Josh Reichard, Prashanth Nataraj, Harry Rubin Win At WSOP

Sixty % of the reside bracelets on the 2026 World Series of Poker have already been awarded. Just one week stays earlier than the beginning of the 2026 WSOP essential occasion, and but there’s nonetheless a lot poker left to be performed this summer season.

With every successive occasion, one other story unfolds. Three extra bracelet winners emerged in latest days, together with Josh Reichard, who received a $2,500 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion. Reichard, who was long-considered among the best ‘mid-major’ gamers on this planet because of his success on the WSOP Circuit and MSPT, had a number of shut calls in recent times and at last broke by for his first gold bracelet.

Harry Rubin, predominantly a cash-game participant, turned what’s already been a profitable summer season at Wynn Las Vegas and ARIA, and improved his outcomes a number of instances over by taking down a $1,000 pot-limit Omaha bracelet. Prashanth Nataraj turned a $500 buy-in right into a $208,800 payday and his personal first profession bracelet win.

Here’s the most recent from Las Vegas because the 2026 WSOP hits one other gear and races in direction of July.

Josh Reichard Finally Finds His WSOP Gold Bracelet

Josh Reichard received his first WSOP Circuit ring in 2013, and his first of two MSPT titles later that very same 12 months. He now has 17 WSOPC victories to his title. He’s had shut calls on the WSOP stage in huge fields in recent times, together with a runner-up end within the 2023 WSOP mini essential occasion and third within the 2025 WSOP Millionaire Maker.

After two extra third-place finishes earlier in the summertime on the 2026 WSOP, Reichard lastly received his gold. The 35-year-old professional participant from Wisconsin received a $2,500 no-limit maintain’em occasion, outlasting a subject of 1,736 entrants on his method to a $555,198 victory. He additionally earned 1,620 Card Player Player of the Year factors, elevating himself to seventeenth place on the yearlong leaderboard introduced by CoinPoker.

Reichard received off to a stable begin, bagging one of many larger stacks amongst 312 day 1 survivors. Day 2 was a stable effort as properly, with Reichard ending the evening simply outdoors the highest 10 with 34 gamers remaining within the hunt.

But day 3 was when Reichard actually made his transfer, as the ultimate 34 battled for the lion’s share of a $3,864,825 prize pool. The closing desk wasn’t reached till after the dinner break, however the tempo of play from that time on was electrical. Five gamers went out within the first half-hour of the ultimate desk, and Reichard picked off two of them to construct his stack.

He’d go on to eradicate Orson Young, the one earlier bracelet winner on the closing desk, in fourth place ($196,225). Reichard began heads-up play at a virtually 2:1 deficit, however rapidly surged forward. On the ultimate hand, Reichard turned the nut straight. Caleb Harris, who had a busted diamond flush draw, bluffed the river, and that was it.

Final Table Results – $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Harry Rubin Wins First Bracelet In PLO

Prior to this summer season, Harry Rubin had one vital event outcome, a fourth-place end in a $1,000 no-limit maintain’em freezeout on the 2022 WSOP. Primarily a money recreation participant, often dabbling in no-limit maintain’em tournaments, Rubin stepped into pot-limit Omaha tournaments this summer season with sturdy outcomes. He received an $1,100 buy-in PLO occasion on the Aria Poker Classic, after which completed sixth in a $1,600 PLO bounty occasion on the Wynn Summer Classic.

Rubin pocketed over $85,000 mixed from these two outcomes, however that pales compared to what he did on the 2026 WSOP. He outlasted a subject of three,763 in a $1,000 PLO occasion to take dwelling $390,300 and his first profession bracelet. Rubin earned 1,320 POY factors, cracking the highest 100 within the 2026 POY standings.

Three beginning flights produced a complete prize pool of $2,558,182. Rubin received off to a scorching begin on day 1a, bagging the second-biggest stack among the many first flight survivors, and he was in ninth place general among the many 213 gamers who made day 2. He climbed to fourth place by the top of day 2 and held a commanding chip lead by the point the ultimate desk set on day 3.

The closing desk featured a number of notables, together with Tony Cousineau, who at one level was one of the crucial prolific event cashers in WSOP historical past. He completed in eighth place ($47,100).

Rubin briefly slid to the underside of the leaderboard throughout five-handed play, however a key double-up put him again on prime. He then eradicated the final three gamers, together with bracelet winners Toby Joyce in third place ($191,500) and Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu in second place ($260,220), to clinch his victory.

Final Table Results – $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

Incredible Spin-Up For Prashanth Nataraj In Salute to Warriors

Before coming into the $500 buy-in Salute to Warriors no-limit maintain’em occasion on the 2026 WSOP, Prashanth Nataraj had precisely one five-figure event money on his report, in 2023 at MGM Grand Las Vegas.

Nataraj, who hails from New York City, continued what’s been an amazing summer season for the likes of the New York Knicks and fellow NYC native Nick Schulman with a win of his personal. Nataraj turned his $500 buy-in right into a $208,800 payday and his first profession WSOP bracelet.

He did so by outlasting a subject of 4,478 entrants, taking dwelling the most important share of a $1,835,980 prize pool. By the time the sector had reached the ultimate 9 gamers, Nataraj was the shortest stack within the subject. But he turned 5♠2♥ within the large blind right into a double-up, and continued his rise from there. Nataraj didn’t report an elimination on the closing desk till three-handed play, after which knocked off the ultimate two gamers briefly order to clinch his bracelet win.

Two girls navigated this huge no-limit maintain’em subject and reached the ultimate desk, with Lexy Gavin-Mather (seventh – $33,120) and Holly Foley (fifth – $57,020) every making spectacular runs of their very own.

Nataraj earned 660 POY factors in his first qualifying money of 2026.

This occasion raised virtually $180,000 in donations for the USO and different veteran-focused charities.

Final Table Results – $500 Salute to Warriors

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