Daniel Negreanu Wins Eighth World Series Of Poker Bracelet

It has been a truly incredible week at the 2026 World Series of Poker, with four players near the very top of the all-time bracelet leaderboard adding to their legacies with massive wins in Sin City.

Hot on the heels of Benny Glaser, Michael Mizrachi, and Shaun Deeb all securing their ninth career bracelets, Daniel Negreanu managed one of the biggest titles of his career to keep pace. The 51-year-old Canadian legend of the game defeated a stacked field of 83 entries in the $100,000 pot-limit Omaha high roller to earn his eighth bracelet and the first-place prize of $2,257,718.

This was the fourth-largest payday of the Poker Hall of Famer’s career. The two-time World Poker Tour main event winner’s lifetime earnings now sit at $59,697,774, putting him back inside the top ten on poker’s all-time money list. He also extended his advantage on the WSOP earnings leaderboard. Earlier this series, he became the first player to surpass $25 million in bracelet-event cashes. Now, he has over $27.7 million thanks to this marquee victory inside Paris Las Vegas.

Negreanu is just the 11th player in poker history to have won eight or more bracelets. He’s now tied with Nick Schulman, who was one spot shy of earning his ninth less than a week ago. Like his victory in the 2024 WSOP $50,000 Poker Players Championship, Negreanu won this title while filming his popular WSOP vlog, which features daily coverage of his ups and downs from the series. He has nearly 940,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, all of whom will have a chance to see behind-the-scenes coverage of his historic win in this event.

Daniel Negreanu’s Eight Bracelets

Rankings Points Abound

Daniel Negreanu wins bracelet no. 8

In addition to the hardware and the money, Negreanu also secured a bevy of ranking points with this triumph. The 960 Card Player Player of the Year points moved him inside the top 250 in the POY standings. This was the third POY-qualified score of 2026 for Negreanu, all coming from final-table finishes at the WSOP.

The two-time POY-award winner (2004, 2013) is rounding into form as he looks for a third win in this prestigious points race.

He also secured 500 PokerGO Tour points for this win. That moves him inside the top 40 in the overall PGT standings.

Thinning An Elite Field

The 83-entry turnout for this event made for a prize pool of $7,968,000, with only the top 13 finishers making the money. The six-figure bubble burst on day 2, with three-time bracelet winner Naoya Kihara being the last to be sent to the rail empty-handed. He was soon joined by four-time bracelet winner Joao Simao (13th), Jonathan Depa (12th), Lautauro Guerra (11th), and Gergo Nagy (10th), who all earned $204,938 for their efforts.

Two-time bracelet winner Robert Cowen then bowed out in ninth place ($224,962) with his overpair of kings and flush draw losing out to the flopped set of queens of Negreanu. Six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus was left on fumes when his own pair of kings and flush draw ran into the pocket aces of Philip Sternheimer. Ausmus eventually settled for $259,047 as the eighth-place finisher.

Yosuke Miki’s flush draw turned into a rivered straight to best the flopped set of tens of Sergio Martinez Gonzalez, ending the Spaniard’s run in seventh place ($312,233). The final knockout of day 2 pitted the A♠A♥6♥5♣ of Sean Winter against K♦Q♠6♠6♦ for Chris Frank. The chips went in after the flop of K♣Q♦2♠. The 4♠ turn and Q♥ river made it a full house for Frank, and sixth place for Winter ($393,139). This was his fourth final-table finish of the series, having placed third in both the $25,000 six-max no-limit hold’em and $25,000 PLO/NLH mix, as well as fourth in the $250,000 super high roller.

Negreanu, Martirosian Surge Early On Final Day

The third and final day began with five players remaining and Frank in the lead. Negreanu was second in chips when cards got in the air. Negreanu soon overtook the top spot, though, after he won a hefty pot against Frank in the early going.

Yosuke Miki was the first to fall, getting the last of his stack in with a set of jacks against the nut straight of Artur Martirosian. The Japanese player earned $516,160 for his fifth-place showing, the second-largest score of his tournament career.

Martirosian’s surge up the leaderboard continued after he eliminated bracelet winner Philip Sternheimer in fourth place ($705,448). The chips got in on the turn with 8♦5♦2♥J♣ showing. Martirosian had J♥9♥7♠7♦ and was up against 6♥5♥4♥3♠. The 10♠ on the end was no help to Sternheimer, and the UK resident headed to the rail to collect the fourth-largest score of his career. He now boasts nearly $10 million in lifetime cashes.

Even with those two knockouts, Negreanu remained ahead going into three-handed play. Martirosian pulled close, then ahead, only to give the lead up again.

He leapfrogged Negreanu again thanks to the next big confrontation. Frank opened on the button with A♣Q♦J♦4♣ and Martirosian raised to get it in against Frank’s short stack with K♠K♥5♦4♥. The board ran out 8♠5♣4♦7♥5♥ and Martirosian’s side cards made fives full to earn him the pot and the knockout. Frank earned $1,002,107 as the third-place finisher. This was the German pro’s second seven-figure score, with the earlier also coming in a $100,000 PLO event. He won the 2024 Triton Montenegro version for just over $2 million.

Heads-Up For Glory

With that, Martirosian took roughly a 3:2 chip lead into the final battle, where he was looking to score his fifth career bracelet after winning his fourth earlier this summer in the $25,000 no-limit hold’em six-max event.

The Russian pro expanded that advantage early, only to have Negreanu bounce back by winning a huge pot without showdown, shoving the river to force his opponent out of the hand. He then made the nut straight in another sizable clash to move in front.

Not long after that, Negreanu made a big call that all but sealed the victory. The hand began with Martirosian limping on the button with J♥9♥4♥2♣. Negreanu checked his option with J♣10♠4♠3♦ and the flop came down A♠8♠3♣. Negreanu check-called 500,000 with his flush draw and bottom pair and the turn brought the 3♥. He checked with his newfound trips and Martirosian fired 1,500,000. Negreanu called and the river brought the 8♣. After another check from Negreanu, Martirosian cut out a bet of 4,000,000 and slid it into the pot. Negreanu thought it over briefly before making the call with his trips, picking off the bluff to take a massive lead in the match.

Martirosian was down to 13 big blinds after that loss. He managed one double-up, but was soon back down near the danger zone.

Martirosian’s Last Stand

In the final hand of the tournament, Martirosian three-bet shoved over Negreanu’s button pot with A♣9♦8♦8♥. Negreanu called with K♦9♠3♦2♠. The A♦5♠4♦ flop gave Negreanu the wheel and the nut-flush redraw, leaving Martirosian in tough shape. The Q♣ turn officially locked up the pot for Negreanu, rendering the 9♥ river a mere formality.

DNegs All In for $2,200,000!@RealKidPoker is all-in with the covering stack against Artur Martirosian in the $100k High Roller PLO, can Kid Poker close it out?@GGPoker pic.twitter.com/vC8i4vZaUk

— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) July 3, 2026

Martirosian earned $1,477,434 as the runner-up, growing his career haul to nearly $41.8 million. He now sits in 10th place in the POY race standings presented by CoinPoker, having made 11 final tables and won three titles so far in 2026.

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