Lucas Jumalon Bags Massive Chip Lead at WSOP Main Event Final Table

By Mrinal Gujare

14 Jul 2026

Mrinal Gujare 14 Jul 2026

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Lucas Jumalon leads WSOP Main Event final table with 194M chips.
Nine players left, all guaranteed at least $1M; $10M for the winner.
Major poker stars missed final table; final resumes August 3.

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Lucas Jumalon built a 194,000,000 chip stack on Day 8 to lead the final nine players at the WSOP Main Event final table. Competitors return August 3 to play for a $10,000,000 first prize and the world championship.

The final nine players in the World Series of Poker Main Event have officially been determined. Leading the field after a dominant Day 8 performance is 22-year-old Lucas Jumalon, who built a towering stack of 194,000,000 chips.

Jumalon will return to the tournament on August 3 in pole position, sitting just eight eliminations away from becoming the newest world champion of poker.

Rami Hammoud and Jamie Shaevel round out the top three chip stacks. The final table also features highly decorated contenders, including three-time bracelet winner Greg Mueller of Canada and four-time bracelet winner Michael Gagliano of America.

Fittingly, it was Jumalon who set the final table by eliminating reigning Aussie Millions Main Event champion Malcolm Trayner in 10th place, bringing an end to the run of the Australian player.

The remaining nine players have now guaranteed themselves a payout of at least $1,000,000. However, the ultimate focus remains on the $10,000,000 first prize waiting at the end of the tournament when play resumes in exactly three weeks.

Jumalon's route to the final table was built on a commanding Day 8 performance. Throughout the day, he successfully transformed a third-place stack into the tournament chip lead.

While the spotlight will belong to these nine players come August, a different group of competitors held the attention of the poker world at the start of the day.

The 21 players who returned for Day 8 included nine-time WSOP bracelet winner and reigning Player of the Year Shaun Deeb. Also in contention was Dylan Smith, a tournament competitor who had secured his first career WSOP bracelet earlier in the series.

Another notable player in the field was Wilson, who has established himself as one of the top tournament players in the game over the past few years, holding $13 million in career earnings and four tournament victories this year alone.

Hall of Famer Todd Brunson was making his deepest Main Event run in three decades, attempting to join his legendary father, Doyle Brunson, as only the second father-son duo to each reach the final table. Additionally, 2019 champion Hossein Ensan was in the field, attempting to win his second Main Event title in seven years.

All of these high-profile players ultimately fell short of the final table. Brunson earned an early triple up when his ace-king rivered a pair of aces in a three-way all-in, cracking the pocket kings of Wilson and the pocket queens of Trayner.

However, Brunson later fell victim to the river himself when Trayner rivered a flush to beat Brunson's aces, sending him to the rail in 20th place.

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