Three Final Tables, Zero Bracelets: Daniel Negreanu’s Wild Week at WSOP Online 2026

Last Updated on September 26, 2026 by Bala Kumar

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Most poker players would call three final tables in five days a career week. For Daniel Negreanu, it ended up feeling more like a near miss on repeat.

The Poker Hall of Famer went deep in three separate bracelet events at the 2026 WSOP Online series on GGPoker, streaming every hand to fans from Vancouver. Each time he reached the final table with a real shot. Each time, the ninth bracelet slipped away.

Here is how the week unfolded, the hands that decided it, and what is still left on the schedule.

Negreanu’s week at a glance

Event	Field	Finish	Payout	Winner
PLO	228 entries	7th	$71,409	Andreas Freund ($428,456)
$25,000 High Roller Championship (NLH)	Final 9	4th	$415,699	Casimir Seire ($906,647)
$5,000 High Roller Bounty PLO (Event #30)	378 entries	6th	$43,641 + about $15,000 in bounties	Not yet reported at time of writing

Total for the week: roughly $545,000 including bounties. A healthy number, but not the one Negreanu was playing for.

Final table #1: PLO

Negreanu opened the week in Pot-Limit Omaha, arguably his strongest game right now. He came into the final seven of the 228-entry field with the second-biggest stack, and a bracelet looked very possible.

It unraveled fast. After losing a huge pot on a brutal turn card, he was down to around six big blinds. He almost tripled up on the very next hand, then found himself all in with 8♠7♠6♦3♦ against A♣7♦6♣5♥ on an A♠8♥4♣3♣ board. The 2♠ on the river completed his opponent’s straight, and Negreanu was out in 7th for $71,409.

He was blunt about it afterward on X, saying he was playing to win and nothing else, and describing that turn card as about as sick as it gets.

Austria’s Andreas Freund went on to win his first bracelet and $428,456.

Final table #2: $25,000 High Roller Championship

Two days later, on September 23, Negreanu was back with the third-biggest stack at a stacked No-Limit Hold’em final table that included Ole Schemion, Pedro Neves and Casimir Seire.

For a while, this looked like the one. He won a massive pot with pocket queens against Parahat Nurmuhammedov and took the chip lead with seven players left.

Then the deck turned. Negreanu’s A♥K♠ ran into a three-way all-in against Schemion’s A♠Q♠ and Roman Emelyanov’s pocket sixes. A queen on the flop sent most of the pot to Schemion and left Negreanu short.

He fought back, winning races and knocking out Pedro Neves in 5th. But with Seire bullying the table from a big chip lead, the decisive hand came with four players left. Negreanu called off about 27 big blinds with 10♦10♥ against Seire’s 9♣8♦. He was roughly an 86% favourite before the flop. The A♦9♥6♣8♠K♣ runout gave Seire two pair, and Negreanu was out in 4th for $415,699, the biggest score of his week.

“That was our chance,” he told his stream. Seire went on to win $906,647, beating Fabiano Kovalski heads-up.

Final table #3: $5,000 High Roller Bounty PLO

On Friday, September 25, Negreanu reached his third final table of the week in Event #30, the $5,000 High Roller Bounty PLO. The event drew 378 entries and a prize pool of $1,795,500, with 34 places paid.

He started the final eight fourth in chips with about 35 big blinds. Israel’s Yigal Papi was way out in front with around 134 big blinds.

The start was perfect. Negreanu’s aces held against Markus Ristola’s big draw, sending Ristola out in 7th for $33,074. A few hands later, aces betrayed him. Anatoly Zlotnikov also held two aces and made a flush to take the pot, pushing Negreanu back to where he started.

The final blow came when Negreanu made two pair and got it all in against Blaz Zerjav, who had flopped a set. That ended his run in 6th place for $43,641 plus about $15,000 in bounties. First place in this event pays $132,297 plus bounties, a bracelet and a $30,000 WSOP Paradise Super Pass.

Why this matters: the chase for bracelet number nine

This is not just about one week. Negreanu is trying to become only the 10th player in history to win nine or more WSOP bracelets, a group that includes Phil Hellmuth and more recent additions Shaun Deeb and Benny Glaser.

His recent form makes that goal feel realistic:

•           2024: Won his 7th bracelet in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, ending an 11-year drought.

•           July 2026: Won his 8th bracelet in the $100,000 High Roller PLO (Event #76) for $2,257,718, beating Artur Martirosian heads-up.

•           September 2026: Three WSOP Online final tables in five days.

There is one more twist. Negreanu has never won an online WSOP bracelet. A win on GGPoker would tick off a milestone and hit number nine at the same time.

Honest take: bad luck or bad spots?

Looking at the key hands, most of this was variance. Pocket tens against 9-8 is exactly the spot you want to get your chips in. Aces in PLO are strong but never safe against another set of aces with a flush draw. And the PLO flip in the $10K was just that, a flip.

What stands out more is the consistency. Reaching three final tables against tough, experienced online fields in under a week shows Negreanu’s game, especially in PLO, is in excellent shape. Online poker is often seen as a younger player’s arena, and he keeps showing up at the business end.

What’s next for Negreanu

The 2026 WSOP Online series on GGPoker runs through September 29, with 33 bracelets on the schedule. That leaves a few more chances for Negreanu to close one out before the series ends.

Elsewhere at the series, Ukraine’s Andrii Novak won the $5,000 WSOP Online Main Event for $3,931,259.

If you want to follow the rest of his run, Negreanu is streaming his bracelet events live on his YouTube channel and through GGPoker.

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