51 Days of World Series of Poker 2026: The Numbers

The 2026 World Series of Poker was a 51 day marathon that paid out nearly $470 million in prizes, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Here are the numbers that defined this year's series.

🔷 The WSOP organization earned over $33 million.
The series paid $469,975,059 through prize pools, collected $47.3 million in entry fees, and paid dealers and staff about $14.2 million.

🔷 The 2026 WSOP had 251,899 entries.
Out of that figure, the largest single tournament by entries was Event #63: Mystery Millions with 22,811 entries.

🔷 Main Event viewership was low.
Despite everyone in the poker world tuning in, in one form or another, this year only saw 173,000 for the first recap showing.

🔷 The biggest field was in the Mystery Millions.
22,811 people joined Event 63, won by Philip Chun after 5 days. For triumph in such a massive field, he earned $400,000 from a $550 buy-in, a 727x return on his investment.

🔷 The highest non-Main Event first-place prize was $4,334,411.
Event #41, the $250K Super High Roller, was won by GGPoker crusher and legend Adrian Mateos, holding Doyle Brunson’s cards ( ). Bryn Kenney came second for $2,776,634.

🔷 Main Event and Monster Stack brought the biggest prize pools.
At $85,634,400 and $15,841,057, these two events built the largest prize pools during the 2026 WSOP.

🔷 Bracelet milestones were reached.
Michael Mizrachi, Shaun Deeb, and Benny Glaser all collected their 9th bracelets this year.

🔷 Phil Hellmuth kept cashing but couldn't add a bracelet.
He recorded over $690,000 in cashes, but couldn’t close events for that coveted jewelry. He came extremely close, though. In the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em event, he placed second, losing to Darren Rabinowitz.

🔷 Naoya Kihara won two bracelets within three days.
The Japanese player pulled this off in the $10K 2-7 Lowball and the $10K Seven Card Stud. Even more remarkable is how often he ran deep. He shows up in the top 10 of roughly seven different events, including several $10K+ championships and the $100K PLO.

🔷 The Foxen couple both won bracelets.
Kristen Foxen took the $25K High Roller for $1,773,083, and her husband Alex Foxen won the $10K Super Turbo Bounty. How romantic.

The United States Took 62 of the 100 Bracelets

The United States took 62 of the 100 bracelets, and the next closest country wasn’t even close.

The bracelet winners from the United States brought in an insane $37,923,872, more than half of the total purse paid to winners. Of course, a $10,000,000 chunk of that came from Lucas Jumalon’s Main Event win.

~59.7% of the time, players from the US made it into the top 10 in 2026 WSOP Events. That’s very close to matching up with the 62 bracelets they won from 100 events.

Here’s the full breakdown of each country:

Interestingly, last year the United States won one less bracelet, but over $11 million dollars more ($49,081,315). The US won both Main Events, so that doesn’t explain the difference.

The Reason: America crushed the largest prize pools last year, but those went to foreigners in 2026. Seth Davies won the $250K Super High Roller for $4,752,551, Shaun Deeb won the $100K PLO High Roller for $2,959,297, and then Dylan Linde and Jason Koon added over $4 million from other wins in $50K buy-in events.

But things went much better for Canada this year. Six bracelets and $5,805,338 in 2026, compared to just one bracelet and $248,245 in 2025. Greg Mueller even put them close to winning the Main Event, but left in 3rd.

Brazil also had a fantastic year, going from $322,894 for winners in 2025 from two bracelets, way up to $4,394,901 and three bracelets this year. Yuri Dzivielevski is the main reason. The CoinPoker ambassador took $2,841,432 for winning the $100K NLH High Roller.