Player Watch
One emerging or milestone-hitting player per week. Profile-light, data-heavy.
Justin Liberto Has Six Pieces of WSOP Hardware and He's Not Done Yet
The two-time bracelet winner holds the chip lead with 52 left in the $1,500 Pick Your PLO at the 2026 WSOP, adding another deep run to a résumé that already includes $5.3 million in career earnings.
Koray Aldemir Is Crushing the $25K Fantasy Value Curve
The 2021 Main Event champion is producing 301.1 points on a $18.10 draft price, making him the second-biggest value beat in the entire contest.
Darrell Blodgett Is Nine-Handed for His First Bracelet — at $250
A one-ring Circuit grinder with $178K in career earnings just reached the final table of the cheapest seniors event the WSOP has ever spread.
Yang Li's $314K Resume Towers Over a WSOP Daily Deepstack Field
The most credentialed player Charlotte has tracked at any daily deepstack final table this week is down to the final 21 in Event #469.
Pradeep Dewan Has $600 in Lifetime Earnings and Just Made a WSOP Final Table
The $50 Gladiators of Poker — the cheapest bracelet-series event in WSOP history — is down to eight players, and its chip leader at two tables left had one recorded cash to his name.
Anthony Denove Has a Bracelet and $629K in Cashes. He Spent Tuesday Night in a $200 Daily.
A bracelet winner, a three-time ring holder, and a player with $256K in earnings all showed up in the same $200 Deepstack at the Horseshoe.
Taylor Vonkriegenbergh: $4.6M in Cashes, Zero Hardware, and the Day 1D Chip Lead
The most accomplished player in the Main Event field without a single piece of WSOP jewelry just bagged the biggest stack of the final flight.
Nantha Kumar Munisamy: Zero Earnings, Zero Rings, One WSOP Final Table
A Singaporean player with no recorded tournament history is seven-handed for a bracelet in Event #456.
Gabriel Abusada: $511K in Career Earnings, Zero Bracelets, and a WSOP Final-Table Chip Lead
The Palestinian tournament grinder bagged 1,335,000 chips at the front of a WSOP final table where no other player has earned more than $40K lifetime.
Koray Aldemir: The $18.10 Draft Pick Producing Like a $70 Player
The 2021 WSOP Main Event champion is the second-biggest value beat in the entire $25K Fantasy contest, outperforming his draft price by 231 points.
Naoya Kihara's Final Table Machine Won't Stop Running
Japan's most decorated WSOP bracelet winner just reached his 11th career final table — this time in the $5,000 Super Turbo Bounty, where he busted 10th chasing a fourth bracelet.
Yenhan Chen Leads $5K Super Turbo Bounty Final Table With Nearly Double the Next Stack
The Taiwanese player's $163K career earnings make him the smallest résumé at a final table that included a three-time bracelet winner.
Andrew Todhunter: Seven Final Tables, One Ring, and a $135 Satellite at 4 AM
The most credentialed player in the overnight Landmark Mega Satellite is trying to convert $135 into a $10K seat.
Alex Foxen Leads the $10K 8-Game With 81 Career Final Tables Behind Him
Four bracelets, six rings, $29.4M in earnings, and now the chip lead in the WSOP's most demanding mixed-game championship.
Jason James: 14 Final Tables, One Bracelet, and the Biggest Field of His Career
The Canadian grinder with $1.63M in lifetime cashes just punched through to the final stretch of the WSOP's $1,000 MINI Main Event — and the field dwarfs anything he's navigated before.
Patrick Leonard: The Most Popular Non-Edge in the $25K Fantasy
He appears on more rosters than any other player in the contest, yet his ODB delta is exactly zero — the crowd loves him, but nobody's gaining an inch.
Shaun Deeb Is the Most Expensive Player in $25K Fantasy. 441 Teams Paid Up.
At a $94 draft price and 8.8% ownership, the crowd is pricing in a monster second half of the WSOP.
Max Korlinge: $2,200 in Lifetime Earnings, One Table From a Bracelet
The Swedish mixed-game player busted 10th in WSOP Event #375, but his run through the $250 H.O.R.S.E. field is the kind of stat line that deserves a closer look.
Jason Riesenberg: $799K in Cashes, Zero Bracelets, and the Chip Lead at Two Tables
The 8-Game Mixed specialist leads Event #74 with 18 players left, chasing the one credential his résumé still lacks.
Dominik Panka Resurfaces at a WSOP Final Table Eight Years After His Bracelet
The 2014 PCA champion and 2018 bracelet winner has 14 career final tables, $3.1M in lifetime earnings, and the chip lead heading into the final nine of Event #63.
Michael Mizrachi Is 15 Players Away from History
The Grinder leads the $10K PLO Championship with 16 left — chasing a third title in the same event that no player has ever won three times.
Negreanu's Fantasy Team Just Posted the Biggest One-Day Surge in the $25K Contest
His roster climbed 18.7 points in a single day — but the six-time bracelet winner hasn't cashed at the 2026 WSOP since June 14.
Naoya Kihara: The Biggest Value Beat in the $25K Fantasy Contest
A bracelet winner with $4.7 million in lifetime earnings cost $1.10 to draft, and only 2.6% of teams noticed.
Josh Arieh's $895K PPC Runner-Up Pushes a Career Into Rare Air
A second-place finish in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship adds another six-figure line to one of the deepest mixed-game résumés in WSOP history.
Todd Brunson: 18 Final Tables, One Bracelet, and a $10K Championship Lead
The 30-year WSOP veteran tops the chip counts with 15 players left in the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship.
Zachary Gruneberg: 91 Final Tables, 2 Bracelets, and a Shot at No. 3
One of the most prolific tournament résumés in American poker belongs to a player most fans couldn't pick out of a lineup — and he's 17 players from another bracelet right now.
Kristopher Tong Leads the $50K Poker Players Championship Final Table
One bracelet, $1.07M in lifetime earnings, and 2.43 million chips — the mixed-game grinder nobody outside the community knows just took the lead at poker's toughest final table.
Koray Aldemir Is the Best Value Pick in the $25K Fantasy Contest
The 2021 WSOP Main Event champion is producing 301.1 fantasy points at an $18.10 draft price, obliterating the ODB expected-value curve by +231 points.
Matthew Beinner's Eight Final Tables Led Here — a Shot at the $50K PPC
The $1.59M-career grinder is nine-handed in the $5,300 Poker Players Championship Mega Satellite, chasing a seat in poker's most demanding event.
Klemens Roiter Is Alive in the $50K PLO — and His Resume Says He Belongs
The Austrian bracelet winner with $5.08 million in lifetime earnings is through to Day 2 of the most expensive PLO event on the 2026 WSOP schedule.
Joshua Arieh Has 48 WSOP Final Tables. He's Chasing No. 49 Right Now.
Seven bracelets, nearly $13 million in lifetime cashes, and a mixed-game résumé that puts him in the top 15 all-time for WSOP final-table appearances.
Koray Aldemir Is the Biggest Fantasy Bargain of the 2026 WSOP
The 2021 Main Event champion is generating a +231-point surplus over his draft price — the largest value gap in the entire $25K Fantasy contest.
Phi Long Has Zero Recorded Earnings and 1.4 Million Chips
An unknown American player has dominated WSOP Event #267 from 93 players down to the final two tables — and nobody can find his résumé.
David Benyamine: 26 WSOP Final Tables, One Bracelet, and a Chip Lead
The French PLO specialist has made more WSOP final tables than most pros make Day 2s — and he's sitting on 1.02 million chips in the $25K High Roller.
Calvin Anderson Leads $10K Razz Championship Final Table With 40 Career WSOP Final Tables on His Résumé
Five bracelets, $6.5 million in lifetime earnings, and 40 WSOP final tables — now Anderson is the chip leader with eight players left in Event #48.
Mark Egbert Has Four Rings. Now He Wants a Bracelet Seat.
The four-time WSOPC ring winner holds the chip lead with eight players left in WSOP Event #255, a $585 mega satellite where the prize isn't gold hardware but a path to one.
Darin Short's $624 Résumé Just Reached a WSOP Final Table
The smallest lifetime earnings of any player to make a 2026 WSOP final table belong to a man whose entire recorded history is one min-cash.
Gary Herstein Has Seven WSOP Final Tables and Zero Bracelets. He Leads the $5K Seniors HR.
With 2.3 million chips and 16 players left, the career near-miss artist is closer than ever to breaking his most frustrating streak.
Jason Koon Reaches $250K Super High Roller Final Table at 2026 WSOP
The most prolific high-roller tournament player of his generation adds another final table to a résumé that already includes $71 million in lifetime earnings.
Michael Estes Has Nine Final Tables and Zero Bracelets. Tonight Could Fix That.
Three WSOPC rings, $634K in lifetime cashes, and a chip lead at 27 remaining in the $1,500 PLO 8-Handed put Estes on the doorstep of his first gold.
Surinder Singh's WSOP Profile Is Blank. He's at the Colossus Final Table.
Zero bracelets, zero rings, no recorded lifetime earnings — and 2,595,000 chips at the biggest-field bracelet event of the summer.
Jean Bellande Leads the $3,000 NLH with 18 Left, Chasing Bracelet No. 2
The one-bracelet veteran and legendary prop bettor has 3,120,000 chips at the two-table redraw of WSOP Event #32.
Patrik Robok's Wire-to-Wire Chip Lead in the WSOP's Cheapest Deepstack
The German player held 755,000 chips from 27 players down to the final table of Event #208, the $200 Daily Deepstack at the 2026 WSOP.
Yaser Al-Keliddar Leads Monster Stack Day 3 With 11.5M Chips
One bracelet, one ring, $394K in career earnings, and a chip lead over 93 survivors in the WSOP's deepest-stacked $1,500 event.
Chris Hunichen Has $12.7M and 22 Final Tables. Now He Wants the Bracelet.
The high-stakes tournament grinder sits second in chips at the eight-handed final table of WSOP Event #25, the $500 Freezeout.
Sean Winter: $8.57M Earned, Zero Bracelets, One Chip Lead
The highest-earning active player without WSOP hardware leads 26 remaining players in the $25,000 High Roller.
Maksim Pisarenko Leads the $10K Stud Championship — and His Resume Says He Belongs
One bracelet, one ring, eight final tables, $1.49 million in earnings — and 429,000 chips at the top of a 26-player field.
Clayton Mozdzen: $727K Earned, Zero Hardware, One Final Table Left
The Canadian mixed-game specialist leads his sixth career final table at the 2026 WSOP Dealers Choice, chasing a first-ever title against a field that includes four-time bracelet winner Jeffrey Madsen.
Allan Le Is 14-Handed in Dealers Choice, Hunting Bracelet No. 3
The mixed-game specialist has two WSOP bracelets, eight career final tables, and the second-largest stack with 14 players left in Event #20.
Punnat Punsri: $9.27M in Earnings, Zero Hardware, One Big Chance
The Thailand-based pro is among the leaders on Day 1A of the WSOP's $25,000 High Roller with 13 career final tables and not a single bracelet or ring to show for any of them.
Dylan Smith Is Three-Handed for a Bracelet in the $1,500 2-7 Lowball Draw
The draw-game specialist has locked 49 fantasy points and is two eliminations from his first WSOP gold.
Todd Brunson's 17 Final Tables and One Unfinished Number
One bracelet, $2.36M in career earnings, and a Day 2 chip stack that puts a second gold within reach at the $10K Omaha Hi-Lo Championship.
Daniel Dvoress Is Second in Chips at Triton's $100K PLO Final Four
The Canadian multi-game crusher has $23 million in career earnings and four opponents left between him and another Triton title.
Aleksejs Ponakovs Leads $150K Triton Montenegro Final Table
The Latvian high-roller veteran sits second in chips at a nine-handed final table worth more than $11 million in total buy-ins.
Danny Tang Leads Triton Montenegro $100K Main Event Final Table
The Hong Kong high-roller has 7,050,000 chips and a Triton résumé that makes the rest of the nine-handed field uncomfortable.
Linus Loeliger Leads Triton Montenegro's $50K Turbo Bounty Quattro Final Table
The Swiss high-roller sits on 1.7 million chips with eight players left — nearly 70% more than his closest pursuer.
Griffin Benger Bags Colossus Chip Lead at Playground
The former StarCraft pro and $1.6M career earner topped Day 1C of the WSOPC Colossus in Montreal, chasing his first Circuit ring.
Hamid Izadi Wins Ninth WSOPC Ring at Harrah's Cherokee
The Circuit grinder topped a $1,700 Main Event with a $2M guarantee — his 49th career final table and another entry in a very short list.