From micro-stack to mountain: Jumalon’s WSOP chip conquest.
Lucas Jumalon’s run at the 2026 WSOP Main Event is straight out of poker fantasyland. According to PokerNews, he bagged barely enough chips to survive Day 1b, sitting on just 7,400. By Day 2, he was back in the game with 146,000, and then he never looked back.
Jumalon’s turning point came on Day 5 with a lucky jack against ace-king, keeping his tournament life alive. He went on to build his stack with a set of tens against Stavila and then picked off players like Musa and Cermeno to amass 194 million chips.
Let’s just say when the final table resumes, everyone else is staring up at a mountain of chips—and it’s all Jumalon’s.