There are two methods to comply with the World Collection of Poker this summer time. You will get misplaced in an limitless sea of tweets, chip counts and social media beef, or you’ll be able to tailor the protection to match your actual pursuits.
PokerNews MyPlayers permits you to do the latter, appearing as a customized feed for the gamers you really care about. When a participant in your radar will get written about, their chip rely replace or makes a remaining desk, it lands straight in your customized feed with no looking out required.
So if you wish to construct the final word summer time rail checklist proper now, look no additional than the ten names under.
Daniel Negreanu
He is the final word characteristic desk magnet, and GGPoker Ambassador Daniel Negreanu is a no-doubter to look beneath the intense lights of the WSOP stage.
‘Child Poker’ all the time performs one of many busiest WSOP schedules round, and is aiming to play40 occasions this yr together with 12 occasions with buy-ins of $25,000 or extra.
So whether or not he is deep in mixed-game occasions, or leaping into the $300 Gladiators (sure, that is one in every of his occasions), ensure so as to add him to your MyPlayers feed.
Phil Hellmuth
Love him or hate him, you are gonna need to comply with together with what the ‘Poker Brat’ is as much as this summer time. Because the all-time bracelet chief, Phil Hellmuth is obligatory viewing, with any event the BetRivers ambassador getting into having the prospect to develop into a headline story.
Whereas focusing totally on Maintain’em tournaments, Hellmuth has received three mixed-game bracelets: two in Razz and one in 2-7 Triple Draw. However no matter event he finally ends up taking part in in, anticipate traditional Hellmuth tirades and simply possibly a record-extending 18th bracelet.
Shaun Deeb
For those who’re a eager follower of the WSOP Participant of the 12 months race, then Shaun Deeb is an absolute must-have with regards to your MyPlayers feed.
If there’s a WSOP event with cards-in-the-air, there’s a close to 100% probability that Deeb is both taking part in it, multi-tableing it, or planning to late-register it. As a perennial menace to any POY race, and because the present chief following his exploits at WSOP Europe, following Deeb is a method to make sure your feed is rarely quiet.
Jesse Lonis
Jesse Lonis has developed into some of the harmful and constant event gamers on the planet. He blends an old-school strategy with the stipulations of immediately’s fashionable high-roller technique.
Lonis received himself over $12 million in earnings final yr, together with over a dozen cashes on the WSOP. He received titles on the Wynn and the ARIA final summer time, so who’s betting in opposition to him grabbing his third WSOP bracelet, and a primary since 2023?
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Michael Mizrachi
No prizes for anybody who guessed that the defending WSOP Important Occasion and Poker Gamers Championship winner would seem on this checklist. However after Michael Mizrachi’s barely understandable achievements in 2025, he is positive to characteristic in 2026.
Mizrachi performs a chaotic, hyper-aggressive type that makes for extremely swingy chip counts. Nonetheless, when the Corridor of Famer catches warmth, he flies up the leaderboard, making him some of the thrilling gamers to trace from daily.
Martin Kabrhel
Martin Kabrhel is the archetypal love him or hate him participant. For some, he’ll be the primary participant they search for of their MyPlayers feed to verify his chip counts or newest antics. For others…much less so.
However there is no denying that poker’s chief instigator has expertise apart from his relentless desk discuss and agonizingly lengthy tanking.
Count on Kabrhel to stay primarily to excessive curler fields, however he does have the capability to leap into any no-limit maintain’em event whereas late registration is open. His chaos makes him the proper candidate for the MyPlayers feed, and his tables are an absolute magnet for reside updates.
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Kristen Foxen
Absolutely there is a spot for arguably the best feminine poker participant in historical past? Kristen Foxen is all the time going to draw headlines wherever she performs, whether or not it is battling the world’s greatest in $25,000 buy-in tournaments, or repeating her deep run within the WSOP Important Occasion.
5 bracelets and 5 GPI Feminine Participant of the 12 months titles make Kristen Foxen a shoo-in for the Poker Corridor of Fame — however will you add her to your MyPlayers feed?
Phil Ivey
The dwelling legend that’s Phil Ivey is again to creating Las Vegas his major summer time residence. For the reason that pandemic, Ivey has notched greater than two dozen WSOP cashes together with 12 in 2024 alone, the yr he received his eleventh WSOP bracelet.
Already tipped as a high choose on this yr’s 25k WSOP Fantasy Draft, Ivey nonetheless attracts a crowd at each event he enters. He selectively targets $10,000 Championship occasions and different high-stakes fields, tournaments that may kind the spine of your MyPlayers feed with him included.
Jason Koon
PokerStars Ambassador Jason Koon treats poker like an Olympic sport, with the identical mindset as an expert athlete. The high-stakes titan is about to concentrate on elite-tier fields, heads-up championships, and high-roller occasions.
They’re the occasions he is proven success in earlier than, successful his first bracelet in 2021 within the $25K Heads-Up Championship after which including a second simply final yr within the $50,000 Excessive Curler.
Any deep runs from Koon will see him face off in opposition to absolutely the hardest competitors on earth, and you may need to preserve monitor of that.
Shiina Okamoto
One other participant positive to draw headlines is Shiina Okamoto. Again-to-back victories within the WSOP Girls Championship imply she’s now not a rising star — she’s one of many greatest within the poker world.
She’s additionally been tipped to win it once more, which you would not put previous her for the reason that GTO Wizard Ambassador has since added an EPT Barcelona Girls’s occasion title to point out she’s nonetheless received it.
Will Shillibier
Managing Editor
He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He additionally holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism.
