2026 WSOP: David Peters Wins $10,000 6-Handed NLH Event, Fifth Career WSOP Bracelet
David Peters won Event #94: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em at the 2026 WSOP for $1,001,391, securing his fifth WSOP bracelet. He overcame a disappointing summer and recent controversy over a staking debt.
As the 2026 World Series of Poker winds down and the Main Event final table approaches, several bracelets were still up for grabs. One went to David Peters, who won Event #94: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em for $1,001,391, marking his fifth career WSOP bracelet.
Reflecting on a less-than-satisfying WSOP overall, Peters told PokerNews, "My summer has been a lot of building big stacks, making runs, and just kind of falling short. It's been very disappointing up to this point, so to win basically the last tournament is pretty amazing."
It was Peters' seventh cash of the 2026 WSOP. He noted how quickly the tournament ended once three players remained. Peters eliminated Calvin Anderson in third place. Had Anderson won that pot and taken the title, he would have become just the ninth player in history to win three WSOP bracelets in a single year (seven have achieved this in Las Vegas; George Danzer won his third at WSOP Asia-Pacific in 2014). It would have been Anderson's eighth bracelet.
In the decisive hand, Anderson was all-in for nearly 10 million chips with pocket deuces after Peters raised pre-flop with pocket nines. Peters called, and the board missed Anderson.
"Then the first hand [of heads-up]," Peters recalled, "we are still stacking chips and getting organized. I blink and we're all-in playing for a bracelet."
Happy Ending to Rocky Few Months
On social media, many joked that creditors would line up at the cage waiting for Peters to collect his prize, but most were happy for him. In April, Dylan Linde publicly accused Peters of failing to pay back a staking deal from the previous year's WSOP. Linde claimed Peters' "months of obfuscation" overshadowed any sympathy for potential money problems.
Peters responded, saying he "deeply regret[s] the choices that I made that led to him not trusting that he was going to get paid back," adding that he always planned to repay every penny. "I certainly handled the situation very poorly and I understand the frustrations," Peters concluded in a series of social media posts. "Right now my focus is on making things right and trying to regain the trust of the community."
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- He won Event #94: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em, earning $1,001,391 and his fifth WSOP bracelet.