Champion Manjunath Mulinti
Manjunath Mulinti stayed out of trouble early at the final table, then dominated the final 90 minutes of play to win the Fall 2026 WSOP Circuit Main Event at TVPokerRoom, collecting his first career circuit ring.
Mulinti began heads-up play with better than a 5-1 lead over Jesse Stephens and ended their match in just five hands. Mulinti, from San Jose, CA, earns $172,325 for his win, Stephen takes home $114,660 as the runner-up. After finishing in seventh place in this same event last January at TVPokerRoom, Mulinti successfully closed it out this time.
Final table play began with Sacramento-area legend JC Tran looking for back-to-back major titles at TVPokerRoom, having won the RunGood season finale in early August. Tran was card dead all day, cashing out in eighth place. Tran’s elimination opened a veritable faucet, and chips began pouring from player stacks as the aggression turned up dramatically.
Tran, Bin Duan (7th, $22,010), Andrew Nguyen (6th, $29,510), and 2022 WSOP Housewarming bracelet winner Henry Acain (5th, $40,310) all found the rail in the same level, with Dawson Dvorak eliminated in fourth ($56,090) a level later.
Jonathan Wang went from short stack 8-handed to the chiplead by doubling three times in a five-hand span, eventually cashing out in third place for $79,490, setting the heads-up match participants.
Here is how the final table wrapped up.
- Manjunath Mulinti – 1st, $172,325
- Jesse Stephens – 2nd, $114,660
- Jonathan Wang – 3rd, $79,490
- Dawson Dvorak – 4th, $56,090
- Henry Acain – 5th, $40,310
- Andrew Nguyen – 6th, $29,510
- Bin Duan – 7th, $22,010
- JC Tran – 8th, $16,730
- Matt Kramer – 9th, $12,970
- Jarod Minghini – 10th, $10,260
(Joe Giron, PokerOrg photo)
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