Spanish superstar Adrian Mateos has won Event #41: $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em at the 2026 World Series of Poker, defeating Bryn Kenney heads-up to claim a record-extending sixth WSOP bracelet and a massive $4,334,411 top prize. The win makes Mateos, at 31, the youngest player in history to win six bracelets.
The $250,000 buy-in event drew 56 entries at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, building a $13,720,000 prize pool. To get there, Mateos had to survive one of the toughest final tables of the summer, a lineup featuring Phil Ivey, Jason Koon, Sean Winter, David Einhorn, Samuel Mullur, Brandon Wilson, Michael Moncek and Kenney.
A Cooler-Filled Run to the Title
Mateos started the final day second in chips behind Kenney and steadily took control. He flopped a club flush to bust Mullur in sixth, held with pocket tens to send Jason Koon out in fifth, and snapped off Sean Winter’s ace-nine with pocket aces to reach heads-up play. Phil Ivey, chasing a 12th bracelet, ran pocket jacks into Kenney’s queens and exited eighth for $553,270.
Heads-up, Kenney began with the lead but Mateos surged ahead, making a straight in one key pot before the decisive hand: on a ten-high flop, Mateos flopped two pair with ten-deuce against Kenney’s top pair and got the chips in to close it out. Kenney took $2,776,634 for second.
“Today I ran good and I played good,” Mateos said afterward. The victory lands just one month after he banked $6,370,000 at Triton Montenegro, pushing his two-event haul past $10 million.
Why It Matters for Asian Players
The $250K Super High Roller is the kind of event APAC railbirds watch closely, and several Asia-Pacific high-roller regulars now share these tables year-round on the Triton and WPT circuits. Mateos’ Montenegro-to-Vegas run also underlines how the modern super-high-roller calendar links Asia and Las Vegas more tightly than ever, with Triton’s Jeju and Montenegro stops feeding directly into the WSOP summer. For Asian grinders building a bankroll online, it is a reminder that today’s high-roller elite almost all sharpened their edge in online cash and tournaments before stepping into seven-figure live arenas.
Kenney still tops the all-time money list, but Mateos made clear he intends to chase him down. “I love the rankings. I will keep working and playing to get as high as possible,” he said, adding that he plans to stay in Vegas and hunt another bracelet.
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