Joshua Wang pushed all in for 8,500 from under the gun and the action folded all the way to Behrooz Jamshidi in the big blind. He glanced at his cards and then called after a few seconds.
Joshua Wang: 2♠2♦ 
Behrooz Jamshidi: 8♥8♦
The 10♣7♦4♠9♦Q♦ board brought no miracle for Wang and he bowed out in the very first hand after the dinner break.
Level: 9
Blinds: 1,000/1,500
Ante: 1,500
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is set to usher in a new era for its winter flagship, WSOP Paradise, after confirming the festival will move from Atlantis Paradise Island to the luxury Baha Mar resort, also in the Bahamas.
The 2026 edition, slated to run from Tuesday, December 1 to Friday, December 18, will shuffle up and deal in a new home roughly six miles up the Bahamian coast from where Austria’s Bernhard Binder announced himself to the wider poker world, capturing the record-breaking 2025 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event just a few months ago.
In an announcement on social media platform X, the WSOP wrote, "The next chapter of WSOP Paradise is coming... Bigger. Better. Unmissable. This December, the world's fastest-growing poker event arrives at the stunning Baha Mar."
The most exciting time in live poker is upon us, with the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event No-Limit Hold'em World Championship now underway.
The WSOP Main Event is considered the most prestigious live poker tournament, drawing thousands of entrants from far and wide, each hoping to become poker's world champion.
The field sizes of the Main Event are massive, despite the five-figure buy-in. With so many of poker's top players in action at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, you're spoiled for choice regarding who to add to your MyPlayers Feed.
The remaining 2,974 players have gone on a 60-minute dinner break.
Play will resume at 6:45 p.m. with blinds at 1,000/1,500, with a 1,500 big blind ante.
Here's a look at the highlights of the last two hours of play:
Stay tuned to PokerNews for all of the exciting updates on the ground of the 2026 WSOP.
Heads up to the 9♦10♥5♦8♣ turn, Jonathan Metz bet 5,500 from the big blind into a pot of 6,000. Joseph Rusinko called in the cutoff and called Metz's subsequent bet of 7,500 on the 6♣ river as well.
Metz confidently tabled 10♣9♠ for two pair, but Rusinko was shipped the pot when he showed a set with 8♥8♦.
Just before the dinner break, Akash Malik was all-in for 21,200 against Jordan Westmorland and the following cards were tabled.
Akash Malik: A♦K♠
Jordan Westmorland: K♣K♥
The board ran out 8♠8♣6♣2♠A♠ and Malik spiked the ace on the river to survive.
Ren Lin raised to 2,400 first to act and was called by Peter Nguyen in the small blind for a heads-up pot.
Nguyen check-called a 1,500 bet from Lin on the 9♣6♥10♦ flop and then both players checked on the 9♦ turn.
The 10♥ river double-paired the board and Nguyen checked once more. Lin asked the dealer to spread the pot and then bet 6,000.
"You have anything, you win," Nguyen said as he folded 8♣8♠ face up for a counterfeited pair.
Lin collected the pot without showing.
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