PokerNews live coverage of this event will begin on Day 2 (June 18). 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 #51: $10,000 Mystery Bounty No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Completed
It was a long Day 1 in Event #51: $10,000 Mystery Bounty, as the tournament played down to the money, with a field of 558 whittled down to just 84.
Leading the survivors is Todd Ivens, locking up his third cash of the summer, who along with Alex Anton are the only two players with seven-figure stacks.
As expected for a $10,000 buy-in event, the field included some big names and those heading to Day 2 include Adrian Mateos who bagged sixth in chips (815,000) along with Brian Rast (572,000), Damian Salas (482,000), Kristen Foxen (444,000), Ren Lin (375,000) and Ethan "Rampage" Yau (319,000).
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Todd Ivens | United States | 1,400,000 |
| 2 | Alex Anton | United States | 1,390,000 |
| 3 | Georgios Sotiropoulos | Greece | 979,000 |
| 4 | Julien Sitbon | France | 947,000 |
| 5 | Danny Tang | Hong Kong | 877,000 |
| 6 | Jakob Miegel | Germany | 865,000 |
| 7 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 815,000 |
| 8 | Martin Zamani | United States | 724,000 |
| 9 | Jordan Glazer | United States | 720,000 |
| 10 | Felix Rabas | Austria | 694,000 |
The bubble burst late on Day 1 with Carlos Leiva running ace-queen into the pocket queens of Boris Kolev, guaranteeing the remaining players a min-cash of $13,650. Day 2 will see the Mystery Bounties in play, with plenty more payouts up for grabs.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for full coverage as our live updates get underway on Day 2.
The total prize pool for this event is $3,515,400. The top 84 players make the money, with $678,300 set aside for first place.
| Place | Prize | Place | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $678,300 | 10 -11 | $39,580 |
| 2 | $452,200 | 12 -15 | $31,750 |
| 3 | $313,400 | 16 -23 | $25,980 |
| 4 | $220,950 | 24 -31 | $21,690 |
| 5 | $158,500 | 32 -39 | $18,490 |
| 6 | $115,750 | 40 -47 | $16,100 |
| 7 | $86,070 | 48 -55 | $14,330 |
| 8 | $65,190 | 56 -84 | $13,650 |
| 9 | $50,310 |
One question always gets asked in the build-up to the World Series of Poker (WSOP): who are the best players still chasing their first bracelet? It's something PokerNews looks at every year.
But here's another angle worth exploring. Which players have actually won the most money at the WSOP without ever getting their hands on one of poker's most coveted prizes?
Some players have racked up millions in WSOP earnings, building their totals on one monster score, while others have chipped away year after year grinding the series.
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Brayden Lou managed to improve on an already outstanding year with a remarkable victory in the $500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em at the 2026 World Series of Poker.
After weeding his way through a field of 4,100, the inexperienced Lou wrestled the crown away from Jason Hoffman heads-up to claim the $196,066 winner’s share of a $1,701,500 prize pool.
“It’s pretty amazing,” Lou said. “I guess I can scratch this off my bucket list. I ran well, played well. That’s how it usually goes for tournament winners.”
Not that Lou would know, considering he won a gold bracelet in just his fourth ever live tournament.
When Kristen Foxen won the 2026 WSOP $25,000 High Roller, it was her first outright victory in a major nosebleed event. It was also the exclamation point on one of the most sustained periods of elite tournament poker anyone has produced in recent memory.
Since finishing 13th in the 2024 WSOP Main Event for $600,000, the six-time bracelet winner has been making final tables so regularly they might as well reserve her a seat. Few, if any, have come close to matching her record in that time. And with the WSOP just two weeks in, there's no indication she's stopping any time soon.
Four seven-figure scores. Twenty-three final tables. Nearly $11 million in prize money. Almost all of it earned against the best players in the world, in the toughest tournaments.
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