WSOP 2026: David ‘ODB’ Baker Runs Deep, GGMillion$ Reaches Day 3 and POY Latest
The latest action at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas took in the $10,000 GGMillion$ Live event, a bracelet win for Stephen Hubbard and deep runs for several PokerStake players as the 57th annual WSOP entered its second week in Las Vegas. There were seven events in play with four different formats to choose from as the Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris casinos were packed with WSOP players.
GGMillion$ Will Award $1m Top Prize
The online $10,000 GGMillion$ event takes place every week on GGPoker and is regularly populated with some of the most entertaining players in poker. The live version of the event began over the past two days in Las Vegas, with both Day 1a and Day 21b pulling in hundreds of entries. Late registration closed with a total field of 627 and a prize pool of $5,831,100 to play for, with just 95 players making the money.
Today’s Day 2 action saw the field trimmed to just 64 survivors, as several of PokerStake’s finest made the Day 3 seat draw in style, Chris Brewer (710,000) and David Coleman (420,000) among them. Leading the field into Day 3 was the Russian player Anatoly Nikitin with 2,825,000 chips, but he was joined by plenty of other big names high up the leaderboard.
Andrew Moreno (1,865,000) ended the day eighth in chips, and Stephen Chidwick bagged 1,320,000 as he ended 13th in the chipcounts. The former WSOPE Main Event winner Max Neugebauer (1,290,000) was a couple of places back, while Cliff Josephy (890,000) and John Racener (865,000) are well place for deep runs over the next two days, which will play down to a winner on Thursday night in Las Vegas.
Whoever takes the title will win the WSOP gold bracelet and a seven-figure top prize of $1,089,964. It is called the GGMillion$, after all.
| WSOP 2026 Event #11: $10,000 GGMillion$ Live Day 2 Chipcounts: | |||
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1st | Anatoly Nikitin | Russia | 2,825,000 |
| 2nd | Joey Weissman | United States | 2,800,000 |
| 3rd | Andrew Lichtenberger | United States | 2,770,000 |
| 4th | Roman Hrabec | Czechia | 2,340,000 |
| 5th | Sean Perry | United States | 2,245,000 |
| 6th | Chad Lipton | United States | 2,015,000 |
| 7th | Luciano Macchiarelli | Argentina | 1,915,000 |
| 8th | Andrew Moreno | United States | 1,865,000 |
| 9th | Barak Wisbrod | Israel | 1,560,000 |
| 10th | Michael Moncek | United States | 1,480,000 |
Hubbard Hogs Limelight in Lowball Victory
The PLO specialist Stephen Hubbard won his first WSOP bracelet in Event #12 on the schedule, the $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw event, taking home $155,819 after he defeated his fellow American Gabriel Paul heads-up for the bracelet. With a total of 626 entries, the result puts Hubbard in contention for an early WSOP Player of the Year lead after he came fifth in Event #5, the $5,000 PLO event.
Taking home his second six-figure result of the summer, Hubbard’s victory came after close runs for not one but two PokerStake crushers. Norwegian pro Jon Kyte ran all the way to 16th place for a score of $6,586, while David ‘ODB’ Baker lived up to the ‘Original’ in his name by coming in eighth for a result worth $13,405. The four-time bracelet winner is pushing hard for number five this summer and only just missed out on the seven-handed final table.
Once there, it was the Stephen Hubbard show. Outlasting luminaries such as Tim Wong and Dylan Smith, Hubbard got the better of Gabriel Paul heads-up despite losing a big chunk of his lead just after the final duel began.
“I was feeling it, those first five big pots that didn’t go my way,” said Hubbard after the event. “I took a few deep breaths and tried to stay calm. My last four Hendon scores are first, first, fifth, and first, which is absurd.”
Mainly a PLO player, Hubbard got to stretch his mixed format muscles in the NL 2-7 streets and loved every minute of it.
“[It’s] a fun one, just to put people to the test and put them in the spot before they put me in the spot. I think I would consider myself a PLO specialist, but I’m trying to become more well-versed in the other games over time and even maybe going back to no limit soon.”
Given his record, along with his POY hopes, that time might this 57th annual WSOP series in Las Vegas.
| WSOP 2026 Event #12: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Final Table Results: | |||
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1st | Stephen Hubbard | United States | $155,819 |
| 2nd | Gabriel Paul | United States | $102,957 |
| 3rd | Dylan Smith | United States | $69,456 |
| 4th | Timothy Wong | United States | $47,846 |
| 5th | Anthony Lamps | United States | $33,672 |
| 6th | Philip Jaffe | United States | $24,219 |
| 7th | Per Hildebrand | Sweden | $17,814 |
Who is Leading the Player of the Year Race?
With a dozen events in the can from Las Vegas, and 15 already completed earlier this year at the WSOP Europe festival in Prague, the WSOP Player of the Year leaderboard is taking shape. With the top three finishers all earning $100,000 Player Packages, the race currently sees the WSOP Europe champion Marius Kudzmanas in the outright lead and hopeful of his banner being on the wall in 2027 at either the Horseshoe or Paris casinos.
Chasing Kudzmanas down, however, is the reigning champion. Shaun Deeb is just 30 points behind the Lithuanian after four cashes in his WSOP POY campaign in Europe and sits ninth out of 58 survivors after Day 1 of Event #17, the $10,000-entry No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship event.
The only issue for Deeb? Perhaps that Daniel Negreanu (pictured below) and Alex Foxen are third and fourth in chips respectively in the same event. Here’s how the current Player of the Year standings look after a dozen events in Las Vegas.
| WSOP 2026 Player of the Year Leaderboard (Correct at June 3rd) | |||
| Place | Player | Country | Points |
| 1st | Marius Kudzmanas | Lithuania | 1,392 |
| 2nd | Shaun Deeb | United States | 1,362 |
| 3rd | Mike Leah | Canada | 1,298 |
| 4th | Chenxi Miao | China | 1,247 |
| 5th | Philip Chun | United States | 1,207 |
| 6th | Chris Hunichen | United States | 1,146 |
| 7th | Stephen Hubbard | United States | 1,132 |
| 8th | Pedro Faustino | Portugal | 1,078 |
| 9th | Nikolai Ogoltsov | Czech Republic | 1,052 |
| 10th | Karapet Galstyan | United States | 1,027 |
