By Alex Drummond, Editor-in-Chief · June 21, 2026 · Fact-checked by Maya Chen
Calvin Anderson captured his seventh career World Series of Poker bracelet and second of the 2026 series late Saturday at the Paris Las Vegas, winning Event #54, the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship, for US$413,580. The result lands the bracelet count nine days after his 2026 Razz Championship win and lifts him into a tie for tenth on the all-time bracelet list alongside Mike Sexton, Allen Cunningham and Ted Forrest. Across the room, the WSOP's first standalone Five Card Pot-Limit Omaha bracelet event closed for American Zachary Gruneberg, with Canada's Gianluca Cedolia finishing fifth for US$66,610.
Anderson, 38, has now won eight bracelets across the WSOP, WSOP Online and WSOP Europe formats. His seven live bracelets at the Las Vegas summer series include two Razz Championships (2018 and 2026), the $10,000 8-Game Mix Championship (2024), the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship (2026) and three mid-stakes mixed-game events. He has cashed in fifty-six WSOP events since 2009 with cumulative WSOP earnings approaching US$5 million, per the WSOP.com player standings.
The H.O.R.S.E. Championship close
Event #54 drew a smaller-than-usual H.O.R.S.E. Championship field, with the buy-in restricted to the same level it has held since 2016. The total entry list and prize pool figures have not yet been fully published by the WSOP, but the first-place prize of US$413,580 is consistent with a field of approximately 215 entries. The final table included a mix of high-stakes mixed-game regulars whose names recur throughout the 2026 summer schedule.
Anderson's strength in the H.O.R.S.E. format is well documented. He has cashed in essentially every Las Vegas H.O.R.S.E. event run since the $50,000 Poker Players Championship adopted the H.O.R.S.E. structure intermittently in the 2010s, and his 2026 win is now his second WSOP H.O.R.S.E. or Limit-mix bracelet of the year. The two-bracelet stretch makes him the third player at the 2026 series, after Adrian Mateos and the Foxen household, to take down two pieces of gold in the same summer.
The inaugural Five Card PLO bracelet
One bracelet over, Event #53, the $1,500 Five Card Pot-Limit Omaha, closed with a historic first. The event drew 1,319 entries, the largest field in WSOP history for the format's debut, and crowned American Zachary Gruneberg as the inaugural bracelet winner. Gruneberg's winning hand was the unusual but format-appropriate K♠ 4♣ 4♦ 3♣ 2♠. He banked US$271,552 for his first career live WSOP bracelet after two prior online bracelets, in the WSOP No-Limit Hold'em PKO Online Bracelet Event in 2024 and an earlier online bracelet in the No-Limit Hold'em series.
Canada's Gianluca Cedolia, a Toronto-area player whose previous career-best WSOP result was a seventh-place finish in the 2014 $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo event, returned to the Day 3 final table in fourth place with 2,070,000 chips. He played down to fifth before being eliminated, securing US$66,610 in what is now his largest WSOP cash to date.
Cedolia is one of the more under-the-radar Canadian tournament regulars on the secondary circuit, with previous deep runs at the WSOP Circuit Toronto, Mountain West and Council Bluffs stops. Sunday's finish represents the largest single result of his WSOP career and places him among the top dozen Canadian-flag deep-runners of the 2026 series.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zachary Gruneberg | United States | $271,552 |
| 2 | Hokyiu Lee | Hong Kong | $180,230 |
| 3 | Erick Mossinger | Brazil | $127,560 |
| 4 | Kamel Mokhammad | Ukraine | $91,530 |
| 5 | Gianluca Cedolia | Canada | $66,610 |
| 6 | Ravi Shankar | United States | $49,160 |
| 7 | Bouwe Claushuis | Netherlands | $36,810 |
Event #53: $1,500 Five Card Pot-Limit Omaha, 1,319 entries. The first standalone Five Card PLO bracelet awarded in WSOP history. Source: PokerNews live reporting.
Foxen still alive in the Millionaire Maker
While the bracelet ceremonies were running, the marquee mass-field event of the 2026 series moved into its second day of consolidation. Event #50, the $1,500 Millionaire Maker, drew 11,769 entries across four starting flights and a prize pool of US$15,623,348. Day 2C reduced the 3,121 Day 1C survivors to 105 players. Day 2D runs Sunday morning, with combined Day 3 expected to begin late Sunday night with approximately 1,489 players returning across all four flights.
Among the notables advancing through Day 2C and 2D combined is Kristen Foxen, the St. Catharines, Ontario-born professional already credited with one bracelet at the 2026 series (her June 7 win in the $25,000 High Roller for US$1,773,083). Foxen advanced to Day 3 with approximately 104,500 chips, behind American Hugo Jimenez at 2,220,000 but ahead of the bubble line. A deep run in the Millionaire Maker would add a noteworthy mass-field result to her summer, on top of the bracelet, the WSOP Player of the Year top-three position and the women's all-time live earnings lead at approximately US$29.4 million.
Argentina's Hugo Jimenez continues to lead the field. Reality-television personality Trishelle Cannatella sits tied for third with 1,780,000. American author Maria Konnikova advances with 118,500. The bubble is expected to burst within the first ninety minutes of Sunday's combined Day 3, with the projected US$1,234,000 first-place prize awarded Tuesday or Wednesday.
Other Day 26 bracelet news
Three additional Day 26 results round out the picture. India's Abhishek Mhatre won Event #56, the $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em, for US$492,050, his first career bracelet and a career-best result. Event #55, the $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller, played down to a final eight with England's Robert Cowen leading at 9,060,000 chips. Other notable stacks at the $50K PLO HR final include Joao Simao (Brazil, 6,985,000), Carlo van Ravenswoud (Netherlands, 6,300,000), Naoya Kihara (Japan, 2,035,000, already a double-bracelet winner this summer) and Brazil's Yuri Dzivielevski. The eight-handed final closes Sunday night with the winner collecting US$1,368,700.
The Canadian summer, updated
Through Event #53, the 2026 World Series has produced three Canadian-flag bracelets, with combined gold of US$2,395,570. Below the bracelets, Cedolia's US$66,610 finish lifts the Canadian notable-cash tally to approximately US$2.87 million. The list of meaningful Canadian results through Sunday afternoon stands as follows.
| Player | Event | Result | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kristen Foxen | #19 $25K High Roller NLH | 1st (bracelet) | $1,773,083 |
| Christopher Alcindor | #22 $1,500 Big O | 1st (bracelet) | $387,110 |
| Frederic Normand | #21 $1,500 PLO Hi-Lo | 1st (bracelet) | $235,377 |
| Clayton Mozdzen | #37 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. | 2nd | $122,206 |
| Thomas Taylor (Medicine Hat, AB) | #52 $3,000 Nine Game Mix | 4th | $76,510 |
| Elliot Smith | #49 $2,500 Freezeout NLH | 7th | $75,390 |
| Daniel Negreanu | #47 $25,000 PLO High Roller | 26th | $69,531 |
| Gianluca Cedolia | #53 $1,500 Five Card PLO | 5th | $66,610 |
| Orlando Moretti (Bolton, ON) | #43 $800 Deepstack NLH | 6th | $64,992 |
Notable Canadian results, 2026 WSOP, through Event #53. Source: WSOP.com, PokerNews and the Hendon Mob.
What to watch Sunday night and Monday
Three bracelet events conclude or run pivotal sessions Sunday night. The $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller final eight plays to a winner on a 2.5-hour delay via PokerGO. The Millionaire Maker runs its last Day 2 flight (Day 2D) at 11 a.m. Sunday with combined Day 3 to follow Monday. Event #60, the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, opens Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. with Michael Mizrachi defending the 2024 title that Daniel Negreanu won (and Mizrachi captured again in 2025). Event #59, the $500 Salute to Warriors, fires at 10 a.m.
Ontario players watching from home can follow the action on PokerNews live reporting and the PokerGO live stream. Players interested in WSOP Super Circuit Canada satellites at Playground Montreal in August can review the GGPoker Ontario page; the regulated Ontario market overview is on the best poker sites in Ontario page; and the tournament schedule covers the next four weeks of regulated guarantees across all six operators.