Daniel Negreanu came agonisingly close to a ninth World Series of Poker bracelet after streaming his deep run in the 2026 WSOP Online $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Championship, ultimately bowing out in fourth place for $415,700.
The Poker Hall of Famer took to his livestream once again, just days after showing his cards during a seventh-place finish in the WSOP Online $10,000 pot-limit Omaha event. The $25,000 championship, played on GGPoker, carried a first-place prize of $906,647 and the coveted gold bracelet.
“Does anybody else stream $25k final tables for a million dollars, and show all their cards? Might just be yours truly, guys… I dunno,” Negreanu said during the broadcast.
Negreanu began the nine-handed final table in third chip position and moved into contention after eliminating Parahat Nurmuhammedov in eighth place. Negreanu’s pocket queens turned into a full house on the river to beat Nurmuhammedov’s rivered jacks and fives, sending the Turkish player to the rail for $146,972.
He later doubled up with pocket fives against Pedro Neves’ king-queen, turning a straight to climb to 18 big blinds, and briefly moved into second chip position five-handed after landing a king-high bluff. Neves was eliminated in fifth for $320,548 shortly afterwards, while two-time bracelet winner Ole Schemion had already departed in sixth place ($247,177) after a failed three-bet shove against Neves’ pocket queens.
Negreanu’s tournament ended on the very next hand after Neves’ elimination. Holding pocket tens in the big blind, he called an all-in shove from chip leader Casimir Seire of Finland, who held 9-8 offsuit and had Negreanu heavily outstacked. Card Player’s poker odds calculator had Seire winning the pot just 14 per cent of the time. The flop of ace-nine-six left Negreanu a 4:1 favourite, but the turn eight gave Seire two pair, and a king on the river confirmed Negreanu’s elimination in fourth place.
“That was it, that was our chance to win the tournament right there,” Negreanu said after the hand. By the time he ended the stream, Seire held roughly five times as many chips as his nearest rival, though no full results had been released at the time of publication.
The result pushes Negreanu’s career earnings past $60.4 million, restoring his position as the highest-earning Canadian player in tournament poker history and moving him into 10th place on the all-time money list.
