Daniel Negreanu Wins 2024 WSOP $50,000 Poker Players Championship For Seventh Bracelet

After greater than a decade and not using a win on the World Series of Poker, legend of the sport Daniel Negreanu lastly broke by means of to safe his seventh WSOP gold bracelet. The victory was particularly monumental for the 49-year-old Poker Hall of Fame member, because it got here in one of many hardest and most prestigious tournaments of the yr: the WSOP $50,000 Poker Players Championship. The Canadian professional defeated a area of 89 entries within the nine-game blended affair to earn $1,178,703 and the long-awaited {hardware}.

“This is the tournament,” stated Negreanu after popping out on high. “This is the one where all the best players show up. The structures are very long. It’s a real grind and to stay, meant to be sharp for five days. When you win this tournament, you earn it and there’s no fluking the $50,000 Poker Players Championship.”

With this win, Negreanu grew to become simply the tenth participant in poker historical past to have received seven or extra WSOP bracelets.

“I got to be honest, having six was kind of embarrassing for me, really,” Negreanu advised Card Player when requested about lastly capturing his seventh. “It’s just like I’ve played so many tournaments and I only have six and [Phil] Ivey has 11 and all this stuff, and I’m like, ‘Whoa, I have too many second place finishes.’ So this feels like it changes things up. Maybe now I’ll just go on a run and win a couple more before the series is over.”

“I don’t think I’ve ever played better. I talk about playing above the rim…. I mean, you can play at the rim and that’s good, but if you really want to be a elite, you have to play above the rim,” Negreanu shared when requested about his emotions on his efficiency on this occasion. “There were some things I did, a couple of razz pots in a row that were super important. Back to back eights, you’re broken down after losing one and then to have it happen right again and still make the right decision. I know that I played top notch and I executed my strategy really well.”

Before this win, Negreanu’s final bracelet got here in on the 2013 WSOP Europe in a €25,000 excessive rolller. It was 3,899 days between that victory and this one. He now has two bracelets in blended video games (this and the 2003 S.H.O.E.) and 5 bracelets in maintain’em occasions. His first bracelet got here within the 1998 $2,000 pot-limit Omaha occasion. He then received the $2,000 restrict maintain’em in each 2004 and 2008. His first no-limit maintain’em bracelet got here within the 2013 WSOP Asia Pacific principal occasion. Later that very same yr got here his beforehand talked about excessive curler victory.

Negreanu now has $52,972,918 in profession event earnings, which is sweet for seventh place on poker’s all-time cash checklist. More than $22.5 million of that complete has been earned by means of Negreanu’s success on the WSOP.

This was Negreanu’s third title and eleventh final-table end of 2024. The 816 Card Player Player of the Year factors he was awarded because the champion had been sufficient to maneuver him into thirteenth place within the 2024 POY standings offered by Global Poker. Negreanu is chasing his third POY title, having already earned the glory in 2004 and 2013.

Negreanu additionally earned 700 PokerGO Tour factors for the win. With 1,645 complete factors, he’s now the top-ranked participant on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.

The 89-entry turnout for this yr’s operating of this prestigious occasion resulted in a prize pool of $4,249,750. The high 14 finishers made the cash, with huge names like two-time bracelet winner Maxx Coleman (14th), four-time bracelet winner Phil Hui (thirteenth), five-time bracelet winner and three-time champion of this occasion Michael Mizrachi (twelfth), two-time bracelet winner James Obst (eleventh), three-time bracelet winner Joao Vieira (ninth), and bracelet winner Johannes Becker (eighth) all operating deep.

Phil Ivey was the primary to be knocked out on the official ultimate desk of seven, incomes $158,719 for his efforts. The 11-time bracelet winner lasted late into day 4, however finally was despatched to the rail when his 9-7-6-5-4 bumped into the 8-7-6-5-3 of Dylan Smith in no-limit deuce-to-seven single draw. The 47-year-old Poker Hall of Famer now has $45,874,407 in profession earnings.

Six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus quickly adopted Ivey to the payout desk. He bought chopped up by two-time bracelet winner Chris Brewer and David Benyamine in Omaha eight-or-better, incomes $200,896 for his efforts.

The fifth and ultimate day of play started with Brewer within the lead and Negreanu in second chip place. The first two eliminations got here immediately. Benyamine, a bracelet winner from France, had his 9-8-5-3-2 outrun by the 9-8-4-3-2 of two-time bracelet winner Bryce Yockey in deuce-to-seven triple draw lowball. Benyamine was awarded $265,054 because the fifth-place finisher.

Dylan Smith, only a month faraway from a fifth-place end within the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown principal occasion, positioned fourth on this occasion. He additionally bumped into Yockey, who made a 7-5-4-2-A in razz to get rid of Smith (4th – $363,914).

Three-handed play lasted a number of hours, with Brewer spending most of that point because the quick stack. He finally bought the final of his chips in with AA on a ten53 flop going through J10 for Yockey. The flip introduced the 7 to provide Yockey a flush and a lock on the hand. Brewer cashed for $519,158 because the third-place finisher. He now has almost $24.6 million in profession earnings after this newest robust displaying in a high-stakes occasion.

Heads-up play started with Yockey holding 15,750,000 to Negreanu’s 10,950,000. The two battled for over three hours, with loads of swings alongside the way in which. Both gamers held the lead a number of occasions. Negreanu was all-in and in danger at one level in pot-limit Omaha with a straight draw and a pair of deuces in opposition to two overpairs, aces and jacks, for Yockey. The flip modified nothing, however a deuce on the river gave Negreanu journeys and a double into the lead.

The ultimate hand of the night time additionally got here in pot-limit Omaha. Negreanu raised to 750,000 on the button with AQJ7 and Yockey known as with 9632 from the large blind. The flop got here down 1077 and Yockey checked. Negreanu guess 600,000. Yockey check-raised to three,550,000 and Negreanu moved all-in. Yockey known as for six,100,000 complete. Negreanu had journeys for the lead, however Yockey had flush and straight attracts. The Q on the flip gave Negreanu sevens full, leaving Yockey drawing lifeless. He cashed for $768,467 because the runner-up, the biggest rating of his profession. The latest $5,000 pot-limit Omaha champion now has greater than $5.9 million in complete earnings.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on this occasion:

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