Die Hard Poker League
Updated: July 12, 2026
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Next Event: TBD August or September Date Time: TBD August or September Location: Guildford Golf & Country Club,
7929 152 St, Surrey BC Darren: darrenkennedydk@gmail.com
(425-551-9889) |
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Online Weekly: $50 NLH and $25 HORSE (DHPL
Online) Date Time: EVERY MONDAY 7pm Location: PokerStars |
(all
start times 7pm except 6pm for TORSE & Mystery Bounty and the Final 5:30pm
start)
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LEAGUE
FINAL
TBD Soon LEAGUE FINAL Day 2
(11AM Start and will aim for it be final 10 players only) |
Regular
tourneys are $100 buy-in with up to one rebuy in first 4 levels (20 min levels)
2026 WSOP Main Event Participants
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Day 1 |
Chips |
Day 2 |
Day 3 |
Day 4 |
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Spiros Pegios |
1A |
35,300 |
BUST |
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Danny Bajaj |
1C |
94,200 |
236,500 |
90,000 |
$15,000 |
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Darren Kennedy |
1D |
120,900 |
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BUST |
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John Clark |
1D |
BUST |
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July 10, 2026 Eric Weber Wins
Event #86 $600 Ultra Stack for $400,000 and a WSOP Bracelet!
Unbeliveable run for Eric Weber who beat a field of 8007 players and won a bracelet. Danny had just busted the Main Event and I had nothing better to do so I stood and watched from 16 spots down to the winner for 7+ hours as Eric battled through a tough field including Texas Mike to claim his bracelet. He came into the day in 6/16 and got an early double 77 > AK and then battled hard. When they got headsup, Eric was clearly the better player. He made two hero calls on the river with 72o and T2o which both had made bottom pair only and caught his opponent bluffing. On the final hand he took KK up against J9o and even though his opponent flopped open-ender, he didn’t get there and relief washed across Eric’s Face.
Huge congrats to the first ever Die Hard League Member to win a WSOP Bracelet. The bar has been set!!
Final Cashes Tally… if I missed any, please let me know, but thanks to Eric’s monster cashed we had 37 cashes for $576,815!!!
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Date |
Player |
Cash |
Venue |
Event# |
Buyin |
Event |
Place |
Total
Players |
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May 26 |
Danny Bajaj |
$1,490 |
WSOP |
1 |
$550 |
Mini Mystery NLH |
534 |
20488 |
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May 29 |
Reza Yazdani |
$2,679 |
Wynn |
$1,100 |
NLH |
54 |
1492 |
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May 30 |
Henry Oh |
$4,022 |
Orleans |
$600 |
TORSE |
7 |
220 |
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May 31 |
Chris Potter |
$1,260 |
WSOP |
10 |
$600 |
NLH |
418 |
4622 |
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May 31 |
Adi Aggarwal |
$597 |
WSOP |
Daily |
$200 |
NLH |
16 |
429 |
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June 1 |
Danny Bajaj |
$1,142 |
Aria |
$600 |
TORSE |
19 |
160 |
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June 3 |
Kane (Luteng) Li |
$72,042 |
WSOP |
20 |
$1,500 |
Mixed Games |
3 |
656 |
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June 3 |
Corey Chan |
$33,000 |
WSOP |
18 |
1500 |
Monster NLH |
48 |
11933 |
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June 4 |
Danny Bajaj |
$4,723 |
Orleans |
$200 |
NLH |
1 |
91 |
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June 4 |
Henry Oh |
$2,726 |
Aria |
$800 |
NLH Seniors |
16 |
295 |
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June 5 |
Danny Bajaj |
$1,007 |
Aria |
$600 |
NLH |
41 |
363 |
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June 8 |
Danny Bajaj |
$492 |
Orleans |
$200 |
NLH |
16 |
181 |
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June 10 |
Danny Bajaj |
$1,913 |
WSOP |
34 |
$500 |
NLH Colossus |
604 |
16269 |
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June 11 |
Henry Oh |
$563 |
WSOP |
Daily |
$250 |
NLH |
51 |
300 |
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June 14 |
Danny Bajaj |
$1,329 |
Orleans |
$300 |
NLH |
31 |
601 |
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June 15 |
Steven Bakx |
$2,290 |
WSOP |
45 |
1000 |
Seniors |
600 |
7538 |
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June 18 |
Danny Bajaj |
$429 |
Orleans |
$200 |
NLH |
13 |
114 |
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June 18 |
Steven Bakx |
$545 |
WSOP |
Daily |
$250 |
NLH |
116 |
1388 |
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June 18 |
Henry Oh |
$1,278 |
South Point |
$300 |
NLH |
78 |
1817 |
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June 19 |
Danny Bajaj |
$428 |
Orleans |
$200 |
NLH |
33 |
324 |
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June 19 |
Bobbi Frost |
$1,265 |
Orleans |
$300 |
NLH |
18 |
389 |
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June 19 |
Linda Brine |
$1,328 |
Orleans |
$600 |
Ladies NLH |
23 |
191 |
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June 20 |
Dean Hilts |
$288 |
South Point |
$120 |
NLH |
32 |
300 |
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June 22 |
Wendy Dunning |
$1,000 |
WSOP |
59 |
$500 |
Salute to Warriors |
466 |
4478 |
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June 23 |
Darren Kennedy |
$3,620 |
WSOP |
57 |
$1,000 |
PLO |
113 |
3763 |
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June 23 |
Darren Kennedy |
$513 |
WSOP |
Daily |
$250 |
HORSE |
28 |
186 |
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June 23 |
Henry Oh |
$3,889 |
Orleans |
$600 |
5 Game Draw |
5 |
128 |
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June 25 |
Darren Kennedy |
$2,434 |
Venetian |
$1,100 |
PLO DB Bomb Pot |
25 |
222 |
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June 27 |
Henry Oh |
$526 |
Orleans |
$240 |
2-7 Triple Daw |
15 |
112 |
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June 28 |
Cindy Chen |
$2,200 |
WSOP |
63 |
$1,000 |
Mystery Bounty |
961 |
22811 |
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July 1 |
Cindy Chen |
$4,650 |
WSOP |
72 |
$1,000 |
Mini Main |
369 |
12560 |
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July 2 |
Keith Fisher |
$1,600 |
WSOP |
81 |
$800 |
Summer Celebration |
371 |
2584 |
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July 3 |
Darren Kennedy |
$3,600 |
WSOP |
83 |
$1,500 |
PLO DB Bomb Pot |
110 |
1673 |
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July 3 |
Chris Searles |
$420 |
WSOP |
Daily |
$200 |
NLH |
61 |
582 |
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July 4 |
Chris Searles |
$527 |
WSOP |
Daily |
$250 |
NLH |
124 |
1313 |
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July 9 |
Danny Bajaj |
$15,000 |
WSOP |
82 |
$10,000 |
MAIN EVENT |
1377 |
9208 |
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July 10 |
Eric Weber |
$400,000 |
WSOP |
86 |
$600 |
Ultra Stack |
1 |
8007 |
July 9, 2026 Danny Bajaj Cashes
Main Event in 1377th Place for $15,000!
Huge congrats to Danny Bajaj who cashed the WSOP Main Event in 1377th place. It was a huge grind to get there but he persevered and made it into the money before losing 88 to AA to bust. What a grind.
Darren Kennedy did not make it through Day 3 as early on I build my 209,000 to 240,000 and then ran KK into AA to drop 100,000 chips doubling some guy up. I then played 4 more hands running 99 into AA, 33 into AA (that was in 3 successive hands) and then settled down for a couple laps before picking up AJ in the BB with a button min raise and a small stacked SB all in in front of me. The SB was weak so I called it off only to find that although the SB was indeed weak with K9o, the button had Aces again. Same guy that had the Aces when I had Kings. Rough day for me and I was off to the rails.
July 8, 2026 WSOP Main Event Day
3!!!
Spiro and John have bust but Danny and Darren are both still alive for ay 3.
Here we go again. 3294 players remain from the 9208 that started. But only 1382 get paid the minimum $15,000 cash. Top prize is $10million and 9th is $1million.
Today is Day 3 when all players finally join on same day. I (Darren) have 209,000 which is good for 84 BBs and well ahead of the 167,800 chip average and 141,000 chip median stack. Danny Bajaj sits at 236,500.
Today is all about survival first and chipping up second. Average stack when we make the mo du is 400,000, I’d like to be ahead of that, but 240,000 will be 30 BBs at the bubble and that’s a fine spot to be as well. Bubble will happen early on day 4, so just survive today.
Table draw looks good today with only the one known crusher at my table James Mendoza but he is relatively short stacked at 79K so that will hamstring him a bit. Stack size are good.
I got a good sleep, swam laps this morning and got some food in me. I’m ready for another long day at the tables!!!
July 6, 2026 Spiro Busts in Last
Level of the Day and Danny Bags Big
Spiro battled hard all day long and kept himself in the game until the last level of the day. He was moved to the feature table and had defending champ Michael Mizrachi at his table. He picked up AK and got his 13 BB stack in vs TT and sadly lost the flip. He survived 2 full days against some of the best poker players in the world. He had a blast and says he will be back sometime soon. You did us proud Spiro, outlasting 2/3rds of the field.
Danny’s day was super eventful early on as he lost nearly all his stack and dropped as low as 12,000 chips. It looked grim but he fought back, found a couple doubles and caught a couple of bluffs. Danny yoyo’d up and down between 30K-90K for a bit and then made his move. He got up to 250K and bagged 236,500 chips for Wednesdays Day 3. Make it through Day 3 and he will be in the money. Huge spot for him to be in.
Tomorrow I will take my turn at a Day 2 and strive to join Danny in Day 3.
July 6, 2026 Danny Bajaj and
Darren Kennedy join Spiro in Day 2. John Clark is Eliminated.
Danny Bajaj playing on his own dime managed to bag 94,200 chips in Day 1C. He had an up and down day but came through with well over the 81,000 chip average and is set up in good shape for todays Day 2ABC, where all surviving players from Day 1A, 1B and 1C combine. Spiro and Danny restart at 11AM today.
John Clark and Darren Kennedy played Day 1D. John battle hard spending most of the day between 40,000 and 70,000 chips but took a few hits and eventually was eliminated in a 100,000 chip pot when his KK got out flopped on the 589 board. His opponent held two pair and no love on the turn and river sadly ended John’s run in the Main Event.
Darren had better success. I ended the day with 120,900 chips to put myself in a great spot for Tuesdays Day 2D restart. Lots of good hands and here are some highlights:
Start with 60K. Lost a bunch of small pots to get to 47k and then cracked Aces with 86ss for a nice pot right before break. Board was 69T26.
Now up to 86,700. Massive hand where I caught someone bluffing. History is its history first Main Event. I had KQ in SB. Bounds 200/300/300. UTG+1 opens 800, button call, I call with KQ, BB calls. Flop Q84dds. I check, BB checks, original bettor cbets 1300. Button folds, I call and BB calls. Had some history with opener so didn’t want to raise. Turn is Q842ddsh. We check to him and he continues 5500! I tank and call and BB folds. River is inconsequential Q8427ddshh. I check and he sizes HUGE to 22K. I tank and replay the hand and look at him. I’m thinking about releasing and he mean mugs me. Love that tell but I tank longer and look back at him and he does it again. I throw the chip in and he shows A9o for absolute air.
Second break of the day and I am at 85,100. We have played 4 hours of poker and we have 6 more to go today.
97,300 now. Took flop 5 ways for 1200 (@3/5/500) with 44. Board came 234ddh. Original raise lead out 6500… super draw heavy board so I popped it to 15,000 in position… everyone folded and he tank folded JJ. Could have gotten more playing it slow but too risky with 5 players in there.
110,800! Last break of night. Average is 70K. Bluff caught with Ace high and then win another nice one with K6cc on QJ89Tccxxx board.
120900 to end the day… average should be around 81K starting day 2 so we are in decent shape
July 4, 2026 Spiro Pegios
Through to Day 2
It was an up and down battle all day for Spiro. He moved his stack from 60K up 70K and back and forth and finished the day with 35,300 chips going to Day 2. With the BB set to start at 800 on Mondays Day2ABC giving Spiro 44 Bigs. Lots to play with. He faced some tough spots with KK < AK and AK < AA and did extremely well to minimize the damage in those spots. Congrats Spiro on bagging chips.
Our other winners Darren Kennedy and John Clark play tomorrow on July 5 in Day 1D while Andy Goosen our final winner will be playing WPT Championship in December instead.
Danny Bajaj is playing the Main today and Faisal Al Qutub joins Darren and John tomorrow. I am unsure if we have any other Die Harders playing the Main on their own dime, but I don’t think so.
Also lots more cashes have occurred down here in vegas in that past week including:
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Date |
Player |
Cash |
Venue |
Event# |
Buyin |
Event |
Place |
Total Players |
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June 27 |
Henry Oh |
$526 |
Orleans |
$240 |
2-7 Triple Daw |
15 |
112 |
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June 28 |
Cindy Chen |
$2,200 |
WSOP |
63 |
$1,000 |
Mystery Bounty |
961 |
22811 |
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July 1 |
Cindy Chen |
$4,650 |
WSOP |
72 |
$1,000 |
Mini Main |
369 |
12560 |
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July 2 |
Keith Fisher |
$1,600 |
WSOP |
81 |
$800 |
Summer Celebration |
371 |
2584 |
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July 3 |
Darren Kennedy |
$3,600 |
WSOP |
83 |
$1,500 |
PLO DB Bomb Pot |
110 |
1673 |
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July 3 |
Chris Searles |
$420 |
WSOP |
Daily |
420 |
NLH |
61 |
582 |
Lots more tourneys to be played but of course we will all keep our eyes glued to the Main Event. Lets keep those cashes coming!
June 27, 2026 DHPL Main Event
Pool
Quick little fantasy pool. Pick 50 players for $100 and whomever has the most total cash earned from their players in the WSOP Main Event wins all the cash. So far just Darren and Bobbi with picks, but expecting a few more to join us. Send me your list of 50 names if you want to join and I will add them in:
June 27, 2026 DHPL Successes at
the WSOP
We are a month into the series in the Main Event starts in just 5 days from now!! John Clark, Spiro Pegios and Darren Kennedy will be representing Die Hard in the Main (Andy Goosen will wait to play in WPT in December with his $10K). Good luck to all of you …and YES I am wishing myself luck. Expect a few other Die Hard players to join us at the ME. Danny Bajaj and Faisal Al Qutub come to mind as likely to play. Brant Taylor is skipping it this year. I will post daily updates here once the Main Event starts.
But in the meantime we have had a tonne of Die Hard Players down in Vegas and I have dug up a bunch of those cashes. The biggest cash from a regular player comes from Corey Cchan who finished 48th of 11,933 players in Event #18 Monster Stack for $33,000! Huge Congrat. Along with our regular players we also had a WSOP Final Table from Die Hard drop-in Kane (Luteng) Li who finished 3rd in Event 20 $1500 Mixed Game. Also Chris Alcindor of KK Poker who played and cashed a Die Hard event with us this year snagged himself a nice new WSOP bracelet in Event #22 $1500 BigO which is an amazing feat.
Below are the rest of the cashes I am aware of:
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Date |
Player |
Cash |
Venue |
Event# |
Buyin |
Event |
Place |
Total
Players |
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May 26 |
Danny Bajaj |
$1,490 |
WSOP |
1 |
$550 |
Mini Mystery NLH |
534 |
20488 |
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May 29 |
Reza Yazdani |
$2,679 |
Wynn |
$1,100 |
NLH |
54 |
1492 |
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May 30 |
Henry Oh |
$4,022 |
Orleans |
$600 |
TORSE |
7 |
220 |
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May 31 |
Chris Potter |
$1,260 |
WSOP |
10 |
$600 |
NLH |
418 |
4622 |
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May 31 |
Adi Aggarwal |
$597 |
WSOP |
Daily |
$200 |
NLH |
16 |
429 |
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June 1 |
Danny Bajaj |
$1,142 |
Aria |
$600 |
TORSE |
19 |
160 |
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June 3 |
Kane (Luteng) Li |
$72,042 |
WSOP |
20 |
$1,500 |
Mixed Games |
3 |
656 |
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June 3 |
Corey Chan |
$33,000 |
WSOP |
18 |
1500 |
Monster NLH |
48 |
11933 |
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June 4 |
Danny Bajaj |
$4,723 |
Orleans |
$200 |
NLH |
1 |
91 |
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June 4 |
Henry Oh |
$2,726 |
Aria |
$800 |
NLH Seniors |
16 |
295 |
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June 5 |
Danny Bajaj |
$1,007 |
Aria |
$600 |
NLH |
41 |
363 |
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June 8 |
Danny Bajaj |
$492 |
Orleans |
$200 |
NLH |
16 |
181 |
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June 10 |
Danny Bajaj |
$1,913 |
WSOP |
34 |
$500 |
NLH Colossus |
604 |
16269 |
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June 11 |
Henry Oh |
$563 |
WSOP |
Daily |
$250 |
NLH |
51 |
300 |
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June 14 |
Danny Bajaj |
$1,329 |
Orleans |
$300 |
NLH |
31 |
601 |
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June 15 |
Steven Bakx |
$2,290 |
WSOP |
45 |
1000 |
Seniors |
600 |
7538 |
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June 18 |
Danny Bajaj |
$429 |
Orleans |
$200 |
NLH |
13 |
114 |
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June 18 |
Steven Bakx |
$545 |
WSOP |
Daily |
$250 |
NLH |
116 |
1388 |
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June 18 |
Henry Oh |
$1,278 |
South Point |
$300 |
NLH |
78 |
1817 |
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June 19 |
Danny Bajaj |
$428 |
Orleans |
$200 |
NLH |
33 |
324 |
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June 19 |
Bobbi Frost |
$1,265 |
Orleans |
$300 |
NLH |
18 |
389 |
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June 19 |
Linda Brine |
$1,328 |
Orleans |
$600 |
Ladies NLH |
23 |
191 |
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June 20 |
Dean Hilts |
$288 |
South Point |
$120 |
NLH |
32 |
300 |
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June 23 |
Darren Kennedy |
$3,620 |
WSOP |
57 |
$1,000 |
PLO |
113 |
3763 |
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June 23 |
Darren Kennedy |
$513 |
WSOP |
Daily |
$250 |
HORSE |
28 |
186 |
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June 23 |
Henry Oh |
$3,889 |
Orleans |
$600 |
5 Game Draw |
5 |
128 |
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June 25 |
Darren Kennedy |
$2,434 |
Venetian |
$1,100 |
PLO DB Bomb Pot |
25 |
222 |
May 13, 2026 Die Hard Poker
Players WSOP Schedules
I have repurposed last years google sheet with WSOP Players Schedules so that we can all know when we are down there. To add to the schedule just text, whatsapp, email or call Darren and I will get it updated.
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