The Gun! Has 31.1 Million Chips and Zero Known Cashes

There are 26 players left in a WSOP bracelet event, and one of them is listed as "The Gun!"

No lifetime earnings on file. No country of origin beyond a U.S. flag. No photo. No Twitter handle. No prior final tables. Just 31,100,000 chips and a name that reads like a GTA username.

And that stack is good for second place.

The Field Nobody Expected

WSOP Event #86, the $600 Ultra Stack No-Limit Hold'em, has ground down to its final 26 players on Day 2. The chip leader is Mikko Torkki of Finland with 38,000,000. Kazuto Takeuchi of Japan is third at 22,500,000. Pabllo Magalhaes De Lima of Brazil holds 9,000,000. Eric Lisle, the only player in the top five with any recorded tournament history, sits at 7,000,000 with $27,649 in lifetime earnings.

None of them have a bracelet. None have a ring. And the player sitting on the second-largest stack in the room is someone the poker database essentially doesn't recognize.

A player the poker database essentially doesn't recognize is sitting on 31.1 million chips, second overall, with 26 left in a bracelet event.

Who Is The Gun?

That's the question, and the honest answer is: we don't know. The WSOP's chip count report lists player ID 179663 under the name "The Gun!" with a U.S. country flag. Everything else is blank. No lifetime earnings. No final-table history. No photo in the system.

This isn't unheard of in a $600 event. The Ultra Stack draws a huge recreational field precisely because the buy-in is low and the structure is generous. First-timers, local grinders, and the occasional tourist who signs up between Cirque shows all end up in these fields. Most of them bust on Day 1 and never appear in a chip count report.

The Gun! did not bust on Day 1.

Instead, this mystery entry built a stack that would make the registered pros at the Horseshoe do a double take. At 31.1 million, The Gun! holds roughly four times the chips of Lisle, the only top-five player with any tracked results at all.

A Final Table of Ghosts

What makes Event #86 unusual isn't just one anonymous stack. It's that the entire top of the leaderboard is populated by players with little or no recorded tournament history. Torkki, Takeuchi, Magalhaes De Lima: combined tracked earnings of zero. Lisle's $27,649 makes him the most credentialed player in the top five by default.

This is a $600 bracelet event doing exactly what $600 bracelet events are designed to do. The structure gives amateurs enough play to survive the variance traps that knock them out of faster formats. Day 2 rewards patience and stamina over pedigree. And when the dust settles at a final table, you sometimes get a leaderboard that looks like this one: five countries, five unknowns, and a combined zero bracelets.

The difference is the name. In a field of quiet first-timers, The Gun! stands out because whoever registered chose a name that reads like a declaration. Not a legal name. Not initials and a last name. An exclamation point.

What Happens Next

Twenty-six players remain. A gold bracelet is at the end of this tournament, and the player closest to Torkki's chip lead is someone whose entire professional poker identity, as far as the WSOP's records are concerned, consists of a nickname and an exclamation point.

If The Gun! wins a bracelet, it will be the kind of story that circulates in poker rooms for years. If The Gun! busts on the bubble, nobody outside this article will remember the name.

Either way, 31.1 million chips say the story isn't over yet.