The attention of the poker world might be on the 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event, which started Thursday, but let’s not forget that there are still other WSOP tournaments going on. Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu won one such tournament, the $100,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha event, for the eighth bracelet of his career.
In taking the crown in the 83-entry tournament, Negreanu denied Artur Martirosian his second bracelet of the 2026 WSOP.
Speaking with PokerGO afterward, Negreanu said that he is hoping to continue to ride this hot streak.
“As soon as it was over, I looked at the WSOP app and go, ‘What’s the 800? What is that? Can I jump in that?’” he said. “Because now there’s momentum, right? And I’ve sort of, like I said, heated up. I cashed six in a row, had one no-cash, then this one. So seven out of the last eight events. And I’ve always kind of been a little bit streaky, so when you’re in that zone of, like, winning, you just want to keep piling up the victories.”
Negreanu, despite all of his success, went without a WSOP bracelet for a decade before winning the $50,000 Poker Players Championship in 2024. He has now won two bracelets in three years, but the poker trauma of coming so close but never getting over the top for ten years was still in the back of his mind at the PLO final table.
“I stopped counting how many times I lost heads-up, like ten in a row, and it started to feel like, is this ever going to, am I ever going to break through?” he told PokerGO. “Because I knew I was playing well, you know, to get there, you’ve got to play well, you need a few breaks. So to get the 50K PPC, that sort of took the monkey off my back, a little bit less stressed out. And then this heads-up, I felt really until I had him and he doubled, and then I started to freak out again.”
But he regrouped and recovered, eventually besting Martirosian in a back-and-forth battle to win the bracelet and the $2,257,718 first prize.
It has been a heck of a summer for players at the top of the all-time WSOP bracelet rankings who are still actively playing. Negreanu joins Nick Schulman as a newly minted eight-time bracelet winner. Above them, Benny Glaser, Michael Mizrachi, and Shaun Deeb have all scored their ninth, pulling into a tie with Johnny Moss. The only players ahead of that group are Phil Hellmuth (17), Phil Ivey (11), Doyle Brunson (10), Johnny Chan (10), and Erik Seidel (10).
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