Todd Brunson: 18 Final Tables, One Bracelet, and a $10K Championship Lead

The Numbers Behind the Name

Todd Brunson has made 18 WSOP final tables across three decades, won exactly one bracelet, earned $2.78 million in career tournament cashes, and right now leads the 15 remaining players in the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship with 1,580,000 chips.

That ratio tells a story on its own. Eighteen final tables and a single piece of gold hardware. Among players with 15-plus WSOP final tables, Brunson's conversion rate is almost impossibly low. He's one of the most experienced players alive to hold just one bracelet.

The $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Championship (Event #67 of the 2026 WSOP) might be his cleanest path to changing that number.

Among players with 15-plus WSOP final tables, Brunson's conversion rate is almost impossibly low.

How He Got Here

When Day 2 began, Brunson sat with 382,000 chips as the field shrank from 26 to 15. Over the course of the session he more than quadrupled his stack to 1,580,000, putting him at the top of the leaderboard heading into what should be a final-table push.

The field around him isn't soft. Naoya Kihara, a three-time bracelet winner from Japan with $2.81 million in lifetime earnings and 11 career final tables, bagged 496,000 chips when the field was at 26. Mark Roland, who holds three WSOP Circuit rings and owns 11 final tables of his own ($298,607 lifetime), was close behind at 389,000.

Among the players who busted between 26 and 15: Joseph McKeehen ($2.40 million lifetime, nine final tables), Andrew Yeh (one bracelet, $1.74 million lifetime), and a five-bracelet player with 48 career final tables and $9.33 million in lifetime earnings. This is a championship-caliber field, and Brunson is running through it.

Why This Event Fits

Limit 2-7 Triple Draw is one of the thinnest fields on the WSOP schedule. It's a $10,000 buy-in specialty event that attracts a small pool of mixed-game specialists and old-school high-stakes pros. The player who wins it almost always has deep experience in draw formats.

Brunson's lone bracelet came in a non-hold'em event, and his career has been defined by mixed games and high-stakes cash play rather than no-limit tournament grinding. This is his wheelhouse. A second bracelet in a $10K championship would be the kind of result that reshapes how people talk about his career.

What's Next

With 15 players left, the final table is one elimination away from being set. Brunson's 1,580,000 stack gives him room to play his game without survival math dictating his decisions.

Eighteen final tables over 30 years means Brunson has been in this position many times. The difference between his resume and a second bracelet has never been experience or ability. It's been one card, one pot, one session.

This might be the session.