Top 10 WSOP Players to Follow This Summer With MyPlayers

There are two ways to follow the World Series of Poker this summer. You can get lost in an endless sea of tweets, chip counts and social media beef, or you can tailor the coverage to match your exact interests.

PokerNews MyPlayers lets you do the latter, acting as a personalized feed for the players you actually care about. When a player on your radar gets written about, their chip count update or makes a final table, it lands directly in your custom feed with no searching required.

So if you want to build the ultimate summer rail list right now, look no further than the ten names below.

Daniel Negreanu

He’s the ultimate feature table magnet, and GGPoker Ambassador Daniel Negreanu is a no-doubter to appear under the bright lights of the WSOP stage.

‘Kid Poker’ always plays one of the busiest WSOP schedules around, and is aiming to play40 events this year including 12 events with buy-ins of $25,000 or more.

So whether he’s deep in mixed-game events, or jumping into the $300 Gladiators (yes, that’s one of his events), make sure to add him to your MyPlayers feed.

Phil Hellmuth

Love him or hate him, you’re gonna want to follow along with what the ‘Poker Brat’ is up to this summer. As the all-time bracelet leader, Phil Hellmuth is mandatory viewing, with any tournament the BetRivers ambassador entering having the chance to become a headline story.

While focusing primarily on Hold’em tournaments, Hellmuth has won three mixed-game bracelets: two in Razz and one in 2-7 Triple Draw. But whatever tournament he ends up playing in, expect classic Hellmuth tirades and just maybe a record-extending 18th bracelet.

Shaun Deeb

If you’re a keen follower of the WSOP Player of the Year race, then Shaun Deeb is an absolute must-have when it comes to your MyPlayers feed.

If there is a WSOP tournament with cards-in-the-air, there is a near 100% chance that Deeb is either playing it, multi-tableing it, or planning to late-register it. As a perennial threat to any POY race, and as the current leader following his exploits at WSOP Europe, following Deeb is one way to ensure your feed is never quiet.

Jesse Lonis

Jesse Lonis has evolved into one of the most dangerous and consistent tournament players in the world. He blends an old-school approach with the prerequisites of today’s modern high-roller strategy.

Lonis won himself over $12 million in earnings last year, including over a dozen cashes at the WSOP. He won titles at the Wynn and the ARIA last summer, so who’s betting against him grabbing his third WSOP bracelet, and a first since 2023?

Michael Mizrachi

No prizes for anyone who guessed that the defending WSOP Main Event and Poker Players Championship winner would appear on this list. But after Michael Mizrachi’s barely comprehensible achievements in 2025, he’s sure to feature in 2026.

Mizrachi plays a chaotic, hyper-aggressive style that makes for incredibly swingy chip counts. However, when the Hall of Famer catches heat, he flies up the leaderboard, making him one of the most exciting players to track from day to day.

Martin Kabrhel

Martin Kabrhel is the archetypal love him or hate him player. For some, he’ll be the first player they look for in their MyPlayers feed to check his chip counts or latest antics. For others…less so.

But there’s no denying that poker’s chief instigator has talent aside from his relentless table talk and agonizingly long tanking.

Expect Kabrhel to stick primarily to high roller fields, but he does have the capacity to jump into any no-limit hold’em tournament while late registration is open. His chaos makes him the perfect candidate for the MyPlayers feed, and his tables are an absolute magnet for live updates.

Kristen Foxen

Surely there’s a spot for arguably the greatest female poker player in history? Kristen Foxen is always going to attract headlines wherever she plays, whether it’s battling the world’s best in $25,000 buy-in tournaments, or repeating her deep run in the WSOP Main Event.

Five bracelets and five GPI Female Player of the Year titles make Kristen Foxen a shoo-in for the Poker Hall of Fame — but will you add her to your MyPlayers feed?

Phil Ivey

The living legend that is Phil Ivey is back to making Las Vegas his primary summer home. Since the pandemic, Ivey has notched more than two dozen WSOP cashes including 12 in 2024 alone, the year he won his 11th WSOP bracelet.

Already tipped as a top pick in this year’s 25k WSOP Fantasy Draft, Ivey still attracts a crowd at every tournament he enters. He selectively targets $10,000 Championship events and other high-stakes fields, tournaments that will form the backbone of your MyPlayers feed with him included.

Jason Koon

PokerStars Ambassador Jason Koon treats poker like an Olympic sport, with the same mindset as a professional athlete. The high-stakes titan is set to focus on elite-tier fields, heads-up championships, and high-roller events.

They’re the events he’s shown success in before, winning his first bracelet in 2021 in the $25K Heads-Up Championship and then adding a second just last year in the $50,000 High Roller.

Any deep runs from Koon will see him face off against the absolute toughest competition on earth, and you’ll want to keep track of that.

Shiina Okamoto

Another player sure to attract headlines is Shiina Okamoto. Back-to-back victories in the WSOP Ladies Championship mean she’s no longer a rising star — she’s one of the biggest in the poker world.

She’s also been tipped to win it again, which you wouldn’t put past her since the GTO Wizard Ambassador has since added an EPT Barcelona Women’s event title to show she’s still got it.

Based in the United Kingdom, Will started working for PokerNews as a freelance live reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time staff in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor.

He graduated from the University of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He also holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports Journalism.