Antonio Vargas has been on fairly the run not too long ago. The 4 largest scores of his poker event profession have all are available in outright wins, and all since final August. The largest of all was his most up-to-date. The Colorado native defeated a subject of two,148 entries within the $1,700 U.S. Circuit Championship no-limit maintain’em occasion on the 2026 World Collection of Poker to earn $439,605 and his first gold bracelet.
This victory elevated Vargas’ lifetime haul to just about $1.6 million. Over $961,000 of that comes from his aforementioned slew of latest triumphs. He began with a win on the 2025 MSPT Poker State Championship for $141,255 on Aug. 3. Roughly six weeks later, he took down the Colorado Summer season Poker Championship for one more $73,090. Then, in December of 2025 he got here out on prime in a $1,600 buy-in on the WPT World Championship pageant for $307,794.
This breakthrough win in Las Vegas got here with 1,080 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors for Vargas. This was his first POY-qualified rating of 2026, however it alone was ample to maneuver him inside the highest 300 within the total standings introduced by CoinPoker.
“The those that know, know that it means loads to me,” Vargas instructed PokerNews stay reporters masking the occasion. “It simply means every part to me proper now.”
The sizable turnout for this occasion inside Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas made for a $3,231,666 prize pool, with 324 gamers incomes a share. Notables who ran deep included Angela Jordison (fiftieth), Lexy Gavin-Mather (twenty third), Robert Kuhn (fifteenth), Pei Li (14th), Shawn Daniels (seventh), and Kartik Ved (third). This was Ved’s second third-place exhibiting of the pageant. The bracelet winner from India cashed for $211,817 simply days after putting third within the Mini Thriller Thousands and thousands for $200,000. He now has over $2.4 million in recorded scores.
Ultimate Desk Outcomes
Place
Participant
Payout
POY Factors
1
Antonio Vargas
$439,605
1,080
2
Kai Cohen
$292,916
900
3
Kartik Ved
$211,817
720
4
Michael Plesa
$154,853
540
5
Liubomyr Melnyk
$114,465
450
6
Malcolm Franchi
$85,561
360
7
Shawn Daniels
$64,681
270
8
Scott Horvath
$49,459
180
9
Yannick Capocetti
$38,258
90
Photograph credit: WSOP / Tyler Abrams.
