WSOP 2026: Daisuke Ogita wins $1 Million in the Mini Main Event

Daisuke Ogita has won the $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mini Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2026 at Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas.The $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mini Main Event of WSOP 2026 started Day 3 with nine players remaining. Early in the first blind level, Yunye Lu ($1,000; < ) was eliminated, and Richard Harris sent Akira Ide ($1,000) to the rails with against (Board: ).In the second blind level, Richard Harris eliminated both Ohad Enzel ($1,000) and Jaime Haletky ($1,000) with pocket Aces. In another hand, Jaehwa Son sent Richard Harris ($1,000) and Amin Mostafavi ($1,000) to the rails (Board: ).Next was heads-up play. Jeffrey Evans ($1,000) went all-in preflop with a 4-bet. Daisuke Ogita called with and hit the board .

• Daisuke Ogita, 618,000,000
• Jaehwa Son, 132,000,000
• Blinds: 6M/12M; BB Ante: 12M

In under half an hour, the bracelet was awarded. Short-stacked, Jaehwa Son ($1,000) went all-in, Daisuke Ogita called with , and the board was dealt .

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World Series of Poker 2026

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WSOP Event #72: No-Limit Hold’em Mini Main Event

Buy-In: $1,000 Entries: 12,560 Prize Pool: $1,052,800 Paid Places (from D2+): 935Reports: Day 1A – Day 1B – Day 1C – Day 2

Top 100 Payouts

Rank	Player	Country	Payout
1	Daisuke Ogita	Japan	$1,000,000
2	Jaehwa Son	Canada	$1,000
3	Jeffrey Evans	United States	$1,000
4	Amin Mostafavi	United States	$1,000
5	Richard Harris	United Kingdom	$1,000
6	Jaime Haletky	United States	$1,000
7	Ohad Enzel	United States	$1,000
8	Akira Ide	Japan	$1,000
9	Yunye Lu	China	$1,000
10	Dennys Ramos	Brazil	$1,000
11	Chao Li		$1,000
12	Yuri Murakami	Japan	$1,705
13	James Rann	United Kingdom	$1,705
14	Taylor Maas	United States	$1,000
15	Jonathan Wolter	Brazil	$1,000
16	Jason James	Canada	$1,000
17	Mantas Bagocius	Lithuania	$1,000
18	Jacob Thibodeau	United States	$1,000
19	Caue Silva	Brazil	$1,000
20	Patrik Jaros	Czechia	$1,000
21	Napat Chokejindachai	Thailand	$1,000
22	Christina Gollins	United States	$1,000
23	Douglas Weymeersch	Belgium	$1,000
24	Zheming Zhu	China	$1,000
25	Dean Hutchison	United Kingdom	$1,000
26	Hyun Cho	United States	$1,000
27	Carlos Caldas	Portugal	$1,250
28	Charles Moore	United States	$1,250
29	Sebastian Arce	Argentina	$1,250
30	Evan Pantano	United States	$1,250
31	Stanislav Blindar	Ukraine	$1,250
32	Truong Nguyen	United States	$1,250
33	Matheo Manzone	France	$1,250
34	Sivan Pauker	Israel	$1,250
35	Carlos Da Rocha	Brazil	$1,250
36	Athanasios Polychronopoulos	United States	$1,150
37	Peter Brown	United States	$1,150
38	Bartlomiej Kijak	Poland	$1,150
39	Tarunpreet Singh	United States	$1,150
40	Chengyue He	United States	$1,150
41	Diego Tejada	Peru	$1,150
42	George Tokarczyk	United States	$1,150
43	Jason Mitchell	United States	$1,150
44	My Nguyen	United States	$1,150
45	Jacqueline Rosen	United States	$1,350
46	Christopher Audrain	United States	$1,350
47	Bart Lybaert	Belgium	$1,350
48	Guilherme Bernardino	Brazil	$1,350
49	Keith Schwartz	United States	$1,350
50	Yumin Lee	United States	$1,350
51	Joseph Saltanovitz	United States	$1,350
52	Kheang Tang		$1,350
53	Shane Rose	United States	$1,350
54	Arun Savara	United States	$1,500
55	Ernest Bennett	United States	$1,500
56	Humberto Busico	Argentina	$1,500
57	Ryan Gentry	United States	$1,500
58	Edgar Hernandez	United States	$1,500
59	James Gordin		$1,500
60	Laszlo Nagy	Hungary	$1,500
61	Blas Suarez	Argentina	$1,500
62	Jonathan Fader	United States	$1,500
63	Fahredin Mustafov	Bulgaria	$1,400
64	Rourke Jackson		$1,400
65	Miroslav Rizov	Bulgaria	$1,400
66	Joseph Markiewicz	United States	$1,400
67	Augustine Armijo	United States	$1,400
68	Jose Castaneda	United States	$1,400
69	Likai Liu	United States	$1,400
70	George Devlin	United States	$1,400
71	Noam Tsaitlin	Israel	$1,400
72	Clifton Allen		$1,000
73	Joshua Pridgen	United States	$1,000
74	Mohamed Hammi	Tunisia	$1,000
75	Yulian Bogdanov	Bulgaria	$1,000
76	Andy Chen	United States	$1,000
77	Pedro Garcia	Spain	$1,000
78	Sherwin Basti	United States	$1,000
79	Arash Vaziri	United States	$1,000
80	Robbie Schiffbauer	United States	$1,000
81	Gilbert Cruz	Dominican Republic	$1,000
82	Kyle Hughes	United States	$1,000
83	Wooyang Lin	United States	$1,000
84	William Parker	United States	$1,000
85	Timothy Loehr	United States	$1,000
86	Edo Zucker	United States	$1,000
87	Maksim Petrov	Estonia	$1,000
88	Keisuke Taenaka	Japan	$1,000
89	James Uschuk		$1,000
90	Joao Ribeiro		$1,300
91	Joseph Ozimok	United States	$1,300
92	Christopher Gale	United States	$1,300
93	Yuki Sakai	Japan	$1,300
94	Qing Liu	United States	$1,300
95	Marshall Daigle		$1,300
96	Jacob Stone	United Kingdom	$1,300
97	Tobias Rohe	Germany	$1,300
98	Weijie Yuan	China	$1,300
99	Vincent Lay		$1,000
100	Josep Ruiz Mercade	Spain	$1,000

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