Daniel Negreanu's 25K Fantasy Draft: What Player Went for the Most Money Ever?

Might 28, 2025
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Final up to date Might 29, 2025

The WSOP 25k Fantasy Draft happened Tuesday afternoon with a report 24 groups every bidding on eight gamers they hope will carry out effectively this summer time.

It took 5 hours to draft 192 gamers contained in the PokerGO Studio on the Las Vegas Strip. Every crew had a most of $200 to bid on gamers, and one squad — Crew DPMD — used $141 of it on Jeremy Ausmus, who has 5 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelets since 2021.

The expensive bid, albeit for the highest performer on the sequence the previous 4 years, left the crew with simply $59 to bid on seven different gamers, however they had been capable of finding what seems to be some strong worth with expert gamers similar to Seth Davies ($29) and Stephen Track ($17) among the many roster.

Different groups prevented the high-priced expertise and as a substitute sought worth. However all of them had one technique in thoughts: Benefit from a roster that prices $25,000 to enter.

Negreanu Chooses Himself

Daniel Negreanu has solely cashed within the 25k Fantasy Draft as soon as. He is trying to make that two instances this 12 months, however he’ll be closely relying on his personal efficiency on the WSOP.

The seven-time bracelet winner selected himself along with his first choose for $108. Negreanu additionally gambled with some low bids on some old-school poker legends — Erick Lindgren ($2) and Mike Matusow ($3).

Matusow felt snubbed by the remainder of the groups refusing to draft him. He vowed to reward Negreanu with an enormous summer time.

All the largest names within the sport, not less than these anticipated to play not less than a handful of WSOP occasions this 12 months, had been chosen. Some notable bids had been Phil Ivey ($95 to Crew Glue Manufacturing facility), Phil Hellmuth ($79 to Crew Cash Mondays), Nick Schulman ($107 to Crew Splash Sports activities), Scott Seiver ($125 to Crew Frog Poison), and Josh Arieh ($71 to Crew Jeremy’s).

There have been some noticeable absences on the draft. Shaun Deeb opted out of drafting a crew, however he did go for $99 to Crew Phenon. Allen Kessler wasn’t chosen by any crew, and he wasn’t thrilled with the snub.

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The 25k Fantasy Groups

Crew Negreanu (Proprietor: Daniel Negreanu)

PickPlayerPrice 1Daniel Negreanu$108 2Joao Simao$45 3Mike Matusow$3 4Anthony Zinno$14 5Erick Lindgren$2 6Tyler Brown$26 7Jon Turner$1 8Nick Palma$1 Whole$200

AJ’s Eagles (Proprietor: AJ Kelsall)

PickPlayerPrice 1Maxx Coleman$70 2Justin Liberto$35 3Arthur Morris$38 4AJ Kelsall$21 5Cary Katz$14 6Kane Kalas$13 7Brian Hastings$1 8Martin Zamani$2 Whole$194

Crew Woman Gaga (Proprietor: Ren Lin)

PickPlayerPrice 1Adam Hendrix$33 2Alex Foxen$66 3Joao Vieira$85 4Anson Tsang$1 5Quan Zhou$1 6Xixiang Luo$5 7Dong Chen$1 8Joshua Mccully$2 Whole$194

Crew Phenom (Proprietor: Matt Valeo)

PickPlayerPrice 1Kevin Gerhart$15 2Shaun Deeb$99 3Chris Vitch$48 4Max Pescatori$2 5Dan Sepiol$12 6Hal Rotholz$5 7Matt Valeo$1 8Huck Seed$1 Whole$183

Crew DPMD (Proprietor: Donnie Peters & Mickey Doft

PickPlayerPrice 1Jeremy Ausmus$141 2Seth Davies$29 3Stephen Track$17 4Jon Shorman$1 5Boris Angelov$1 6Tom Koral$1 7Nick Milgrim$4 8Yuri Richenstein$6 Whole$200

Crew Frog Poison (Proprietor: Martin Zamani)

PickPlayerPrice 1Scott Seiver$125 2Dylan Smith$64 3Ryan Leng$6 4Mike Holtz$1 5Noel Rodriguez$1 6George Wolff$1 7Sean Troha$1 8David Stamm$1 Whole$199

Crew Australia (Proprietor: Didier Guerin)

PickPlayerPrice 1James Obst$91 2David “ODB” Baker$51 3Jerry Wong$19 4Brandon Shack-Harris$32 5Romaine Morvan$1 6Didier Guerin$1 7Ryan Laplante$1 8Mustapha Kanit$4 Whole$200

Crew Survivor Sweat (Proprietor: David “ODB” Baker)

PickPlayerPrice 1Michael Moncek$89 2Ben Yu$31 3Marco Johnson$49 4Danny Tang$26 5Sam Laskowitz$1 6Tyler Moncek$1 7Ali Eslami$1 8Esther Taylor$1 Whole$199

Crew Noori (Proprietor: Mike Noori)

PickPlayerPrice 1Alex Livingston$81 2Justin Saliba$40 3Jim Collopy$43 4Maksim Pisarenko$12 5Noah Bronstein$1 6Toby Lewis$1 7Gus Hansen$2 8Biao Ding$9 Whole$189

Crew Hoggers (Proprietor: Jake Schwartz & Chad Eveslege)

PickPlayerPrice 1Aaron Kupin$42 2Jake Schwartz$31 3Matt Glantz$35 4Brian Yoon$34 5Jason Mercier$41 6Robert Wells$10 7Danny Wong$6 8David Benyamine1$ Whole$200

Crew Good-looking Horses (Proprietor: Patrick Leonard)

PickPlayerPrice 1Chad Eveslage$87 2Chino Rheem$45 3Matthew Wantman$21 4Chris Hunichen$15 5Phil Sternheimer$21 6Thomas Glushko$1 7Chris Classen$2 8Lawrence Brant$8 Whole$200

Crew Liaison (Proprietor: Andrew Ostapachenko)

PickPlayerPrice 1Yuri Dzivielevski$119 2David Coleman$7 3John Monnette$19 4Dario Alioto$25 5Thomas Taylor$7 6Samuel Mullur$1 7Klemens Roiter$9 8Andrew Ostapchenko$1 Whole$188

Crew Woman Dads (Proprietor: Ryan Riess & Jesse Lonis)

PickPlayerPrice 1Jesse Lonis$103 2Patrick Leonard$30 3David Funkhouser$23 4Nick Pupillo$10 5Brad Owen$12 6Christian Roberts$15 7Aram Zobian$1 8Ethan Yau$1 Whole$195

Crew Glue Manufacturing facility (Proprietor: Dan Sepiol)

PickPlayerPrice 1Phil Ivey$95 2Nacho Barbero$59 3Jon Kyte$26 4Brock Wilson$5 5Georgios Sotiropoulos$3 6Cherish Andrews$3 7Andrew Lichtenberger$1 8Ian Steinman$8 Whole$200

Crew Brown’s Cut price Bin (Proprietor: Andrew Brown)

PickPlayerPrice 1Yuval Bronshtein$44 2Phillip Hui$30 3Joe Couden$14 4Jeff Madsen$11 5Felipe Ramos$18 6Andrew Brown$2 7Scott Bohlman$9 8Matt Vengrin$9 Whole$137

Crew BTG (Proprietor: Bryce Yockey)

PickPlayerPrice 1Nick Guagenti$38 2Dan Zack$13 3Steven Chidwick$51 4Adam Friedman$18 5Dylan Linde$36 6Punnat Punsri$19 7Isaac Haxton$6 8Owais Ahmed$19 Whole$200

Crew NOVIG (Proprietor: Nick Verderamo

PickPlayerPrice 1Chance Kornuth$80 2Chris Brewer$70 3Brad Rubin$31 4Yueqi Wealthy Zhu$13 5Nick Seward$1 6Cooper Feltham$2 7Ismael Bojang$2 8Kyle Miholich$1 Whole$200

Crew Jeremy’s (Proprietor: Jeremy Becker)

PickPlayerPrice 1Josh Arieh$71 2Bryce Yockey$66 3Jeremy Becker$2 4Yingui Li$3 5Artur Martirosyan$28 6Dzmitry Urbanovich$21 7David Bakes Baker$5 8Eelis Parsinnen$1 Whole$197

Crew Splash Sports activities (Proprietor: Brent Hanks & Jeff Platt)

PickPlayerPrice 1Nick Schulman$107 2Ren Lin$42 3Adrian Mateos$25 4Renji Mao$9 5Frank Brannan$5 6Jason Koon$4 7Christian More durable$7 8Andrew Moreno$1 Whole$200

Crew Lang (Proprietor: Mike Lang)

PickPlayerPrice 1Shannon Shorr$35 2Ian Matakis$20 3Ari Engel$20 4Dan Shak$10 5Adam Owen$22 6Sam Soveral$4 7Josh Reichard$37 8Ryan Hoenig$52 Whole$200

Crew Wass (Proprietor: Eric Wasserson)

PickPlayerPrice 1Eric Wasserson$42 2Brian Rast$57 3Paul Volpe$14 4John Hennigan$11 5David Peters$3 6Dario Sammartino$15 7Sean Winter$22 8Renan Bruschi$36 Whole$200

Crew Cash Mondays (Proprietor: Dan Fleyshman)

PickPlayerPrice 1Phil Hellmuth$79 2Calvin Anderson$51 3Ryan Riess$11 4Kristen Foxen$31 5Jared Bleznick$6 6Joe Cada$1 7Dan Smith$6 8Ben Lamb$15 Whole$200