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Daniel Negreanu

The 2026 World Series of Poker is winding down, but Daniel Negreanu isn’t finished yet.

Just weeks after winning his eighth WSOP bracelet, the poker icon is back at another final table. Negreanu — who also announced in May that he and his wife Amanda are expecting their first child later this year — is among the final nine in Event #90: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em, with his sights set on bracelet No. 9 and a second title of the summer.

Victory would earn Negreanu the $2,276,691 top prize and could also shake up the WSOP Player of the Year race heading into the final stretch of the series.

Star-Studded Final Table

Daniel Negreanu

Negreanu began the day with 4,845,000 chips, good for 40 big blinds and sixth place on the leaderboard. That count has dipped to 2,975,000 (15 big blinds) after losing an ace-king versus queens flip earlier in the day.

Start-of-day chip leader Daniel Rezaei still holds his advantage, with Paulius Vaitiekunas and Timur Margolin rounding out the top three.

Kristen Foxen
Kristen Foxen

Bryn Kenney and Kristen Foxen are also at the final table, with Kenney looking to crack $90 million in live earnings should he go onto win. Foxen is looking for her seventh bracelet.

Negreanu’s already locked up $179,480, but a top-three finish, worth at least $1,041,908, would see him climb to eighth on The Hendon Mob’s All Time Money List, overtaking Dan Smith.

While the WSOP’s live stream is focused on the Main Event, PokerNews is the only place to follow Negreanu’s $50,000 High Roller final table from start to finish. So, stay locked in to our live updates as we bring you every all-in, elimination and big pot until a champion is crowned.

Final Table Seat Draw

Seat Player Country Chip Counts Big Blinds
1 Paulius Vaitiekunas Lithuania 10,500,000 53
2 Jamie Dwan United Kingdom 3,400,000 17
3 Daniel Negreanu Canada 2,975,000 15
4 Daniel Smiljkovic Germany 5,450,000 27
5 Josef Schusteritsch Austria 7,975,000 40
6 Daniel Rezaei Austria 11,000,000 55
7 Timur Margolin Israel 9,375,000 47
8 Bryn Kenney United States 4,975,000 25
9 Kristen Foxen Canada 2,800,000 14

$50,000 NLH High Roller Payouts

Place Prize (USD)
1 $2,276,691
2 $1,517,782
3 $1,041,908
4 $731,733
5 $526,030
6 $387,298
7 $292,221
8 $226,086
9 $179,480

Negreanu’s Summer Isn’t Over Yet

The $50,000 High Roller marks Negreanu’s fourth final table of the 2026 WSOP and his third in a high roller event this summer.

His first, somewhat unexpectedly, came in the $600 No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack, where he finished eighth. A few weeks later, he backed that up with a seventh-place finish in the $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha/No-Limit Hold’em High Roller before breaking through for bracelet No. 8 in the $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller, a victory worth $2,257,718.

That win was particularly significant, wiping out what had been a near $600,000 deficit for the summer and putting Negreanu back into the black.

The $50,000 High Roller is also Negreanu’s 13th cash of the 2026 series — hopefully not an unlucky number for the Poker Hall of Famer.

Should he go on to win, Negreanu would not only claim his second bracelet of the summer but also move firmly into the thick of the Player of the Year race, with a chance to become the first player ever to win the WSOP Player of the Year title three times.


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Calum Grant

Senior Editor & Live Events Executive

Calum has been a part of the PokerNews team since September 2021 after working in the UK energy sector. He played his first hand of poker in 2017 and immediately fell in love with the game.

Calum has written for various poker outlets but found his home at PokerNews, where he has contributed to various articles and live updates, providing insights and reporting on major poker events, including the World Series of Poker (WSOP).





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