Double Delight For Thomas Taylor at the WSOPC Horseshoe Las Vegas

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Jul 23, 2026 4 min read

The 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP) may be done and dusted aside from awarding the Main Event champion a $10 million prize, but the Horseshoe Las Vegas is still brimming with poker players because the WSOP Circuit is in town.

Seventeen WSOPC ring-awarding events make up the WSOPC Horseshoe Las Vegas schedule. Twelve of those events have concluded, and Canada's Thomas Taylor has helped himself to two gold rings.

Taylor is a prolific grinder who cashed in seven bracelet-awarding events this summer, including a fourth-place finish in the $3,000 Nine-Game Mix, where he finished fourth for $76,510. Taylor may have missed out on capturing his first bracelet, but he's made amends by taking down two Pot-Limit Omaha tournaments during the WSOPC Horseshoe Las Vegas, taking his total number of rings won to four.

The Alberta native first struck gold in the $600 Pot-Limit Omaha event, leaving 450 opponents in his wake as he collected $44,586. A few days later, Taylor triumphed in the $800 PLO event, topping a field of 247 and receiving another $38,826.

WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas Results

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There was also a big win and a first WSOPC ring for Justin Arnwine, a player with hundreds of results and dozens of victories on his Hendon Mob profile. Surprisingly, despite having almost 550 recorded results, a WSOPC ring had eluded Arnwine…until now.

Arnwine navigated his way to the top of the tree in the $600 No-Limit Hold'em Monster Stack event. The tournament attracted 953 entrants who created a $363,985 prize pool, of which Arnwine banked $77,485, the fourth-largest score of his illustrious career.

Andrew Ostapchenko Secures Second Ring in As Many Months

The largest single prize of the WSOPC Horseshoe Las Vegas so far weighed in at $115,890, a princely sum awarded to Andrew Ostapchenko for coming out on top in the $2,200 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller.

Ostapchenko became a WSOP bracelet winner in 2025 after becoming the last man standing in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed event. Earlier that year, he won a WSOPC ring in California in the $3,250 NLHE High Roller.

In mid-May 2026, Ostapchenko won his second circuit ring in a $1,100 NLHE event at WSOPC Los Angeles. Two months later, Ostapchenko can call himself a three-time WSOPC ring winner after leaving a trail of 259 opponents in his dust in the $2,200 NLHE High Roller in Las Vegas.

The final table was extremely tough for a $2,200 buy-in event. Joao Simao, Jason Wheeler, and Chris Hunichen were present and correct, but none of them could stop Ostapchenko's charge.

Ostapchenko eventually found himself heads-up against David Peters, who recently won his fifth bracelet. He brushed aside his final foe, claimed this event's ring and its $115,890 top prize.

$2,200 NLHE High Roller Final Table Results

$1,700 Main Event Reaches Day 2

The $1,700 WSOPC Horseshoe Las Vegas Main Event has reached its Day 2, with 107 of the 936 starters through to the penultimate day.

Walter Fisher (1,400,000) is the man to catch, with Matthew Blagg (1,200,000) and Kyle Dishongh (1,100,000) the only other players with seven-figure stacks.

Others through to Day 2 include Shawn Daniels (860,000), Weiran Pu (831,000), Justin Lapka (544,000), David Baker (485,000), Darren Rabinowitz (480,000), Dan Charlton (435,000), Giuseppe Pantaleo (397,000), Nick Yunis (305,000), Chris Moorman (290,000), Jamie Dwan (233,000), and Sinead Davenport (122,000).

Play in the WSOPC Horseshoe Las Vegas Main Event resumes at 12:00 p.m. local time on July 23. Blinds will be 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 big blind ante, and the plan is to reduce the field to the nine-handed final table.

Upcoming WSOPC Horseshoe Las Vegas Ring Events

Five more ring-awarding events are scheduled between now and when the series wraps up on July 25, including $3,000 and $5,000 High Rollers.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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