Tag Team Final Table Is Live: Two Names, One Bracelet

Akihito Yokotsuka's team is sitting on 1,820,000 chips at the WSOP Tag Team final table, and somewhere at that same spot a partner is waiting to tag in.

Event #66 — the $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em — is playing down for a bracelet right now at the Horseshoe. This is the format where two players share one stack, one seat, and one entry, swapping in and out at designated breaks. When a team wins, both names go on the bracelet. It's the only WSOP event where you hear "we" instead of "I" at the winner's interview.

The Chip Counts

Yokotsuka's Japan-flagged team leads with 1,820,000. Behind them, the team featuring Zachary Johnsen — whose lone prior WSOP final table produced just $7,730 in lifetime cashes — sits second at 1,435,000. Joseph Monaco's Canada-flagged squad holds 925,000, and Rhett Van Leeuwen's team ($57,831 in career earnings across three final tables) has 505,000.

Yokotsuka's Japan-flagged team leads with 1,820,000 — and both partners get their name on the bracelet if they hold.

What to Watch For

The short stack belongs to the team featuring Joshua Hicok at just 27,000. That's roughly one big blind depending on the level — pure survival mode with a tag-team twist. Hicok's partner will need to step in at exactly the right moment.

What makes Tag Team stream-worthy: you're watching two people's body language, not one. When a team tanks on a river decision, the player in the seat knows their partner is sweating every second from the rail. No other WSOP event produces that dynamic.

No confirmed end time on the stream — but with stacks this spread out, expect play to wrap before the afternoon.