Daniel Negreanu Holds Top-Five Stack in $250,000 WSOP Super High Roller

Daniel Negreanu ended the day with a top-five stack in the $250,000 WSOP Super High Roller, putting him among the players still chasing the $4,334,411 first-place prize. The event drew 56 entries and produced a $13,720,000 prize pool, leaving Negreanu in position to press a deep run in the summer’s most expensive event.

Negreanu Stays In The Top Five

He bagged one of the five biggest stacks as the field narrowed around him. That spot matters because every surviving player is now closer to the final-table run that comes with a share of the largest payout tier in the tournament.

The field size and prize pool give the run real weight. With 56 entries, the event stayed compact by WSOP standards, but the $250,000 buy-in still pushed the total pool to $13,720,000 and set up a first-place score that cleared $4.3 million. Negreanu’s stack keeps him in the center of that chase.

Phil Ivey’s Final Table Fall

Phil Ivey’s path through the same event ended in eighth place for $553,270. He entered the final day ninth out of nine players, then doubled through Bryn Kenney when ace-queen held against king-queen before later running pocket jacks into Kenney’s pocket queens at the official final table.

That sequence followed a longer climb for Ivey. He had already recorded his first cash of the summer after firing several bullets, then finished ninth in Event #38, the $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship, for $30,292. He also secured the minimum payout of $518,518 when Nick Petrangelo burst the money bubble late on Day 2 of the $250,000 Super High Roller.

The line between staying alive and going home stayed thin all day. Ivey moved from 20 big blinds after the double through Kenney to an eighth-place finish, while Negreanu kept one of the best stacks in play and the chance to turn it into the tournament’s biggest payday.