My Favorite 2026 WSOP Stats & Historical Records

Dubbed the “World’s Greatest Unknown WSOP Historian,” Robert Jen has spent over a decade meticulously researching, archiving, and analyzing World Series of Poker data. Creator of the Poker Omnibus app and website, Jen has cataloged everything from obscure early-1970s hand recaps to modern high-roller leaderboards using thousands of custom spreadsheets and helper scripts.

Following another action-packed summer in Las Vegas, Jen dives deep into the database to unpack his favorite stats, broken records, and historical anomalies from the 2026 World Series of Poker.

The Big Names

It wasn’t even June yet, when Perry Green became the oldest player to reach an open final table at age 90. He’s probably the oldest to reach any WSOP final table! He finished sixth in the $1,500 Omaha 8 or Better for $30,973. It had been thirteen years since he last reached a final table, finishing ninth in another O-8 tournament, this time the Pot-Limit variety.

Daniel Negreanu had a big summer, but before May was out he’d already become the first player to reach $25,000,000 in WSOP winnings. He won his Round of 16 match in the $25,000 Heads Up Championship to guarantee a $60,000 payout and reach the milestone before losing his next match.

Nick Schulman is rapidly running out of fingers to count his WSOP bracelets on. He won the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. for his eighth bracelet and fourth straight year with a bracelet, tying the record.

Streaks of Four Straight Years Winning WSOP Bracelets

He may still be young, but Adrian Mateos proved yet again why he’s presumably going to have a long and illustrious career ahead of him. He won the $250,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller to become the youngest player to reach six bracelets at 31, a year younger than Phil Ivey.

The Two-Timers

One of the early stories of this year’s WSOP were the exploits of Japan’s Naoya Kihara. He was the first Japanese bracelet winner back in 2012, and would have to wait 14 years for his second, winning the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship.

He told PokerNews how he almost retired from poker, but decided to give it a few more years. Well, just a few more days later Kihara made it three bracelets with victory in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship.

Winning two championship events in the same series is a feat so rare it has been achieved only five times in WSOP history. Before Kihara, only Doyle Brunson, Stu Ungar, Greg Merson, George Danzer, and Jason Mercier had ever done it.

And then Calvin Anderson went and added his name to that list, winning the $10,000 Razz and the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship. But he did something special. He became only the sixteenth player to win multiple bracelets in a year twice, after also pulling of the double in 2023.

Multiple Bracelet Winners in Multiple Years

_{Bold denotes player won three bracelets that year/}

Meanwhile, Eelis Parssinen won the $25,000 High Roller PLO and the $25,000 High Roller PLO/NLH Mix, becoming the first player from Finland to win two bracelets in a year. With the addition of Japan and Finland, players from 20 countries have now managed that feat:

Countries Winning 2+ Bracelets in a Year

_{The other ten countries who’ve had one double-bracelet winner are Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Czechia, Denmark, France, Norway, Russia, Slovenia, and Spain.}

The Million Dollar Man

We’ve got to give a special section for Michael Mizrachi, who followed up his incredible 2025 with another WSOP bracelet, bringing him to nine in total.

His first-place prize in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha of $1,350,203 was his record sixth million-dollar cash (all victories), breaking a tie with Brian Rast.

Michael Mizrachi’s $1,000,000+ WSOP Cashes

Bracelet Milestones

Special congratulations to players who won their fourth or more career bracelets, with a record-tying 17 doing so. 2024 also had 17 players, but with WSOP Paradise still to come, the record still be broken.

Players Winning Fourth or More Career Bracelets in 2026

Year of the Woman

Last but not least, it’s already been a massive year for women in poker. Even before the WSOP in Las Vegas, Anca Eggenberger became the first woman from Switzerland to win a bracelet in the WSOP Europe €1,000 Ladies Championship.

Kristen Foxen won the $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller to extend her women’s records to six bracelets (three more than Vanessa Selbst, Barbara Enright, & Nani Dollison) and five open bracelets (two more than Selbst). She and her husband Alex became the first spouses to both win live open bracelets in the same year (they both won one online in 2024).

Foxen’s victory was also only the second by a woman in a $25,000 buy-in event, after Selbst’s 2014 $25,000 Mixed-Max victory. It was also the fourth seven-figure cash of Foxen’s illustrious career, with all of them coming in the last 12 months. The $1.7 million score was also her largest and the fifth-largest WSOP score of all time for a female player.

Top All-Time Scores By a Female

Women have already won a record seven bracelets, with at least one more coming from the GGPoker Ladies Championship next month. Five of these have been open bracelets, another record, with three in live events, tying the record set in 2004 (Cyndy Violette, Kathy Liebert, and Annie Duke).

2026 Female WSOP Open Bracelet Winners

Krista Gifford also finished second in the WSOP.com $3,200 High Roller to become only the second woman to reach heads up in two open events in the same year, after Kristen Foxen in 2023.

A record 431 women entered the 2026 WSOP Main Event, outdistancing the 395 in 2023 by almost ten percent.

Sasha Liu led the Main Event with 2,364,000 chips at the end of Day 3 just short of the money bubble with 1,389 remaining. She was just the sixth female end-of-day chip leader, and she matched Jessica Cai with the latest lead.

WSOP Main Event Female End-of-Day Chip Leaders

Dubbed the “World’s Greatest Unknown WSOP Historian,” Robert Jen has been researching, analyzing, and writing about the world’s greatest game, and especially the World Series of Poker (WSOP), since 2013.