Daniel Negreanu Wins 8th WSOP Title in Pot Limit Omaha High Roller Event

A dramatic finale in Las Vegas saw Daniel Negreanu beat Russian pro Artur Martirosian to the title as the Canadian banked a $2.25 million top prize and took home his eighth WSOP bracelet. At a final table including Jeremy Ausmus, Sean Winter and overnight chip leader Chris Frank, Negreanu came from a position of weakness to put on one of his strongest ever final table performances.

The Comeback Kid Poker

There were 83 total entries in the $100,000-entry PLO High Roller Event #76 of the 2026 WSOP. By the time the final table began, five of the 13 players who made the money had already exited, with Joao Simao (13^th), Jonathan Depa (12^th), Lautaro Guerra (11^th) and Gergo Nagy (10^th) each winning a $204,983 min-cash.

The Welshman Robert Cowen’s exit in ninth place for $224,962 meant just the final eight were left, and Negreanu was leading the field on a massive stack of 13.5 million chips. The German player Chris Frank began his own ascent to the summit by taking out Jeremy Ausmus in eighth place, the American’s ace-king-queen-five unable to overtake the pocket kings in Frank’s hand to exit for $259,047.

Next to go was the Spanish player Sergio Martinez Gonzalez. His exit in seventh was worth $312,233 and came when he flopped a top set of tens but lost to Yosuke Miki’s king-nine in his hand when a queen on the turn and jack on the river gave the Japanese player a straight. Soon, play ended for the night on Day 2 when Sean Winter joined those on the rail. Never having won a bracelet, winter was frozen out again when his pocket aces were overtaken by Chris Frank’s flopped two-pair which rivered a full house.

A Frantic Final Day

Just five players began the final day hoping to win the biggest WSOP top prize so far this series. Of them, Chris Frank led but Negreanu was close behind. That was until the Canadian got off to a terrible start, dropping back and losing chips over the first hour of play. A crucial pot where he took chips off Frank put the Canadian right back up there, before Artur Martirosian took out the Japanese player Miki.

All-in with a flopped set of Jacks, Miki was unlucky to run into a monster as the Russian flipped over a rivered straight after going all the way from the flop with an open-ender. Mikie busted for $516,160 in fifth and Martirosian’s reign of terror went on almost immediately, as he removed British player Philip Sternheimer (4^th for $705,448) from the reckoning, a pair of jacks holding from the turn to reduce the field to three.

German player Chris Frank was the next to leave, busting in third place for $1,002,107. All-in pre-flop, his ace-queen-jack-four was well behind the Russian’s pocket kings and an eight-high board did nothing to change that as Martirosian went into the final battle for the bracelet with 30.1 million chips to Negreanu’s 19.6m.

Friends Reunited

The Russian Bear, Ivan Drago, Daniel Negreanu called Artur Martorisian one of his hardest opponents as he battled to victory in Las Vegas. The Paris Ballroom, and in particular the new WSOP stage was the scene of the drama. With the rail pressed close to the action and the Russian player off to a good start, Negreanu – due to become a father in the autumn with his wife Amanda – was not looking likely to win after the first dozen hands.

Everything changed after DNegs won a few smallball pots to take the lead and making a great hero-call, the Canadian moved into a 7:1 chip lead. All-in with A-9-8-8, Martirosian got a call from Negreanu with K-9-3-2 in two suits.

“I need diamonds and spades, and he needs to go home!” Kid Poker announced to his rail. As it happened, he needed neither. A flop of A-5-4 gave Negreanu a wheel straight and he leapt into the air. On the turn of a queen, it was all over, and Daniel Negreanu was an eight-time WSOP bracelet winner as Martirosian shook his hand and took home $1,477,434 as runner-up.

Kid Poker Level with Schulman

After taking down his eighth WSOP event, this time for a personal best top prize of $2,257,718, Negreanu told PokerGO that the format of PLO suits him better than any other event and he feels like the game was designed for someone with his post-flop skills.

When the WSOP kicked off on May 27^th, Negreanu might have been hoping that he would level with at least one of either Shaun Deeb, Benny Glaser or Michael Mizrachi. As luck would have it, all three of those men have won their ninth WSOP title in the intervening weeks, with Benny Glaser the 2026 $50,000 Poker Players Championship winner, Mizrachi a PLO High Roller champion himself and Shaun Deeb claiming gold just yesterday in the $1,500 8-Game event to take the lead in this year’s WSOP Player of the Year race.

Daniel Negreanu’s latest victory not only levels him with Nick Schulman on eight WSOP titles but vaults him into eighth position on that POY leaderboard, with over a dozen WSOP events still to come in Las Vegas. Add in the 15 WSOP titles on the line in The Bahamas this winter and Negreanu has every chance of more success in 2026.

By the time Kid Poker’s kid comes along, the Canadian will certainly be an eight-time WSOP bracelet winner. No-one is giving up hope that it might be nine before that momentous day.

Here are all eight of Daniel Negreanu’s WSOP bracelets and the year he won them in.