March is the month that comes “in like a lion,” and that’s the function Daniel Negreanu is taking part in on the PokerGO Tour’s Blended Sport sequence now happening in Las Vegas. He capped two deep runs with a victory within the sixth occasion of the sequence, a $15,200 buy-in Vendor’s Selection contest for $292,500.
The win provides Negreanu 10 on the PGT, placing him in a tie for essentially the most with Stephen Chidwick. Sam Soverel is true behind the boys with 9 victories.
Negreanu’s tenth win on the high-stakes tour got here in dominating trend, significantly on the ultimate day, the place he started second in chips however shortly took a dominating lead with six gamers left with 40-percent of the chips in play throughout a spherical of 2-7 NL Single draw.
The ultimate desk was, as regular in PGT occasions, stacked with unbelievable gamers — two of them had been going for his or her second wins through the Blended recreation sequence. Ryan Miller was the primary to be eradicated in seventh. Solely days earlier than, Miller received his second PGT title in Occasion #3, a $10,200 buy-in H.O.R.S.E contest, the place Negreanu completed in ninth.
Philip Sternheimer was subsequent to go in sixth. He would end in fourth within the very subsequent occasion.
Dylan Smith bagged his third fifth-place end in a row to start out 2025, most lately on the 2025 Fortunate Hearts Poker Open $25,000 occasion for $103,700.
Maxx Coleman was making an attempt to get back-to-back wins on the Blended Sport sequence, however stalled in fourth. He received Occasion #5, a $10,200 blended video games contest for $210,000. He stared the ultimate day as chip chief, however Negreanu ran too sizzling for everybody.
Coleman cashed thrice within the sequence, pushing his lifetime tourney earnings over the $5 million mark within the course of.
Brazil’s Yuri Dzivielevski was going for his first PGT title, however settling for third isn’t fairly unhealthy because it got here with a six-figured payday.
Negreanu started heads-up towards Nick Schulman with 96-precent of the chips in play earlier than luck seemingly shifted, as Schulman would go on to win 5 straight double-ups. He would come sickening near taking the chip lead away from Negreanu throughout a hand of Pot Restrict Omaha, however he missed his intestine shot straight draw and that was all there was to it.
The tourney attracted 65 entries who generated a prize pool of $975,000. The highest 10 gamers received at the least $29,250.
