40 of the World Series of Poker 2026 at Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas into Day 2.519 entries created a prize pool of $1,973 for the small Razz event. The top 78 spots are paid, and as expected, many players moved close to the money by Day 1. 15 levels of 40 minutes were played, with only 104 players being eliminated. Dennis Weiss, who secured the Limit Hold’em Bracelet just a few days ago, is in clear control here with 354,500 chips. Sebastian Pauli (22/177k), Bernd Gleissner (93/47k), and Andreas Bremer (98/34,400) also made it to Day 2.Those who make the money have $1,046 guaranteed, with the bracelet winner receiving a $1,564 payout.

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World Series of Poker 2026

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WSOP Event #40: Razz

Buy-In: $1,500 Entries: 519 Prize Pool: $1,973 Paid Places: 78Remaining Players: TBD Limits: 6,000/12,000

Payouts

Position	Payout
1	$1,564
2	$1,354
3	$1,393
4	$1,589
5	$1,177
6	$1,850
7	$1,174
8	$1,247
9	$1,490
10 – 11	$1,530
12 – 15	$1,122
16 – 23	$1,102
24 – 31	$1,362
32 – 39	$1,828
40 – 47	$1,451
48 – 55	$1,198
56 – 78	$1,046

Top Chip Counts from Day 1

Rank	Name	Nation	Chip Count	Table	Seat
1	Dennis Weiss	Germany	354,500	86	2
2	Matt Grapenthien	United States	288,000	87	8
3	Adam Owen	United Kingdom	286,000	75	3
4	Brian Rast	United States	273,500	106	4
5	Rafael Baptista Flose	Brazil	251,000	107	3
6	Oscar Johansson	Sweden	243,000	74	2
7	Stephen Hubbard	United States	243,000	107	8
8	Jon Turner	United States	242,500	108	8
9	Michael Krescanko Jr	United States	241,500	89	8
10	Tobias Leknes	Norway	237,000	74	5
11	Robert Quiring	United States	229,000	87	6
12	David Shmuel	United States	227,000	86	8
13	Timothy Finne	United States	206,500	88	5
14	Jay Kerbel	United States	206,500	108	1
15	Vladas Tamasauskas	Lithuania	194,000	74	7
16	Marco Johnson	United States	194,000	100	8
17	John Kabbaj	United States	192,000	87	5
18	Todd Dakake	United States	186,500	88	8
19	Justin Hott	United States	178,500	76	8
20	Robert Mizrachi	United States	178,500	88	4
21	Paul Richardson	United States	178,000	76	6
22	Sebastian Pauli	Germany	177,000	98	3
23	Patrick Quealy	United States	172,000	108	5
24	Thomas Keller	United States	168,000	107	6
25	David Bach	United States	165,500	99	5
26	Donny Rubinstein	United States	164,000	74	1
27	Brad Ruben	United States	159,500	107	2
28	Justin Fawcett	United States	159,000	88	1
29	Lawrence Robinson	United States	155,500	74	3
30	David Bagheri	United States	151,200	106	1
31	Jeanne David	United States	150,500	75	7
32	Matt Vengrin	United States	149,500	108	7
33	Yong Wang	China	145,000	99	4
34	Daniel James	United Kingdom	142,500	76	3
35	Alfredo Leonidas	United States	142,500	100	1
36	Paul Lenkeit	United States	142,000	98	6
37	Chenxiang Miao	China	140,500	87	4
38	Brandon Shack-Harris	United States	139,000	107	4
39	Dominick Sarle	United States	138,000	86	6
40	Naoya Kihara	Japan	136,500	108	2
41	Brian Lieberman	United States	136,000	89	2
42	Christopher Viox	United States	132,000	88	6
43	Kamel Mokhammad	Ukraine	131,500	86	5
44	Brian Yoon	United States	131,500	100	6
45	Kathy Chang	United States	129,000	76	2
46	William Delsanto	United States	127,500	88	7
47	Irvin Garcia Ramirez	Mexico	127,500	107	5
48	John Monnette	United States	125,000	76	5
49	Rajendra Ajmani	United States	114,500	100	7
50	Eric Hoffman	United States	113,000	100	4
51	William Smith	United States	112,500	76	1
52	Ivan Dcunha	United States	112,500	99	7
53	Sebastian Crane	United Kingdom	108,000	88	3
54	Benjamin Goldstein	United States	104,100	106	2
55	Matthew Mortensen	United States	102,000	88	2
56	Richard Castro	United States	102,000	99	8
57	Jonathan Glendinning	United States	102,000	106	6
58	Anthony Willm	United States	100,500	87	7
59	Vincent Calicchia	United States	96,500	98	7
60	Albert Luna	United States	95,500	98	8
61	Eric Baldwin	United States	95,000	74	8
62	Joseph Tankersley	United States	93,500	99	2
63	Ian Crampton	United States	91,500	98	1
64	Brian Grayson	United States	90,000	75	6
65	David Danheiser	United States	89,000	86	1
66	Jason Atwood	United States	88,000	98	4
67	Richard Bremer	United States	87,500	106	3
68	Terry Fleischer	United States	87,100	75	2
69	Troy Evans	United States	86,500	99	6
70	Stephen Godfrey	United States	86,000	100	2
71	Paul Zappulla	United States	85,500	75	5
72	Todd Hansen	United States	83,500	89	7
73	Ariel Mantel	Argentina	83,000	98	5
74	Charles Townsend	United States	77,000	76	7
75	Michael Carey	United States	76,000	99	1
76	Shane Littlefield	United States	75,500	86	4
77	Frank Brannan	United States	73,000	76	4
78	Kenneth Po	United States	73,000	87	1
79	Shadron Walton	United States	72,500	74	6
80	Chris Hunichen	United States	67,000	89	1
81	David Richards	United States	66,000	99	3
82	Andrew Barber	United States	66,000	108	3
83	Kazuhiro Shirasawa	Japan	64,000	74	4
84	Jeffery Taylor	United States	62,500	89	5
85	Xiaohu Liu	China	62,500	108	6
86	Davin Anderson	United States	59,500	87	3
87	Elaine Rawn	Canada	59,500	107	7
88	Jacob Suggs	United States	57,500	106	8
89	Daniel Walmsley	United States	55,000	89	3
90	James Tilton	United States	51,500	75	4
91	Jiyang Gan	United States	50,500	106	7
92	Alexander Poe	United States	49,000	98	2
93	Bernd Gleissner	Germany	47,000	86	3
94	Mark Rubbathan	United Kingdom	46,000	100	3
95	Carlos Figueroa-Fernandez	United States	45,500	87	2
96	Alan Leach	United States	45,500	106	5
97	Eric Tipton	United States	36,500	75	1
98	Andreas Bremer	Germany	34,400	100	5
99	Mattias Hansen	Denmark	23,000	86	7
100	Jason Lipiner	United States	22,500	107	1
101	Andy Lupson	United States	22,500	108	4
102	Rob Sherwood	United Kingdom	20,500	89	4
103	Tsubasa Kawaguchi	Japan	15,500	75	8
104	Scott Abrams	United States	15,000	89	6