Hands of the Week: Negreanu Says “This is Part of What Makes Me a Good Poker Player!”

Earlier this week, the 2025 PokerGO Tour (PGT) $1,000,000 Championship Freeroll happened at PokerGO Studio. The freeroll occasion subject included the highest 40 gamers on the PGT leaderboard and 14 Dream Seat qualifiers.

PokerNews was on-site to supply stay updates, and through the course of the match, our reporters captured some fascinating and game-changing fingers. This is a have a look at 5 of them as part of our “Palms of the Week” collection.

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Sternheimer Scores a Double Knockout

On Day 1 in Stage 7 (2,500/5,000/5,000), reporter Connor Richards captured a three-way all-in collision between Timothy Tuveson, Jason Koon, and Philip Sternheimer, who had each opponents lined.

Timothy Tuveson: 7♥7♣Jason Koon: Okay♦Okay♠Philip Sternheimer: A♦Q♠

Sternheimer took an enormous lead on the flop of A♠2♣3♠ and never,hing modified on the runout of 5♥Q♦ as Koon and Dream Seat winner Tuveson have been despatched to the rail.

Negreanu Makes Full Home to Bust Deng

Within the subsequent stage with the blinds at 3,000/6,000/6,000, it was a limped pot between the blinds and Clemen Deng led out for six,000 on a flop of seven♣6♣2♠, which Daniel Negreanu raised to 24,000.

Deng three-bet to 54,000, and Negreanu got here excessive by four-bet jamming. Deng went within the tank after which known as together with his remaining stack of round 120,000.

Clemen Deng: A♥7♠Daniel Negreanu: 7♥6♦

Negreanu was far in entrance with two pair, and the 7♦ flip improved him to a full home earlier than the 9♦ river bricked off to mark Deng’s elimination.

Reigning Champ Mizrachi Will Make His Flight

In the identical stage, Michael Mizrachi was all in with a brief stack towards Andrew Lichtenberger to his proper.

Michael Mizrachi: A♠7♠Andrew Lichtenberger: A♦J♠

Mizrachi was dominated and could not pull forward because the board ran out 10♦9♠3♥J♦5♠ to mark the reigning champion’s elimination.

The one silver lining was that Mizrachi made his flight, which was booked for later tonight.

“If I used to be enjoying a freeroll, I possibly would not ebook my flight for that night time!” Chino Rheem teased earlier within the match.

Sternheimer Demise Spiral Reaches Deadly Conclusion with Chewy

In Stage 9 (4,000/8,000/8,000), Philip Sternheimer rapidly amassed the largest stack of the match, however he misplaced it simply as rapidly.

The deadly blow occurred when he acquired his in stack of round 515,000, which a short while earlier had been at over 1,000,000, in a heads-up pot towards new chip chief Andrew Lichtenberger.

Philip Sternheimer: Q♦Q♠Andrew Lichtenberger: A♣Okay♦

The flop of seven♣4♣8♣ elevated Lichtenberger’s outs, and the A♠ flip all however sealed it because the 5♠ river marked Sternheimer’s elimination.

Negreanu Simply Calls With Fourth Nuts

In Stage 10 (5,000/10,000/10,000), Daniel Negreanu made a formidable play that acquired the entire desk speaking in a three-way pot towards Chad Eveslage within the small blind and Michael Wang in center place.

Motion checked to Negreanu within the cutoff on the flop of 4♥2♠Okay♣ and he guess 25,000. Eveslage folded and Wang known as. Each gamers then checked on the three♦ flip.

The 8♦ river accomplished the board and Wang put out an overbet of 115,000. Negreanu gave it some thought and introduced “name.”

Wang confirmed Okay♦Okay♠ for prime set, and Negreanu giggled earlier than tabling 8♠8♣ after simply calling with a set of eights for the fourth nuts.

“That is a part of what makes me poker participant!” Negreanu cheered as others on the desk sat in disbelief.

Negreanu later informed PokerNews about his thought course of through the hand. “There’s like, no concept that claims you are not elevating there. I selected to not. I simply known as him. He had three kings. I would be out of right here.”

He added: “There’s an actual deeper cause although, exploitatively, why I’ve to do stuff like that. However that will probably be like a complete we’ll write sooner or later.”

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Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Outdoors Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 3 International Poker Awards for his writing.