PokerNews live coverage of this event will begin on Day 3 (June 15). Until then, we will be keeping readers informed with updates on chip counts and core event statistics, including entries and prize pool. Scroll down to see more.
Event #34: $500 COLOSSUS
Day 2d Completed
No fewer than 6,028 players showed up for Day 1d of the COLOSSUS at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, and after two days of playing, the field has been whittled down to just 109 hopefuls to join the survivors from the other Day 2 flights.
Ryan Leng found himself in the top 10 of the leaderboard after Day 1d and repeated that performance on Day 2d, bagging 7,085,000 in chips to sit in fourth. Emiliano Guido (7,700,000), Justin Datloff (7,545,000), and Brian Lehman (7,160,000) hold the overnight podium spots.
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emiliano Guido | United States | 7,700,000 |
| 2 | Justin Datloff | United States | 7,545,000 |
| 3 | Brian Lehman | United States | 7,160,000 |
| 4 | Ryan Leng | United States | 7,085,000 |
| 5 | Daniel Chaparro | United States | 6,875,000 |
| 6 | Nagaraju Bandiananthaiah | United States | 6,465,000 |
| 7 | Yurii Zabrodotskyi | Ukraine | 6,260,000 |
| 8 | Viorel Georgescu | United States | 6,100,000 |
| 9 | Brent Crouch | United States | 5,715,000 |
| 10 | Eric Baldwin | United States | 5,570,000 |
Chip counts from WSOP LIVE
With all four Day 2's now completed and the field combining into a single Day 3, here's what the top 10 looks like for the 303 remaining players:
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edouard Debrousse | France | 12,500,000 |
| 2 | Justin Smith | United States | 9,800,000 |
| 3 | Bennett McLaughlin | United States | 8,265,000 |
| 4 | Luke Purcell | United States | 8,200,000 |
| 5 | Emiliano Guido | United States | 7,700,000 |
| 6 | Justin Datloff | United States | 7,545,000 |
| 7 | Brian Lehman | United States | 7,160,000 |
| 8 | Kentaro Okawa | Japan | 7,100,000 |
| 9 | Ryan Leng | United States | 7,085,000 |
| 10 | Daniel Chaparro | United States | 6,875,000 |
Players are expected to come back in Level 28 with blinds at 80,000/160,000 with a 160,000 big blind ante when cards go back in the air. The restart will be on Monday, June 15, at 11 a.m. local time.
Here are the chip counts of the 109 survivors from Day 2d of the COLOSSUS, according to the WSOP LIVE app.
The poker community asked, and the WSOP listened.
In a major shake-up to the Poker Hall of Fame, the induction process is shifting away from its traditional "winner-takes-all" format. A brand-new voting system has been introduced, paving the way for up to six of the eight nominees to be inducted in a single year.
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Poker Hall of Fame. Once the public determines the top eight nominees, the final decision will rest with the 33 living Hall of Fame members.
As per the WSOP LIVE app.
The world of poker strategy has become increasingly solver-driven over the last decade, with players obsessing over balanced ranges, GTO outputs, and technical perfection.
But according to Nacho Cuesta, creator of Master Poker Tells, there’s still a huge part of the game many players are completely overlooking: human behavior.
Cuesta has spent the last five years building what he describes as a structured system for reading live poker tells, breaking down unconscious behaviors into categories including eye movement, betting patterns, verbal cues, and body language. In the process, he says he identified something missing from almost all traditional tells content - structure.
According to the WSOP LIVE app.
There will be incentives for dealers to perform well at the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP), one being financial.
The other incentive is not facing scrutiny, as the WSOP has implemented a dealer rating system that will permit poker players to grade dealers this summer.
A change has been made for the 2026 series at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, as players can rate dealers through the WSOP LIVE app, the same app they use to receive seating assignments and register for tournaments.
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