The highly anticipated WSOP final table is officially set following a grueling summer of record-breaking poker action in Las Vegas. After weeks of intense competition at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas casinos, the 2026 World Series of Poker $10,000 No-Limit Holdem World Championship has narrowed its massive field down to the final nine players. A total of 9,208 entrants registered for this year’s tournament, making it one of the largest fields in poker history. The remaining nine competitors are each guaranteed a minimum payout of $1,000,000 just for making it this far. However, they all have their eyes fixed…

Youth and online skills dominated as the WSOP final table in 2013, but it was an experienced grinder who carried the day. As Monday night bled into Tuesday morning, the most veteran player of the final 10 gamblers competing for a seat at the nine-person final table worth $8.4 million for the winner was defeated by the second-most respected player. Deep into the 14th hour of play on the seventh day of the world’s biggest no-limit Texas Hold ‘em competition, well-known Sacramento, Calif., grinder J.C. Tran went head to head with Carlos Mortensen, a Spanish pro known as “El Matador,”…