2026 World Series of Poker

Event #91: $1,500 Pick Your PLO
Event #82: $10,000 WSOP Main Event NLH World Championship Event #94: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship Event #95: $500 Summer Saver No-Limit Hold'em Event #96: $3,000 6-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha Event #97: $25,000 High Roller H.O.R.S.E. Event #98: $800 Deepstack No-Limit Hold’em Event #99: $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Show All Events
Day: 3
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Event Info
2026 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
j♥8♠7♥5♣2♦
Prize
$196,431
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,137,667
Total Entries
857
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
250,000
Players Info - Day 3
Entries
10
Players Left
1
Players Left 1 / 857

Two Brutal Set-Over-Set Coolers Send High-Stakes Pros Out of WSOP Main Event

Eliot Thomas
Eliot Thomas
Level 29 : Blinds 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante
Sandvik & Tsai
Sandvik & Tsai

If one set-over-set cooler wasn't painful enough, the 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event produced two within moments of each other on different tables. Both were every bit as brutal as the bad beat that kicked off Day 6.

High-stakes pros Espen Sandvik and Andy "Andy Stacks" Tsai both saw deep runs come to heartbreaking ends on Day 6 after flopping or turning sets, only to discover their opponents held even bigger ones.

Tsai is best known for battling in some of the biggest cash games in the world, while Sandvik is no stranger to the high roller circuit either, with numerous cashes in $25,000 buy-in events. Neither could survive one of poker's nastiest coolers.

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