Lucas Jumalon Takes Huge WSOP Main Event Lead
The 22-year-old Spokane player returns Aug. 3 with 194 million chips and a shot at $10 million.
Lucas Jumalon, a 22-year-old from Spokane, went into the WSOP Main Event final table with a massive lead and 194 million chips. Nine players are left, and every finalist is already guaranteed at least $1 million while chasing the $10 million first prize.
According to the Review-Journal, Jumalon will return on Aug. 3 at Horseshoe Las Vegas with that stack, well ahead of Rami Hammoud’s 79 million and Jamie Shaevel’s 56 million. Greg Mueller, Michael Gagliano, Mario Boos, Lauri Saaskilahti, Han Feng and Evagoras Evagorou round out the final nine.
The run that built the lead came on Day 8, when Jumalon started with 40.8 million chips and turned it into a commanding stack. He won a huge pot from Malcolm Trayner by cracking pocket queens with pocket jacks and making a full house on the river, a hand worth more than 50 million chips.
That pot pushed him to 155 million by dinner. He later finished off Trayner in 10th place to set the final table, and Trayner’s payout was $750,000.
Jumalon’s path is even more striking because he is a recent Grand Canyon University graduate. Before this year’s Main Event, his biggest live score was $22,945 from a 2025 WSOP $400 PokerNews Daily Deepstacks event, and his total live earnings were just over $180,000.
If he closes out the title, he would become the second-youngest WSOP Main Event winner in history, behind Joe Cada, who was 21 when he won in 2009. At 22, Jumalon already has a deep chip lead over the rest of the table.
Action picks back up on Aug. 3 with 56:40 left in Level 39, blinds at 1,000,000/1,500,000 and a 1,500,000 big blind ante.
