Josh Reichard Wins The Long-Awaited Bracelet In The $2.5K NLHE ($555,198)

Josh Reichard’s 15-Year Bracelet Chase Ends With A Victory In The $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Josh Reichard’s results are nothing short of impressive. Here are just a few of his biggest deep runs, including several from WSOP 2026:

• 2023 — 2nd place in the $1K Mini Main Event ($339K)
• 2025 — 3rd place in the $1.5K Millionaire Maker ($702K)
• 2026 — 3rd place in the $600 NLH/PLO Deepstack ($100K)
• 2026 — 3rd place in the $10K Mystery Bounty ($313K)
• 2023 — 6th place in the $5K NLHE ($116K)
• 2024 — 6th place in the $2.5K NLHE Freezeout ($82K)
• 2019 — 9th place in the $1.5K Millionaire Maker ($122K)

The only thing missing from his résumé was a bracelet.

Last night, he finally claimed one by defeating Caleb Harris heads-up ($370,037).

Event #62: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Final Table Payouts (1,736 Entries)

Place	Country	Player	Prize
1		Josh Reichard	$555,198
2		Caleb Harris	$370,037
3		Spyridon Apartoglou	$267,938
4		Orson Young	$196,225
5		Myles Mullaly	$145,365
6		John Ciccarelli	$108,946
7		Maher Achour	$82,616
8		Robbie Bull	$63,399
9		Corentin Soulier	$49,241
10		Eoghan O’Dea	$38,713

Joao Simao Wins His Fourth Bracelet In The $50K High Roller PLO ($1,368,700)

Simao defeated Santhosh Suvarna heads-up.

In the penultimate hand of the tournament (effective stack: 30 BB), Simao opened with A 7 7 5 , and Suvarna called with K Q 10 4 .

Flop: 2 7 K
Simao bet 2.25 BB (one-third pot).
Suvarna called.

Turn: 8
Simao bet 2.5 BB into an 11.5 BB pot. Suvarna raised to 7.25 BB, and Simao called.

River: K
Simao bet 15 BB into a 26 BB pot. Suvarna tanked for two and a half minutes before making the call.

In the next hand, Suvarna four-bet shoved with 10 10 8 6 , and Simao called with A A J 9 .

Event #55: $50,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Payouts (110 Entries)

Place	Country	Player	Prize
1		Joao Simao	$1,368,700
2		Santhosh Suvarna	$912,420
3		Robert Cowen	$628,510
4		Venkat Chivukula	$445,440
5		Carlo van Ravenswoud	$325,080
6		Yuri Dzivielevski	$244,510
7		Naoya Kihara	$189,720
8		Veselin Karakitukov	$152,020

Joao Simao’s previous bracelets:

• 2021 — $1,111 WSOP Online Caesars Cares Charity Event ($228,242)
• 2022 — $5M Mixed NLHE/PLO ($686,242)
• 2025 — $150,000 WSOP Paradise Triton NLH 8-Handed ($3,067,000)

Michelle Chin Wins Her First Bracelet In The $1,500 2-7 Triple Draw ($161,313)

Michelle Chin has been playing poker since 2015. Her career got off to a flying start:

• January 2015 — Winner of the $125 WSOPC Ladies Event ($7,188)
• April 2015 — Winner of the $1,675 WSOPC Iowa Main Event ($88,126)

According to Chin, those early results made tournament poker seem easy.

It took another 11 years before she found the winner’s circle again.

Michelle Chin became the first woman to win a WSOP limit event since 2015.

Event #58: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Final Table Payouts (657 Entries)

Place	Country	Player	Prize
1		Michelle Chin	$161,313
2		Daniel Strelitz	$107,504
3		Horacio Chaves	$72,152
4		Nick Pupillo	$49,458
5		Ian Pelz	$34,641
6		Sean Troha	$24,804
7		Oliver Tot	$18,165

Prashanth Nataraj Wins His First Bracelet And Records A Career-Best Cash In The $500 Salute To Warriors ($208.800)

This charity event raised $180,000 for the United Service Organizations (USO), a nonprofit that supports military service members and veterans.

The tournament attracted 4,478 entries. Nataraj began the final day with just 10 BB and one goal: surpass his previous career-best cash of $40,000. He accomplished far more than that.

Event #59: $500 Salute To Warriors Final Table Payouts (4,478 Entries)

Place	Country	Player	Prize
1		Prashanth Nataraj	$208,800
2		Laurance Essak	$137,370
3		Jeevan Lobo	$101,600
4		Sebastian Crema	$75,800
5		Holly Foley	$57,020
6		Robert Brobyn	$43,260
7		Lexy Gavin-Mather	$33,120
8		Daniel Wirgau	$25,570
9		Julien Duveau	$19,930

Cash Game Regular Harry Rubin Wins His First Bracelet In The $1K PLO ($390,300)

Harry Rubin is primarily a cash game player but decided to take a shot at tournaments.

Earlier this month, he played five tournaments and cashed in one of them, finishing deep in the $1,100 BetMGM PLO for $72.3K. He had no plans to switch from cash games to tournaments, but decided to play a few more events. One of them resulted in a career-best score and more than doubled his lifetime tournament earnings.

Event #57: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Payouts (3,763 Entries)

Place	Country	Player	Prize
1		Harry Rubin	$390,300
2		Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu	$260,220
3		Toby Joyce	$191,500
4		James Sedlacek	$142,140
5		Roussos Koliakoudakis	$106,430
6		Francois Scapula	$80,390
7		Dechang Zhang	$61,260
8		Tony Cousineau	$47,100

Joseph Liberta Wins The $1,500 Millionaire Maker ($1,250,000)

The tournament attracted 11,769 entries, making it one of the largest events of the series.

Liberta has been playing WSOP events since 2013. Before this victory, he had already posted three deep runs in the Millionaire Maker:

• 2013 — 537th place ($3K)
• 2016 — 345th place ($5K)
• 2025 — 195th place ($10.2K)

Event #50: $1,500 Millionaire Maker Final Table Payouts (11,769 Entries)

Place	Country	Player	Prize
1		Joseph Liberta	$1,250,000
2		Michael Monroig	$1,000,000
3		Bradley Gafford	$750,000
4		Halford Fairchild	$530,000
5		Joseph Baghdadlian	$410,000
6		Alex Kim	$315,000
7		Jacob Gagnon	$245,000
8		Garry Gurevich	$190,000
9		Yifu He	$150,068

Liberta was not the only new millionaire created by this event. Runner-up Michael Monroig also earned $1 million.

«When I first started playing poker, my dream was to win $1,000,000. My dream came true!»

Benny Glaser Continues To Lead The $50K Poker Players Championship

Six players remain (stacks in big bets):

Place	Country	Player	Stack in Big Bets
1		Benny Glaser	22
2		Maxx Coleman	14
3		Josh Arieh	13
4		Christopher Tong	13
5		Phil Ivey	13
6		Paul Volpe	7

Read more about the final 6-max players here.

Play will resume today at 01:00 UTC.

The stream will be available on the WSOP YouTube channel.