Lucas Jumalon

Lucas Jumalon is an American poker player from Spokane, Washington. In 2026, he defeated a 9,208-player field to win the WSOP Main Event.

He became the second-youngest WSOP Main Event champion ever, aged just 22 years, four months and 27 days old. He defeated Finland's Lauri Saaskilahti heads-up to win the $10,000,000 first prize.

Lucas Jumalon Poker Background

Before making his breakout run on poker’s biggest stage, Jumalon was a student at Grand Canyon University, where he graduated with a degree in business administration and data analytics. He first started out playing $0.25/$0.50 home games while at college, before playing at local card rooms like the Lilac Lanes Bowling & Casino back in Spokane.

Prior to this tournament, his lifetime live earnings stood at just over $180,000 according to The Hendon Mob, with his previous largest career score coming in 2025 when he won a $400 PokerNews Daily Deepstacks event for $22,945. By navigating his way to this final table, he has already locked up a career-defining minimum payout of $1,000,000. Now he's among poker's immortals.

Lucas Jumalon 2026 WSOP Main Event

Jumalon got off to a horrible start on Day 1b of the 2026 WSOP Main Event. He finished the flight with only 7,400 chips, the second-shortest stack of Day 1b. However, he not only recovered but excelled on Day 2abc, finishing with 146,000 chips, and he never looked back.

Jumalon’s path to the chip lead on Day 8 was defined by aggressive gear-shifting and immense composure. He started the day third in chips out of the remaining 21 players with a stack of 40,800,000. The turning point of his tournament arrived in a massive collision with reigning Aussie Millions champion Malcolm Trayner. After calling a pre-flop three-bet, Jumalon flopped a set of jacks on an ace-jack-four board and ultimately improved to a full house when a second four fell on the river. Jumalon managed to extract maximum value, firing a staggering 35,000,000-chip bet on the river, which Trayner ultimately called. Winning that single pot of over 50 million chips completely transformed the dynamic of the tournament.

By the dinner break, Jumalon had surged into the overall chip lead with 155,000,000 in chips. He continued to relentlessly apply pressure to his opponents, eventually knocking out Trayner in tenth place to personally secure the final table lineup and bag an overwhelming stack of 194,000,000 chips.

Jumalon remained composed across the first two days of final table action, never relinquishing his chiplead as he bagged ahead of the final day with just himself and Lauri Saaskilahti left standing.

2026 WSOP Main Event Final Table Results