WSOP 2026: Klemens Roiter on top in the $25k PLO/NLH

60 players have survived the starting day of the $1,000 Mixed PLO/NLH at the World Series of Poker 2026 in Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas. Klemens Roiter heads into the next round in 4th place.The $1,000 PLO/NLH Mixed High Roller (Event #64) kicked off yesterday at WSOP 2026. Players can fire up to three bullets. Ten blind levels have been played, and a total of 140 entries have been received. However, registration is still available within the first two levels of Day 2.Finn Juha Helppi amassed 936,000 chips and is currently in the lead. Klemens Roiter has 613,000 chips and is in 4th place. Also well-positioned is Daniel Negreanu (24th/399,000). A total of 60 players have made the cut.

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World Series of Poker 2026

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WSOP Event #64: PLO/NLH Mixed High Roller

Buy-In: $1,000 Entries: tba Prize Pool: tba Paid Places: tbaRemaining Players: 60 Blinds: 3,000/5,000

Chip Counts from Day 1

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Juha Helppi	Finland	936,000
2	Sergio Martinez Gonzalez	Spain	751,000
3	Naoya Kihara	Japan	635,000
4	Klemens Roiter	Austria	613,000
5	Edward Leonard	United States	590,000
6	Dylan Smith	United States	585,000
7	Cary Katz	United States	571,000
8	Artem Maksimov	United States	570,000
9	Yang Wang	China	560,000
10	Chance Kornuth	United States	558,000
11	Robert Cowen	United Kingdom	551,000
12	Krasimir Yankov	Bulgaria	544,000
13	Frank Brannan	United States	541,000
14	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	527,000
15	Noah Schwartz	United States	524,000
16	Sam Soverel	United States	523,000
17	Zachary Grech	United States	472,000
18	Scott Eskenazi	United States	461,500
19	David Rheem	United States	443,000
20	Andjelko Andrejevic	United States	437,000
21	Ioannis Angelou Konstas	Greece	423,000
22	Danny Tang	Hong Kong	422,000
23	Rafael Mota	Brazil	403,000
24	Daniel Negreanu	Canada	399,000
25	Dan Cates	United States	392,000
26	Scott Seiver	United States	379,000
27	Eelis Parssinen	Finland	372,000
28	Phillip Mighall	United Kingdom	368,000
29	William Brindise	United States	336,000
30	Yaroslav Ohulchanskyi	Ukraine	326,000
31	Nick Pupillo	United States	324,000
32	Maurice Hawkins	United States	323,000
33	Najeem Ajez	Australia	313,000
34	Arunas Sapitavicius	Lithuania	312,000
35	Eric Bonin	United States	305,000
36	Umang Dattani	Canada	300,000
37	Joao Vieira	Portugal	279,000
38	Joao Simao	Brazil	261,000
39	Sean Winter	United States	254,000
40	John Richards	United States	246,000
41	Stephen Hubbard	United States	234,000
42	Nick Schulman	United States	231,000
43	Dylan Linde	United States	223,000
44	Zachary Camp	United States	223,000
45	Chahnhoon Jung	United States	220,000
46	Richard Kirsch	United States	200,000
47	Stephen Chidwick	United Kingdom	166,000
48	Dominykas Karmazinas	Lithuania	162,000
49	Leandro Alvarez	United States	158,000
50	Shalev Halfa	Israel	158,000
51	Jordan Glazer	United States	146,000
52	AP Garza	United States	140,000
53	Erik Seidel	United States	134,000
54	Joni Jouhkimainen	Finland	120,000
55	Michael Duek	United States	117,000
56	Biao Ding	China	110,000
57	Yuan Li	China	105,500
58	Julio Belluscio	Argentina	94,000
59	Oshri Lahmani	Israel	82,000
60	Anh Do	Czechia	17,000