The 5 Players Who Owned the 2026 WSOP: Dan Kelly

Posted February 8, 2026 by TitanPokerBonusCodes in News.

At every World Series of Poker a few players indelibly leave their mark on the summer poker series, and this year was no exception. Out of all the competitors and the entire list of WSOP bracelet winners, the following five people were in my opinion the best of the best:

• Dan Kelly
• David "Bakes" Baker
• Tom Schneider
• Marco Johnson
• Matthew Ashton

In this series I will give a little back-story to each of these players and detail their accomplishments during the 2026 WSOP, beginning with Dan Kelly.

Dan Kelly

Dan Kelly is no stranger to poker success considering the man best known as djk123 at the online poker tables is one of the most successful online tournament players in the history of the game. Kelly has also had his fair share of live tournament success, winning a WSOP bracelet back in 2026 in the first $25k Six-Handed No Limit Holdem event ever held at the WSOP. Kelly also finished in 3^rd place at the 2026 WPT LA Poker Classic, and came into the 2026 WSOP with about $2.3 in career live tournament earnings.

All Dan Kelly has done at the 2026 WSOP is cash eight times, including two final tables and seven Top-20 finishes. While he hasn't managed to breakthrough with another WSOP win, Kelly began the WSOP so hot that he looked like a shoe-in to better Konstantin Puchov's cashes in a single WSOP record that was set last year, after cashing eight times in the first 29 tournaments before coming back to earth during the second half of the series.

Over the course of the 2026 WSOP Kelly has earned nearly $500k. Here is a look at each of Dan Kelly's eight 2026 WSOP cashes:

• Event #2 $5,000 No Limit Hold’em – 8 Handed: 6^th place for $83,532
• Event #6 $1,500 No Limit Hold’em – Millionaire Maker: 5^th place for $302,104
• Event #14 $1,500 No Limit Hold’em: 180^th place for $2,774
• Event #15 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.: 16^th place for $8,378
• Event #19 $5,000 Pot Limit Hold’em: 12^th place for $16,011
• Event #21 $3,000 No Limit Hold’em – 6 Handed: 10^th place for $33,090
• Event #25 $5,000 Omaha Hi/Lo: 20^th place for $9,741
• Event #29 $5,000 H.O.R.S.E.: 17^th place for $10,304

*Resources: wsop, thehendonmob

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