Paul Fehlig Is the Only Résumé at This Final Table

Paul Fehlig has played 17 final tables across the Circuit and mid-stakes grind, pocketed $700,398, and won a single gold ring. Right now he's the only player at the $400 Daily Deepstack final table who has any of those things.

Event #346 of the 2026 World Series of Poker, a $400 Daily Deepstack No-Limit Hold'em tournament at Horseshoe/Paris in Las Vegas, is down to its final eight. The field ground from a packed room to two tables, then to one. And when the survivors sat down under the TV lights, the credential gap became almost comical.

Fehlig's $700,398 in lifetime earnings is more than all seven of his opponents have made combined, by a factor that isn't even close.

The Field Around Him

Consider the rest of the table. Daniel Tribuzio, who held the chip lead at 995,000 when the field was still at 12 players, has $3,020 in recorded lifetime tournament cashes. Yaroslav Korolev has $909. Michael Danley, the most experienced of the remaining non-Fehlig group, sits at $14,620. Antonio Storno, who traveled from Venezuela, has no recorded earnings at all.

None of the eight finalists hold a bracelet. None besides Fehlig hold a ring. The combined lifetime earnings of Fehlig's seven opponents, for those where data exists, sit somewhere south of $20,000.

This is a final table where one player has been here 16 times before and seven players are in uncharted territory.

What Fehlig's Record Actually Says

Seventeen career final tables is a specific kind of credential. It doesn't mean you're a high-roller regular or a GTO lab wizard. It means you know how to navigate the back end of a tournament when the blinds get ugly and the pay jumps get real.

Fehlig's ring came on the WSOP Circuit, the year-round feeder series that runs at Caesars properties across the country. His $700,398 in lifetime cashes puts him in a tier that most $400 daily players never reach. Not because they lack talent, necessarily, but because accumulating that number requires hundreds of tournaments, dozens of deep runs, and the kind of bankroll discipline that lets you keep showing up.

At a $400 buy-in, Fehlig is playing well below his usual weight class. That's not unusual during the WSOP summer in Vegas. Credentialed grinders enter dailies between main events, treating them as stay-sharp reps with real money attached. The result is a table where the experience asymmetry is enormous.

The Other Side of the Ledger

But résumés don't play poker. Chips do.

Tribuzio held 995,000 chips when the field was at 12, and that stack was the largest recorded at that milestone. Whether he still leads at the final table is unclear from available data, but he entered the endgame with serious ammunition regardless of his $3,020 career earnings.

The daily deepstacks are bracelet events. That's easy to forget given the buy-in, but a gold bracelet doesn't know what it cost. If Tribuzio or Korolev or Storno takes this down, they'll own the same piece of hardware that sits in Phil Ivey's collection.

Fehlig knows this. He's been close before, across 17 final tables, grinding out cashes that built a $700K bankroll one deep run at a time. A bracelet is the one line on his résumé that's still blank.

Eight players remain. One of them has done this 16 times before. The other seven are doing it for the first time. The cards will decide which advantage matters more.