Daniel Negreanu Secures Second Title of 2024 With PGT PLO Win

Daniel Negreanu kicked off 2024 with a public dedication to deal with ‘quality over quantity’ this yr after posting a $2.2 million loss on the poker match circuit in 2023. The 49-year-old Poker Hall of Fame member’s efforts to pare down the quantity of occasions he enters to make sure correct relaxation and focus has seemingly paid off. He has managed eight final-table finishes and two titles up to now this yr, along with his first win being a victory within the kickoff occasion of the PGT Last Chance collection that ran only a few days into the brand new yr.

The six-time bracelet winner and two-time World Poker Tour champion’s most up-to-date victory noticed him defeat a discipline of 118 entries within the 2024 PGT PLO Series $5,100 pot-limit Omaha occasion. He earned $147,500 for the win, bringing his profession whole to greater than $51.5 million. Negreanu now sits in seventh place on poker’s all-time cash listing.

Negreanu additionally earned a lot of rating factors for this victory. The 480 Card Player Player of the Year factors he was awarded grew his whole to 2,140. As a end result, he climbed into sixteenth place within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker. He additionally claimed the third-place spots on each the PGT season-long points race leaderboard and the PGT PLO collection rankings because of the 148 PGT factors he earned on this occasion.

This occasion performed out over the course of two days contained in the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas. The high 17 finishers made the cash on this occasion, however solely six moved on to day 2.

Negreanu held the chip lead after day 1 concluded, with Anuj Agarwal sitting on the next-largest stack. Lance Patel was the quick stack to begin. He was finally the primary to hit the rail when Curtis Muller cracked his pocket aces. Patel earned $29,500 because the sixth-place finisher.

Pocket aces fared higher for Negreanu within the subsequent massive showdown, as they held in opposition to the A-Okay-9-8 with ace-high spades for bracelet winner Dylan Weisman. A pair of aces was nonetheless greatest by the river and Weisman was eradicated in fifth place ($38,350).

Muller quickly received all-in with a flush draw in opposition to the pocket aces of Agarwal. He added an open-ended straight draw on the flip, however bricked out on the top to complete fourth ($50,150).

Brutno Furth misplaced an enormous chunk of his stack in a conflict with Negreanu. The relaxation quickly went in on a Okay993 board with Furth holding Okay776 going through the Q1093 of Agaral. The A on the top meant Furth must accept $64,900 because the third-place finisher.

Negreanu held higher than a 2:1 chip benefit over Agarwal at the beginning of heads-up play. Agarwal received off to a fast begin and shortly overtook the lead. He started to drag away a bit earlier than Negreanu kicked off a comeback of his personal. Negreanu scored an important double-up to take a large lead when his flopped jacks and fives held in opposition to Agarwal’s flush and straight attracts. The flip improved Agarwal’s straight draw to a wrap, however an ace on the river despatched the important thing pot to Negreanu.

In the ultimate hand Agarwal raised from the button and known as all-in when Negreanu three-bet pot with AOkayQ9. Agarwal held A543. The board got here down OkayJ32J and Negreanu made the ace-high flush to win the pot and the title. Agarwal earned $91,450 because the runner-up.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the ultimate day:

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