Josh Reichard, Prashanth Nataraj, Harry Rubin Win At WSOP

Sixty percent of the live bracelets at the 2026 World Series of Poker have already been awarded. Just one week remains before the start of the 2026 WSOP main event, and yet there is still so much poker left to be played this summer.

With each successive event, another story unfolds. Three more bracelet winners emerged in recent days, including Josh Reichard, who won a $2,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em event. Reichard, who was long-considered one of the best ‘mid-major’ players in the world thanks to his success on the WSOP Circuit and MSPT, had several close calls in recent years and finally broke through for his first gold bracelet.

Harry Rubin, predominantly a cash-game player, turned what’s already been a successful summer at Wynn Las Vegas and ARIA, and improved his results several times over by taking down a $1,000 pot-limit Omaha bracelet. Prashanth Nataraj turned a $500 buy-in into a $208,800 payday and his own first career bracelet win.

Here’s the latest from Las Vegas as the 2026 WSOP hits another gear and races towards July.

Josh Reichard Finally Finds His WSOP Gold Bracelet

Josh Reichard won his first WSOP Circuit ring in 2013, and his first of two MSPT titles later that same year. He now has 17 WSOPC victories to his name. He’s had close calls on the WSOP stage in massive fields in recent years, including a runner-up finish in the 2023 WSOP mini main event and third in the 2025 WSOP Millionaire Maker.

After two additional third-place finishes earlier in the summer at the 2026 WSOP, Reichard finally got his gold. The 35-year-old pro player from Wisconsin won a $2,500 no-limit hold’em event, outlasting a field of 1,736 entrants on his way to a $555,198 victory. He also earned 1,620 Card Player Player of the Year points, elevating himself to 17th place on the yearlong leaderboard presented by CoinPoker.

Reichard got off to a solid start, bagging one of the bigger stacks among 312 day 1 survivors. Day 2 was a solid effort as well, with Reichard finishing the night just outside the top 10 with 34 players remaining in the hunt.

But day 3 was when Reichard truly made his move, as the final 34 battled for the lion’s share of a $3,864,825 prize pool. The final table wasn’t reached until after the dinner break, but the pace of play from that point on was electric. Five players went out in the first 30 minutes of the final table, and Reichard picked off two of them to build his stack.

He’d go on to eliminate Orson Young, the only previous bracelet winner at the final table, in fourth place ($196,225). Reichard started heads-up play at a nearly 2:1 deficit, but quickly surged ahead. On the final hand, Reichard turned the nut straight. Caleb Harris, who had a busted diamond flush draw, bluffed the river, and that was it.

Final Table Results – $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Harry Rubin Wins First Bracelet In PLO

Prior to this summer, Harry Rubin had one significant tournament result, a fourth-place finish in a $1,000 no-limit hold’em freezeout at the 2022 WSOP. Primarily a cash game player, occasionally dabbling in no-limit hold’em tournaments, Rubin stepped into pot-limit Omaha tournaments this summer with strong results. He won an $1,100 buy-in PLO event at the Aria Poker Classic, and then finished sixth in a $1,600 PLO bounty event at the Wynn Summer Classic.

Rubin pocketed over $85,000 combined from those two results, but that pales in comparison to what he did at the 2026 WSOP. He outlasted a field of 3,763 in a $1,000 PLO event to take home $390,300 and his first career bracelet. Rubin earned 1,320 POY points, cracking the top 100 in the 2026 POY standings.

Three starting flights produced a total prize pool of $2,558,182. Rubin got off to a hot start on day 1a, bagging the second-biggest stack among the first flight survivors, and he was in ninth place overall among the 213 players who made day 2. He climbed to fourth place by the end of day 2 and held a commanding chip lead by the time the final table set on day 3.

The final table featured several notables, including Tony Cousineau, who at one point was one of the most prolific tournament cashers in WSOP history. He finished in eighth place ($47,100).

Rubin briefly slid to the bottom of the leaderboard during five-handed play, but a key double-up put him back on top. He then eliminated the last three players, including bracelet winners Toby Joyce in third place ($191,500) and Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu in second place ($260,220), to clinch his victory.

Final Table Results – $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

Incredible Spin-Up For Prashanth Nataraj In Salute to Warriors

Before entering the $500 buy-in Salute to Warriors no-limit hold’em event at the 2026 WSOP, Prashanth Nataraj had exactly one five-figure tournament cash on his record, in 2023 at MGM Grand Las Vegas.

Nataraj, who hails from New York City, continued what’s been a tremendous summer for the likes of the New York Knicks and fellow NYC native Nick Schulman with a win of his own. Nataraj turned his $500 buy-in into a $208,800 payday and his first career WSOP bracelet.

He did so by outlasting a field of 4,478 entrants, taking home the biggest share of a $1,835,980 prize pool. By the time the field had reached the final nine players, Nataraj was the shortest stack in the field. But he turned 5♠2♥ in the big blind into a double-up, and continued his rise from there. Nataraj didn’t record an elimination at the final table until three-handed play, and then knocked off the final two players in short order to clinch his bracelet win.

Two women navigated this massive no-limit hold’em field and reached the final table, with Lexy Gavin-Mather (7th – $33,120) and Holly Foley (5th – $57,020) each making impressive runs of their own.

Nataraj earned 660 POY points in his first qualifying cash of 2026.

This event raised almost $180,000 in donations for the USO and other veteran-focused charities.

Final Table Results – $500 Salute to Warriors

Photo credits: WSOP / Lennart Hennig & Dominic Iaquinto