The Austrian poker professional and former Ladies Event Jessica Teusl proved once again that she is a formidable presence at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) after she reached the final table of the $1,000-entry Ladies No Limit Hold’em Championship, eventually winning $16,668 in ninth place. Elsewhere, GGPoker Global Ambassador Michael Mizrachi sits on the brink of yet another huge bracelet in the $10,000 PLO Championship, while Matt Vengrin is second in chips with one day of the $2,500 Big Bet WSOP Event remaining.

Teusl Tussles in Ladies Event

Already a winner of the WSOP Ladies NLHE Championship, Austrian superstar Jessica Teusl returned to the final table of the event she won in 2022 determined to win it again. While the 2024 and 2025 back-to-back champion Shiina Okamoto was eliminated earlier in the event and unable to defend her title, Jessica Teusl (below) was hoping to run deep and become a two-time WSOP Ladies Event winner like the Japanese champion.

A record-breaking 1,475 total entries in the event saw a $1,298,000 prize pool on offer. Just nine finalists remained on the penultimate day of the event, with three more players to bust before the last six would go to overnight to the final day.

PokerStake seller Jessica, who had sold action in the event at an entirely justified and still-lucrative markup of 2.0, ended up coming ninth for a score $16,668. All-in with ace-queen, the 2022 champion was dominated by Emily Spencer whose ace-king held through the ten-high board to reduce the field to eight.

Soon, another PokerStake player busted, with Lexy Gavin-Mather falling at her latest final table. Calling off her stack with king-queen of diamonds, she needed help when Skye Chen, who had shoved with pocket sevens, saw an ace-high flop also feature a seven. Lexy needed a serious visit from Lady Luck, requiring running flush or straight cards but an offsuit five sending her to the river drawing dead.

On the final day, Global Poker Award-winning content creator Caitlin Comeskey came fourth for $67,735 before the exit of Lisa Teebagy in third place for $93,149. A pulsating battle for the bracelet between Aubrey Williams and the eventual winner saw Skye Chen make a brilliant hero-call with ace-high before working her way into a slim lead. All the chips went in with Chen holding pocket fours and she held when Aubrey Williams’ ace-five was unable to find her a pair to overtake the latest WSOP bracelet winner.

You can watch exactly what happened in the 2026 WSOP Ladies Event final right here:

WSOP 2026 Event #68: $1,000 Ladies NLHE Championship Final Table Results:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Skye Chen	United States	$194,630
2nd	Aubrey Williams	United States	$129,692
3rd	Lisa Teebagy	United States	$93,149
4th	Caitlin Comeskey	United States	$67,735
5th	Emily Spencer	United States	$49,874
6th	Victoria Ailloud	France	$37,192
7th	Lisa Tan	United States	$28,092
8th	Lexy Gavin-Mather	United States	$21,497
9th	Jessica Teusl	Austria	$16,668

Michael Mizrachi Two from the Title in Latest Championship Event

The $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship Event #70 is down to just three players, with the 2025 WSOP Main Event and Poker Players Championship winner Michael Mizrachi holding onto a monster lead. With an incredible $40.22 million chips to his name, Mizrachi, who was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame by emergency council 12 months ago, has over 80% of the chip in play with one day to go.

Also involved at the final table were two American poker greats. Jesse Lonis cashed again for a super-impressive score of $175,233 in seventh place. But Martin Zamani finished fourth for an even better result of $445,080 – good enough to put him eighth on the current list of WSOP Player of the Year challengers, and within swinging range of players like our own Benny Glaser and Josh Arieh, who sit in fourth and third place respectively.

WSOP 2026 Event #70: $10,000 PLO Championship Final Table:
Position	Player	Country	Chips/Prize
1st	Michael Mizrachi	United States	40,225,000
2nd	Zarvan Tumboli	India	5,500,000
3rd	Michael Hahn	United States	4,450,000
4th	Martin Zamani	United States	$445,080
5th	Ian Matakis	United States	$320,763
6th	Raj Vohra	United States	$235,073
7th	Jesse Lonis	United States	$175,233
8th	Toby Joyce	Ireland	$132,908

Can Matt Vengrin Deny Kihara a Third Crown in 2026?

Even higher up the list of POY chasers than Zamani is the Japanese player Naoya Kihara, who virtually no-one except the man himself had to be in the running for Player of the Year at the start of the 2026 WSOP. Heading into the final day of the $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event #71, Kihara’s chances could improve further, with his chip lead looking strong on 2.56 million chips.

Second in chips is the long-time PokerStake seller Matt Vengrin (above). Matt has a pile of 1.33 million chips and while there are plenty of other experienced players at the final table such as the long-time cash crusher Brad Owen (800,000) and Brazilian high roller regular Renan Bruschi (1.15m), Matt has every chance of adding a second WSOP bracelet to his collection in Las Vega tonight.

WSOP 2026 Event #71: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet Day 3 Top 10 Chipcounts:
Place	Player	Country	Chips
1st	Naoya Kihara	Japan	2,560,000
2nd	Matt Vengrin	United States	1,331,000
3rd	Dylan Smith	United States	1,314,000
4th	Nicholas Marchington	United Kingdom	1,287,000
5th	Renan Bruschi	Brazil	1,152,000
6th	Steve Billirakis	United States	1,097,000
7th	Hiroyuki Noda	Japan	937,000
8th	Danny Chang	United States	892,000
9th	Brad Owen	United States	800,000
10th	Woody Deck	United States	703,000

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Photography by Jess Beck and Eloy Cabascas at the 2026 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.