Daniel Negreanu Hits $25 Million In World Series Of Poker Earnings

The 2026 World Series of Poker is in full swing, with 56 dwell bracelet occasions already within the books. Just shy of $196 million in complete prize cash has been awarded up to now, with loads of motion atop the WSOP all-time cash record because of this.

Negreanu Leads The Big Three

Daniel Negreanu has prolonged his lead with six cashes totaling $304,250 up to now in 2026. Those scores, together with a final-table exhibiting within the $600 Deepstack no-limit maintain’em and pot-limit Omaha blended occasion, have seen him grow to be the primary participant in WSOP historical past to surpass $25 million in bracelet-event earnings.

The seven-time bracelet winner from Canada has 300 profession WSOP cashes now, which can be essentially the most of any participant within the sport. His high rating stays the $8.3 million he earned because the runner-up within the 2014 $1,000,000 Big One For One Drop. He has 4 extra seven-figure scores in WSOP tournaments: his runner-up end within the 2019 $100,000 excessive curler ($1.8 million), his win within the 2024 $50,000 Poker Players Championship ($1.2 million), his win within the 2013 WSOP Asia Pacific predominant occasion ($1.1 million), and his victory in a 2013 WSOP Europe €25,000 excessive curler ($1 million).

Three-time bracelet winner Antonio Esfandiari secured the overwhelming majority of his $21.9 million in WSOP cashes with one win: his triumph within the first-ever Big One For One Drop. He defeated a discipline of 48 entries in that seven-figure buy-in occasion to earn over $18.3 million. His solely different seven-figure money in a bracelet occasion noticed him place fourth within the $111,111 One Drop High Roller in 2013 for one more $1.4 million.

Reigning WSOP predominant occasion and $50,000 Poker Players Championship winner Michael Mizrachi secured over half of his profession earnings on the collection along with his unprecedented run in 2025. He scored $10 million because the final participant standing from 9,735 entries within the large dance, including one other $1.3 million along with his historic fourth victory within the PPC. Mizrachi has not but added to his haul in a serious means this summer time, with solely a handful of cashes up to now.

Foxen And Mateos In Hot Pursuit

The subsequent two gamers on this leaderboard, nevertheless, have each recorded main scores in 2026. Alex Foxen has cashed seven instances this summer time, totalling greater than $1.8 million in earnings already. This was his fifth ultimate desk of the collection, together with a win within the $10,000 tremendous turbo bounty for his fourth bracelet and $594,246. As a outcome, his WSOP earnings now sit at over $20.6 million. His largest rating on the collection noticed him win the 2022 $250,000 tremendous excessive curler for $4,563,700.

Adrian Mateos is now only one good run away from changing into the fifth participant to ever surpass $20 million in earnings on the collection. The Spanish all-time cash chief took down this 12 months’s $250,000 tremendous excessive curler for his sixth profession bracelet and $4,334,411 to push his lifetime complete to greater than $19.8 million.  This was his largest rating but on the collection, topping the $3,265,362 he earned for successful this identical match in 2021.

All-time bracelet chief Phil Hellmuth sits on the forefront of the remainder of the highest ten. The Poker Hall of Famer has recorded simply three cashes up to now this collection, along with his finest exhibiting being a seventh-place end within the $10,000 Omaha eight-or-better Championship.

Stay tuned for extra protection from the 2026 WSOP because the 57th annual working heads into its ultimate few weeks of play.

Foxen bracelet photograph credit score: WSOP / Dominic Iaquinto.