2026 U.S. Poker Open

Event #5: $10,000 NLH
Event #4: $10,000 NLH Event #5: $10,000 NLH Show All Events
Day: 1
Event Info
2026 U.S. Poker Open
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$800,000
Total Entries
80
Players Left
6
Average Chip Stack
729,167
Total Chips
4,375,000
Next Payout
Venue 6
$40,000
Level Info
Level
18
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
50,000
Players Info - Day 1
Entries
80
Players Left
6
Players Left 6 / 80

Nick Schulman Eliminated in 8th Place ($32,000)

Level 18 : Blinds 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante
Nick Schulman
Nick Schulman

Qinghai Pan opened to 80,000 in the cutoff and Justin Zaki three-bet jammed for around 860,000 in the small blind as Nick Schulman called in the big blind with slightly less. Pan got out of the way.

Nick Schulman: QQ All in
Justin Zaki: 88

Schulman gave a stoic nod as an eight appeared in the window on the flop of 6108 as the board finnished out 7A to mark the Poker Hall of Famer's elimination on the final table bubble.

Player Chips Progress
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Qinghai Pan
2,200,000
700,000
700,000
WSOP 3X Winner
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Justin Zaki
1,600,000
500,000
500,000
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Nick Schulman
Busted
WSOP 7X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
WPT 2X Winner

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