Bernardo Neves raised from the hijack to 50,000, Boris Angelov three-bet to 135,000 from the button, Neves four-bet to 300,000, and Angelov moved all in for 300,000 effective. Neves took his time with his decision as a payout jump was imminent. The table called the clock, and once the countdown was complete, he called for his tournament life.
Bernardo Neves: A♦Q♠
Boris Angelov: J♣J♦
The board was fruitful for Neves with 8♦Q♣K♦7♣4♠, and Neves pulled in his new chips with his pair of queens.
Kyungkeun Lee open-jammed for 415,000 from under the gun for his last 415,000. Action folded around to Xiaoyao Ma in the big blind who peeled his cards and made a quick call before tabling his pocket nines.
Kyungkeun Lee: 6♣6♥
Xiaoyao Ma: 9♣9♥
Lee was behind when the cards were turned over and he saw no improvement on the 4♥4♦10♥ flop.
The hearts were no good for Lee either as Ma was sitting with the nine of hearts, and he missed on the rest of the runout which saw the 8♣ and J♠ complete the board.
Daniel Smiljkovic open-shoved on the button for 125,000, and Victor Chong reraised to isolate in the small blind, resulting in a fold from Matthieu Mary in the big blind.
Daniel Smiljkovic: K♠9♥
Victor Chong: A♥10♠
Smiljkovic smashed the flop of 7♣9♠9♣, improving to trip nines. The turn landed the 2♠, and he filled up on the K♦ river.
Brek Schutten raised to 50,000 in the cutoff and Jean Lhuillier three-bet to 215,000, leaving himself with just 5,000 back. Schutten then four-bet jammed and Lhuillier went into the tank, looking for a potential pay jump. The clock was eventually called and Lhuillier committed the rest of his stack.
Jean Lhuillier: A♥4♥
Brek Schutten: K♦Q♦
"That's a fun flop," said another player at the table as the dealer spread out A♦6♦K♣.
The turn landed the J♠ and the river fell the 4♣, earning Lhuillier the much-needed double up.
The penultimate day of Event #73: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em gets underway at noon local time at the 2026 World Series of Poker, with just 60 players remaining from a field of 1,402 entries, inside the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Waiting for the eventual winner is the coveted WSOP bracelet and the $979,655 top prize from the $6,449,200 prize pool.
Starting Day 3 as the player to catch is the Netherlands' Roeland Peeks, who bagged 3,350,000 at the end of Day 2 and is one of only two players to eclipse the three-million-chip mark. American Joseph Tatarski is the other with 3,000,000, while the United Kingdom's Joshua Boulton rounds out the top three with 2,660,000.
Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Roeland Peeks
Netherlands
3,350,000
134
2
Joseph Tatarski
United States
3,000,000
120
3
Joshua Boulton
United Kingdom
2,660,000
106
4
Paulius Vaitiekunas
Lithuania
2,600,000
104
5
Jordan Glazer
United States
2,595,000
104
6
Luis Faria
Portugal
2,275,000
91
7
Kim Wittendorff
Denmark
2,200,000
88
8
Boris Angelov
Bulgaria
2,065,000
83
9
Andrew Lichtenberger
United States
1,840,000
74
10
Brek Schutten
United States
1,780,000
71
Andrew Lichtenberger
The remaining field is still packed with decorated players. Bracelet winners Paulius Vaitiekunas (2,600,000), Andrew Lichtenberger (1,840,000), Brek Schutten (1,780,000), Daniel Rezaei (1,760,000), Dario Sammartino (1,665,000), Oliver Weis (1,545,000), Josh Arieh (1,020,000), Drew O'Connell (915,000), and JC Tran (840,000) are all still in the hunt for another WSOP title.
There are plenty of returnees without a bracelet looking to change that by the end of Day 4. Jordan Glazer (2,595,000), Boris Angelov (2,065,000), Eric Bonin (1,700,000), Jeremy Dan (1,635,000), Gabriel Andrade (1,480,000), and Jon Kyte (1,370,000) all return with healthy stacks. Meanwhile, Jesse Lonis (575,000), Upeshka De Silva (560,000), Christian Harder (255,000) and Jean Lhuillier (220,000) return among the shorter stacks and have plenty of work ahead of them if they are to survive the day.
Christian Harder
Play resumes on Level 21 with blinds of 10,000/25,000 and a 25,000 big blind ante. All 60 remaining players have already locked up $13,795, but the payouts begin to grow significantly from now. Play is scheduled to continue until only five players remain. A place at the final table is worth over six figures, while the eventual champion will walk away with $979,655.
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