Hurtling towards the finish
As the 2026 World Series of Poker winds down and we wait for the Main Event final table, there are still a handful of bracelets to be awarded. One of those went to David Peters last night, who won Event #94: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em for $1,001,391.
Reflecting on a less-than-satisfying WSOP overall, Peters told PokerNews, “My summer has been a lot of building big stacks, making runs, and just kind of falling short. It’s been very disappointing up to this point, so to win basically the last tournament is pretty amazing.”
It was Peters’ seventh cash of the 2026 WSOP, but perhaps more importantly, it was the fifth bracelet win of his career.
He said he was surprised how quickly it all happened once the tournament got down to three players. Peters denied history when he eliminated Calvin Anderson in third place – had Anderson snagged that pot and gone on to win the event, he would have become just the ninth player in history to win three WSOP bracelets in one year (seven have won three in a single WSOP – George Danzer won his third in 2014 at WSOP Asia-Pacific, while the other two were in Las Vegas). It would have been Anderson’s eight bracelet title.
On Anderson’s fateful hand, he was all-in for nearly 10 million chips with pocket Deuces after Peters had raised pre-flop with pocket Nines. Peters called and the board missed Anderson to send him home in third place.
“Then the first hand [of heads-up],” Peters recalled to PokerNews, “we are still stacking chips and getting organized. I blink and we’re all-in playing for a bracelet.”
Happy ending to rocky few months
On social media, many people joked that there would be a line of creditors at the cage waiting for Peters to pick up his money, but overall were happy for him. In April, Dylan Linde publicly revealed that Peters had yet to make good on his end of a backing deal that started at least year’s World Series of Poker. Linde claimed that Peters’ alleged “months of obfuscation” overshadowed any sympathy he might have for someone’s potential money problems.
Peters responded, saying that he “deeply regret(s) the choices that I made that led to him not trusting that he was going to get paid back,” adding that he always planned to pay every penny he owed.
“I certainly handled the situation very poorly and I understand the frustrations,” Peters concluded in a series of social media posts. “Right now my focus is on making things right and trying to regain the trust of the community.”
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