Daniel Negreanu Wins 7th WSOP Bracelet in $50,000 Poker Players Championship

Daniel Negreanu Wins 7th WSOP Bracelet in $50,000 Poker Players Championship

Daniel Negreanu won the 2024 WSOP $50,000 Poker Players Championship for $1.17 million and he also picked up bracelet #7. Negreanu had been chasing a bracelet for over a decade and had multiple close calls before he finally won a seventh bracelet.

For nearly 15 years, no one has been hit more at the World Series of Poker than Daniel Negreanu. The Canadian burst into stardom right at the start of the poker boom, as his engaging table demeanor and ability to seemingly know what his opponents were holding all the time made him the face of the game for many fans. And there was plenty of winning: four bracelets and a WSOP Player of the Year Award while he could still be called “Kid Poker.”

But then the winning dried up. It had been more than a decade since Negreanu won a bracelet. The last time he won a bracelet on American soil, George W. Bush was still in the White House and The Incredible Hulk was the No. 1 movie at the box office. There were plenty of close misses, with five runner-up finishes since 2014 including the $1 million Big One for One Drop.

Negreanu, though, like his favorite movie character, kept getting back up and he was rewarded with the one event he wanted to win more than any other. Negreanu finally captured lucky bracelet No. 7 in Event #58: $50,000 Poker Players Championship, outlasting 89 of the best players in the world to win $1,178,703 and the prestigious title.

“A lot of relief really. I have a lot of anxiety about coming heads-up because I’ve had so many seconds. And it was just nice for things to feel like they went my way at this final table,” Negreanu said after defeating Bryce Yockey heads-up.

WSOP Event #58:

$50,000 Poker Players Championship Final Table Results

Daniel Negreanu Wins 7th WSOP Bracelet in $50,000 Poker Players Championship