In October, he took down the $300,000 buy in Super High Roller Bowl for $3.3 million, and of course he ran deep this past week at Wynn in one of the largest tournaments in poker history.Īt the time of publishing there were 13 players remaining in the WPT World Championship out of the original 2,960. I wish I couldn't.'Īlthough Negreanu had a rough 2022 World Series of Poker, losing $1.1 million for the summer and took a brutal bad beat on Sunday, he's actually had quite an impressive year of poker. 'I felt it again! I felt it in my bones!' Negreanu said as he exited stage left. Instead, he left with another deep run, but not a tournament victory. He was there chasing a WPT title and to crack the $50 million lifetime mark in live tournaments. Although he earned $176,200, he didn't come to the Wynn Las Vegas because he needed money. To make a long story short, the river was the K ♠, giving Foster a better full house and sending Negreanu to the rails in 17th place. If anything else were to come, he'd be sitting on over 50 big blinds and back into contention for the $4.1 million first place prize. Only four cards in the deck - two 10's and two kings - could send him home. Negreanu snap-called and was way out in front with one card to come. Once again, Foster came out aggressive and put his opponent all in for 5,000,000. Both players saw the 10 ♠ on the turn, pairing the board. With a small pocket pair, the original raiser wasn't going anywhere in position, so he called and saw a flop of 10 ♣ 4 ♣ 2 ♦, a dream for 'Kid Poker.'įoster made a sizable continuation bet of 2,500,000 and received a call. Negreanu had opened to 800,000 from the button with 2 ♠ 2 ♣ before Foster, in the big blind, three-bet to 2,300,000 with K ♥ K ♦. But then it all came crashing down at the hands of Lucas Foster at about 6:30 p.m. Rough Way to Go Out Daniel Negreanu reacts to WPT World Championship bad beat.Įntering the historic event, 'DNegs' needed a top six finish to catch Carlos Mortensen as the all-time WPT money list leader and $301,000 (12th place or better) to pass Mortensen for first on the Main Tour leaderboard.Īn opportunity to overtake the lead presented itself on Day 5 as the GGPoker ambassador was dialed in, focused, and playing sound poker. But the manner in which he exited, and the achievements he missed out on because of the bad beat, were a killer. Negreanu was eliminated in 17th place for $176,200, an impressive run considering there were 2,960 entries in the $10,400 buy in World Poker Tour season-ending tournament. The deep run is over for Daniel Negreanu in the WPT World Championship, thanks to a brutal bad beat during Sunday's Day 5 session.

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