58 players survived Day 1 of the $1,000 PLO 6-Max at the World Series of Poker 2026. Vivian Saliba enters the next round in 2nd place.The WSOP 2026 at Horseshoe & Paris Las Vegas kicked off yesterday with the $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed (Event #96). Twelve blind levels were played. During the first ten levels, players were able to buy in or take up to two re-entries.$1.38 million landed in the prize pool. This amount is distributed among 134 players. The minimum cash payout is $1,033, the finalists are guaranteed $1,436, and the winner awaits the bracelet as well as $1,137.Stanislav Halatenko (950,000) leads a field of 158 players into the next round. Vivian Saliba (788,000) is in 2nd place. Also advancing are Manuel Fischer (26th/350,000), Felix Rabas (59th/274,000), Klemens Roiter (77th/191,000), Mauricio Pais (113th/120,000), Marius Kaiser (114th/118,000), Octavian Vögele (116th/117,000), Manuel Fritz (137th/82,000), and Sebastian Pauli (150th/53,000).
Edit – Without changing anything – Unfortunately, Vivi is at 188k and not 788k (American problem with 1 and 7 writing style)
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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 from $1
–> WSOP Bracelet Schedule
–> WSOP.com Online Bracelet Schedule
–> 2026 World Series of Poker Official Tournament Rules
–> Las Vegas PokerWSOP Event #96: Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed
Buy-In: $1,000
Entries: 892
Prize Pool: $1,381,640
Paid Places: 134Remaining Players: 158
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Payouts
| Place | Payout |
|---|
| 1 | $1,137 |
| 2 | $1,371 |
| 3 | $1,282 |
| 4 | $1,819 |
| 5 | $1,232 |
| 6 | $1,840 |
| 7 | $1,436 |
| 8 – 9 | $1,336 |
| 10 – 11 | $1,808 |
| 12 – 17 | $1,719 |
| 18 – 23 | $1,319 |
| 24 – 29 | $1,107 |
| 30 – 35 | $1,742 |
| 36 – 41 | $1,993 |
| 42 – 47 | $1,699 |
| 48 – 53 | $1,750 |
| 54 – 59 | $1,071 |
| 60 – 71 | $1,610 |
| 72 – 89 | $1,335 |
| 90 – 134 | $1,033 |
Chip Counts from Day 1
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|
| 1 | Stanislav Halatenko | Ukraine | 950,000 |
| 2 | Vivian Saliba | Brazil | 788,000 |
| 3 | Hen Rosilio | Israel | 704,000 |
| 4 | Krasimir Yankov | Bulgaria | 637,000 |
| 5 | Alex Foxen | United States | 588,000 |
| 6 | Michael Hahn | United States | 550,000 |
| 7 | Tony Diehl | United States | 512,000 |
| 8 | Brevin Andreadis | United States | 475,000 |
| 9 | Robert Cowen | United Kingdom | 472,000 |
| 10 | Michael Zulker | United States | 471,000 |
| 11 | Chenxiang Miao | China | 468,000 |
| 12 | James Cavanaugh | United States | 455,000 |
| 13 | Davis Aalvik | United States | 447,000 |
| 14 | Pakinai Lisawad | Thailand | 446,000 |
| 15 | Andreas Zampas | Greece | 443,000 |
| 16 | Biao Ding | China | 409,000 |
| 17 | Matthew Costanzo | United States | 399,000 |
| 18 | Nick Yunis | Chile | 398,000 |
| 19 | Eddy Nedialkov | Bulgaria | 391,000 |
| 20 | Ryan Franklin | United States | 387,000 |
| 21 | Vitor Wagner | Brazil | 385,000 |
| 22 | Eemil Tuominen | Finland | 380,000 |
| 23 | Ryan Riess | United States | 374,000 |
| 24 | Peter Cross | Japan | 369,000 |
| 25 | Martin Kozlov | Australia | 355,000 |
| 26 | Manuel Fischer | Germany | 350,000 |
| 27 | Tyler Brown | United States | 348,000 |
| 28 | Sam Soverel | United States | 344,000 |
| 29 | Billy Tarango | United States | 344,000 |
| 30 | Mark Berente | Hungary | 343,000 |
| 31 | Dante Cianfarra | United States | 338,000 |
| 32 | James Calderaro | United States | 332,000 |
| 33 | Farhad Jamasi | United States | 328,000 |
| 34 | James Casement | United States | 328,000 |
| 35 | Daniel Swartz | United States | 327,000 |
| 36 | Stanwood Yang | | 327,000 |
| 37 | Georgios Tsoupras | Greece | 325,000 |
| 38 | Christopher Vitch | United States | 323,000 |
| 39 | Vincent Robert | France | 320,000 |
| 40 | Eyan Chee | | 317,000 |
| 41 | Ludovic Geilich | United Kingdom | 312,000 |
| 42 | Alnoor Pujani | India | 309,000 |
| 43 | Travis Pearson | United States | 305,000 |
| 44 | Fu Wong | United States | 300,000 |
| 45 | Pavel Izotov | Belarus | 298,000 |
| 46 | Ronan Hanley | | 298,000 |
| 47 | David James | United States | 297,000 |
| 48 | William Kerkaert | United States | 296,500 |
| 49 | James Mendoza | Philippines | 295,000 |
| 50 | Erik Friberg | Sweden | 292,000 |
| 51 | Leandro Tondato | Brazil | 289,000 |
| 52 | Peter Majoros | Hungary | 288,000 |
| 53 | Andreas Hagen | Norway | 287,000 |
| 54 | Felipe Campins | Argentina | 286,000 |
| 55 | Qing Liu | United States | 277,000 |
| 56 | Patrick Mahoney | United States | 277,000 |
| 57 | Jarred Graham | Australia | 276,000 |
| 58 | Mason Vieth | United States | 275,000 |
| 59 | Felix Rabas | Austria | 274,000 |
| 60 | Thomas Taylor | Canada | 272,000 |
| 61 | Richie Allen | United Kingdom | 268,000 |
| 62 | Dylan Duran | United States | 254,000 |
| 63 | Rajendara Dhar | United States | 253,000 |
| 64 | Demosthenes Kiriopoulos | Canada | 248,000 |
| 65 | Christopher Trang | United States | 238,000 |
| 66 | Zackary Estes | United States | 236,000 |
| 67 | Travis Case | United States | 225,000 |
| 68 | Frank Brannan | United States | 221,000 |
| 69 | Robert Mizrachi | United States | 216,000 |
| 70 | Brandon Paster | United States | 210,000 |
| 71 | Nick Palma | United States | 209,000 |
| 72 | Paul Saso | United States | 199,000 |
| 73 | Alan Pham | Australia | 199,000 |
| 74 | Alexander Rocha | United States | 199,000 |
| 75 | Matt Stout | | 197,000 |
| 76 | Giuseppe Pantaleo | Germany | 195,000 |
| 77 | Klemens Roiter | Austria | 191,000 |
| 78 | Joshua Wang | China | 190,000 |
| 79 | Robert Mather | United States | 189,000 |
| 80 | Bin Duan | United States | 187,000 |
| 81 | Matt Vengrin | United States | 182,000 |
| 82 | Kazuhiro Shirasawa | Japan | 181,000 |
| 83 | David Mzareulov | United States | 175,000 |
| 84 | Emmanuel Derecho | Australia | 174,000 |
| 85 | Piotr Krupa | United States | 172,000 |
| 86 | Jack Moore | United Kingdom | 171,000 |
| 87 | Alex Livingston | Canada | 170,000 |
| 88 | Gabi Livshitz | Israel | 170,000 |
| 89 | Michael Estes | United States | 170,000 |
| 90 | John Short | United States | 168,000 |
| 91 | Roussos Koliakoudakis | Greece | 166,000 |
| 92 | Eran Carmi | Israel | 163,000 |
| 93 | Kane Kalas | United States | 157,000 |
| 94 | George Abdallah | United States | 157,000 |
| 95 | Vincent Moscati | United States | 153,000 |
| 96 | Joao Estanislau | Portugal | 153,000 |
| 97 | Santiago Plante | Canada | 151,000 |
| 98 | Nicholas Seward | United States | 151,000 |
| 99 | Chris Dowling | Ireland | 147,000 |
| 100 | Xing He | Canada | 145,000 |
| 101 | Robert Giordano | France | 145,000 |
| 102 | Ray Henson | United States | 135,000 |
| 103 | Charles Jett | United States | 133,000 |
| 104 | Rocco Smeriglio | United States | 132,000 |
| 105 | Maxx Coleman | United States | 132,000 |
| 106 | David Moreno | United States | 131,000 |
| 107 | Brian Roff | United States | 130,000 |
| 108 | Leonid Yanovski | Israel | 130,000 |
| 109 | Yuhong Liu | China | 129,000 |
| 110 | Grant Wang | United States | 127,000 |
| 111 | Vamerdino Magsakay | Philippines | 127,000 |
| 112 | Daniel Kim | United States | 121,000 |
| 113 | Mauricio Ferreira Pais | Germany | 120,000 |
| 114 | Marius Kaiser | | 118,000 |
| 115 | Michael Noori | United States | 118,000 |
| 116 | Octavian Vogele | Austria | 117,000 |
| 117 | Qingyu Lu | United States | 115,500 |
| 118 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 111,000 |
| 119 | Michael Kamran | United States | 108,000 |
| 120 | Jimmy Guerrero | France | 108,000 |
| 121 | Jose Fernandes Scarano | Brazil | 107,000 |
| 122 | Christopher Picquette | United States | 106,000 |
| 123 | Yu Liu | Canada | 103,000 |
| 124 | Jared Ingles | United States | 102,000 |
| 125 | Scott Nicol | United Kingdom | 102,000 |
| 126 | Tsz Shing | United States | 100,000 |
| 127 | Erik Seidel | United States | 98,000 |
| 128 | Eric Garma | United States | 94,000 |
| 129 | Brent Roberts | United States | 93,000 |
| 130 | Nickolas Oiberman | Australia | 93,000 |
| 131 | Tony Lin | China | 91,000 |
| 132 | Carlos Guerrero | Colombia | 88,000 |
| 133 | Sonny Lee | United States | 86,000 |
| 134 | Stephane Serfati | France | 86,000 |
| 135 | Pejman Niyati | United States | 83,000 |
| 136 | Cory Bogert | United States | 83,000 |
| 137 | Manuel Fritz | Austria | 82,000 |
| 138 | Rabia Lew | United States | 80,000 |
| 139 | Sean Winter | United States | 74,100 |
| 140 | Chance Kornuth | United States | 74,000 |
| 141 | Hok Lee | Hong Kong | 67,000 |
| 142 | Timothy Frazin | United States | 65,000 |
| 143 | Igor Zektser | United States | 64,000 |
| 144 | Javier Zarco Sanchez | Spain | 62,000 |
| 145 | Abhijith Cheruku | United States | 62,000 |
| 146 | Nenad Medic | United States | 60,000 |
| 147 | Zachary Reinbold | United States | 59,000 |
| 148 | Jalil Houssain | Palestine. State of | 55,000 |
| 149 | Bart Hanson | United States | 54,000 |
| 150 | Sebastian Pauli | Germany | 53,000 |
| 151 | Gregory Goldberg | United States | 46,000 |
| 152 | Jacob Nepom | United States | 45,000 |
| 153 | Ankush Mandavia | United States | 43,000 |
| 154 | Gary Thompson | Ireland | 40,000 |
| 155 | Christian Harder | United States | 40,000 |
| 156 | Zachary Schwartz | United States | 40,000 |
| 157 | Trent Wilson | United States | 36,000 |
| 158 | Anthony Hu | United States | 23,000 |