Daniel Negreanu broke his 10-year World Collection of Poker bracelet drought by successful the 2024 Gamers Championship, the $50,000 10-game combine occasion that comes with a trophy named in honor of late poker legend Chip Reese. He joins a listing of winners that features Reese, three-time winners Michael Mizrachi and Brian Rast, two-time winner Daniel Cates, Scotty Nguyen, and John Hennigan.
It was a monkey off the 2014 Poker Corridor of fame inductee’s again.
“A whole lot of reduction actually. I’ve a variety of anxiousness about coming heads-up as a result of I’ve had so many seconds. And it was simply good for issues to really feel like they went my method at this closing desk,” Negreanu advised WSOP reporters after locking his seventh bracelet up.
Since successful bracelet quantity six in Europe in 2008, Negreanu has completed second and third six occasions, fourth 3 times, fifth 4 occasions, six 5 occasions, seventh as soon as, eighth 4 occasions, and ninth one other six occasions. And as arguably some of the clear gamers who continually engages with poker followers by way of his vlogs and reviews from the poker site, he has worn his frustrations of the final decade on his sleeve.
All the things labored out for Negreanu within the Gamers Championship, however he wanted assist from the poker Gods who gave him a one-outer on Day 4 that saved him alive. He additionally wanted to hit a card on the river to outlive heads-up. Each of these actions got here within the Pot Restrict Omaha spherical.
“There’s one occasion on this planet I need to play greater than any and I wished to win greater than any, and it’s this one. That is the one,” Negreanu mentioned. “Clearly, the Fundamental Occasion is particular otherwise. However this one is all one of the best gamers on this planet, pro-heavy discipline, taking part in 100-minute ranges, days and days of grind, 12 hours a day. So to come back out on high, you’ll be able to’t fluke that.”
The ultimate desk took about eight hours to complete, and included a homicide’s row of pros with dozens of bracelets, trophies and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of {dollars} in cashes between them. After Phil Ivey, Jeremy Ausmus, David Benyamine, Dylan Smith, and Chris Brewer bowed out, it got here all the way down to Negreanu and Bryce Yockey heads-up.
The title might very properly have went to Yockey, who received his second WSOP bracelet on this 12 months’s $5,000 Pot Restrict Omaha occasion in Might. As talked about above, he had Negreanu all-in with a pair of aces throughout a spherical of PLO. Negreanu made a play on a flop of 762 with a pair of geese and an opened-ended straight draw, and it was the 2 on the river that saved his match life and ultimately led to the title.
This was Yockey’s tenth money at this 12 months’s WSOP and Negreanu’s ninth. He now has greater than $23 million in WSOP cashes since he received his first bracelet in a $2,000 Pot Restrict Maintain’em occasion all the way in which again in 1998 on the age of 23, when “Child Poker” was nonetheless a child. Negreanu turns 50 July 26.
Negreanu was capable of have a good time along with his spouse, Amanda, who by no means noticed her husband win a WSOP bracelet. It was a pleasant second for the couple who wed in 2019.
“It’s very cool. That is the primary time she’s been down right here since we moved right here. As a result of she was going to come back once I win, and I haven’t been successful. So it was good to have her right here for the second, for certain,” he mentioned.
