Daniel Negreanu Crosses $25 Million in WSOP Cashes

One of the biggest names in poker, Daniel Negreanu, has reached a major milestone in his career. He has become the first player in WSOP history to reach $25 million in lifetime tournament cashes in the series!

This was brought to light by Tim Duckworth, Director of Live Events & Content for PokerGO, on the social media site X. In his calculation, it was Negreanu’s 7th-place finish in the $600 NLHE/PLO mixed event for $24,348 that put him over the 25 million mark.

https://x.com/Tim__Duckworth/status/2064794325301723587

🚨Daniel Negreanu just crossed $25,000,000 in WSOP earnings🚨

With a seventh-place finish in the $600 NLH/PLO Deepstack for $24,348, @RealKidPoker becomes the FIRST member of the $25M @WSOP club.

Negreanu's lifetime #WSOP winnings now climb to $25,011,167. And he's still… pic.twitter.com/Liy5IzQGrq

— Tim Duckworth (@Tim__Duckworth) June 10, 2026

e only one to have achieved this milestone. So, even he is not disputing that claim, even though there are two reputable sources that put his lifetime WSOP earnings at either higher or lower than PokerGO’s Duckworth.

Negreanu & the other most successful players in WSOP history

According to the Hendon Mob, the most popular live poker tournament database, Negreanu has cashed for “only” $24.390 million in World Series events — thus, if we take Hendon’s numbers as fact, “DNegs” still has quite a lot of work to do this summer to reach $25 million. 

However, he is still #1 on their all-time WSOP cash list, followed by Antonio Esfandiari with $21.917 million. Esfandiari held the world record for biggest payout in a poker tournament for a long time, after winning the $1 million buy-in One Drop event at the 2012 WSOP for $18.347 million. However, his record was broken at last by Bryn Kenney at the £1,050 Triton Million London event in August 2019. While Kenney technically finished second, he got a higher share of the prize pool than the eventual winner Aaron Zang after a heads-up deal. Kenney cashed for £16.890 million. $20.563 million as per the conversion rate at the time, overtaking Esfandiari’s One Drop cash.

According to the database on the WSOP’s official website, on the other hand, Duckworth has actually undercut Negreanu in his congratulatory post. WSOP lists DNegs’ lifetime cashes at $26.046 million, which means he crossed $25 million in cashes last summer.

Hendon and WSOP.com agree on the fact that Negreanu has collected the most in World Series cashes, followed by Esfandiari.

Phil Hellmuth, who holds the record for most WSOP gold bracelets won at 17, is fifth on the lifetime cashes list according to both Hendon and WSOP’s numbers, with $18.591 million and $18.332 million, respectively.

Negreanu, by contrast, has 7 WSOP bracelets to his name, as well as two WSOP Player of the Year awards (from 2004 and 2013).

However, the comments under Duckworth's X post are mostly wondering about Negreanu’s net profit on that $25 million in cashes.  Negreanu’s is actually perhaps the most transparent poker player on the matter. During his annual WSOP vlog series, he lists his profit/loss statement for the series at the end of every video.

Last year, for instance, he ended the summer WSOP leg in Las Vegas, Nevada with $181,097 in the green. This year, as of his latest vlog update on June 11th, he is down $372,971.