$250 H.O.R.S.E. Final Table Set — Korlinge Busts on the Bubble

Max Korlinge came to Las Vegas from Sweden with $2,200 in lifetime tournament earnings and nearly turned a $250 H.O.R.S.E. buy-in into a WSOP final table seat. He busted 10th — the final-table bubble — in Event #375, the $250 Daily Deepstack H.O.R.S.E.

Nine remain. The stream is live now.

What We Know

Korlinge was alive at 15 players with 106,000 chips, a middle-of-the-pack stack but enough to maneuver through five rotating games. He couldn't survive the last redraw. His 10th-place finish will roughly triple that $2,200 lifetime number, but the bracelet math stops here.

His 10th-place finish will roughly triple that $2,200 lifetime number, but the bracelet math stops here.

Tyler Bonkowski, the Canadian who led at two tables with 350,000 chips, also busted before the final nine — out in 13th. Bonkowski's slide from chip leader at 15 to rail at 9 is one of the sharper late-stage collapses in a $250 event this summer.

Who's Left

The final table lost its two most-discussed stacks before it started. Among the confirmed bustouts between 15 and 9: France's Remy Biechel ($214,516 in lifetime earnings), Germany's Simon Wahlbrink, and Frank McNeill ($800 lifetime).

Christopher Kennedy ($98,731 lifetime, six final tables) and Nicolas Barthe ($145,181 lifetime) were both alive at two tables. Whether they survived to the final nine isn't confirmed in the current chip data — stacks haven't been published yet for the remaining players.

David Shmuel, the lone bracelet winner in the field, busted 27th. Sterling Harris (435,000 at 26 left, the biggest stack in the room at the time) hasn't appeared in later bust-out data, which suggests he may still be alive.

Why Watch

This is the cheapest mixed-game bracelet event on the 2026 schedule. Five games, nine unknowns, no former champions left. Someone's winning their first piece of WSOP gold in Razz or Stud Hi-Lo at 3 a.m. in Las Vegas.

The stream is live from the Horseshoe. Final table action is underway now.