Daniel Negreanu will not play in all 100 bracelet occasions listed on the newly launched 2026 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) schedule. However there are just a few poker gamers on the market who will enter extra tournaments this summer time than the GGPoker ambassador.
The seven-time bracelet winner can have loads of alternatives — 40 to be actual — on the WSOP in Las Vegas to win his eighth bracelet. Negreanu revealed his tentative 2026 WSOP schedule, which features a wide-range of poker variants and buy-ins.
Bracelet-chasing motion begins Could 26 contained in the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, dwelling to the World Collection of Poker since 2022. For the second straight 12 months, the schedule contains 100 gold bracelet occasions, and Negreanu plans to play 40% of them.
Negreanu’s 2026 WSOP Schedule
Negreanu, who mentioned he’ll provide a staking package deal to his followers by way of PokerStake, shared a listing on X with all of the occasions he plans to play this summer time. His schedule contains 17 no-limit maintain’em tournaments, 15 blended occasions, and eight pot-limit Omaha occasions. He’ll begin his summer time off by getting into Occasion #5: $5,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha (8-Handed).
The Poker Corridor of Famer is not altering his schedule up a lot this 12 months in comparison with current years. He plans to enter a lot of the largest buy-in occasions such because the $250,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler, but in addition some low-stakes tournaments, together with the $300 Gladiators No-Restrict Maintain’em, an occasion he took 73rd out of 23,088 entrants in 2023.
Another key occasions Negreanu is slated to enter contains the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship (June 18), $25,000 Excessive Curler PLO/NLH Blended (June 23), and $100,000 Excessive Curler Pot-Restrict Omaha (June 30). He will not be making the 30-minute drive from his Lake Las Vegas dwelling to the Las Vegas Strip early fairly often this summer time, as he intends to enter occasions that begin at midday or later 85% of the time.
Negreanu, who gained his seventh bracelet in 2024 after an 11-year drought, has produced blended outcomes on the WSOP the previous 4 years. He completed the 2025 WSOP up with a $181,000 profile, his first successful WSOP since 2021. The highest ambassador for GGPoker is one in every of just some WSOP grinders who publicly launch full sequence earnings and losses.
Negreanu is one in every of simply two two-time WSOP Participant of the Yr winners. Shaun Deeb joined that unique membership final summer time when he took down the award, beating out Fundamental Occasion and Poker Gamers Championship winner Michael Mizrachi, and Benny Glaser, who gained three bracelets.
This 12 months’s Participant of the Yr race will doubtless have a few of the acquainted faces battling for the award, together with Deeb and Negreanu.
