World Series of Poker main event final table set

Doug GreenbergJul 14, 2026, 02:49 AM ET

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Doug Greenberg covers sport betting for ESPN. He previously covered sports betting, sports business and fantasy sports at Front Office Sports, VSiN and RotoWire. He lives in Chicago after growing up in Boston.

After eight grueling days of play, the 2026 World Series of Poker main event's final table is set.

The nine players who will be competing for the $10 million first prize are Lucas Jumalon, Rami Hammoud, Jamie Shaevel, Greg Mueller, Michael Gagliano, Mario Boos, Lauri Saaskilahti, Han Feng and Evagoras Evagorou. All are now guaranteed a payout of at least $1 million.

Going into the final table, Jumalon, 22, holds a large chip lead at 194 million, followed by Hammoud at 79 million and Shaevel at 56 million. Evagorou rounds out the final nine players at 22.5 million chips.

Malcolm Trayner came into Monday's play with the chip lead at 63.2 million but lost it all over the course of the day, ultimately finishing in 10th place for a $750,000 payout.

Several of the biggest names in professional poker bowed out before reaching the last nine. Reigning champion Michael Mizrachi -- who won his eighth WSOP bracelet in the main event last year and his ninth at an event earlier this summer -- busted on Day 5 of the 2026 main event in 241st place, claiming a $50,000 payday.

Fellow nine-time bracelet winner and reigning WSOP Player of the Year Shaun Deeb made it all the way to Day 8 before losing his stack in 15th place, a $410,475 payout. Chris Moneymaker, the 2003 main event winner, busted on the money bubble on Day 4 simultaneously with two other players, meaning all three got their $10,000 entry fee back as their payout.

This year's edition of the WSOP main event attracted 9,208 players for a total prize pool of $85.6 million, making it the fourth-largest tournament in the event's history. The competition exceeded 9,000 players for the first time in 2023 and maxed out at 10,112 entrants in 2024.

Main event play will pause for several weeks before players reconvene at the Paris Las Vegas for the final table from Aug. 3 to 5. ESPN channels will broadcast the entirety of the final table live.

"The ESPN days [in the 2000s] were the most epic of all the years I've been doing this, I've been doing this for more than 20 years now," Jack Effel, SVP of poker operations at Caesars Entertainment told ESPN before the event, emphasizing the tournament's newly constructed main stage. "To be playing in that arena for $10 million, life-changing money, with the best players in the world, as a poker player, I don't think it gets any cooler than that."