If there’s any comfort for Daniel Negreanu following a brutal day of poker on Wednesday, his Thursday World Collection of Poker Paradise (WSOPP) vlog ought to definitely be fascinating.
Norman Chad, poker’s most vocal hater of limitless rebuys, may need to sit down whereas he reads the information we’re about to report, for security causes. Negreanu busted 10 minutes into his first bullet within the $25,000 WSOP Paradise Tremendous Essential Occasion, a $60 million assured no-limit maintain’em event.
The short exit did not deter the GGPoker ambassador to go away the poker site to spend his afternoon on the golf course the place he is decreased his handicap considerably not too long ago. He got here again, busted, got here again once more, busted, and got here again once more, busted, got here again once more, busted, got here again once more. In the event you’re retaining rating at house, he is in for $150,000 already, and it is solely Day 1a.
Negreanu’s Brutal Day of Poker
Negreanu’s first bullet, a hand PokerNews was unable to seize, was fast. He got here again for an additional try to was down to fifteen huge blinds when he jammed into Bryce Yockey’s pocket aces. Yockey, a two-time World Collection of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, bought a little bit of revenge from the Poker Corridor of Famer, who beat him heads-up to win the $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship on the 2024 WSOP in Las Vegas.
That elimination despatched “DNegs” again to the cashier for an additional $25,000 entry into the event with the biggest assured prize pool in poker historical past. However it will be extra of the identical when he moved his ultimate 9 huge blinds in with 7x7x and misplaced to the 9x9x Casey Hatmaker held, as reported by PokerNews’ Connor Richards.
Excellent news for the heavily-bankrolled poker famous person, this event has limitless rebuys. So, he did not cease at three bullets. Negreanu entered the event for a fourth time and rapidly dusted off his stack. He wasn’t able to give up, so he got here again for bullet quantity 5, which additionally went poorly as he ran queen-high right into a flopped full home.
The Poker Corridor of Famer, nonetheless, earned a fast double-up on his sixth bullet proper earlier than this text was printed.
Negreanu, if he does not advance by means of the Day 1a session, can rebuy as many instances as he’d like on Days 1b, 1c, or 1d. Final 12 months’s WSOP Paradise Tremendous Essential Occasion attracted 1,978 runners and was received by Yinan Zhou for $6,000,000.
This 12 months’s occasion is on tempo to shatter these numbers, with over 850 buy-ins already within the prize pool on the time of publishing, six being from Negreanu. PokerNews will present stay reporting protection of the WSOP Paradise Tremendous Essential Occasion from begin to end.
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Connor Richards
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