The $1,500 Badugi at the World Series of Poker 2026 at Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas continues with 99 players. Hanh Tran is in 22nd position.With the $1,500 Badugi (Event #8) of WSOP 2026, the experts were once again called upon. A re-entry was allowed, resulting in a total of 554 buy-ins. 84 players will share a prize pool of $1,435.After 15 blind levels, the field shrank to 99 participants. The American Brian Tate (428,000) leads the field, while Hanh Tran (196,000) has made it to 22nd place. Also moving on are Max Neugebauer (44th/140,000), Sebastian Schulz (88th/50,000), and Ilija Saveski (92nd/44,000).
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World Series of Poker 2026
Dates: 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
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Buy-In: $1,500
Entries: 554
Prize Pool: $1,435
Paid Places: 84Remaining Players: 99
Limits: 5,000/10,000
The Payouts
| Position | Payout |
|---|
| 1 | $1,963 |
| 2 | $1,607 |
| 3 | $1,920 |
| 4 | $1,815 |
| 5 | $1,824 |
| 6 | $1,279 |
| 7 | $1,560 |
| 8-9 | $1,668 |
| 10-11 | $1,979 |
| 12-17 | $1,095 |
| 18-23 | $1,762 |
| 24-29 | $1,812 |
| 30-35 | $1,136 |
| 36-41 | $1,662 |
| 42-47 | $1,343 |
| 48-53 | $1,149 |
| 54-59 | $1,074 |
| 60-84 | $1,999 |
Chip Counts from Day 1
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|
| 1 | Brian Tate | United States | 428,000 |
| 2 | Lok Chan | Hong Kong | 348,000 |
| 3 | Satoshi Tanaka | United States | 329,000 |
| 4 | Kevin Xu | United States | 307,000 |
| 5 | Ryan Hoenig | United States | 297,000 |
| 6 | Matthew Wantman | United States | 292,000 |
| 7 | Dominick Sarle | United States | 285,000 |
| 8 | Frank Muir | United States | 277,000 |
| 9 | Alexander Bitsakis | | 275,000 |
| 10 | Jampana Appalaraju | United States | 255,000 |
| 11 | Andrew Park | United States | 241,000 |
| 12 | Casey Hayes | United States | 240,000 |
| 13 | Jody Garaventa | United States | 218,000 |
| 14 | Edward Konarske | United States | 210,000 |
| 15 | Patrick Quealy | United States | 208,000 |
| 16 | Gary Benson | Australia | 205,000 |
| 17 | Jeffery Stepaniuk | Canada | 202,000 |
| 18 | Daryl Jendraszkiewicz | | 200,000 |
| 19 | Venkata Tayi | United States | 197,000 |
| 20 | Chino Rheem | United States | 197,000 |
| 21 | Steven Tharrington | | 196,000 |
| 22 | Hanh Tran | Austria | 196,000 |
| 23 | Johnson Phanyaseng | United States | 195,000 |
| 24 | Kyle Arora | United States | 194,000 |
| 25 | Ryan Riess | United States | 193,000 |
| 26 | Scott Abrams | United States | 181,000 |
| 27 | Abdel Hamid | United States | 181,000 |
| 28 | Walter Chambers | United States | 180,000 |
| 29 | Nitesh Rawtani | United States | 175,000 |
| 30 | Jonathan Park | United States | 170,000 |
| 31 | Jean-Robert Bellande | United States | 168,000 |
| 32 | Stephan Nussrallah | United States | 167,000 |
| 33 | Michael Casella | United States | 166,000 |
| 34 | Chris Moneymaker | United States | 162,000 |
| 35 | Jaris Kaido | | 158,000 |
| 36 | Hasan Kural | United States | 156,000 |
| 37 | Vladimir Peck | United States | 155,000 |
| 38 | David Prociak | United States | 152,000 |
| 39 | Thomas Fuller | United States | 147,000 |
| 40 | Jon Turner | United States | 146,000 |
| 41 | James Woods | United States | 146,000 |
| 42 | Brandon Smith | United States | 143,000 |
| 43 | Carl Vaillancourt | United States | 141,000 |
| 44 | Max Neugebauer | Austria | 140,000 |
| 45 | Steven Girouard | United States | 137,000 |
| 46 | Antoine Chuzeville | France | 135,000 |
| 47 | Jorge Ufano | Spain | 135,000 |
| 48 | Alan Myerson | United States | 131,000 |
| 49 | Aron Dermer | United States | 130,000 |
| 50 | Travis Erdman | United States | 129,000 |
| 51 | Martin Staszko | Czechia | 129,000 |
| 52 | James Tilton | United States | 129,000 |
| 53 | Andrew Barber | United States | 125,000 |
| 54 | Tyler Brown | United States | 124,000 |
| 55 | Leyla Rogers | | 118,000 |
| 56 | Robert Rosengarten | United States | 116,000 |
| 57 | Brent Mutter | United States | 107,000 |
| 58 | Brant Hale | United States | 104,000 |
| 59 | Nick Schulman | United States | 104,000 |
| 60 | Joseph Wagganer | United States | 100,000 |
| 61 | Jason Gola | United States | 95,000 |
| 62 | Matt Vengrin | United States | 92,000 |
| 63 | Jerry Wong | United States | 88,000 |
| 64 | Ian Chan | Canada | 88,000 |
| 65 | Benny Glaser | United Kingdom | 88,000 |
| 66 | Scott Seiver | United States | 85,000 |
| 67 | Naoya Kihara | Japan | 84,000 |
| 68 | Ray Henson | United States | 82,000 |
| 69 | Clinton Wolcyn | United States | 80,000 |
| 70 | Benjamin Yu | United States | 80,000 |
| 71 | William Nichols | | 79,000 |
| 72 | Joey Couden | United States | 77,000 |
| 73 | Lorenzo Veloz | | 75,000 |
| 74 | Fat Wong | | 75,000 |
| 75 | Nicholas Guagenti | United States | 70,000 |
| 76 | David Baker | United States | 70,000 |
| 77 | Stanislav Kriventsov | United States | 70,000 |
| 78 | Jonathan Krela | Canada | 67,000 |
| 79 | Kyle Miholich | United States | 64,000 |
| 80 | Jordan Siegel | United States | 62,000 |
| 81 | Heather Alcorn | United States | 60,000 |
| 82 | Eran Gold | | 60,000 |
| 83 | John Hardie | United States | 59,000 |
| 84 | Yuki Hamada | United States | 58,000 |
| 85 | Adam Kipnis | United States | 57,000 |
| 86 | Gina Hecht | United States | 55,000 |
| 87 | Michael Noori | United States | 50,000 |
| 88 | Sebastian Schulz | Austria | 50,000 |
| 89 | Sergei Tolkachov | United States | 50,000 |
| 90 | Espen Sandvik | Norway | 46,000 |
| 91 | Ryan Ko | United States | 44,000 |
| 92 | Ilija Savevski | North Macedonia | 44,000 |
| 93 | Yuri Dzivielevski | Brazil | 44,000 |
| 94 | Christopher Johnson | United States | 43,000 |
| 95 | Troy Gallo | | 42,000 |
| 96 | Tom Mccormick | United States | 42,000 |
| 97 | Jeffrey Becker | | 31,000 |
| 98 | Sean Yu | United States | 25,000 |
| 99 | David Avina | United States | 10,000 |
