Jesse Lonis Bags Monster Stack Heading Into Final Day

Today concluded Day 2 of Event #5 $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha 8-handed at the 2026 World Series of Poker. What started as a field of 716 entries on Day 1 which generated a prize pool of $3,293,600 was reduced to 120 players at the start of Day 2 and now just seven players remain after ten levels of play inside Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. These seven players will be competing for the $595,388 first-place prize and the coveted WSOP gold bracelet.

Leading the way heading into the final day is Jesse Lonis, who finished the day with 17,600,000 chips. Lonis was active throughout all stages of the tournament, even taking the responsibility of becoming a hero by eliminating Miguel Capriles on the final table bubble, however, even before this situation occurred Lonis was terminating plenty of his table mates which included Andrew Pham, Ka Kwan Lau and Edward Leonard.

Although Lonis has a monster stack coming into day 3, he still has a mammoth task ahead of himself to close out the tournament. Stephen Hubbard (5,000,000), Evan Krentzman (4,200,000), and Dylan Weisman (2,800,000) all bagged healthy stacks and will enter the final day among the leading contenders.

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Jesse Lonis	United States	17,610,000	294
2	Stephen Hubbard	United States	4,980,000	83
3	Evan Krentzman	United States	4,200,000	70
4	Dylan Weisman	United States	2,775,000	46
5	Jarred Graham	Australia	2,420,000	40
6	Yang Wang	United States	1,650,000	28
7	Justin Scott	United States	1,400,000	23

Several notable names saw their tournament runs come to an end throughout the day, including Robert Mizrachi, Renji Mao, James Chen, Patrick Leonard, and Yuri Dzivielevski.