Lichtenberger, Moncek among leaders for Day 3 of $10K GGMillion$

Posted on: June 3, 2026 06:51 PDT

Midway through the second-to-last level of the night, the final 95 players in the summer’s first $10,000 No-Limit Hold 'em event, the GGMillion$ High Roller, received the news they’d been waiting for after almost 20 hours of play. They were in the money.

From the starting field of 627 entries, those players had locked up at least a $19,999 min-cash on the road to the summer’s first seven-figure payday that comes with a bracelet, $1,089,964 to be exact.

Eight tables alive for a milly

By night’s end, just 64 players bagged up to return at noon PT on Wednesday to play down to the final five players. They’ll be led by Russian Anatoly Nikitin, who brings 2,820,000 chips into the penultimate day of the event. Joey Weissman is second with 2,800,000, and Andrew Lichtenberger, who earned almost $1.8M from WSOP High Roller events last summer, enters with the third-best stack of 2,760,000.

'Texas' Mike Moncek brings a top ten stack into Day 3

Plenty of other big names will be coming back with a shot at the million-dollar-plus payday, including ‘Texas’ Mike Moncek (1,500,000), Stephen Chidwick (1,300,000), Terrance Reid (1,200,000), John Racener (865,000), Chris Brewer (710,000), David Coleman (420,000), and Jesse Lonis (260,000).

Our former colleague Terrance Reid found some time Wednesday on a feature table

This star-studded, marquee event has taken over the new WSOP mothership inside the Paris ballroom and will be the highlight of the World Series of Poker’s daily livestream coverage again when play resumes on Wednesday.

Event #11: GG Million$ High Roller end of Day 2 chip leaders: