The Bracelet Hunt
Running narrative coverage of WSOP, Triton, and major tour storylines. Named characters, tension, stakes.
Darrell Blodgett Is the Best Player at This Final Table. That's the Story.
One Circuit ring and $178K in lifetime earnings make Blodgett the most credentialed player alive in WSOP Event #478, the $250 Seniors Deepstack.
The Gun! Has 31.1 Million Chips and Zero Known Cashes
A player registered under a nickname with no lifetime earnings on file sits second in chips with 26 left in WSOP Event #86.
$2,776 and a Final Table at the World Series of Poker
Lowell Sarrade's entire tournament résumé wouldn't cover a tasting menu on the Strip — and he just sat down eight-handed in WSOP Event #468.
$50 Buy-In, $10,000 Dream: David Grant Is Six-Handed at the WSOP
A player with zero bracelets, zero rings, and no recorded lifetime earnings is one of six left in the cheapest event in the entire 2026 WSOP.
Zero Earnings, Zero Rings, Zero Bracelets — Edith Oakes Leads the $400 Deepstack
A player with no recorded tournament history of any kind is chip leader of WSOP Event #453 with 19 left at the Horseshoe.
Antonio Subire Has $3,200 to His Name. He's Chip-Leading a WSOP Bracelet Event.
A Spanish player with almost no tournament résumé is dominating Event #85's $1,000 NLH as two tables remain on Final Day.
Zero Bracelets, Zero Résumés: Event #434's Final Table Is a Ghost Town
Nine players remain in the $1,100 NLH Turbo Landmark Mega Satellite — and not one of them has ever won a WSOP bracelet.
Naoya Kihara's Bid for Bracelet No. 4 Runs Into a 20-Million-Chip Wall
The three-time bracelet winner from Japan reached the $5,000 Super Turbo Bounty final table but busted 10th as Taiwan's Yenhan Chen stacked a commanding lead.
Alex Foxen Leads the 8-Game Championship With 18 Left
Four bracelets, $29.4 million in lifetime earnings, and a commanding chip lead in the WSOP's most demanding mixed event — Foxen is hunting number five.
Dennys Luis Ramos Has $1.87M and Eight Final Tables. Zero Bracelets.
The Brazilian grinder just reached the WSOP Event #72 MINI Main Event final table, still chasing the one thing money can't buy.
Jason James Has the Résumé. Now He Wants the Second Bracelet.
The Canadian grinder is one of nine left in the $1,000 MINI Main Event, and he's the only player at the final table with WSOP gold on his shelf.
Carlo Van Ravenswood Is the Cheapest Stack at the $100K PLO Final Two Tables
A Dutchman with $476K in lifetime earnings and zero bracelets is alive among 16 players in the most expensive open event of the 2026 WSOP — and the résumés surrounding him are absurd.
Kyle Montgomery Has $25K to His Name and 2.6 Million Chips
The cheapest résumé at the top of the most expensive open event still running at the 2026 WSOP.
Jordan Siegel Had the Chip Lead. Then He Didn't.
A million dollars in lifetime cashes, four WSOP final tables, zero bracelets — and the 8-Game Mixed just handed him another test.
Steve Billirakis Has 950K Chips and a Three-Bracelet Problem
The two-time winner leads the $2,500 Mixed Big Bet final table — but a three-bracelet champion and $3.2M grinder are sitting to his left.
The Ghost Leading the $10K PLO Championship
Michael Hahn has zero bracelets, zero rings, and no recorded lifetime earnings — and he's sitting with 2.785 million chips at the final two tables of the WSOP's premier Pot-Limit Omaha event.
Hengsheng Tao Has No Resume and All the Chips at WSOP Event #354
A player with zero bracelets, zero rings, and no recorded lifetime earnings leads the $400 Daily Deepstack with 21 players left at the Horseshoe.
Paul Fehlig Is the Only Résumé at This Final Table
A one-ring Circuit grinder with $700K in lifetime earnings sits down at the $400 Daily Deepstack final table surrounded by players who have, collectively, almost none of that.
Alan Ledford Has 1.4M Chips and No WSOP History. He Leads a $10K Championship.
The chip leader of the Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8-or-Better Championship has zero bracelets, zero rings, and no recorded lifetime earnings.
Todd Brunson Has 1.58 Million Chips and a Family Legacy on the Line
The son of Doyle leads the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship with 15 players left, chasing a second bracelet in the game his father helped define.
The $952 Man: Timothy Garner Is Nine-Handed for a WSOP Bracelet
Event #61's Super Seniors final table features a chip leader with less than $1,000 in lifetime tournament earnings and a field where even the biggest names barely have a résumé.
Valentin Oberhauser's Entire Career Is Worth Less Than First Place
A French player with $61K in lifetime earnings leads the WSOP Event #65 final table, a freezeout where every survivor earned their seat on a single bullet.
Nick Schulman Is 16 Players From Bracelet No. 9
The eight-time champion sits among the final two tables of the $25,000 High Roller PLO/NLH Mixed, hunting hardware that would put him deeper into WSOP royalty.
Daniel Hachem Is 14 Players From a Bracelet His Father Never Chased
Twenty-one years after Joe Hachem won the Main Event in No-Limit Hold'em, his son Daniel is alive at the final two tables of the $1,000 PLO — a game that runs in a completely different gear.
Zachary Gruneberg Hunts Bracelet No. 3 at the Final Two Tables of Event #62
The two-time bracelet winner and eight-time Circuit ring holder leads 17 survivors in the $2,500 NLHE with 1.5 million chips — and 91 career final tables worth of experience.
Zero Bracelets, Zero Rings, 10 Million Chips: Allen Lanier Leads the Salute to Warriors
A player with no recorded tournament earnings sits second in chips with 15 left in the WSOP's most emotionally charged bracelet event.
Kristopher Tong Leads the $50K Poker Players Championship Final Table
A one-bracelet winner with $1.07M in career earnings sits atop a final table stacked with mixed-game royalty and $15.5M in combined lifetime cashes.
$10M Guarantee at the Wynn: The Biggest Non-WSOP Tournament of the Summer
The $10,400 Wynn Summer Championship fires Day 1C on June 23 with a $10 million guarantee, putting it in direct competition with the bracelet schedule at the Horseshoe.
Dylan Weisman Reaches the $50K High Roller PLO Final Table at the WSOP
The two-time bracelet winner sits down nine-handed in the most expensive PLO event of the summer — alongside Naoya Kihara, Daniel Negreanu, Sean Winter, and Ka Lau.
Robert Mizrachi Is Short-Stacked and Chasing Bracelet No. 6 at the H.O.R.S.E. Championship
Five bracelets, 31 career final tables, and the smallest stack at a nine-handed final table loaded with mixed-game killers — Mizrachi has work to do.
Yarron Bendor Reaches PPC Mega Satellite Final Table With $50K Seat on the Line
Three prior WSOP final tables, zero bracelets, and now the chip leader's rank in a satellite where the prize isn't cash but a seat in poker's most exclusive event.
Joshua Arieh Is 18 Players From Bracelet No. 8
The seven-time champion sits with 275,000 chips at the two-table mark of the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship — poker's most grueling mixed-game title.
Josh Reichard Has 17 Rings and Zero Bracelets. He's the Chip Leader.
The most decorated WSOP Circuit player in history reaches the $10,000 Mystery Bounty final table with a commanding stack, chasing the one trophy that's eluded him for his entire career.
Elliot Smith Leads the $2,500 Freezeout Final Table. His Résumé Says He Shouldn't.
A Canadian with $146K in lifetime earnings sits on the biggest stack at a final table that includes Chino Rheem and two-time bracelet winner Marco Johnson.
Dario Sammartino's One-Bracelet Problem Just Got 25 Players Smaller
The Italian has $15.2M in career earnings and 49 WSOP final tables, but only one bracelet to show for it. He's alive in the $10K Mystery Bounty.
Tyler Willse Leads the Final Nine in the $1,100 H.O.R.S.E. Mega Satellite
A one-ring mixed-game grinder with $252K in career earnings holds the chip lead at a final table where a Landmark bracelet-event seat is worth more than a third of his lifetime cashes.
Mizrachi Has 835K Chips and a 16-Year Bracelet Drought
Michael Mizrachi is among the biggest stacks with 97 left in the $2,500 Freezeout, chasing his first gold since 2010.
Daniel Buckley Has 13 WSOP Final Tables and Zero Bracelets. He Leads Event #45.
The mixed-game grinder with $1.04 million in career earnings is the chip leader with 26 left in the $2,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo/Stud Hi-Lo — the most niche format on the 2026 schedule.
Ofer Gutman's 6.8M Stack and a Shot at His First Bracelet
An Israeli grinder with zero WSOP hardware sits fourth in chips with 20 left in the $800 8-Handed Deepstack.
Gary Herstein Leads $5K Seniors High Roller With 16 Left and Zero Bracelets
Seven WSOP final tables, $344K in lifetime cashes, and not a single piece of gold — but Herstein holds a commanding chip lead heading into the business end of the most expensive seniors event ever offered.
Bruce Turner Has No Resume. He Might Leave Vegas With a Bracelet.
A player with zero recorded WSOP cashes leads the seven-handed final table of the cheapest bracelet event on the 2026 schedule.
Mike Takayama Chases Bracelet No. 2 in the Cheapest Event on the Schedule
The first Filipino bracelet winner in WSOP history reached the final table of a $400 Daily Deepstack at 5:35 AM in Las Vegas, hunting for gold at the lowest buy-in the series offers.
The $24K Man Leading a WSOP Final Table
Jonathan Nebbout's lifetime earnings wouldn't cover two buy-ins at most Aria cash games, but he's sitting on the biggest stack at the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. final table.
Sam Soverel Leads the $100K High Roller With 5.775M at 17 Left
The four-bracelet winner holds the biggest stack in the summer's richest open event, and he's pulling away.
The $10K PLO Hi-Lo Chip Leader Has $34,816 in Lifetime Cashes
Yuhong Liu tops 27 survivors in the WSOP's Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8-or-Better Championship with 1,870,000 chips and a résumé that fits on a Post-it note.
Zero Bracelets, Zero Public Earnings, 462,500 Chips: Christopher Carlson Leads the $10K PLO Hi-Lo Championship
An unknown chip leader, a two-time bracelet winner 1,000 chips behind him, and one of the summer's most demanding final tables — the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Championship is set.
Andrew Moreno's 20 Final Tables, Zero Bracelets — and One More Shot
The $4M career earner reaches the Monster Stack final table chasing the one thing his résumé is missing.
John Holley Has 12 Rings and Zero Bracelets. He Leads the Event #28 Final Table.
The most decorated Circuit grinder at the WSOP final table is nine players away from the one piece of hardware he's never won.
Braxton Dunaway Has the Chips to Hunt Bracelet No. 2
The $5.3M career earner leads 18 players in Event #26, chasing a second piece of WSOP gold that 78% of winners never get.
Kevin Kendrick Has No Resume and All the Chips in the $1,500 Big O
An unknown American with zero bracelets, zero rings, and no recorded lifetime earnings leads 18 survivors in one of the WSOP's strangest events.
Naoya Kihara Is Eight-Handed for a Second Bracelet No Japanese Player Has Ever Won
Japan's only WSOP bracelet winner sits second in chips at the $10,000 Stud Championship final table, chasing history.
James Cook Has No Resume and 875K Chips at the Horseshoe
A grinder with zero bracelets, zero rings, and no recorded lifetime earnings leads the $200 Daily Deepstack final table with a commanding stack.
Joshua Arieh Leads the PLO Hi-Lo Final Table, Chasing Bracelet No. 7
The six-time champion sits second in chips at the Event #21 final table with 3.31 million, staring down a stacked international field at the 2026 WSOP.
Florian Duta Has Seven Final Tables and Zero Titles. He Just Sat Down at Number Eight.
The UK grinder leads the WSOP Monster Stack final table with 1.825 million chips and a career-long losing streak where it matters most.
Stephen Chidwick Is Hunting Bracelet No. 3 in the $25K High Roller
The British nosebleed regular, with $17.3M in lifetime earnings and 36 career final tables, is among 27 remaining in WSOP Event #19.
Dario Sammartino Leads the Dealers Choice Final Table Hunting Bracelet No. 2
The 2019 Main Event runner-up sits behind 2.03 million chips at the Event #20 final table, but a mystery chip leader with 5.37 million stands in his way.
Teresa Frederick Has Zero Recorded Earnings and 1.36M Chips at a WSOP Final Table
A player with no lifetime tournament record on file sat down at the $250 Seniors Deepstack final table at 3:50 AM at the Horseshoe, second in chips and nine spots from a gold bracelet.
Ryutaro Suzuki Leads the $10K 2-7 Championship Final Table With Two Bracelets and a Score to Settle
The Japanese draw specialist sits atop 2.32 million chips at poker's most prestigious lowball final table — but Shaun Deeb and his eight bracelets are right behind him.
Robert Kuhn Has 12 Million Chips and a Résumé Built for This Exact Event
One bracelet, two Circuit rings, and $720K in lifetime earnings — now Kuhn leads the $1,700 U.S. Circuit Championship with 18 players left.
Brandon Shack-Harris Is Seven-Handed and Hunting Bracelet No. 3
The two-time bracelet winner sits fourth in chips at the Event #14 final table, playing the exact mixed-Omaha format that built his reputation.