Zachary Gruneberg Hunts Bracelet No. 3 at the Final Two Tables of Event #62

Zachary Gruneberg has made 91 career final tables — more than most pros make in a decade — and right now he's trying to add bracelet number three at the 2026 World Series of Poker.

Seventeen players remain in Event #62, the $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em, and Gruneberg is sitting on 1.5 million chips as the final two tables play down at Horseshoe Las Vegas. He already owns two WSOP bracelets and eight Circuit rings. His lifetime tournament earnings stand at $2.28 million. The résumé doesn't need embellishing. It needs one more line.

Gruneberg already owns two WSOP bracelets and eight Circuit rings — the résumé doesn't need embellishing, it needs one more line.

The Field Standing in His Way

Gruneberg isn't the chip leader. That distinction belongs to Corentin Soulier, the French pro who has amassed 4,255,000 chips — nearly triple Gruneberg's stack. Soulier crossed the $1 million lifetime earnings mark before this event and has two career final tables of his own. He's no tourist.

Behind Soulier sits Mauro Ferreira of Portugal at 3,470,000 chips. Ferreira's lifetime earnings sit at roughly $23,700 — meaning a deep run here would multiply his career bankroll several times over. Then there's Caleb Harris and Robert Clifford Bull, both at 2,895,000. Harris, an American, has just $21,453 in career cashes and is playing in what appears to be his first-ever WSOP final table stretch. Bull, from Great Britain, carries $41,042 in lifetime earnings.

In other words: Gruneberg is the most decorated player left by a wide margin, but he's not the biggest stack. He's fourth in chips among the five named leaders, trailing three opponents who have a combined zero bracelets and zero rings between them.

That's the tension.

Why 91 Final Tables Matters Right Now

Final-table experience is one of those stats that sounds impressive until you think about what it actually means in practice. Ninety-one times, Gruneberg has navigated a shrinking field into single-digit territory. Ninety-one times, he's played short-handed with real money on the line. Ninety-one times, he's faced the specific brand of pressure that separates a min-cash from a title.

Most of the players still seated across from him at Horseshoe haven't been here before — not in a WSOP bracelet event, not with this kind of résumé gap separating them from the man across the felt.

Harris has one career final table. Soulier has two. Ferreira and Bull don't have a recorded final-table count in the data at all. They may be skilled. They may be running well. But they haven't done this 91 times.

Gruneberg has.

What Bracelet No. 3 Would Mean

A third bracelet would push Gruneberg past $2.28 million in lifetime earnings and into a tier of WSOP hardware collectors that gets genuinely thin. Plenty of strong players never win one. Winning two already puts him in a small fraternity. Three would be a statement — especially stacked on top of eight Circuit rings, which themselves represent a relentless grind across Caesars properties year-round.

The path from 1.5 million chips to a bracelet isn't short. Seventeen players still have cards in front of them, and Soulier's 4.25 million stack is the kind of cushion that lets a player apply pressure without sweating. Gruneberg will need to find spots, pick them apart, and do what he's done 91 times before: survive to the end.

The final two tables are playing right now at Horseshoe Las Vegas.