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Event #39: $5,000 Seniors High Roller No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Completed
2026 World Series of Poker
Event #39: $5,000 Seniors High Roller No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Players Left 291 / 791
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Players in Event #39: $5,000 Seniors High Roller have bagged for the end of Day 1 here at the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP). The tournament attracted 791 entries and, of those, 291 will return for Day 2 here at the Paris and Horseshoe, Las Vegas.
According to the WSOP LIVE app, Bruno Fitoussi finished the day first in chips with 895,000 in his stack. Fitoussi has had some near misses at the WSOP, including a second place finish in the 2007 $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event, good for his biggest score of $1,278,720. With several other final table finishes in WSOP events, Fitoussi is well positioned in both chips and experience to have a run at his maiden bracelet.
Paul Sokoloff, himself no stranger to WSOP final tables, sits in second place with 755,000, while Paul Snead rounds out the top three with 665,000.
Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruno Fitoussi | France | 895,000 |
| 2 | Paul Sokoloff | United Kingdom | 755,000 |
| 3 | Paul Snead | United States | 665,000 |
| 4 | Ruslan Prydryk | Ukraine | 642,500 |
| 5 | Luke Graham | United States | 501,000 |
| 6 | Marc Rivera | Philippines | 411,000 |
| 7 | Anthony Piacquadio | United States | 405,000 |
| 8 | Richard Buckingham | United States | 385,500 |
| 9 | Gary Herstein | United States | 365,000 |
| 10 | Juan Rodriguez | United States | 353,500 |
Among those who found the bag at the End of Day 1 were $25k Fantasy players Gary Benson (312,000), Dan Shak (159,000) and Eli Elezra (116,000), while previous WSOP winners John Esposito (295,000), Julio Belluscio (255,000), Mark Seif (222,000), Paul Berger (210,000) and Howard Mash (205,000) all bagged decent stacks.
Day 2 resumes at 12 p.m. local time on Saturday, June 13. Action resumes on Level 11, with blinds on 1,000/2,500 with a 2,500 big blind ante. The plan is to play for ten 60-minute levels, with a 15-minute break every two levels and a dinner break at the end of Level 17.
Stay tuned to PokerNews as reporters pick up the action straight from the tournament floor.
Here are the chip counts of the 291 players who progressed to Day 2, according to the WSOP LIVE app.
The tournament clock is showing 291 players from a field of 791 remaining after 10 levels on Day 1 of Event #39: $5,000 Seniors High Roller.
Stay tuned for full chip counts and a recap of the day's action.
With the $5,000 Seniors High Roller starting today, and the $1,000 Seniors (6/15) and $1,000 Super Seniors (6/22) coming up, here are some highlights from a quarter-century of the tournaments.
- 2001: "The Oklahoma Johnny Hale Seniors World Championship of Poker" for players 50 and older joined the WSOP. For its first three years, the Seniors World Championship of Poker had been a stand-alone tournament paired with the Seniors Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Jay Heimowitz outlasted a field of 340 for $115,430 and his sixth bracelet.
- 2005: Paul McKinney became the oldest player to win his first bracelet and the second oldest bracelet winner (a younger 80 than Johnny Moss), defeating a Seniors field of 825 for $202,725.
- 2006: Ron Rose became the first player to reach the final table of the Seniors Championship twice, falling in 6th for $37,710 three years after winning the bracelet and $130,060. His feat would later be matched by 2008 Main Event third place finisher Dennis Phillips (2012 2nd place for $372,895 and 2014 5th place for $153,883), Bill Stabler (2012 5th place for $147,605 and 2018 2nd place for $409,456), and Dan Heimiller (2014 1st place for $627,462 and 2017 9th place for $53,817).
- 2006: Clare Miller became the first woman to win the Seniors Championship, defeating a field of 1,184 players for $247,814.
- 2012: Allyn Jaffrey Shulman defeated a then-record 4,128-player field to win the Seniors Championship for a then-record $603,713, joining her husband Barry as the fourth married couple to both own bracelets.
- 2015: John Andlovec won the debut $1,000 Super Seniors Championship (65 years and older), defeating a field of 1,533 for $262,220.
- 2017: James Moore won his second straight Super Seniors Championship, defeating a field of 1,720 for $259,230 a year after outlasting a field of 1,476 for $230,626.
- 2018: Farhintaj Bonyadi became the first female to win the Super Seniors, defeating a field of 2,191 for $311,451. Despite the WSOP lowering the minimum age from 65 to 60 this year, Bonyadi became the oldest WSOP bracelet winner at 83, breaking Johnny Moss's thirty year-old record (a couple weeks shy of 81, still the open record). Farhintaj and her son Farzad Bonyadi became the first mother and son to win bracelets.
- 2023: The Seniors Championship set a record with 8,180 entries (players could enter twice on each of two starting days). With a record 1,227 paid, Lonnie Hallett became the event's first foreign winner, taking home a record $765,731 (from a record $7,280,200 prize pool) to Canada as he denied Billy Baxter his eighth bracelet heads up.
- 2023: Dan Heimiller became the first player to reach the final table of the Seniors Championship three times: 2014 (1st place for $627,462), 2017 (9th place for $53,817), and 2023 (3rd place for $356,166). James Moore has a Seniors final table (2020) to go with his two Super Seniors wins. Bill Stabler reached the Seniors final table twice (2012 & 2018 Seniors) and the Super Seniors once (2021).
- Mitch Garshofsky has a record 13 cashes in Seniors events, one more than John Esposito. Allyn Shulman and Marsha Wolak-Barnett share the female lead with 9 cashes.
- Only one player has topped a million dollars in career Seniors winnings, Dan Heimiller at $1,054,703. Allyn Shulman is the women's leader at $633,901.
Dubbed the "World's Greatest Unknown WSOP Historian," Robert Jen has been researching, analyzing, and writing about the world's greatest game, and especially the World Series of Poker (WSOP), since 2013.
According to the WSOP LIVE app.
Changes to television and livestream coverage have been made for the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Major changes.
But fear not, the biggest event of the year in poker will be easily accessible to fans around the world, for free (well, most of it).
ESPN returns to cover the Main Event this year, but the rest of the 2026 WSOP will be available for livestreaming on the WSOP's official social media channels.
20 years after that hand on High Stakes Poker, Daniel Negreanu is still getting coolered by Gus Hansen, and this time at the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP).
Playing Day 1 of the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship, the two poker legends faced off with monsters that saw Hansen rake in a pot against Negreanu with a better full house.
However, unlike that iconic encounter from Season 2 of High Stakes Poker in 2006 (in which the turn card that day gave Hansen quads over Negreanu's boat), on this occasion, Kid Poker had clearly learned his lesson from two decades ago, losing only a small pot instead of going broke after telling the Dane, "Jeez, I'm sorry I didn't raise you!" after the hands were tabled.
