Negreanu Busts 7th in WSOP Online $10K PLO, Misses Ninth Bracelet
Daniel Negreanu came up one big pot short of an unprecedented ninth World Series of Poker gold bracelet on Sunday, busting in seventh place in the $10,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha event of the 2026 WSOP Online festival on GGPoker, according to CardPlayer.
Negreanu started the final table of seven players as the second-largest stack with 92.1 big blinds, trailing only a player using the screen name Elite, later identified by Kevin Martin’s stream coverage as Andreas Freund, who held 123.8 big blinds. Finland’s Samuli Sipila sat third with 48.3 big blinds, while Dirk Gerritse, Chris Nguyen and Ding Biao all began the day with fewer than 20 big blinds.
A few orbits in, Negreanu had taken the outright chip lead when he clashed with Freund in the hand that decided his tournament. Freund raised under the gun holding Qc10s8d8c, and Negreanu defended his big blind for 2.3 more big blinds with QhJc4h4c. The flop came Ah3c2c and checked through.
The turn that broke the final table
The 8h on the turn gave Negreanu dual flush draws and key blockers to the nut low straight, and he led out for eight big blinds. Freund, who had turned a set of eights to go with a higher club draw, raised to 25.8 big blinds. Negreanu explained his read in a social media post breaking down the hand.
“He raises pot. It’s an ICM spot where he really shouldn’t ever be raising the turn without the nuts which is 4-5. I block 4-5 with the two fours,” Negreanu wrote. “You need to have some bluffs in this spot, and it’s a pretty good spot to apply ICM pressure, even if he does have the 4-5, I have two flush draws.”
Negreanu repotted and called off when Freund shoved, building a pot worth close to 200 big blinds, roughly four times the next-biggest stack at the table. The river fell 5c, giving both players a club flush, but Freund’s was higher and he scooped the pot, leaving Negreanu with under seven big blinds. He was eliminated shortly after in seventh place.
Freund plays for first with $428,888 on the line
Negreanu’s seventh-place finish paid $71,111. The result came just months after he won the $100,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha event at the live WSOP in Las Vegas, which stood as his eighth career gold bracelet. At the time CardPlayer published its report, Freund was chip leading in heads-up play against an opponent using the screen name 11Y11, with the bracelet, a $30,000 WSOP Paradise package and $428,888 in first-place prize money still on the line. A win would mark Freund’s first bracelet and his largest tournament score on record under his real name.