{"id":10930,"date":"2026-06-24T02:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/michelle-chin-wins-first-wsop-bracelet-in-triple-draw\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T02:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:13:13","slug":"michelle-chin-wins-first-wsop-bracelet-in-triple-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/michelle-chin-wins-first-wsop-bracelet-in-triple-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Chin Wins First WSOP Bracelet In Triple Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Michelle Chin now has a WSOP bracelet to go with a place in Circuit history. The Taiwan-born player won Event #58: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw, beating 657 entries for $161,313.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em><strong>Good to know<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Chin won Event #58: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw at the 2026 WSOP.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The tournament created an $872,167 prize pool and paid 99 players.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Daniel Strelitz finished second for $107,504, while Horacio Chaves took third for $72,152.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong>A Long Gap Between Two Big WSOP Wins<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Chin first became part of WSOP history in 2015, when she won a WSOP Circuit main event and became the first woman to do so. At that stage, she lived in Kansas, had mostly played cash games and had only recently started playing more tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>At the time she told WSOP staff, <em>\u201cIt means a lot to me [to be the Circuit\u2019s first female Main Event champion. There aren\u2019t too many women in the poker community. We like to see more and more women play because it is a fun game. No matter what sex you are, you should be able to enjoy it. It means a lot to me. I hope I encourage a lot of other girls to come out and play.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eleven years later, Chin found another major WSOP-branded win in a very different format. Instead of a Circuit main event, she beat a mixed-game field in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBack then, I was really new to poker,\u201d<\/em> Chin told reporters when asked about her two marquee wins.<em> \u201cI didn\u2019t realize how hard it is to win a tournament; it then took me 10 or 11 years to win another.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chin also became the first woman to win a non-big-bet WSOP bracelet since Carol Fuchs won the 2015 $1,500 dealers choice event. In recent years, women have also won open-field no-limit hold\u2019em and pot-limit Omaha bracelets, but this win returned a woman to the top of a mixed-game bracelet event.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Final Table Hands In Brief<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The final day began with 12 players left, while Alessio Isaia held the lead and Chin sat inside the top five. Steve Billirakis, Michael Rodrigues, David May, Evan Sandberg and Isaia all fell before the official final table settled. Daniel Strelitz knocked out Oliver Tot in seventh, Chin sent Sean Troha out in sixth, and Ian Pelz left in fifth after Strelitz won a three-way pot.<\/p>\n<p>Chin was the shortest stack with four players left, but a big hand against Horacio Chaves changed the table. Nicholas Pupillo then exited fourth after missing on the final draw, Chaves fell third to a pat 9-7 from Strelitz, and Chin came from behind heads up. Her 8-6 hands helped swing the match before her pat 8-7-5-4-2 held in the final hand when Strelitz paired threes.<\/p>\n<p>The result pushed Strelitz past $6 million in live tournament earnings. Chin left with the bracelet, the top payout and another line in WSOP history.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Final Table Results<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Place<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Player<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Payout<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Michelle Chin<\/td>\n<td>$161,313<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Daniel Strelitz<\/td>\n<td>$107,504<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Horacio Chaves<\/td>\n<td>$72,152<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Nicholas Pupillo<\/td>\n<td>$49,458<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Ian Pelz<\/td>\n<td>$34,641<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Sean Troha<\/td>\n<td>$24,804<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Oliver Tot<\/td>\n<td>$18,165<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/poker-news\/michelle-chin-wins-first-wsop-bracelet-in-triple-draw\/\">Michelle Chin Wins First WSOP Bracelet In Triple Draw<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/\">iGaming.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Chin now has a WSOP bracelet to go with a place in Circuit history. The Taiwan-born player won Event #58: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw, beating 657 entries for $161,313. Good to know Chin won Event #58: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw at the 2026 WSOP. The tournament created an $872,167 prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}