$250 Bracelet on the Line at 3 AM on the Fourth of July

It's 3 AM on July 4th at the Horseshoe, and eight players are fighting over a WSOP bracelet that costs $250 to enter.

Event #410 — the $250 Daily Deepstack No-Limit Hold'em — just reached its final table of eight. This is the cheapest open event on the entire 2026 WSOP schedule, and the final table looks like it. Zero bracelets. Zero rings. Not a single Hendon page north of $50K. The most democratic bracelet chase of the summer is grinding toward a winner while the rest of Las Vegas shoots fireworks.

Zero bracelets, zero rings, not a single Hendon page north of $50K — and one of these eight players is about to win WSOP gold.

The Chip Leader

Kevin Kelly leads with 3,836,000 — and his entire tracked tournament record coming in was $1,874 in lifetime cashes. A bracelet here would multiply his résumé by an order of magnitude. Frank Garcia sits second at 2,650,000.

Ben Huber and Jordan Gass are both at the final table. Gass has been a presence since the two-table redraw, where he held 1,100,000 at 18 players. His stack at the final table isn't reported yet, but he survived the cull from 18 to 8 — that's the hard part.

Huber, listed out of Illinois, is in the same boat: no prior WSOP results on file, sitting down at a bracelet final table for what appears to be the first time.

Who Else Is There

Nikan Javadzadeh is the closest thing to a veteran at this table — $13,144 in lifetime earnings and one prior final table. Konstantin Em, who led at 18 players with 1,380,000, was not among the named stacks at the final table and appears to have busted on the bubble or just short of it.

The field shrank fast: 54 players a few hours ago, 18 at the two-table redraw, now 8. The stream is live. Someone's winning a bracelet before sunrise on the Fourth of July, and it's going to be someone nobody in poker has heard of.

Coverage is expected to wrap before 7 AM PT.