2026 WSOP Day 5: Round of 16 Set In $25k Heads Up Championship Event

Day 5 of the 2026 World Sequence of Poker noticed two bracelets awarded on the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

The bracelet for Occasion #5: $5,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha discovered its solution to Yang Wang after he beat Jesse Lonis heads up. Yang received the $595,388 first-place prize and his first bracelet, whereas Lonis received $396,892 for second and missed out on profitable his third bracelet.

Moreover, James Cheung received $103,185 and his first bracelet when he took down Occasion #6: $1,500 Seven Card Stud.

In the meantime, the high-stakes motion continued within the $25,000 Heads Up occasion (which Alan Keating failed to show up for), the Mini Thriller Tens of millions surpassed 20,000 entries, and the Omaha and Badugi occasions racked up star-studded fields.

Spherical of 16 Confirmed In $25,000 Heads Up Championship

Occasion #7: $25,000 Heads Up No Restrict Maintain’em Championship began with a shock. Alan Keating failed to indicate up for his Spherical 1 match, ultimately calling in to forfeit.

Aside from that preliminary hiccup, the occasion ran easily with eight gamers remaining from an preliminary bracket of 64. With the brackets now crammed, the occasion has hit its anticipated prize pool of $3,008,000, with $750,000 up prime. Everybody who survived Day 1 will earn not less than a min-cash.

The eight gamers who received all their matches had been Nikita Kuznetsov, the primary participant to advance to Day 2; Nikolai Mamut, who knocked Doug Polk out of the occasion; together with Julien Sitbon, Brandon Wilson, Biao Ding, Thomas Boivin, Ryuta Nakai, and Florian Pesce.

Amongst those that didn’t make Day 2 had been Doug Polk, Shaun Deeb, and Viktor Blom.

These gamers will return for a brand new bracket shuffled in with the spherical 1 survivors in Spherical 4. Spherical 4 spherical will begin at midday native time on Sunday.

Day 1b Bracket Outcomes

Mike Matusow, Jen Harman and Gus Hansen Bag Day 1 of $10k Omaha Hello-Lo Championship

James Chen leads a powerful area after Day 1 of Occasion #9: $10,000 Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher Championship. Chen completed the day with 359,000 in his bag.

With 162 entries, the prize pool was set at $1,506,600 when the motion ended. Nevertheless, these numbers nonetheless have room to develop, since late registration continues till the top of the primary stage of Day 2.

On the finish of Day 1, 78 of those gamers nonetheless had chips on the desk.

Amongst these 78 are huge names like James Obst (332,000), Robert Mizrachi (330,000), Todd Brunson (182,000), Josh Arieh (164,000), Mike Matusow (126,000), Jennifer Harman (112,000), and Gus Hansen (75,000), for whom — as all the time — it will be an awesome summer season.

These gamers will all return at 1:00 p.m. native time on Could 31 for Day 2.

Day 1 Prime 10 Chip Counts

Seiver, Schulman, and Dzivielevski Amongst Final Ten Badugi Occasion Rivals

Occasion #8: $1,500 Badugi bought 554 entries, of whom 99 made it to the beginning of Day 2. By the top of Day 2, simply ten of these gamers remained.

This group of survivors is led by Michael Casella with a stack of 4,065,000.

However that would change on the flip of a card as Casella is up in opposition to a powerful area with Scott Seiver (2,120,000) in second place and Gary Benson (2,045,000) in third. Nick Schulman (1,985,000) and Yuri Dzivielevski (295,000) are additionally nonetheless within the sport, though Dzivielevski is down to only below three huge bets.

With a prize pool of $735,435, this occasion has $141,963 up prime for whoever takes house the bracelet. The journey in direction of this bracelet begins up once more at 1:00 p.m. native time. The betting limits shall be 50,000/100,000.

Occasion #8: $1,500 Badugi Day 2 Prime 10 Chip Counts

20,488 Entries In $550 Mini Thriller Tens of millions

Occasion #1: $550 Mini Thriller Tens of millions ran two huge Day 1 flights right this moment.

Day 1e introduced in 6,805 entries and Day 1f (Turb) introduced in one other 3,457. Collectively, these two flights tipped the occasion over the 20k mark with a complete of 20,488 entries throughout all six Day 1 flights.

This put $9,352,772 within the pot, which shall be doled out as prizes ($3,649,482) and bounties ($4,097,600). The bounties will start beginning on Day 2, and one fortunate bounty winner will get $1,000,000.

The inflow of gamers included Martin Pineiro of Argentina who bagged 4,205,000. This put him on the prime of the occasion’s leaderboard going into Day 2.

Day 2 begins at 1:00 p.m. native time on Sunday.

Occasion #1: $550 Mini Thriller Tens of millions Finish of Day 1e Prime 10 Chip Counts

Occasion #1: $550 Mini Thriller Tens of millions Finish of Day 1f Prime 10 Chip Counts

What to Anticipate on Day 4 of the 2026 WSOP

On Could 31, the 2026 WSOP strikes into its sixth day. Three new occasions are set to kick off, and one bracelet is scheduled to be received.

The bracelet will go to whoever wins Occasion #8: $1,500 Badugi. The ultimate desk lineup shall be again at 1:00 p.m. native time to play all the way down to a winner.

The primary new occasion begins at 10:00 a.m. native time and is Occasion #10: $600 No-Restrict Maintain’em Deepstack.

That is adopted at midday native time by the primary flight of the Occasion #11: $10,000 GGMillion$ No-Restrict Maintain’em Excessive Curler. Then the final of the brand new occasions is the Occasion #12: $1,500 No-Restrict 2-7 Lowball Draw, all the time a distinct segment occasion for the viewers, however the lowball video games often entice the easiest poker gamers.

There may also be three occasions the place the motion will then carry over from Day 6 into Day 7 of the WSOP. The largest of those shall be Day 2 of the Occasion #7: $25,000 Heads Up No Restrict Maintain’em Championship. With its excessive stakes, huge names, and one-on-one motion, this occasion shouldn’t be one to overlook.

The Day 1 fields of Occasion #1: $550 Mini Thriller Tens of millions will mix and, extra importantly, the thriller bounties will kick in. At the least one individual could have a $1,000,000 bounty on their head.

Day 2 of Occasion #9: $10,000 Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher Championship may also get underway at 1:00 p.m., with one blind stage of late registration.

PokerNews could have stay protection of all these occasions proper right here.

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