{"id":35739,"date":"2026-05-29T14:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/?p=35739"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:07:55","slug":"first-world-sereis-of-poker-bracelet-of-2026-won-by-dealer-from-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/first-world-sereis-of-poker-bracelet-of-2026-won-by-dealer-from-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"First World Series of Poker Bracelet of 2026 Won by Dealer from New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first World Series of Poker bracelet of 2026 is now on the wrist of a poker dealer from New Mexico. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first WSOP bracelet of 2026 was won by Jerome Neppl who is dealing at this year’s series. (Image: WSOP)
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Congratulations go to Jerome Neppl, a poker dealer from New Mexico, who won the $500 Industry Employees event that traditionally sits at the beginning of WSOP’s schedule each year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event, open to anyone who works in casinos, including poker reporters, attracted 906 entries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neppl, who didn’t have $1,000 in lifetime cashes, took his Day 1 chip lead all the way to the winner’s circle. He says the $64,083 that came with the bracelet will take him out of debt and will help him with an upcoming move to Florida. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The working man says despite this win, he still be found dealing WSOP events this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WSOP is rolling into its first weekend of the series with a handful of events that starts today including the $25,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship, Day 1 of the $1,500 Badugi event, and Day 1 of the $25,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship, just to name a few. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coverage of the series also begins today on the WSOP’s YouTube channel<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WSOP $500 Industry Employees No-Limit Hold’em Final Table Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Place<\/th>Player<\/th>Country<\/th>Prize<\/th><\/tr>
1<\/td>Jerome Neppl<\/td>United States<\/td>$64,083<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>Sean Hamrick<\/td>United States<\/td>$42,680<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Skyler Halama<\/td>United States<\/td>$29,678<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Michael Schlitter<\/td>United States<\/td>$20,988<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>Nicholas Baldev<\/td>United States<\/td>$15,098<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>Andre Welt<\/td>Brazil<\/td>$11,052<\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>Anthony Diep<\/td>China<\/td>$8,235<\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td>Armando Viramontes Serna<\/td>United States<\/td>$6,247<\/td><\/tr>
9<\/td>Jessica Odom<\/td>United States<\/td>$4,828<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n





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The first World Series of Poker bracelet of 2026 is now on the wrist of a poker dealer from New Mexico. Congratulations go to Jerome Neppl, a poker dealer from New Mexico, who won the $500 Industry Employees event that traditionally sits at the beginning of WSOP’s schedule each year. The event, open to anyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":35740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[497,529,7421,499,7415,535,501,523],"tags":[],"vertical":[],"class_list":["post-35739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-buzz","category-poker-buzz","category-poker","category-poker-news","category-tournament-schedules","category-poker-tournaments","category-wsop-news"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":35739},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/xafd20a633d-600x400.webp","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/xafd20a633d-600x600.webp","author_info":{"display_name":"Bob Pajich","author_link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/author\/bob-pajich\/"},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35739"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=35739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}