Ko Goto Has Never Cashed a WSOP Event. He Leads the $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw.

Ko Goto has never cashed a WSOP event, has no recorded lifetime earnings, and right now holds the chip lead in Event #77 — the $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball — with 680,000 chips and 24 players remaining.

Zero bracelets across the entire top five. Zero. In a field that's been grinding draw games for two days, the leaderboard reads like a regional mixed-game home game broke containment and stormed the Horseshoe.

Zero bracelets across the entire top five — the leaderboard reads like a regional mixed-game home game broke containment and stormed the Horseshoe.

The Top Five Right Now

Goto, from Japan, sits on 680,000. Behind him is Jonathan Morrell at 580,000 — also braceletless, also without recorded lifetime earnings. Third is Robert Shuptrine at 490,000, the most credentialed player in the top tier with one WSOPC ring and $243,462 in lifetime cashes across two final tables.

Douglas Miner holds 370,000 with just $3,159 in career earnings. Robert Rosengarten rounds out the top five at 150,000 — one ring, $92,688 lifetime, two final tables.

This is a $2,500 buy-in WSOP bracelet event on Day 2 and the combined lifetime earnings of the top five stack holders might not cover a single Triton buy-in.

Why This Stream Matters

Mixed Triple Draw Lowball is one of the most technically demanding formats on the schedule. You're alternating between A-5, 2-7, and Badugi across draws. The player pool skews toward specialists who've logged thousands of hours in limit draw variants. And yet the five biggest stacks belong to players with a combined bracelet count of zero.

Goto is the ghost chip leader — no photo on file, no Twitter handle, no prior WSOP results. He's just sitting there with 680,000 in a game that rewards patience and precision over reputation.

The stream is live from the Horseshoe. Twenty-four players, no former champions on top, and a first-time WSOP casher from Japan holding the biggest stack in the room.