WSOP Main Event Live at 18: A Cypriot With $32K in Earnings Leads

The 2026 WSOP Main Event is live right now at 18 players, and the biggest stack belongs to a one-bracelet Brit sitting on 75 million chips.

Malcolm Trayner — one bracelet, $1.57M in lifetime cashes, six career final tables — has pulled away from the field on Day 8 of the $10,000 Main Event at Horseshoe Las Vegas. His 75 million stack is more than double the next-closest player.

His 75 million stack is more than double the next-closest player.

The Stacks That Matter

Behind Trayner, the leaderboard reads like a casting call for an underdog movie:

• Evagoras Evagorou (Cyprus) — 46.1 million chips, zero bracelets, $32,863 in lifetime earnings. That's not a typo. The second-largest stack at the Main Event final two tables belongs to a player whose entire career earnings wouldn't cover five buy-ins to this tournament.
• Antonio Galiana Ortega (Spain) — 34.3 million, two bracelets, $1.27M lifetime. The most credentialed player behind Trayner.
• Mario Boos (France) — 25 million, zero bracelets, $29,824 lifetime. Another near-unknown with a real stack.
• Gregor Mueller (Canada) — 17.4 million, three bracelets, $3.5M lifetime, 21 career final tables. The résumé leader at the table, but short.

Why You Should Be Watching

Of the five named stacks, three belong to players with under $33K in lifetime earnings. Mueller has 21 final tables and three bracelets but sits fourth in chips. The Main Event is doing what it does best — scrambling the hierarchy.

Evagorou's story is the one to track. A player from Cyprus with less than $33K lifetime is sitting on 46 million chips at the final two tables of the biggest tournament in poker. If he makes the final table, his min-cash will be roughly ten times his entire career earnings to date.

The stream is running live from Horseshoe Las Vegas. Day 8 action continues until they're down to nine — or the clock stops them.