PokerNews live coverage of this event will begin on Day 2 (June 23). 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 #57: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day 1a Completed
Event #57: $1,000 Pot Limit Omaha saw the four-card crowd come out in force. With 683 entries, the event hauled in a prize pool of $601,040.
Only 32 of those players made it through to Day 2, where they will join any survivors from tomorrow's Day 1b flight and Day 1c on Monday.
For now, Paul Roy leads the field with 934,000 in chips according to the WSOPLive App. He is closely followed by Harry Rubin (795,000) in second. Just behind him is Oleksii Holubov (755,000).
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | Big Bets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Roy | United States | 934,000 | 93 |
| 2 | Harry Rubin | United States | 795,000 | 80 |
| 3 | Oleksii Holubov | Ukraine | 755,000 | 76 |
| 4 | Joseph Curcio | United States | 716,000 | 72 |
| 5 | Geoffrey Mooney | Australia | 621,000 | 62 |
| 6 | Steven Forman | United States | 620,000 | 62 |
| 7 | Aurelien Martin | France | 607,000 | 61 |
| 8 | Jiyang Gan | China | 553,000 | 55 |
| 9 | Makoto Yoshimichi | Japan | 525,000 | 53 |
| 10 | Benjamin Juhasz | Hungary | 477,000 | 48 |
Chip counts according to WSOPLive App.
Other players who made it through the gauntlet of Day 1 include bracelet winner, Gabi Livshitz (430,00), and 25k Fantasy player, Dong Chen (420,000).
Play resumes for Day 1b at midday local time on Sunday, June 21.
When Day 2 begins on Tuesday, the blinds will be 5,000/10,000 with an ante of 10,000.
Day 1a of Event #57, $1,000 Pot Limit Omaha, has concluded with a total of 683 entries. Of those, 32 players bagged chips and will return for Day 2.
Chip counts are according to the WSOP LIVE app.
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is set to usher in a new era for its winter flagship, WSOP Paradise, after confirming the festival will move from Atlantis Paradise Island to the luxury Baha Mar resort, also in the Bahamas.
The 2026 edition, slated to run from Tuesday, December 1 to Friday, December 18, will shuffle up and deal in a new home roughly six miles up the Bahamian coast from where Austria’s Bernhard Binder announced himself to the wider poker world, capturing the record-breaking 2025 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event just a few months ago.
In an announcement on social media platform X, the WSOP wrote, "The next chapter of WSOP Paradise is coming... Bigger. Better. Unmissable. This December, the world's fastest-growing poker event arrives at the stunning Baha Mar."
According to the WSOP LIVE app.
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.
As per WSOP LIVE app.
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Per 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.
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