Daniel Negreanu only comes out for the biggest tournaments these days – and you don't get much bigger than the $100K buy-in Super High Roller Bowl: Mixed Games event.
In fact, it's the biggest buy-in mixed games event of the year, and it attracted a murderer’s row of the world's best poker players when action started on Thursday at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas.
Glaser showing the way
Nick Schulman, Bryn Kenney, and Ryan Hoenig were the early casualties on Day 1, while Brit Benny Glaser was showing why he's one of the most feared mixed-game players in the world.
Glaser sent Kenney to the rail after cracking his set with a nut flush draw that he hit on the turn.
Kenney took advantage of his single re-entry, while Schulman decided to call it a day. Jesse Lonis had the poker angels on his side and was running super hot. He won his seat via a $12K satellite and could spin that into a seven-figure score on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Negreanu had lost about a third of his starting stack when he found a flush to take him back to just over 300K.
Brazilian masterclass
Yuri Dzivielevski has had quite the week.
The Brazilian pro won his first PGT title earlier in the week and was crowned the 2026 PGT Mixed Game Champion for topping the series leaderboard on Thursday.
He wasn't going to miss out on the series finale. He joined the SHRB party late on Day 1 but went to work straight away, hoovering up chips and gliding up the leaderboard.
And he ended the day with the biggest stack – just under 100K more than Glaser in second, followed by Chris Brewer and Lonis. Gus Hansen bagged just over the starting stack, while Negreanu is towards the bottom of the leaderboard, looking up with a stack of 240K.
What about Hellmuth and Ivey?
Late registration is open until the start of Day 2, and you can expect to see one Phil (and maybe two) join the fray.
Negreanu announced that Phil Hellmuth would be playing. The Poker Brat lives in Las Vegas now, but he prefers to max late-reg these days. Blinds will be 10K/20K when action restarts on Day 2, which means he'll have 15 big blinds to navigate – a stack that sits squarely in his comfort zone.
And what about Phil Ivey?
Scott Seiver brought the exclusive news midway through Day 1: "Ivey was going to play, but he woke up sick this morning," he said. "He’s going to wait to see how he feels tomorrow."
We'll keep our fingers crossed for Ivey and hope he's feeling good enough to take his seat alongside the 23 survivors.
| Place | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Yuri Dzivielevski | 903,000 |
| 2nd | Benny Glaser | 807,000 |
| 3rd | Chris Brewer | 783,000 |
| 4th | Jesse Lonis | 569,000 |
| 5th | Tobias Leknes | 568,000 |
| 6th | Albert Daher | 549,000 |
| 7th | Aaron Katz | 507,000 |
| 8th | Chino Rheem | 484,000 |
| 9th | Brian Rast | 484,000 |
| 10th | Scott Seiver | 475,000 |
| 11th | Philip Sternheimer | 439,000 |
| 12th | Robert Wells | 419,000 |
| 13th | Qinghai Pan | 399,000 |
| 14th | Gus Hansen | 331,000 |
| 15th | Hal Rotholz | 320,000 |
| 16th | Johannes Becker | 316,000 |
| 17th | Ryan Miller | 273,000 |
| 18th | Chad Eveslage | 267,000 |
| 19th | Eric Wasserson | 262,000 |
| 20th | Daniel Negreanu | 240,000 |
| 21st | Bryn Kenney | 192,000 |
| 22nd | Talal Shakerchi | 149,000 |
| 23rd | Brian Tate | 145,000 |
The Super High Roller Bowl: Mixed Games plays a 10-game mix that includes a rotation of no-limit hold’em, Omaha hi-lo, stud, no-limit 2-7 single draw, limit hold’em, badugi, stud hi-lo, pot-limit Omaha, limit 2-7 triple draw, and razz.
Day 2 starts on Friday, February 13, at 1pm PT with late registration open until the first hand is dealt. Day 2 will play down to the final table, which will play out on Saturday. Day 2 action will be livestreamed on the PokerGO YouTube channel from the first break (with a delay) until the end of Day 2.
You can watch the action from Day 1 below.
