Moss, Blumenthal Win Debut World Series Of Poker Bracelets

The halfway level is quick approaching within the 2026 World Series of Poker.

45 of the 100 whole reside gold bracelet occasions have already performed right down to a winner contained in the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Over $155 million in prize cash has already been awarded, with greater than 95,000 entries made within the accomplished tournaments.

Below, we take a more in-depth have a look at two of the newest occasions to wrap up from the 57th annual WSOP.

2026 WSOP Event No. 43 – $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack Eight-Max

A complete of three,903 entries have been made within the $800 no-limit maintain’em Deepstack eight-max occasion, making for a $2,732,100 prize pool within the lower-stakes affair.

The UK’s Matthew Moss was the final participant standing after two days of briskly-paced play. He secured $318,556 and his first gold bracelet because the champion. This was the second-largest rating of his profession, trailing solely the $520,000 that got here with a sixth-place end in a $100,000 buy-in on the 2025 Onyx Super High Roller Series.

Moss isn’t any stranger to massive scores on the WSOP, both. In 2016, he positioned twenty first from a discipline of 6,737 entries in the primary occasion, incomes $269,430 for that deep run. He now has greater than $1.7 million in recorded scores after this newest triumph in Las Vegas.

While Moss is a lot skilled on the match streets, this was his first outright win on the reside circuit.

“It’s exciting to win my first tournament, especially one with 3,900 people,” Moss informed PokerInformation reside reporters. “That’s the thing about Vegas. There are just so many people.”

The high 587 finishers made the cash on this occasion. Notables who ran deep included Stanley Lee (59th), Cristian Gutierrez (fiftieth), Allen Chang (twenty ninth), Pengfei Wang (ninth), and Darryl Ronconi (2nd). This was the third time that Ronconi has completed because the runner-up in a bracelet occasion, together with second-place showings within the 2011 ‘triple chance’ occasion and the 2021 Millionaire Maker. Both of these scores got here with over half one million {dollars} in prize cash.

2026 WSOP Event No. 45 – $2,500 Mixed Omaha Eight-Or-Better / Stud Eight-Or-Better

Eddie Blumenthal has come painfully near seizing his first WSOP bracelet on a number of events. He’s made ten ultimate tables on the sequence, with 5 top-four finishes, together with a third-place displaying within the 2021 $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. championship and a runner-up end within the $1,500 no-limit maintain’em six-max.

Finally, the Wisconsin native broke by within the $2,500 Omaha eight-or-better / stud eight-or-better combined occasion at this yr’s sequence. Blumenthal emerged victorious from a discipline of 587 entries to safe the bracelet and the highest prize of $248,545. His lifetime match earnings now exceed $2.7 million.

“It feels nice to finally have a whole final come together and be able to close it out,” Blumenthal informed PokerInformation.

He additionally walked away with 1,260 Card Player Player of the Year factors. This was his second POY-qualified rating of the yr. Back in January, he completed sixth within the World Poker Tour Lucky Hearts Poker Open fundamental occasion for $127,000 and 480 factors. Blumenthal now sits in 121st place within the general rankings introduced by CoinPoker.

Plenty of massive names ran deep on this occasion, together with bracelet winners Yueqi Zhu (twentieth), Cyndy Violette (thirteenth), Andrew Yeh (eleventh), Justin Liberto (ninth), and Nikolai Fal (2nd).

Photo credit: WSOP / Travis Ball, Lennart Hennig