Day 2 of the $1 Gladiators of the World Series of Poker 2026 ended with twelve players remaining.381 remaining players returned from four flights for Day 2 of the $1 No-Limit Hold’em Gladiators of Poker (Event #88) at WSOP 2026. The players were already in the money, causing the tables at Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas to fill up quickly.With Matthias Kaltenberger (360th/$1,200), Andreas Fröhli (246th/$1,550), Julian Menhardt (151st/$1,050), Frank Robotka (118th/$1,050), Andreas Pütz (110th/$1,050), and Peter Splettstößer (80th/$1,250), the DACH group exited early.Twelve players bagged up at the end. American Luis Genel leads the field with 61.8 million in chips. The finalists are guaranteed $1,000 and can dream of the bracelet and a winner’s prize of $1,000.
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World Series of Poker 2026
Date: May 26 to July 15 /
ME FT 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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–> Las Vegas PokerWSOP Event #88: No-Limit Hold’em Gladiators of Poker
Buy-in: $1
Entries: 11,185
Prize pool: $1,751,510
Paid places (D2+): 381Remaining players: 12
Blinds: 1,000,000/1,500,000; BB Ante: 1,500,000Reports:
Day 1A –
Day 1B –
Day 1C –
Day 1DChip Counts from Day 2
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|
| 1 | Luis Genel | United States | 61,800,000 |
| 2 | Johnny Oshana | United States | 51,600,000 |
| 3 | Kenneth Baime | United States | 40,500,000 |
| 4 | Gianluigi Zaniboni | Italy | 36,600,000 |
| 5 | Ryan Hull | United States | 32,900,000 |
| 6 | David Hirst | Australia | 23,400,000 |
| 7 | Vu Tran | United States | 22,500,000 |
| 8 | Valentin Farkas | Croatia | 15,500,000 |
| 9 | Gary McCoy | Ireland | 14,900,000 |
| 10 | Emma Stevenson | United States | 14,000,000 |
| 11 | Sumit Kumar | United States | 11,100,000 |
| 12 | Said El Harrak | United States | 8,500,000 |
Top 100 Payouts
| Rank | Player | Country | Payout |
|---|
| 1 | | | $1,000 |
| 2 | | | $1,000 |
| 3 | | | $1,500 |
| 4 | | | $1,000 |
| 5 | | | $1,350 |
| 6 | | | $1,600 |
| 7 | | | $1,100 |
| 8 | | | $1,700 |
| 9 | | | $1,550 |
| 10 | | | $1,110 |
| 11 | | | $1,110 |
| 12 | | | $1,000 |
| 13 | Barbara Enright | United States | $1,000 |
| 14 | Brenton Duda | United States | $1,750 |
| 15 | Marcos Da Silva | Brazil | $1,750 |
| 16 | Christopher Rodriguez | United States | $1,750 |
| 17 | Michael Callahan | United States | $1,750 |
| 18 | Jose Cayetano | United States | $1,250 |
| 19 | Keith Schiller | United States | $1,250 |
| 20 | Dean Kerl | | $1,250 |
| 21 | Hunter Payne | United States | $1,250 |
| 22 | Leonard Yungblut | Canada | $1,250 |
| 23 | Noah Harthcock | United States | $1,250 |
| 24 | Hana Jo | United States | $1,250 |
| 25 | Alexander Perez | United States | $1,250 |
| 26 | Nianqing Wang | China | $1,250 |
| 27 | Brian Brackett | United States | $1,300 |
| 28 | Erez Klein | United States | $1,300 |
| 29 | Franck Charlier | France | $1,300 |
| 30 | Matthew Peng | United States | $1,300 |
| 31 | Gregory Eckler | United States | $1,300 |
| 32 | Jeffrey Silverstein | United States | $1,300 |
| 33 | Dalton Kincaid | United States | $1,300 |
| 34 | Thomas Tran | United States | $1,300 |
| 35 | Brett Murray | United States | $1,300 |
| 36 | Steven Matson | Australia | $1,800 |
| 37 | Amana Salter | | $1,800 |
| 38 | Chi Chan | Canada | $1,800 |
| 39 | Ethan Doan | United States | $1,800 |
| 40 | Michael Muffoletto | United States | $1,800 |
| 41 | Aaron Thivyanathan | United States | $1,800 |
| 42 | Tyler Cage | United States | $1,800 |
| 43 | Michael Starek | United States | $1,800 |
| 44 | Joshua Nowakowski | United States | $1,800 |
| 45 | Kevan Scott | Canada | $1,600 |
| 46 | Pernell Sahel El | Morocco | $1,600 |
| 47 | Yuan Ting | United States | $1,600 |
| 48 | Jacques Alvernhe | France | $1,600 |
| 49 | Heine Wolthuis | Netherlands | $1,600 |
| 50 | Huseyin Sengul | Turkey | $1,600 |
| 51 | Rodrigo Portaleoni | Brazil | $1,600 |
| 52 | Justin Kennard | United States | $1,600 |
| 53 | Yaroslav Korolev | United States | $1,600 |
| 54 | Evgeny Kharchenko | United States | $1,650 |
| 55 | Guillermo Marquez | Colombia | $1,650 |
| 56 | Manuel Luna | United States | $1,650 |
| 57 | Nikolaos Kontizas | Greece | $1,650 |
| 58 | Kaden Becker | United States | $1,650 |
| 59 | Jeff Sluzinski | United States | $1,650 |
| 60 | Robert Carswell | United States | $1,650 |
| 61 | David Fisher | United States | $1,650 |
| 62 | Nathan Carrillo | United States | $1,650 |
| 63 | Yunhan Yang | United States | $1,850 |
| 64 | Alexandre Clusiau | | $1,850 |
| 65 | Toshimitsu Kobashigawa | Japan | $1,850 |
| 66 | John Agelakis | Canada | $1,850 |
| 67 | Tyler Dietz | United States | $1,850 |
| 68 | James James | United States | $1,850 |
| 69 | Min So | United States | $1,850 |
| 70 | Dante Collier | United States | $1,850 |
| 71 | Chaz Mcgowan | United States | $1,850 |
| 72 | Matthew Johnson | United States | $1,250 |
| 73 | Moshe Manzur | United States | $1,250 |
| 74 | Yoav Zvi | Israel | $1,250 |
| 75 | Christopher Smith | United States | $1,250 |
| 76 | Thong Nguyen | United States | $1,250 |
| 77 | David Kenniston | United States | $1,250 |
| 78 | Bryce Allen | United States | $1,250 |
| 79 | Robert Vasquez | United States | $1,250 |
| 80 | Peter Splettstoesser | United States | $1,250 |
| 81 | Gustavo Fioravanti | Argentina | $1,750 |
| 82 | Wai Lo | Hong Kong | $1,750 |
| 83 | Bradley Coultas | United States | $1,750 |
| 84 | Jaclyn Hawley | United States | $1,750 |
| 85 | Billy Kurniawan | Canada | $1,750 |
| 86 | Blake Burgin | United States | $1,750 |
| 87 | Nicholas French | United States | $1,750 |
| 88 | Cameron Bruce | United States | $1,750 |
| 89 | Gaetan Balleur | France | $1,750 |
| 90 | Curry Scott | Canada | $1,350 |
| 91 | Andrew Eis | United States | $1,350 |
| 92 | Guy Perkins | Australia | $1,350 |
| 93 | Jun Ho | Singapore | $1,350 |
| 94 | James Rosen | | $1,350 |
| 95 | Robert Merickel | United States | $1,350 |
| 96 | Jean Drayton | Barbados | $1,350 |
| 97 | Fabian Rodriguez | United States | $1,350 |
| 98 | Justin Houser | United States | $1,350 |
| 99 | Maksim Kniter | Canada | $1,050 |
| 100 | Donald Cherry | United States | $1,050 |
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