Daniel Negreanu won’t defend his $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship crown after being knocked out of the occasion by none apart from Phil Hellmuth.
Negreanu, who ended a decade-long bracelet drought when he received final yr’s occasion for $1,178,703, would see his event finish on Day 3 this yr, after the seventeen-time bracelet winner Hellmuth made a Queen-high flush to ship Child Poker to the rail.
The Poker Gamers Championship, one of many summer time’s marquee occasions, is extensively considered the last word mixed-game take a look at. A stacked area stays in competition for the newly redesigned Chip Reese Memorial Trophy, the $1,331,322 first-place prize, and a WSOP gold bracelet. However the reigning champion received’t be amongst them.
With the sport Pot-Restrict Omaha, Negreanu would open to 42,000 from the button, and Hellmuth potted from the large blind, overlaying Negreanu, who had 80,000 behind. The Canadian would make the decision to place his possibilities of successful an eighth bracelet within the stability.
Negreanu confirmed A♦10♥8♦5♣, whereas Hellmuth tabled Q♥Q♠10♣5♠.
The flop ran out 5♥8♠7♠ to provide Negreanu two pair and pull forward of Hellmuth, however the American would enhance to a flush with 9♠ on the flip. Negreanu would discover no assistance on the river within the form of the three♦, and as he made his manner from the desk, could possibly be heard telling his fellow Corridor of Famer, “That beats me, good hand, GG.”
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Day 3 Rolls On With a Discipline Filled with Poker Royalty
A stacked area stays in competition for the $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship, with 26 gamers nonetheless battling it out on the closing break earlier than dinner. The sphere is loaded with bracelet winners, together with Corridor of Fame hopeful Mike Matusow, Michael Mizrachi, Benny Glaser, who’s chasing his fourth WSOP title of a outstanding summer time, and, after all, Hellmuth himself.
A formidable determine presently stands on the high of the chip counts, within the type of Bryn Kenney, poker’s all-time cash listing chief with over $77m in reside event earnings. Fellow bracelet winners Ali Eslami and Christian Roberts additionally spherical out the rostrum spots on the present time of writing.
The $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship is scheduled to complete on Saturday, June twenty ninth. You’ll be able to view the newest chip counts on the time of writing beneath:
$50,000 Poker Gamers Championship High 10 Chip Counts
*Appropriate as of 16:55 p.m. on Thursday, June twenty sixth.
Eliot Thomas
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