Daniel Negreanu is in competition for his eighth gold bracelet and the second of the 12 months. On Friday night time on the 2024 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Paradise, the GGPoker Ambassador took a break from stay play and as an alternative took time to play chess, refill on groceries – he was nonetheless steaming from paying room service $25 for 4 small tomatoes the day earlier than – and to play some on-line poker from the consolation of his lodge mattress.
He entered a flight of GGPoker’s $2,700 buy-in Occasion #11: $5,000,000 GTD Thriller Hundreds of thousands On-line, and after three hours of play, he completed first out of 28 entrants, thus punching his ticket to Day 2 at 13:00 on Sunday, December 15! Gamers needs to be within the cash at that time as every beginning flight performs all the way down to when solely 10% of the sector stays, and on the “ITM Stage,” the thriller bounties kick in together with two $500,000 prime bounties!
Negreanu superior with 726,897 (60.6 BB), whereas the one different participant to make it by means of was Mexico’s Ignacio Moron with 673,103. As of this writing, solely 97 gamers of 1,257 entries have made it to Day 2, although there are nonetheless loads of flights left to go. Even so, on the present time, there’s a greater than $1.8 million overlay within the occasion.
Negreanu documented all of it on Day 7 of his fashionable vlog:
Others who’ve superior to Day 2 already are Sami Kelopuro, Corey Thompson, Jesse Lonis, Joao Simao, Paul Hong, and Ren Lin.
Two recognizable gamers at Negreanu’s digital desk had been poker professional Mike Watson and his fellow GGPoker Ambassador Alexandra Botez. Relating to the latter, there was one large hand the place there was 16.6 BB within the pot with the board studying A♠Okay♣9♥2♣6♥. Negreanu had prime two pair with the A♥Okay♦ and went for the overbet firing out 24.4 BB, which received paid off by the A♦8♦ of Botez.
“Alright, DNegs, off to the races with the overbet on the river,” stated Negreanu, who chipped as much as 82.4 BB. “That’s the one we wanted … LFG. LFG. I’m going to apologize. Sorry, I needed to cost you most.”
In what can be the ultimate hand of the flight, Ukraine’s Dmytro Shubenok received their stack all in preflop holding the A♥Okay♣ and was flipping in opposition to Negreanu’s 8♠8♥. The board ran out Q♠J♥6♦5♦5♠ and Negreanu’s pocket pair held to ship an excited Negreanu on to Day 2.
“Alright peeps, we did it,” Negreanu advised the digital camera. “Thriller Hundreds of thousands, we’ll be in there.”
Negreanu, who in line with his newest vlog is caught $944,750 on the 2024 WSOP Paradise, will at the very least be strolling away with one money this journey, although how a lot gained’t be identified till Sunday.
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