WSOP Sunday: Toronto's Dhiraj Sharma Returns to Main Event Day 6 Second in Chips as Jamie Dwan Wins the $50,000 High Roller; Negreanu and Foxen Cash for Combined Six Figures

By Alex Drummond, Editor-in-Chief · July 12, 2026 · Fact-checked by Maya Chen

Sunday morning at Horseshoe Las Vegas belongs to two overlapping storylines. The 174 survivors of the 2026 WSOP Main Event return this afternoon at 11 a.m. Pacific for Day 6, with Toronto's Dhiraj Sharma second in chips on 9,840,000 chips and squarely in the frame for a US$10 million top prize. That is the primary narrative for Ontario readers. Sitting alongside it is a completed US$50,000 High Roller (Event #90) that wrapped Saturday night on the ESPN feature stage, delivered a career-first gold bracelet to Britain's Jamie Dwan for US$2,276,691, and cashed two Canadian names, Daniel Negreanu and Kristen Foxen, at the eighth and ninth positions on the final-table ladder.

Dwan Overcomes a 5-to-1 Deficit

Jamie Dwan, the 26-year-old British online-cash-game specialist who came into the day as the third-largest stack in the Day 3 restart, was 5-to-1 down when heads-up play began against Austria's Daniel Rezaei. Mr. Rezaei, the 2025 WSOP Paradise US$50,000 High Roller Turbo bracelet winner and a US$1.9 million earner on that title alone, appeared on course to complete a rare back-to-back high-roller campaign. Twenty-five minutes and a series of well-timed three-bet shoves later, Mr. Dwan had reversed the count and put Mr. Rezaei all in for 13,800,000 on the final hand.

Mr. Dwan collected US$2,276,691 for the win and, more materially, a first career gold bracelet. His lifetime tournament earnings before the win stood at US$806,208, with a previous largest live cash of US$76,254. In one day, he added roughly the equivalent of three career-and-a-half worth of earnings and passed the US$3 million lifetime threshold. His prior largest known score, virtual or physical, was US$120,000 in an online tournament. Mr. Rezaei's second-place cash of US$1,517,782 lifts his 2025-plus-2026 earnings from this event class alone above US$3.4 million.

The Full Final Table Payout

Negreanu's Ninth Bracelet Bid Falls Short

Daniel Negreanu, whose ninth WSOP bracelet came in the US$100,000 PLO High Roller ten days ago for US$2,257,718, entered the US$50,000 High Roller as a serious tenth-bracelet candidate. His 1,085,000-chip Day 1 bag was inside the top ten. He advanced to Day 3 with a comfortable stack and made the final table before running out of runway in eighth place for US$226,086. Combined with the earlier PLO victory, his 2026 series total from these two high-buy-in events alone now sits at US$2,483,804. He remains eighth on the all-time bracelet list with nine bracelets, tied with Nick Schulman and Erik Seidel. Mr. Seidel, incidentally, finished eleventh in the same event on Saturday for US$146,295.

Kristen Foxen, the Ottawa-born four-time bracelet winner whose 734th-place finish in the Main Event last week produced her first-ever Main Event cash for US$25,000, added the US$50,000 High Roller ninth-place cash to her 2026 series ledger. Her total on the summer now includes the US$25,000 High Roller Bracelet (US$1,773,083, June 8), the US$1,000 Super Turbo Bounty (US$233,417, June 15), the Main Event cash and the Event #90 ninth-place cash. That combined US$2.2 million-plus in 2026 earnings ranks her among the top three highest-earning Canadian players of the summer alongside Mr. Negreanu (~US$2.5 million on the two headline cashes above, plus smaller ones) and Alex Foxen (~US$650,000 on the Super Turbo Bounty bracelet plus the Main Event cash). Ms. Foxen's lifetime tournament earnings are now above US$14.7 million.

Back to the Main Event: Sharma's Day 6

Ontario audiences return their attention to Toronto's Dhiraj Sharma at 11 a.m. Pacific today. Mr. Sharma, whose Day 5 close of 9,840,000 chips represents the second-largest stack in the 174-player field, brings 164 big blinds at the Day 6 opening level of 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 big-blind ante. Only American Zhao Liu is ahead of him, at 10,150,000.

Under tournament staff's Day 6 structure, five two-hour levels are on the docket, with a break after each and a 70-minute extended break after Level 2. Play is scheduled to conclude at approximately 10 p.m. Pacific, or upon completion of five levels, whichever comes first. Field size is expected to drop from 174 to between 25 and 40 players by end of day, which places the next major pay jump at the 100th-place mark (approximately US$150,000) and delivers all Day 6 survivors into six-figure USD territory.

Mr. Sharma has, per Ontario Registry of Companies filings, a background as a business analyst in the technology sector before his move to full-time mid-stakes tournament grinding in 2022. His live-tournament resume, at approximately US$400,000 lifetime earnings pre-2026 WSOP, is not a match for that of Alex Foxen, Shaun Deeb or Chris Hunichen, all of whom have busted the tournament. That, in poker terms, is largely irrelevant to a Day 6 that resets the tournament's competitive economics. What matters is that he has 164 big blinds, one of the deepest playable stacks in the room, and reasonable table position on the seat draw.

What a Deep Sharma Run Would Deliver

A minimum Day 6 survival delivers US$57,500. A finish inside the top 80 delivers six figures. A final-table appearance delivers seven figures. Any of those numbers would represent an above-lifetime-earnings cash for Mr. Sharma. All are within statistical reach from a second-in-chips position.

The Ensan Question

Hossein Ensan remains the last past Main Event champion alive in the field, at 3,450,000 chips. Mr. Ensan's 2019 title, worth US$10 million, was the last time a champion collected a first prize of that size in this event; every intervening year saw the top prize float with the field. Mr. Ensan's Day 6 return with 57 big blinds puts him just below the field average but far above the danger zone that would force short-stack action. His Day 5 recovery from a below-average Day 4 mark suggests he is running well.

The other Day 6 storylines are Shaun Deeb's ongoing Player-of-the-Year chase (4,305,000 chips, third on the current WSOP.com POY ledger behind Adrian Mateos and Alex Foxen), Todd Brunson's return with 3,690,000, and Wesley Fei's 4,580,000. Naoya Kihara, the Japanese pro whose two 2026 bracelets keep him near the top of the POY board, is not confirmed among the 174 Day 6 survivors as of press time.

How to Follow from Ontario

ESPN's over-the-air broadcast picks up feature-table coverage on Sunday, July 12 at 6 p.m. Eastern with the delayed hole-card feed. PokerGO Plus subscribers get live feature-table streams from all four ESPN tables at Horseshoe with a 30-minute delay, plus the hole-card-free Live LIVE feed from the Amazon Room. PokerNews's free live blog runs continuously through Day 6. The WSOP LIVE app is the authoritative source for chip counts and elimination confirmations.

Ontario readers wanting to follow through a domestic viewing party can find the GGPoker Canada watch party at their Bay Street office in Toronto scheduled to run 2 p.m. to midnight Eastern for Days 6 through the final table. Capacity is approximately 60 attendees.

The best poker sites in Ontario hub and the tournament schedule remain the primary reference points for readers wanting to track future WSOP satellite calendars through GGPoker Ontario, PokerStars Ontario and BetMGM Poker. iGaming Ontario, the province's stand-alone Crown agency, permits live-event qualifier promotions under its Registrar's Standards for Internet Gaming provided eligibility terms are clearly disclosed. Players must be 19 and physically located in Ontario to register.

Full coverage of Day 6 will follow tomorrow morning with confirmed end-of-day chip counts, seat draws and Ontario-specific eliminations.

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