Daniel Negreanu Wins His Eighth Bracelet In The $100K PLO High Roller ($2,257,718)

Daniel Negreanu Defeats Artur Martirosian Heads-Up In The $100K PLO High Roller

Negreanu entered the final five with the second-largest stack, while Martirosian started as the short stack. By the time heads-up began, the two were nearly even in chips, but the cards—and Negreanu’s play—went his way.

After the tournament, Artur Martirosian commented:

“The heads-up match was completely one-sided. I won a couple of pots, and after that I just lost every hand. I couldn’t connect with a flop, kept folding to continuation bets, and the few times I tried bluffing, I got called by the top of his range. Still, it’s a great result considering I started as the shortest stack. Of course, I wanted to win my second 2026 bracelet.”

Event #76: $100,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Payouts (83 entries)

Place	Country	Player	Prize
1		Daniel Negreanu	$2,257,718
2		Artur Martirosian	$1,477,434
3		Chris Frank	$1,002,107
4		Philip Sternheimer	$705,448
5		Yosuke Miki	$516,160
6		Sean Winter	$393,139
7		Sergio Gonzalez	$312,233
8		Jeremy Ausmus	$259,047

Daniel Negreanu’s WSOP Bracelet Wins

It had been a frustrating summer for the Canadian poker pro. In a vlog released a week ago, Negreanu revealed that he had spent around $1 million on tournament buy-ins while cashing for just $464K. He failed to make the money in the $250K Super High Roller, the $100K NLH High Roller, and the $50K Poker Players Championship.

Martin Kabrhel Wins His Sixth Bracelet In The Hybrid $3.2K NLHE High Roller ($195,195)

This may have been the first time a player successfully multi-tabled three WSOP events at once.

The day before, Kabrhel was constantly running between Horseshoe and Paris while playing the $3K NLHE Freezeout, the $600 Deepstack, and the $3.2K NLHE High Roller online.

Watch the action on X (Twitter) and on Kabrhel’s YouTube vlog:

Kabrhel went on to win the Hybrid $3.2K NLHE High Roller. He also finished 80th in the $3K Freezeout for $9,620 and 281st in the $600 Deepstack for $1,729.

Patrick Stacey Leaves His Business, Falls In Love With Mixed Games, And Wins His First Bracelet ($223,177)

Patrick Stacey’s story proves that if you love poker, poker can love you back.

He has been playing poker for more than 10 years and started out as a No-Limit Hold’em player. Last year, however, he decided to focus almost entirely on mixed games. Stacey left his business and hired several coaches to study the mixed-game formats.

The decision paid off. Last night, he fulfilled a lifelong dream by winning his first WSOP bracelet in the $2,500 Limit Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (2-7, A-5, Badugi), defeating Triton regular Danny Tang heads-up.

Event #77: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball Final Table Payouts (508 entries)

Place	Country	Player	Prize
1		Patrick Stacey	$223,177
2		Danny Tang	$145,365
3		Mark Gregorich	$96,888
4		Allen Kessler	$66,103
5		Andrew Kelsall	$46,191
6		Arthur Morris	$33,077

Daisuke Ogita Wins The $1K Mini Main Event ($1,000,000)

Daisuke Ogita has been playing poker for 10 years. During that time, he accumulated more than $2 million in tournament winnings, and last night he added another $1 million to that total.

Event #72: $1,000 Mini Main Event Final Table Payouts (12,560 entries)

Place	Country	Player	Prize
1		Daisuke Ogita	$1,000,000
2		Jaehwa Son	$625,000
3		Jeffrey Evans	$475,000
4		Amin Mostafavi	$360,000
5		Richard Harris	$275,000
6		Jaime Haletky	$210,000
7		Ohad Enzel	$165,000
8		Akira Ide	$130,000
9		Yunye Lu	$100,000

Phil Hellmuth Arrives At The WSOP Dressed As A Superhero

Joining him were Dan “Jungleman” Cates and his sons, Nick and Phil III. You can watch the entrance on X (Twitter):

As always, 17 women—one for each of Hellmuth’s WSOP bracelets—were part of the entrance.

Hellmuth advanced to Day 2 with a stack slightly above the starting stack.

Main photo by Jess Beck, source: pokernews.com