WSOP 2026: Meisolle Leads at the Mid-Stakes Championship

Day 1A of the Mid-Stakes Championship at the World Series of Poker 2026 ended with 140 players. Joachim Meisolle from Germany enters the next round as a big stack.The $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mid-Stakes Championship (Event #89) at the WSOP 2026 kicked off yesterday at Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas. There are three starting days, with one re-entry allowed per flight.Registration is open until the start of the first level of Day 2. The bracelet will be awarded on Day 4. Day 1A saw a total of 498 entries, adding $1.37 million to the prize pool.After ten blind levels, the day came to an end. Hoi Lee (517,000) from Hong Kong amassed the most chips. Joachim Meisolle is in 6th place with 368,000 chips. Also returning for Day 2 is Pierre Mothes (52,000).

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WSOP Event #89: No-Limit Hold’em Mid-Stakes Championship

Buy-In: $1,000 Entries: tba (498/-/-) Prize Pool: tba Paid Places: tbaRemaining Players: tba (140/-/-) Blinds: 1,000/2,500; BB Ante: 2,500

Top Chip Counts from Day 1A

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Hoi Lee	Hong Kong	517,000
2	Alex Difelicele	United States	507,000
3	Rogen Chhabra	United States	478,000
4	Luis Miretti Bonetto	Argentina	410,000
5	Henry Liang	United States	405,000
6	Joachim Meisolle	Germany	368,000
7	Sheldon Gross	United States	354,500
8	Jiyang Gan	China	327,500
9	Zheming Zhu	China	306,500
10	Liam Murphy	United States	300,000
11	Stefan Dimitrov	Bulgaria	288,500
12	Nicholas Verderamo	United States	256,000
13	David Harmon	United States	253,000
14	Qing Lu	United States	252,000
15	Paulo Drummond	Brazil	251,000
16	Nicholas Marchington	United Kingdom	247,000
17	David Gonzalez	United States	242,500
18	Guillaume Philippe	France	234,000
19	Jan Verner	Czech Republic	220,500
20	Jun Obara	Japan	220,000
21	Bernardo Baptista Das Neves	Portugal	217,500
22	John Pannucci	United States	215,500
23	Wenyan Liao		215,500
24	Sean Hoesing	United States	214,000
25	Nathan Bomey	United States	211,000

Remaining chip counts can be found on the WSOP LIVE App.