After a 20-day break, the World Series of Poker Main Event is acceptable to resume connected Monday.
Nine players are inactive lasting successful the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em World Championship from a tract of 9,208 and volition conflict it retired astatine Horseshoe Las Vegas for the $10 cardinal archetypal prize. All the remaining players are guaranteed $1 million.
The last array volition beryllium televised Monday connected ESPN2 starting astatine 6 p.m. earlier ESPN picks up sum for the last 2 days.
Here is simply a person look astatine each of the players astatine the last table:
Lauri Saaskilahti (Seat 1)
Chip count: 37.5 million
Age: 39
Resides: Barcelona
Occupation: Head of income for packaging company
Career earnings: $138,453
Notes: The archetypal subordinate from Finland to marque the Main Event last table, Saaskilahti won a captious manus connected Day 7 erstwhile helium was all-in for his tourney beingness and spiked an ace connected the stream to survive. Saaskilahti’s champion effect came successful past year’s European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event erstwhile helium finished 14th for $83,116.
Michael Gagliano (Seat 2)
Chip count: 46.5 million
Age: 41
Resides: Rockaway, New Jersey
Occupation: Professional poker player
Career earnings: $2,296,144
Notes: A longtime tourney grinder and manager known arsenic “Gags” successful poker circles, Gagliano is 1 of the astir experienced players astatine the last table. He owns 4 WSOP bracelets, which are awarded for tourney victories, and besides won a WSOP Circuit lawsuit successful 2023. Gagliano graduated from Rutgers with a grade successful geology.
Mario Boos (Seat 3)
Chip count: 44 million
Age: 32
Resides: Volgelsheim, France
Occupation: Professional poker player
Career earnings: $239,888
Notes: Prior to this run, astir of Boos’ results were successful low-stakes tournaments crossed Europe. His largest people came successful the 2025 Italian Poker Sport Main Event erstwhile helium finished sixth for $54,659. Boos has been adjacent the spot pb since Day 5 and is seeking to go the archetypal French subordinate to triumph the Main Event.
Greg Mueller (Seat 4)
Chip count: 48.5 million
Age: 55
Resides: White Rock, British Columbia
Occupation: Professional poker player
Career earnings: $3,540,270
Notes: A erstwhile nonrecreational hockey subordinate successful Germany, Mueller has been a fixture connected the unrecorded tourney country for much than 2 decades. Nicknamed “FBT” (Full-Blown Tilt), helium has 3 WSOP bracelets, but fell retired of emotion with poker successful caller years. Mueller won respective cardinal hands precocious connected Day 8 to marque the last table.
Jamie Shaevel (Seat 5)
Chip count: 56 million
Age: 39
Resides: Santa Monica, California
Occupation: LED lighting institution owner
Career earnings: $451,177
Notes: Don’t beryllium fooled by the information helium seldom plays tournaments. Shaevel has made the wealth successful the Main Event 8 times and is simply a cash-game regular astatine Commerce Casino adjacent Los Angeles. The begetter of 2 was 1 of the abbreviated stacks precocious connected Day 8 earlier a precocious surge enactment him 3rd successful chips entering the last table.
Han Feng (Seat 6)
Chip count: 25 million
Age: 27
Resides: San Antonio
Occupation: Professional poker player
Career earnings: $1,993,830
Notes: Feng was named Global Poker Index’s Mid-Major Player of the Year successful 2024. He has 2 WSOP Circuit rings, which are awarded for tourney wins, including the 2024 WSOP Circuit Tulsa Main Event. Feng was down to 5 large blinds precocious connected Day 8 but stayed diligent and managed to ascent the leaderboard.
Rami Hammoud (Seat 7)
Chip count: 79 million
Age: 36
Resides: Montreal
Occupation: Analytics manager
Career earnings: $512,438
Notes: Despite being a recreational player, Hammoud is nary alien to occurrence astatine the tables. He finished 5th successful the WSOP Salute to Warriors lawsuit successful 2024 and besides won the Playground Poker Club Main Event successful 2023 for implicit $123,000, his biggest people anterior to the Main Event. He enters the last array 2nd successful chips.
Evagoras Evagorou (Seat 8)
Chip count: 22.5 million
Age: 48
Resides: Nicosia, Cyprus
Occupation: Optician
Career earnings: $253,488
Notes: Evagorou is the slightest experienced subordinate remaining with astir of his tourney results coming successful his location country. He cashed successful 3 different WSOP events this summer, including a 15th-place decorativeness successful the No-limit Hold’em Deepstack Championship. Evagorou returns to the last array arsenic the abbreviated stack.
Lucas Jumalon (Seat 9)
Chip count: 194 million
Age: 22
Resides: Spokane, Washington
Occupation: Professional poker player
Career earnings: $180,888
Notes: The caller postgraduate of Grand Canyon University is looking to go the second-youngest Main Event champion successful history. Jumalon won a WSOP Daily Deepstack lawsuit past summertime among his 49 anterior cashes. He won a monolithic cookware against 10th-place finisher Malcolm Trayner to vault into the spot pb with 13 players left.
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