The Most Important WSOP 2026 Events
We've put together a list of the most interesting and significant tournaments at the World Series of Poker that has just kicked off. These are the events you definitely need to mark on your calendar.
Less than a week remains before the start of the World Series of Poker festival in Las Vegas. The main poker event of the year will once again bring together the best players, who will compete for 100 bracelets. Following this battle will now be even more convenient thanks to live broadcasts of every final table. And so you don't get lost amid such a variety of events, we've prepared for you a list of the most interesting and important tournaments of the upcoming WSOP. These events are definitely worth marking in your calendar to enjoy poker of the highest level.
June 13 — $250,000 Super High Roller
Seth Davies won his first bracelet at the Super High Roller in 2025
In 2021, high roller events not connected to the One Drop charity organization were held at the WSOP for the first time. That's when the $250,000 Super High Roller entered the summer festival program. Since then, this tournament has been the most expensive in the series and, accordingly, one of the most anticipated and prestigious.
In 2025, the $250K Super High Roller drew 63 participants and a prize pool of $15,513,750, failing to reach the record numbers of 2024: 75 entries and a prize pool of $18,675,000. The champion was Seth Davies, who not only won his first bracelet but also set a new best cash, earning $4,752,551.
Before WSOP 2025, Davies was considered one of the best players never to have won a bracelet. In the Super High Roller heads-up he quickly defeated Alex Foxen, who held a similar status until 2022. And Foxen ended his bracelet-less streak at the very same $250K Super High Roller. Perhaps this year the tournament is worth entering for Ben Tollerene, Maria Ho, or Christoph Vogelsang, to continue the trend and grab a long-awaited bracelet.
June 21 — $50,000 Poker Players Championship
Negreanu couldn't hold back his emotions after winning his first bracelet in 11 years at the $50,000 Poker Players Championship
This tournament is considered the second most prestigious within the WSOP summer festival, though many players value it even more than the other events. It all comes down to the fact that only the strongest and most well-rounded poker player can win the Poker Players Championship, since to do so you have to defeat your opponents in nine disciplines, among them No-Limit Hold'em, Seven-Card Stud, Pot-Limit Omaha, Razz, and No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw.
This tournament is also valuable because it pays tribute to the memory of one of the greatest players in history, Chip Reese. In 2006, Reese won the first-ever Poker Players Championship, defeating Andy Bloch in a 7-hour heads-up. However, just a few months later Reese passed away, and that bracelet became the last of his life. Since 2008, the PPC winner receives, in addition to the bracelet, the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy. No other event has awards like this.
The conclusion of the Poker Players Championship in 2024 turned out to be very emotional. The champion was Daniel Negreanu, who ended an 11-year streak without WSOP titles. After his victory, the Canadian player couldn't hold back tears while the spectators in the hall chanted his name. And in 2025, history was rewritten once again by Michael Mizrachi. The American nicknamed The Grinder broke his own record, winning the PPC for the fourth time in his career, also surpassing Bryan Rast in titles. As it would turn out later, this was only the first part of his poker feat.
July 2 — $10,000 Main Event
The most important tournament, the pinnacle of a poker career, the cherry on top of the festival — all of this describes the World Series Main Event. In its current format as a freezeout tournament with a $10,000 buy-in, it has existed for more than half a century, since 1971. And it is the main event that remains the principal driver of poker's popularity.
This year the Main Event starts on July 2. On the prediction platform Kalshi, bets are being taken on the size of the field of the upcoming Main Event. The probability that it will exceed 10,000 people is estimated at 34%. Though in 2025 the Main came up just a little short of this mark, drawing 9,735 players. The record by this metric was 2024, when 10,112 poker players from more than 100 countries played in the tournament.
This year the World Series returned to ESPN, and you'll be able to follow the battles in the Main Event daily on the channel's broadcast. The final table lineup will be determined on July 13, and the fight to reach the decisive stage promises to be a spectacle you can't miss.
August 3-5 — Main Event final table
The climax of the Main Event will once again have to be waited for. From 2008 to 2016, Harrah's, which owned the rights to the WSOP, and ESPN introduced the "November Nine" format, in which the final table was held several months after the rest of the tournament. Thanks to this, the TV producers could build stories around each participant and turn the competition into a grand show. With the renewal of cooperation with ESPN, the pause has also returned, however now it will be 20 days.
Last year the final table became a truly historic event. To begin with, a woman played in it for the first time in 30 years. The Spaniard Leonor Margets repeated the success of Barbara Enright and ultimately finished in seventh place.
And Michael Mizrachi achieved a unique accomplishment, adding the Main Event victory to his Poker Players Championship title. What's more, The Grinder dealt with his opponents in just 79 hands, which made that table one of the shortest of recent decades. After such an insane performance, Mizrachi was immediately inducted into the Hall of Fame, without the usual vote being held. The American also entered the list of players with the largest single-tournament winnings at the WSOP, earning $10,000,000 for the Main Event victory.
Mizrachi won his eighth WSOP bracelet and took $10M for the Main Event victory
Anticipating the WSOP
Of course, the upcoming WSOP will be interesting not only because of these three tournaments. The remaining 97 events will surely give us plenty of vivid stories, loud victories, and unexpected failures. We at PokerFlow are eagerly awaiting the start of the hot WSOP festival. We'll be following along and telling you about the new bracelet quests of the top poker players, Shaun Deeb's battle for the Player of the Year title, and much, much more.
