Joey Spanne Wins Wynn Millions in Las Vegas for Career-High Score

The Wynn Millions Main Event cost $3,500 to play and saw almost 700 players head to Las Vegas to try to win a top prize of almost $400,000. WPT, WSOP and EPT legends battled at the felt as they tried to conquer the Sin City poker population and walk away with one of the biggest No Limit Hold’em titles given away so far in 2026.

A Field Full of Stars

A thrilling Wynn Millions Main Event saw Joey Spanne take the title and $397,319 top prize in Las Vegas this weekend. With 694 total entries each costing $3,500, a prize pool of $2.2 million meant 87 players got paid, including big names earning a $7,183 min-cash. Those included Matthew Wantman (85^th), Jeremy Becker (84^th) and Calvin Anderson (83^rd), with others such as the WSOP Main Event runner-up John Wasnock (77^th for $8,514), two-time WSOP bracelet winner David Jackson (70^th for $7,866) and Brian Hastings (61^st for $8,197).

Nearer the final table, the former WPT Player of the Year Matthew Salsberg (46^th for $9,365), Sam Soverel (43^rd for $9,365), Jared Jaffee (31^st for $11,238), David ‘ODB’ Baker (29^th for $11,238), Jesse Lonis (23^rd for $14,146), Joao Simao (20^th for $16,129) and another former World Championship runner-up Steven Jones (12^th for $25,185) all got close to the final without making the final nine.

When the final table began, Chahn Jung was the player in charge, starting with an incredible 114 big blinds to his name. His nearest challenger was Ernet Bush who was back on 81 big blinds with the shortest stack of 10 bigs belonging to Ryan Tosoc. He was the first player to leave the party, as after he called off his last eight big blinds with ace-seven, he lost to ten-deuce, the ‘Texas Dolly’, which was held by Quang Vu, a painful deuce on the flop doing the damage.

Madsen Misses Out

Tosoc’s tournament ended for a score of $36,313 and he was soon joined on the rail by Gregory Rankich as he busted in eighth place for $46,647. Bush raised and Rankich called to a fop of A-T-8. Rankich got his remaining chips in the middle with jack-nine for an open-ended straight draw, but he was some way behind Bush’s ace-king for top pair and no help came for Rankich, who left in eighth place.

Next to go was Jeff Madsen, who got his chips in with ace-deuce against the ace-king of Chahn Jung, losing when a queen-high board played out to reduce the field to six and leave Madsen on the outside looking in for $61,168. Ernest Bush had played a major part in the final table, but he himself was busted in sixth for $81,836 when his ace-five couldn’t beat the pocket eights held by Joey Spanne.

Adam Walton left in fifth place for $110,283 when his own pocket eights couldn’t hold when his stack was at risk. All-in for 12 big blinds, Walton lost to Quang Vu’s king-ten when a king landed on the flop and another came on the river just to make sure. With four players in the hunt, Vu had a big chip lead… but everything was about to change.

Spanne Spawns a Win

Joey Spanne started his march to glory by doubling through Vu with a turned straight. Soon, Spanne managed to take out a player, as Alexander Farhi lost his tournament life with king-ten of spades. Spanne had the superior ace-four and that hand improved dramatically on the 5-3-2 flop, as it made an unassailable wheel straight, kicking Farahi to the kerb with $148,953.

Three-handed play went on for some time but ended with the departure of Quang Vu for a score of $200,955. All-in with king-three, he busted outside the top two when Chahn Jung’s ace-eight held, an ace on the flop and no assistance for the at-risk player meaning Vu was drawing dead to the river.

Heads-up, that pot gave Jung a healthy lead with 21.6 million chips to Spanne’s stack of 13.1 million. Two unanswered big bets from Spanne almost exactly reversed that situation, however, and put Jung under enormous pressure to double-up back into contention. When Jung ran short and shoved with nine-seven on a flop of A-8-7, he was snapped off by Spanne with pocket jacks and they held to end the event in his favor.