Negreanu Top Five in Chips Heading Into Day 2 in Event #47: $5,000 Freezeout (8-Handed)

Connor Richards

Daniel Negreanu is among the chip leaders heading into Day 2 of Event #47: $5,000 Freezeout (8-Handed) at the 2021 World Series of Poker. Negreanu, who is after his seventh WSOP bracelet, sits fourth in chips with a healthy stack of 617,000, trailing only Daniel Rezaei (702,000), Benjamin Chalot (733,000) and chip leader Jamie Sequeira. Sequeira was the only player to surpass a million chips on Day 1 with a stack of 1,070,000.

A total of 421 players entered the single-entry event and only 82 survived to bag and tag on Day 1. A total of 64 places will be paid, with a minimum cash being worth $8,000 and the first-place prize being worth $426,694.

Event #47 Day 1 Top 10 Chip Counts

RANK	PLAYER	Country	CHIP COUNT	Big Blinds
1	Jamie Sequeira	Canada	1,070,000	134
2	Benjamin Chalot	France	733,000	92
3	Daniel Rezaei	Austria	702,000	88
4	Daniel Negreanu	Canada	617,000	77
5	Daniel Lazrus	United States	597,000	75
6	Ivan Galinec	Croatia	561,000	70
7	Joni Jouhkimainen	Finland	559,000	70
8	Johan Martinet	Mexico	450,000	56
9	Jongwook Lee	South Korea	430,000	54
10	Tony Miles	United States	429,000	54

Negreanu is searching for his first bracelet of the series after final tabling both Event #32: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. and Event #36: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship but ultimately coming up short in both. To earn the bracelet, Kid Poker will have to navigate through a field that includes Shaun Deeb, Scott Seiver, Joni Jouhkimainen, Alexandre Reard, Dario Sammartino, Joao Simao and Johan Guilbert.

Some of the biggest names in poker were in the field in Day 1 but failed to make it to the second day of play, including Phil Hellmuth, Joe Hachem, Chance Kornuth, Maria Ho, Anthony Zinno, James Chen, Dan Shak and Darren Elias.