The final nine of the WSOP 2026 Main Event are set. Day 8 wrapped up at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas with 22-year-old Lucas Jumalon holding a commanding chip lead heading into the game’s biggest stage.

World Series Of Poker — WSOP 2026 Main Event Final Table

Jumalon, a recent business and data analytics graduate from Grand Canyon University whose biggest career score before this run was just $23,000, controls more than a third of the chips in play with 194,000,000. He’ll return on August 3 in pole position, eight eliminations away from becoming poker’s newest world champion and the $10,000,000 top prize.

Rami Hammoud and Jamie Shaevel round out the top three. The most decorated players remaining are three-time bracelet winner Greg Mueller and four-time bracelet winner Michael Gagliano.

Jumalon’s Day 8 Surge

Jumalon started the day third in chips with 40,800,000 but pulled away after cracking Malcolm Trayner’s pocket queens with a set of jacks in a pot worth more than 50,000,000. He kept adding to his stack through the rest of the day, reaching 155,000,000 by the dinner break before eliminating Trayner in 10th place to officially set the final table.

“It still hasn’t sunk in, and I don’t know if it ever will,” Jumalon said afterward. “It’s just a surreal experience and I know this may never come around again, and I’m just soaking it all in.”

WSOP 2026 Main Event Final Table Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Lucas Jumalon	United States	194,000,000	129
2	Rami Hammoud	Canada	79,000,000	53
3	Jamie Shaevel	United States	56,000,000	37
4	Greg Mueller	Canada	48,500,000	32
5	Michael Gagliano	United States	46,500,000	31
6	Mario Boos	France	44,000,000	29
7	Lauri Saaskilahti	Finland	37,500,000	25
8	Han Feng	United States	25,000,000	17
9	Evagoras Evagorou	Cyprus	22,500,000	15

A Final Table With Global Reach

Five countries are represented among the last nine. Hammoud, a regular at Playground Poker Club near Montreal, sits second after a run that’s already changed his plans, with a new job on hold while he prepares for August. Shaevel, a cash game specialist who rarely plays tournaments, has quietly cashed the Main Event eight times and takes 56,000,000 into the final table.

Mario Boos, Lauri Saaskilahti, and Evagoras Evagorou will each try to become the first Main Event champion from France, Finland, and Cyprus respectively. Evagorou, the short stack of the nine, is playing in his first-ever Main Event.

Big Names Fall Short

A number of well-known names fell just short of the final table on Day 8. Nine-time bracelet winner and reigning Player of the Year Shaun Deeb busted in 15th, while 2019 champion Hossein Ensan , who was chasing a second title, went out in 13th.

Poker Hall of Famer Todd Brunson made his deepest Main Event run in three decades, hoping to join his father Doyle as the second father-son duo to each reach a final table, but finished 20th after a river beat. WSOP bracelet winner Will Givens fell in 19th after a huge flip against Jumalon, and Trayner himself, the reigning Aussie Millions Main Event champion, was eliminated in 10th on the final hand of the night to officially set the table.

Remaining Payouts

Place	Prize
1st	$10,000,000
2nd	$6,000,000
3rd	$3,750,000
4th	$2,750,000
5th	$2,250,000
6th	$1,750,000
7th	$1,500,000
8th	$1,250,000
9th	$1,000,000

Play resumes on August 3 with 56:40 remaining in Level 39, blinds of 1,000,000/1,500,000 and a 1,500,000 big blind ante. All nine players are already guaranteed seven-figure paydays, but only one will walk away with the $10,000,000 top prize and the WSOP gold bracelet.

All figures and data courtesy of PokerNews and the WSOP.