Daniel Negreanu has been firing bullets at the 2026 WSOP like it was a bachelor party in the Nevada desert, but his latest might just be the one that hits the target.
Carrying a stack into the final day of the WSOP $25K PLO/NLH High Roller, Negreanu has a chance to make a second final table of the summer and bag the 8th WSOP bracelet he craves.
To do so, however, he’s going to have to make some moves — and quickly.
Just 14 players remain from the 214 who entered, and the man known as Kid Poker will start Thursday’s home stretch with the shortest stack of them all.
With just 435K chips to play with, Negreanu is working with a stack of just 11 big blinds. And the standard of competition is high, to say the least.
Can the reigning champ conquer again?
At the top of the overnight chip counts is Finland’s two-time bracelet-winner Juha Helppi with 6.3M chips, followed by Lou Garza with 5.3M.
Garza also has two WSOP bracelets, the last of which came in this very event last year.
Lou Garza at last year's final table for this event.Another Finnish shark, Eelis Parsinnen, is also in the top 5, and more than half the field comprises former WSOP winners.
The bubble burst at 33 players, with the likes of Chance Kornuth, Nick Schulman, Michael Mizrachi and Naoya Kihara making the money, but not Day 3.
Everyone left has locked up at least $61,964; the top prize is a huge $1,172,296.
Play resumes Thursday at 1pm, with blinds of 25K/50K.
$25K High Roller PLO/NLH Mixed — Day 3 stacks
- Juha Helppi: 6,370,000
- Lou Garza: 5,635,000
- Sergio Martinez Gonzalez: 2,755,000
- Edward Leonard: 2,690,000
- Eelis Parsinnen: 2,425,000
- Sean Winter: 2,410,000
- Yang Wang: 2,150,000
- Dylan Weisman: 1,705,000
- Dylan Linde: 1,530,000
- Dominykas Karmazinas: 975,000
- Amit Benyacov: 780,000
- David Wang: 770,000
- Jordan Glazer: 765,000
- Daniel Negreanu: 435,000
