How Did Michigan Doing In The 2026 World Series Of Poker?

The 2026 World Series of Poker recently wrapped up its final tournament for this year’s event.

In total, 100 different bracelet events were held in Las Vegas from May 26-July 15 at the Horseshoe Casino and Paris Las Vegas Casino.

We’ve got a list of all the winners, a look at the final nine players competing for the Main Event title on Aug. 3, and a look at how some Michigan players did in the Main Event.

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2026 World Series of Poker Event Schedule

Below is a listing of all 100 WSOP bracelet events taking place in Las Vegas over the next seven weeks.

Event	Start Date	Buy-In	Winner
1. $550 No-Limit Hold’em Mini Mystery Millions	May 26	$550	Philip Chun
2. $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed	May 26	$5,000	Daniyal Gheba
3. $500 No-Limit Hold’em Employees Event	May 27	$500	Jerome Neppl
4. $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	May 27	$1,500	Jason Daly
5. $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha	May 28	$5,000	Yang Wang
6. $1,500 Seven Card Stud	May 28	$1,500	Qibang Cheung
7. $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em Heads Up Championship	May 29	$25,000	Dimitar Danchev
8. $1,500 Badugi	May 29	$1,500	Michael Casella
9. $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	May 30	$10,000	Scott Clements
10. $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack	May 31	$600	Karapet Galstyan
11. $10,000 GGMillion$ No-Limit Hold’em High Roller	May 31	$10,000	Naseem Salem
12. $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw	May 31	$1,500	Stephen Hubbard
13. $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed	June 1	$1,500	Honghhao Zhang
14. $1,500 Mixed: PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Big O	June 1	$1,500	Justin Liberto
15. $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack	June 2	$600	Philip Ardire
16. $1,700 No-Limit Hold’em U.S. WSOP Circuit Championship	June 2	$1,700	Antonio Vargas
17. $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship	June 2	$10,000	Naoya Kihara
18. $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Monster Stack	June 3	$1,500	Richard Alsup
19. $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller	June 3	$25,000	Kristen Foxen
20. $1,500 Dealers Choice	June 3	$1,500	Jeffrey Madsen
21. $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	June 4	$1,500	Frederic Normand
22. $1,500 Big O	June 5	$1,500	Christopher Alcindor
23. $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship	June 5	$10,000	Naoya Kihara
24. $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller 6-Handed	June 6	$25,000	Artur Martirosian
25. $500 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout	June 7	$500	Brayden Lou
26. $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em	June 7	$2,000	Braxton Dunaway
27. $10,000 Dealers Choice Championship	June 7	$10,000	Bryce Yockey
28. $600 No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha Mixed Deepstack	June 8	$600	Kenneth Gregory
29. $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller	June 8	$50,000	Santosh Suvarna
30. $1,500 Limit Hold’em	June 8	$1,500	Dennis Weiss
31. $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Super Turbo Bounty	June 9	$1,500	Michael Holtz
32. $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em	June 9	$3,000	Omar Zazay
33. $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	June 9	$10,000	Nathan Gamble
34. $500 No-Limit Hold’em Colossus	June 10	$500	Justin Smith
35. $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha	June 10	$1,500	Jason Zipfel
36. $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller	June 10	$100,000	Yuri Dzivielevski
37. $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.	June 10	$1,500	Nicholas Schulman
38. $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship	June 11	$10,000	Dong Chen
39. $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Seniors High Roller	June 12	$5,000	Juan Rodriguez
40. $1,500 Razz	June 12	$500	Sebastian Pauli
41. $250,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller	June 13	$250,000	Adrian Mateos
42. $10,000 Big O Championship	June 13	$10,000	Daniel Aharoni
43. $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack 8-Handed	June 14	$800	Matthew Moss
44. $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super Turbo Bounty	June 14	$10,000	William Foxen
45. $2,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Seven Card Stud hi-Lo 8 or Better	June 14	$2,500	Nicholas Blumenthal
46. $1,000 No-Limit Hold-em Seniors Championship	June 15	$1,000	Homan Mohammadi
47. $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller	June 15	$25,000	Eelis Paerssinen
48. $10,000 Razz Championship	June 15	$10,000	Calvin Anderson
49. $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout	June 16	$2,500	Marco Johnson
50. $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Millionaire Maker	June 17	$1,500	Joseph Liberta
51. $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mystery	June 17	$10,000	Alex Anton
52. $3,000 Nine Game Mix	June 17	$3,000	Joseph Couden
53. $1,500 Five Card Pot-Limit Omaha	June 18	$1,500	Zachary Gruneberg
54. $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship	June 18	$10,000	Calvin Anderson
55. $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller	June 19	$50,000	Joao Simao
56. $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed	June 19	$3,000	Abhishek Mhatre
57. $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha	June 20	$1,000	Harry Rubin
58. $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw	June 20	$1,500	Michelle Chin
59. $500 No-Limit Hold’em Salute To Warriors	June 21	$500	Prashanth Nataraj
60. $50,000 Poker Players Championship	June 21	$50,000	Benny Glaser
61. $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super Senior	June 22	$1,000	Lionel Barracano
62. $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em	June 22	$2,500	Joshua Reichard
63. $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mystery Millions	June 23	$1,000	Matthew Higgins
64. $25,000 PLO/NLH Mixed High Roller	June 23	$25,000	Eelis Paerssinen
65. $1,500 No-Limit Hold/em Freezeout	June 23	$1,500	Ciro Gonzalez
66. $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Tag Team	June 24	$1,000	Henrique Lessa/ Breno Drumond
67. $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship	June 24	$10,000	Koji Fujimoto
68. $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Ladies Championship	June 25	$1,000	Skye Chen
69. $1,500 Seve Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better	June 25	$1,500	Taylor Atchison
70. $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship	June 26	$10,000	Michael Mizrachi
71. $2,500 Mixed Big Bet 7-Handed	June 27	$2,500	Dylan Smith
72. $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mini Main Event	June 28	$1,000	Daisuke Ogita
73. $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed	June 28	$5,000	Markus Gonsalves
74. $1,500 8-Game Mixed	June 28	$1,500	Shaun Deeb
75. $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	June 29	$10,000	Matthew Grapenthien
76. $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller	June 30	$100,000	Daniel Negreanu
77. $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball	June 30	$2,500	Patrick Stacey
78. $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack	July 1	$600	Adriaan Jacobs
79. $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout	July 1	$3,000	Asi Moshe
80. $10,000 8-Game Mixed Championship	July 1	$10,000	Dzmitry Urbanovich
81. $800 No-Limit Hold’em Summer Celebration	July 2	$800	Toby Price
82. $10,000 WSOP No-Limit Hold’em Main Event	July 2	$10,000	TBD
83. $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot	July 2	$1,500	Justin Fawcett
84. $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super Turbo Bounty	July 3	$5,000	Myles Mullaly
85. $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em	July 4	$1,000	Zixuan Liu
86. $600 No-Limit Hold’em Ultra Stack	July 5	$600	Eric Weber
87. $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Mystery Bounty	July 8	$1,000	Matthew Shepsky
88. $300 No-Limit Hold’em Gladiators of Poker	July 8	$300	Johnny Oshana
89. $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mid-Stakes Championship	July 8	$3,000	Yanting Jiang
90. $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller	July 9	$50,000	Jamie Dawn
91. $1,500 Pick Your PLO	July 9	$1,500	Sergio Benso
92. $3,000 T.O.R.S.E.	July 10	$3,000	Sterling Lopez
93. $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em The Closer	July 11	$1,500	Ori Hasson
94. $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship	July 11	$10,000	David Peters
95. $500 No-Limit Hold’em Summer Saver	July 12	$500	Garrett Dwire
96. $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed	July 12	$3,000	Joshua Wang
97. H.O.R.S.E. High Roller	July 13	$25,000	Alexander Kostritsyn
98. $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack	July 14	$800	Nishant Sharma
99. $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed	July 14	$5,000	Darren Rabinowitz
100. $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super Tubro	July 15	$1,000	She Wong

2026 WSOP Main Event Updates

The 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event got started on July 2 with over 9,000 contending for the top prize. The $10,000 buy-in for this No Limit Hold’Em is always the most sought after championship each year.

Day 8 saw the field get chipped down to the Final Table of nine players. These players will now wait until Aug. 3 to continue play, with Aug. 3-5 listed as the dates set to determine this year’s Main Event winner.

WSOP Main Event Final Table

• 1. Lucas Jumalon: 194.0M in chips
• 2. Rami Hammoud: 79.0M in chips
• 3. Jamie Shaevel: 56.0M in chips
• 4. Greg Mueller: 48.5M in chips
• 5. Michael Gagliano: 46.5M in chips
• 6. Mario Boos: 44.0M in chips
• 7. Lauri Saaskilahti: 37.5M in chips
• 8. Hanming Feng: 25.0M in chips
• 9. Evagoras Evagorou: 22.5M in chips

Passanante, Orlando Cash In After Strong Starts

Utica’s Jared Passanante was sitting in a strong spot following Day 3 of the 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event.

The Michigan native was in eighth place overall with $1.4 million in chips entering Thursday’s Day 4. Following Thursday’s play, Passanante sat in 90th with $1.6M in chips. Ultimately, he busted out during Day 5 on Saturday, but earned $50,000 for placing 266th overall.

Washington Township’s David Orlando was also inside the top 20 after Day 3, as he sat 18^th with $1.2 million in chips. Unfortunately, Orlando busted out in Day 4. He finished 681st and won $25,000 for his efforts.

Michigan Home to Four WSOP Main Event Winners

You won’t find many states that have had a bigger fingerprint on the World Series of Poker Main Event than Michigan.

Since starting in 1970, four Main Event bracelet winners have come from The Mitten.

Grand Rapids’ McEvoy Wins in 1983

The first Michigan native to take home the WSOP Main Event title was Tom McEvoy in 1983, at the age of 38.

“Grand Rapids Tom” won a field of 108 poker players, collecting a first prize of $540,000.

McEvoy was dealt a pair of Queens on his final hand that led him to victory.

Altogether, McEvoy has collected four World Series of Poker bracelets in his playing career.

Detroit’s Hamilton Tops Main Event Field in 1994

The next Michigan native to claim the Main Event was Russ Hamilton in 1994 at the age of 45.

Hamilton won $1 million out of a field of 268 players. The winning hand for Hamilton was a King of spades and 8 of hearts.

The 1994 Main Event would be the only WSOP bracelet Hamilton would claim in his career.

Cada Becomes Youngest Main Event Winner in 2009

Shelby Township’s Joe Cada still stands as the youngest World Series of Poker Main Event winner when he claimed the 2009 title at 21 years and 357 days old.

Cada bested a field of 6,494 players to win $8,547,044. His winning hand was a pair of 9s.

Cada has collected four World Series of Poker bracelets in his playing career and reached 12 final tables.

Waterford’s Riess Becomes Fourth Michigan Main Event Winner

The last Michigan native to take home the Main Event came just four years later when Waterford’s Ryan Riess won the 2013 World Series of Poker honor.

“Riess the Best” topped a field of 6,352 players to win a top prize of $8,361,570. His winning hand was an Ace of hearts and King of hearts.

The Main Event win is the only bracelet Riess has collected in his career, but he has reached five other final tables.

Riess put up another strong showing in the 2026 Main Event, as he placed 282nd out of the field of over 9,200 players. Riess won $50,000 for his efforts.