The 2026 WSOP Main Event champion is a 22-year-old from Spokane, Washington. After a brief but brilliant heads-up match against the 40-year-old Finnish player Lauri Saaskilahti in Las Vegas, American player Lucas Jumalon achieved his dreams in going wire-to-wire in the World Championship at the final table to win the gold WSOP Main Event bracelet […]

Every story has to have an ending, and for one man tonight, the WSOP Main Event script will have had one glorious final chapter. Lucas Jumalon has led the final table’s multi-layered story from the opening line to the final paragraph. But is there a twist in the tale? Finnish player came from nowhere on […]

Three days will separate the greats from one poker immortal in Las Vegas, as the final nine play down to a winner in the 2026 WSOP Main Event. Over the course of the first of those days of poker action, just two players dropped out of the running as a dramatic opening session saw one […]

On August 3, the WSOP Main Event final table will begin and the nine players who made the cut will play down to a winner. Across three days of action, a new world champion will be found and a top prize of $10,000,000 will be awarded, along with the WSOP bracelet that every player wants […]