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Event #69: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
Day 1 Completed
2026 World Series of Poker
Event #69: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
Day: 1
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From a field of 647 players, just 146 will head into Day 2 of Event #69: $1,500 Seven Card Stud.
Leading the field is Taylor Atchison (371,500), who is looking to take home his fifth cash this series. His best finish so far this summer has come in Event #42: $10,000 Big O, where he finished in 15th and collected $39,786. He looks to better his career best summer and add another deep run to his burgeoning resume.
Just 98 places will be paid with a min-cash worth $3,017. Daniel Negreanu may have picked up $152,954 for his seventh-place finish in the $25,000 NLH/PLO Mixed but he swapped the two- and four-card variants for Stud to sit ninth in chips at the end of Day 1.
Event #69: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Day 1 Top 10 Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Bets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taylor Atchison | United States | 371,500 | 35 |
| 2 | David Bach | United States | 297,500 | 30 |
| 3 | Jon Kyte | Norway | 285,500 | 23 |
| 4 | Dave Stann | United States | 280,000 | 23 |
| 5 | Christian Roberts | Venezuela | 276,500 | 23 |
| 6 | Michael Casella | United States | 260,500 | 21 |
| 7 | Menikos Panagiotou | Cyprus | 243,500 | 20 |
| 8 | David Bagheri | United States | 243,500 | 20 |
| 9 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 235,500 | 19 |
| 10 | Tara Dunn | Canada | 234,500 | 19 |
Former PPC champion David Bach sits third in chips, with former WSOP Player of the Year Tom Schneider also advancing. There are bracelet-winners galore still left in this one, including Matt Vengrin (191,000), Jason Daly (188,000), Mike Matusow (168,000), Blaz Zerjav (83,000) and Poker Hall of Famer Brian Rast (45,000).
Stay tuned to PokerNews for updates throughout the rest of the World Series of Poker, hosted by Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
Day 1 of Event #69: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better has concluded. Of the 647 entries, 146 players have bagged and tagged for Day 2.
When Adrian Mateos won 2026's WSOP $250k Super High Roller, he became the youngest player in history to reach six WSOP bracelets at just 31 years old.
His $4.33 million score was the second-largest cash of the Spaniard's career. The first? It came less than a month ago at Triton Montenegro, where he banked $6.37 million in the $200k Invitational, meaning Mateos has won a scarcely believable $10.7 million in just 28 days.
With Mateos climbing from ninth to fifth on poker's all-time money list in the last six months alone, and after defeating one of the most stacked final tables in WSOP history (featuring Phil Ivey, Bryn Kenney, Jason Koon et al), it sparked a debate around the PokerNews water cooler: Are we watching the best player in tournament poker right now?
This year's nominees for the Poker Hall of Fame have been announced, with the eight individuals now heading to the living members of the Hall for voting.
Each member can vote for up to four nominees, with anyone receiving votes from 22 or more members earns an automatic induction. This change, from a previous "winner-takes-all" format allowing for only one induction per year, was announced earlier this month.
Five of the eight nominees are first-time nominees, having met the minimum age requirement of 40. Eight-time WSOP bracelet winner Shaun Deeb headlines these players, and he is joined by Jason Koon, Isaac Haxton, Chris Moorman and Justin Bonomo.
According to the WSOP LIVE app.
The prize pool for this event is $858,892. The top 98 players are set to make the money, with $159,276 set aside for the winner.
| Place | Prize | Place | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $159,276 | 10 -11 | $9,093 |
| 2 | $106,162 | 12 -15 | $7,317 |
| 3 | $73,068 | 16 -23 | $6,016 |
| 4 | $51,217 | 24 -31 | $5,055 |
| 5 | $36,574 | 32 -39 | $4,344 |
| 6 | $26,618 | 40 -47 | $3,819 |
| 7 | $19,749 | 48 -55 | $3,436 |
| 8 | $14,945 | 56 -63 | $3,167 |
| 9 | $11,538 | 64 -98 | $3,017 |
Nixon Diaz finished in 26th place for $14,510 at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), in the $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event.
That isn't the story. You probably aren't even familiar with Diaz. After all, he'd never even cashed in a live poker tournament recorded by The Hendon Mob prior to the start of the 2026 WSOP. The story is how he even entered the tournament, and it started via a chance encounter with popular poker vlogger Corey Eyring.
As per the WSOP LIVE app.
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Believing he had secured a vital double-up, Sasaki initially celebrated and high-fived his rail, only to realize the reality when he returned to the table...
