2026 World Series of Poker Circuit
| 2026 WSOP Circuit | |
|---|---|
| League | World Series of Poker Circuit |
| Sport | Texas Hold 'em |
| Duration | January 8-December, 2026 |
| Streaming partner | YouTube WSOP |
The 2026 World Series of Poker Circuit was the 23rd annual World Series of Poker Circuit.
Event schedule
Source: The Hendom Mob: World Series of Poker Circuit season 2026
- Venue: Planet Hollywood Las Vegas
- Full Event Dates: January 1-12, 2026
- Number of Entries: 616
- Buy-in: $1,700 ($1,515 + $185)
- Guaranteed Prize Pool: $750,000
- Total Prize Pool: $933,240
- Number of Payouts: 93
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Darren Rabinowitz[1] | $175,430 |
| 2nd | David Dibernardi | $116,917 |
| 3rd | Kayla Clackum | $81,321 |
| 4th | Katsumoto Sakaguchi | $57,545 |
| 5th | Drake Kemper | $41,439 |
| 6th | Jacob Mendelsohn | $30,378 |
| 7th | Yuanzhi Cao | $22,678 |
| 8th | Victoria Livschitz | $17,245 |
| 9th | Alan Merdita | $13,363 |
WSOP International Circuit King's Resort Rozvadov - (Czech Republic) (Ring Event)
- Venue: King's Casino
- Full Event Dates: January 1-13, 2026
- Number of Entries: 692
- Buy-in: €1,500
- Guaranteed Prize Pool:€1,000,000
- Total Prize Pool: €1,038,000
- Number of Payouts: 107
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Georgios Vrakas[2] | €164,000 |
| 2nd | Jose Casillas | €109,500 |
| 3rd | Yannick Jobin | €74,700 |
| 4th | Roman Papcek | €52,100 |
| 5th | Artiom Poddubnii | €37,100 |
| 6th | Andreas Staschewski | €26,900 |
| 7th | Zdeněk Žižka | €19,900 |
| 8th | Andrei Birgaoanu | €15,000 |
| 9th | Rostyslav Sabishchenko | €11,600 |
- Venue: Choctaw Casinos Durant
- Full Event Dates:January 07-19, 2026
- Number of Entries: 922
- Buy-in: $1,700 ($1,515 + $185)
- Total Prize Pool: $1,396,830
- Number of Payouts: 135
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Winston Djonli[3] | $232,680 |
| 2nd | Matthew Barnett | $155,010 |
| 3rd | Venkat N.C. Nagabhairava | $107,360 |
| 4th | Unknown Player | $75,700 |
| 5th | Kenneth Lemer | $54,360 |
| 6th | Dustin Schoonover | $39,770 |
| 7th | Jeremy Kennon | $29,650 |
| 8th | Todd Tucker | $22,540 |
| 9th | Alejandro Jaureguireynoso | $17,470 |
WSOP International Circuit Deerfoot Inn & Casino Calgary - (Canada) (Ring Event)
- Venue: Deerfoot Calgary
- Full Event Dates: January 07-19, 2026
- Number of Entries: 1,321
- Buy-in: CA$2,200 (~$1,583)
- Total Prize Pool: CA$2,575,796 (~$1,852,784)
- Number of Payouts: 196
| Place | Name | Prize (Original) | Prize (U$D) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Senthuran Vijayaratnam[4] | CA$396,556 | $285,245 |
| 2nd | Robin Bergren | CA$264,283 | $190,100 |
| 3rd | Graham Lupton | CA$188,206 | $135,378 |
| 4th | Alen Bakovic | CA$135,855 | $97,721 |
| 5th | Weston Pring | CA$99,420 | $71,513 |
| 6th | Rishi Makkar | CA$73,776 | $53,067 |
| 7th | Jiajie Sheng | CA$55,524 | $39,939 |
| 8th | David Quang | CA$42,390 | $30,491 |
| 9th | Nizar Tajdin | CA$32,835 | $23,618 |
- Venue: Thunder Valley Casino Resort
- Full Event Dates:January 15-26, 2026
- Number of Entries: 764
- Buy-in: $1,700 ($1,515 + $185)
- Total Prize Pool: $1,157,460
- Number of Payouts: 116
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Jaime Haletky[5] | $205,460 |
| 2nd | Franklin Chavez | $136,920 |
| 3rd | Casey Sandretto | $95,650 |
| 4th | Julius Roque | $67,920 |
| 5th | Donald Landwirth | $49,040 |
| 6th | Stephen Kujubu | $36,020 |
| 7th | Unknown Player | $26,920 |
| 8th | Roman Dorokhin | $20,470 |
| 9th | Spencer Gore | $15,850 |
WSOP International Circuit Marrakesh - (Morocco) (Ring Event)
- Venue: Es Saadi Gardens & Resort Marrakesh
- Full Event Dates: January 16-25, 2026
- Number of Entries: 1,694
- Buy-in: 16,000درهم
- Buy-in (USD): $1,743)
- Total Prize Pool: 23,039,000درهم
- Total Prize Pool (USD): $2,510,332
- Number of Payouts: 255
| Place | Name | Prize (Original) | Prize (U$D) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Sandro Carucci[6] | 3,000,000درهم | $326,880 |
| 2nd | Malcom Franchi | 2,300,000درهم | $250,608 |
| 3rd | Turlough McHugh | 1,700,000درهم | $185,232 |
| 4th | Raul | 1,285,000درهم | $140,014 |
| 5th | Salim Sefiat | 940,000درهم | $102,423 |
| 6th | Aitor Cruz | 700,000درهم | $76,272 |
| 7th | Alexandre Bermon | 515,000درهم | $56,114 |
| 8th | Luc Ramos | 385,000درهم | $41,950 |
| 9th | Mehdi Chaoui | 300,000درهم | $32,688 |
- Venue: Horseshoe Casino Tunica
- Full Event Dates: January 22-February 2, 2026
- Number of Entries: 433
- Buy-in: $1,700 ($1,515 + $185)
- Guaranteed Prize Pool: $500,000
- Total Prize Pool: $655,995
- Number of Payouts: 63
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | David Yount[7] | $132,570 |
| 2nd | Dustin Murphy | $88,105 |
| 3rd | Donovan Dean | $59,830 |
| 4th | David Moses | $41,527 |
| 5th | Danny Griffith | $29,475 |
| 6th | Marcus Paxton | $21,404 |
| 7th | Sokchheka Pho | $15,911 |
| 8th | Jared Ingles | $15,539 |
| 9th | Luther Tran | $9,454 |
- Venue: Harrah's Pompano Beach
- Full Event Dates: January 29-February 9, 2026
- Number of Entries: 925
- Buy-in: $1,700 ($1,515 + $185)
- Guaranteed Prize Pool: $500,000
- Total Prize Pool: $1,404,150
- Number of Payouts: 134
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Zachary Fischer[8] | $233,384 |
| 2nd | Nicholas Blumenthal | $155,559 |
| 3rd | Elliott Kampen | $111,994 |
| 4th | Matthew Lambrecht | $77,028 |
| 5th | Caio Sobral | $55,588 |
| 6th | Jeffery Schneider | $40,811 |
| 7th | Mukul Pahuja | $30,491 |
| 8th | Kayla Clackum | $23,191 |
| 9th | Howard Mash | $17,961 |
- Venue: Harrah's Cherokee
- Full Event Dates: February 20-23, 2026
- Number of Entries: 1,824
- Buy-in: $1,700 ($1,515 + $185)
- Total Prize Pool: $2,763,360
- Number of Payouts: 269
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Maxwell Guo[9] | $386,231 |
| 2nd | Peter Ng | $257,398 |
| 3rd | Jesse Jones | $184,167 |
| 4th | Toby Boas | $133,478 |
| 5th | Andrew Robinson | $98,011 |
| 6th | Nicholas Rigby | $72,925 |
| 7th | David Walker | $54,991 |
| 8th | David Sathue | $42,034 |
| 9th | Nitis Udornpim | $32,575 |
- Venue: Horseshoe Casino Baltimore
- Full Event Dates: February 19-March 2, 2026
- Number of Entries: 413
- Buy-in: $1,700 ($1,515 + $185)
- Total Prize Pool: $625,695
- Number of Payouts: 60
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Christopher Selami[10] | $128,100 |
| 2nd | Manh Nguyen | $84,380 |
| 3rd | Jose Cayetano De La Rosa | $56,904 |
| 4th | Patrick Pettitt | $39,310 |
| 5th | Aaron Gao | $27,834 |
| 6th | Morgan Petro | $20,213 |
| 7th | Christian Harder | $15,065 |
| 8th | Chu-Ming Wu | $11,531 |
| 9th | Barry Remmel | $9,071 |
- Venue: Horseshoe Hammond
- Full Event Dates: February 26-March 9, 2026
- Number of Entries: 741
- Buy-in: $1,700 ($1,515 + $185)
- Total Prize Pool: $1,122,615
- Number of Payouts:
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Richard Bai[11] | $197,299 |
| 2nd | Cody Brinn | $131,503 |
| 3rd | Charles Cunha | $90,551 |
| 4th | Daniel Lei | $63,554 |
| 5th | Andrew Fahey | $45,483 |
| 6th | Jeffery Hollar | $33,023 |
| 7th | Varkey James | $24,734 |
| 8th | Kenny Nguyen | $18,811 |
| 9th | Jordan Helstern | $14,611 |
WSOP International Circuit Grand Casino Gamprin - (Liechtenstein) (Ring Event)
- Venue: Grand Casino Liechtenstein Gamprin
- Full Event Dates: February 26-March 10, 2026
- Number of Entries: 827
- Buy-in: SFr 1,500 (~$1,922)
- Guaranteed Prize Pool:SFr 1,000,000 (~$1,281,333)
- Total Prize Pool: SFr 1,071,792 (~$1,373,089)
- Number of Payouts: 125
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Benjamin Hammann[12] | $243,914 |
| 2nd | Neculai Macovei | $155,399 |
| 3rd | Angelo Arossi | $108,254 |
| 4th | Florian Geiger | $77,123 |
| 5th | Flynn Meichtry | $55,087 |
| 6th | Eros Calderone | $39,842 |
| 7th | Kilian Kramer | $29,593 |
| 8th | Claudio Di Giacomo | $22,419 |
- Venue: Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
- Full Event Dates: March 4-16, 2026
- Number of Entries: 478
- Buy-in: $1,700 ($1,515 + $185)
- Total Prize Pool: $724,170
- Number of Payouts:
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Robert Shuptrine[13] | $142,758 |
| 2nd | Christopher Stewart | $95,254 |
| 3rd | Christy Cranford | $64,890 |
| 4th | John Reynolds | $45,153 |
| 5th | Antonio Delacruz | $32,110 |
| 6th | Stephen Ticsay | $23,347 |
| 7th | Trey Bartlett | $17,364 |
| 8th | Richard Gordon | $13,219 |
| 9th | William Rowlett | $10,305 |
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