The 2026 WSOP Main Event final table is set, and one player has a serious head start. Lucas Jumalon is a 22-year-old American whose best tournament result before this summer was $23,000. On Day 8, he bagged 194 million chips, more than double second-place Rami Hammoud's 79 million. That's 35% of all the chips in play.
Jumalon started that final day with 40.8 million chips and added nearly 154 million more before it ended. He eliminated reigning Aussie Millions champion Malcolm Trayner in 10th place to set the final table. Trayner had actually entered the day as the chip leader.
The Final Nine
- Lucas Jumalon (USA): 194,000,000
- Rami Hammoud (Canada): 79,000,000
- Jamie Shaevel (USA): 56,000,000
- Greg Mueller (Canada): 48,500,000
- Michael Gagliano (USA): 46,500,000
- Mario Boos (France): 44,000,000
- Lauri Saaskilahti (Finland): 37,500,000
- Han Feng (USA): 25,000,000
- Evagoras Evagorou (Cyprus): 22,500,000
Mueller and Gagliano are the most decorated players left, with three and four WSOP bracelets respectively. Evagorou is the first Cypriot player ever to reach a WSOP Main Event final table.
All nine are already guaranteed at least $1,000,000. First place takes home $10,000,000. Second gets $6,000,000, third gets $3,750,000.
How Big Is a 194M Lead, Really?
Only two of the last five WSOP Main Event chip leaders went on to actually win, Espen Jorstad and Koray Aldemir. But no chip leader in that stretch has finished worse than third. Even a Jumalon collapse likely still means one of the two biggest paydays at the table.
At 22, a win would make Jumalon the second-youngest Main Event champion ever. Only Joe Cada, who won at 21 in 2009, was younger.
Where to Watch
The final table resumes August 3 and airs on ESPN and ESPN2 across all three nights, included with a regular cable or live TV subscription. That's a change from the pre-final-table days, which required a separate $29.99/month ESPN+ subscription to watch. August 3 (ESPN2) and August 4 (ESPN) both run 9pm to midnight ET. The final night, August 5, airs 10:30pm to 1:30am ET on ESPN. Outside the US, Warner Bros. Discovery carries the final table across Europe, Asia, and Latin America through Eurosport, TNT Sports, and HBO Max.
It's a notably different setup from the rest of this year's WSOP. Under GGPoker's ownership, every other bracelet event has streamed free on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and X all summer. The Main Event final table is the one exception, locked to ESPN under a new multi-year broadcast deal. Expect plenty of poker streamers reacting to the action live on their own channels anyway, even without an official stream to work from.
