The 2026 Wynn Summer time Basic is underway at Wynn Las Vegas, kicking off almost two months of summer season motion with greater than $40 million in assured prize swimming pools unfold throughout dozens of occasions.
Working via July 13 alongside the World Sequence of Poker, the competition has change into one of many staples of the Las Vegas summer season schedule. The sequence is headlined by the $10,400 Wynn Summer time Championship with its $10 million assure, whereas a number of different tournaments carry seven-figure prize swimming pools, together with a $5 million assured $3,500 No-Restrict Maintain’em occasion and a number of thriller bounty and Pot-Restrict Omaha tournaments.
And the opening occasion of the sequence produced a winner who wants little introduction.
Liebert Kicks Off Wynn Summer time Basic with Seniors Triumph
Poker legend Kathy Liebert took down the $600 Seniors NLH occasion after beating a 179-entry discipline to win $22,564 from the $92,185 prize pool. Whereas it’s removed from the largest rating of her profession, the outcome continued a wonderful run for the 58-year-old forward of the summer season grind in Las Vegas.
The victory marked Liebert’s fifth recorded match win of 2026 and pushed her dwell earnings for the yr past $145,000. Earlier this yr she gained one other WSOP Circuit ring, whereas simply three weeks in the past the Lady in Poker Corridor of Famer (WiPHoF) completed runner-up in one other $600 occasion at Wynn for $59,238.
With the summer season now ramping up in Las Vegas, Liebert instantly appears like one of many kind gamers heading into WSOP season.
Liebert has lengthy been one of the revered figures in poker. She famously gained the inaugural PartyPoker Million in 2002, the primary restrict poker match to award a $1 million first-place prize, earlier than capturing her lone WSOP bracelet within the 2004 $1,500 Restrict Maintain’em Shootout. She was inducted into the WiPHoF in 2010 and later obtained a Poker Corridor of Fame nomination in 2022.
The seniors occasion additionally featured a number of adorned names among the many cashers. Denis Ethier, winner of the 2005 WSOP $2,000 Seven Card Stud Championship, completed tenth for $1,922. Loyal Sprague, an NAPT Seniors champion and WSOP Circuit ring winner, completed eleventh for a similar payout. Seven-time WSOP bracelet winner and Poker Corridor of Famer Billy Baxter added one other money with a Twelfth-place end, whereas former Wynn Summer time Basic Seniors champion Chiori Gannon positioned 14th.
$600 Seniors NLH Outcomes
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Michl Will get Second Poker Title of the Yr
Elsewhere, Joris Michl captured the title within the $600 Combined Triple Draw after topping a 73-entry discipline.
The match comfortably cleared its $30,000 assure, producing a $37,230 prize pool with the highest ten gamers paid. Michl earned $11,034 for the victory, marking his second recorded match win of 2026.
Earlier this yr, Michl gained the A$1,500 Platinum Gamers Championship in Sydney for A$227,800 ($157,252), whereas the Dutch reg additionally owns a Korea Poker Cup Fundamental Occasion title after successful that occasion in 2024 for $135,890.
Runner-up Zachery Senser collected $7,046, whereas Clyde Gaskins rounded out the rostrum with a third-place end price $5,015.
A number of acquainted names from the mixed-game circuit had been among the many cashers. Andrew Kelsall completed fourth for $3,710, whereas Joseph Weinberger added one other rating to his résumé with a fifth-place end price $2,774.
Ted Jackson-Spivack, who was topped Participant of the Sequence at Allen Kessler’s 2025 Chainsaw Combined Sequence of Poker at Planet Hollywood, completed sixth for $2,141. And talking of Kessler, a belated congratulations are additionally so as after “Chainsaw” captured the $1,100 H.O.R.S.E. Championship finally week’s CMSOP cease at Caesars Palace.
Jonathan Breneman, Kristan Lord, Jeffrey Mitseff, and Jill Lopez additionally reached the cash.
$600 Combined Triple Draw Outcomes
PokerNews will probably be protecting all the outcomes from the Wynn Summer time Basic all through the summer season, together with match winners, closing tables, and end-of-day chip counts within the Wynn Summer time Basic Each day Spotlight weblog.
Calum Grant
Senior Editor & Reside Occasions Government
Calum has written for numerous poker retailers however discovered his residence at PokerNews, the place he has contributed to numerous articles and dwell updates, offering insights and reporting on main poker occasions, together with the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP).
