WPT® Cambodia Championship 2026: Results, Payouts, And Best Moments

Results at a glance

Final table payouts

Official WPT® six-handed final table:

Earlier final-table eliminations:

*The original first prize was listed as $294,200 before the heads-up ICM deal.

How the ICM deal worked

When play reached heads-up, Zheng and O’Neill agreed an ICM chop based on their chip stacks.

They locked in:

Michael O’Neill: $249,700

Xiaosheng Zheng: $244,500 plus the $10,400 WPT® World Championship seat and the title

They then played on for the trophy, the Champions Cup inscription, and the official champion line.

So the runner-up took the larger cash payout, while Zheng took slightly less money but kept the WPT® title and Wynn seat. That structure is common at modern WPT® live final tables in Asia once pay jumps get big.

The final day in broad strokes

Fifteen players came back for the final day and played down to the six-handed final table in NagaWorld’s main ballroom. At six left, stack dynamics looked roughly like this:

Chengcai Pan started as chip leader with around 5.1 million. Pang Kok Yong was close behind after a deep run in the earlier WPT® Prime Cambodia Championship. Michael O’Neill, Xiaosheng Zheng, Kunal Patni, and Julien Sitbon formed a crowded middle tier.

From there, the eliminations followed:

• 6th – Pang Kok Yong: Fell first at the official final table after a short-stacked spell.
• 5th – Julien Sitbon: Lost a large pot and could not recover, exiting in the middle of the pack.
• 4th – Chengcai Pan: Slipped from chip leader to the rail as a few key pots went against him.
• 3rd – Kunal Patni: Laddered well but bowed out just before the heads-up deal when his short stack gave way.

That left Zheng and O’Neill heads-up after around 200 hands of final-table action.

The winning hand

After the ICM chop, the last pot still mattered for the record. On the final hand, the chips went in preflop:

Zheng: A♠ A♣
O’Neill: A♦ J♣

The board ran clean. Zheng’s aces held, and he secured the WPT® Cambodia Championship title plus the $10,400 seat to Las Vegas.

Michael O’Neill, the runner up.

Who is Xiaosheng Zheng?

Zheng is a high-volume tournament pro from China who has spent the last few years grinding major stops across Asia and Europe.

Public live-results databases and regional coverage show:

• Seven-figure earnings: Well over $1 million in recorded live tournament cashes before this win. 
• Previous best score: A $225,000 result in 2025, listed as his top cash on major databases. 
• Asian and European focus: Consistent results in Cyprus, South Korea, Cambodia, and other Southeast Asian stops. 
• Cambodia record: Somuchpoker reports a Mini High Roller title at a previous WPT® Cambodia festival.

Regional media describe his style as aggressive and high volume. He often builds big stacks early and applies pressure deep in events rather than waiting for premiums. This WPT® Cambodia victory now sits alongside his best Cyprus and Jeju scores and reinforces his status among the leading tournament players from his region.

WPT® Cambodia 2026 as a festival

The Championship headlined a full WPT® Cambodia 2026 festival at NagaWorld.

According to WPT® and NagaWorld announcements, the series:

Ran from 21 January to 9 February 2026, Featured 73 numbered events plus dozens of satellites and side events (138 events in total). It also advertised $3,500,000 in combined guarantees across the schedule, along with offering buy-ins from roughly $200 to $20,000.

The two main anchors were:

Exact full-festival entry and prize-pool totals vary by source, but all reporting agrees that millions of dollars were awarded over the three-week schedule. Phnom Penh has settled in as one of the key annual WPT® live tour stops in Asia, especially around Lunar New Year.

Online paths to NagaWorld

WPT® Global again offered online satellites and qualifiers for WPT® Cambodia 2026.

• Public satellite promos and independent coverage describe:
• Step satellites starting around $0.55
• Paths feeding into roughly $4,000 live packages
• Packages built around the $3,500 Championship seat, hotel at NagaWorld, and festival extras
• A separate Golden Ticket-style bonus for certain live champions who qualified online, subject to full terms and conditions
• Exact routes, ticket rules, and eligibility are set in the client and promo terms.

It is not publicly documented which Championship finalists, if any, came from WPT® Global packages. Because of that, it is safer to treat online-qualifier stories as individual cases rather than make claims about the whole final table.

What is clear is that online qualifiers sat next to seasoned high-stakes regulars, which fits the broader WPT® ecosystem’s online-to-live pathway for major stops.

What this win means going forward

What does this result actually change for Zheng and for the tour?

For Xiaosheng Zheng, the victory adds a six-figure score and pushes his lifetime earnings deeper into seven-figure territory, while locking up a $10,400 seat in the WPT® World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas later in 2026. As a result, this gives him a strong early block of Season 24 WPT® Player of the Year points.

For WPT® and the festival, WPT® Cambodia 2026 confirms that a $3,500 Championship with a $1.5M guarantee can draw solid fields and established names in early February, and that NagaWorld works as an early-season anchor in the Asian live calendar, right after the Florida opener.

And for players, the takeaway is simple. 

If you want a deep-stack Main Tour experience in Asia with a clear satellite route and a full festival wrapped around it, WPT® Cambodia at NagaWorld now sits near the top of the list.