$500 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool: $496,020 | Structure | Payouts
Level 14: 3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 150 of 1,181
The opening event of the 2026 Signature Poker Series is a $500 No-Limit Hold’em tournament that drew 1,181 entries over seven starting flights to nearly double the $250,000 guarantee.
We had 151 players bag chips for their Day 2 return but only 150 will take their seat. Andreas Prinsen took advantage of the best-stack-forward option and will play his biggest bag after receiving a min-cash for the smaller stack.
We have a pair of Shawns at the top of the counts coming back; Shawn Cunix went huge in Flight E and has the chip lead and Shawn Barnett is second after running hot in the last flight.
They will play the last 4:21 of Level 14 before blinds go up. They will run for 30 minutes each until going up to 40 in Level 20.
Top ten returning stacks:
- Shawn Cunix – 978,000 (196 bb)
- Shawn Barnett – 634,000 (127 bb)
- Milan Cyprich – 614,000 (123 bb)
- Rohan Singh – 596,000 (119 bb)
- Andrew Whitaker – 580,000 (116 bb)
- Damian Dvorak – 567,000 (113 bb)
- Parminder Clemente – 563,000 (113 bb)
- Mark Glazewski – 543,000 (109 bb)
- Brandon Wong – 541,000 (108 bb)
- Adam Levy – 533,000 (107 bb)