The 2026 WSOP Event #28, a $600 Deepstack Mixed No-Limit Hold'em / Pot-Limit Omaha tournament, drew 3,332 entries and ended up putting Daniel Negreanu and Alex Foxen at the same nine-handed final table. Per PokerNews, this was "the toughest $600 final table ever".
Per PokerNews, Foxen came to the unofficial final with 13,300,000 chips and the chip lead in seat 8. Negreanu sat sixth in counts with 4,650,000 in seat 4. For context: a $600 buy-in mixed-game tournament with two of the top five highest-earning live players in the field is not what the format usually produces.
The Negreanu angle
Daniel Negreanu, GGPoker's lead ambassador, is playing the 2026 Series at full throttle and has been firing $600 turbo-adjacent events alongside the $10K Championships. He went out in eighth place for $24,347. The cash is meaningless for him but the final-table footage is the kind of mid-Series moment the ESPN Main Stage coverage push was built to capture.
The Foxen angle
Alex Foxen sleeping on the chip lead in a $600 mixed-game event in the middle of a Series where his wife Kristen has been on a six-figure heater is the kind of household moment WSOP marketing teams write press releases about. He cashed an ACR Pro Team patch into a final-table seat after a deep semifinal run in the $25K Heads-Up Championship a week earlier.
This may be the toughest $600 final table ever.
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Why a $600 event matters
Two reasons. First, the WSOP's low-buy-in mixed events are the type of fields where top pros rarely show up - this final table is a category-defining outlier. Second, every Negreanu and Foxen run at this Series doubles as content for their respective sponsor brands, with GGPoker and ACR Poker both benefiting from the camera time without putting up an additional buy-in.
What's next
Foxen plays out the final table today. We will update the Foxen profile once a champion is crowned, and the Negreanu profile is being tracked through every event he fires for the rest of the Series.
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