Daniel Negreanu Wins Poker Masters $10,000 High Roller Event For $178,200

Earleir this yr Daniel Negreanu was topped the first-ever PokerGO Cup champion due to the 4 cashes and his first dwell event win in additional than seven years that he secured throughout that sequence, which was held in July. The Poker Hall of Fame member and six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner spoke publicly in regards to the aid he felt after lastly breaking his title-less streak, which prolonged again to 2013. Negreanu didn’t have to attend practically as lengthy in between victories this time round, as he got here out on high within the fifth occasion of the 2021 Poker Masters simply 61 days after successful the penultimate occasion of the PokerGO Cup.

Negreanu defeated a subject of 66 entries within the $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em event, incomes his second title of the yr and $178,200. This win elevated his lifetime event earnings to greater than $42.7 million, which locations him third on poker’s all-time cash record.

In addition to the title and the cash, Negreanu additionally secured loads of rankings factors. He took residence 360 Card Player Player of the Year factors for what’s his seventh final-table end of the yr. The rating propelled him into forty second place within the 2021 POY race standings, that are sponsored by Global Poker. He additionally moved into thirteenth place on the PokerGO Tour leaderboard due to the 179 factors he secured because the champion of this occasion. Negreanu additionally earned the identical quantity of rankings factors in direction of the Poker Masters race. This was his second top-three end of the sequence, having positioned third in occasion no. 2 for $103,200 and 103 factors. As a end result, he edged out Brock Wilson to take the lead within the race for the purple jacket.

“It’s huge,” Negreanu advised PokerGO reporters after transferring into the highest spot within the participant of the sequence standings. “_Poker Masters_ means a lot to me because I remember the first one that they had. I remember it was the first moment that I realized, ‘Oh my god, these guys are just better than me.’ It made me realize that I have to go back to the lab and work. Then to see the work pay off in the PokerGO Cup is awesome. To go back to back, with a chance now to come full circle and win the jacket, I really feel strongly not only that I can, but I feel like I’m going to win it. I feel like I’m running well and everything’s going good.”

The last day of this occasion started with Negreanu within the lead and simply 5 gamers remaining. Jeffrey Trudeau, who got here into the day because the shortest stack, was finally the primary to hit the rail. He bought all-in preflop with pocket eights dealing with the Q-10 of Negreanu. A ten-high flop gave Negreanu a lead that he maintained by means of the river to safe the pot and slim the sector to 4. Trudeau, a nine-time WSOP Circuit gold ring winner, earned $52,800 because the fifth-place finisher.

Jake Daniels’ run on this occasion got here to an finish when his AJ bumped into the OkOk of two-time bracelet winner Nick Petrangelo. The overpair held as much as ship Daniels residence in fourth place ($66,000). With that, Petrangelo overtook Negreanu for the chip lead.

Vikenty Shegal was the shortest stack when three-handed play started. He battled for over an hour, however ultimately bought all-in together with his Ok10 main the ten7 of Negreanu, who successfully put Shegal all-in with a hefty elevate from the small blind. Shegal shoved for barely greater than Negreanu’s elevate from the large blind and obtained a name. Negreanu spiked a seven on the flop to take the lead, and Shegal was unable to return from behind on the flip or river. He took residence $85,800 because the third-place finisher.

With that Petrangelo took roughly a 5:3 chip lead into heads-up play with Negreanu. The 47-year-old rapidly erased that deficit, thanks largely to an enormous name he made with king-high on a paired board that beat a bluff from Petrangelo. Negreanu took a slight lead after that hand. Moments later he took down an enormous pot together with his AQ beating the A7 of Petrangelo on a AQJ44 board. Petrangelo was left at roughly a 9:1 chip deficit after the hand. He bought all-in on the very subsequent hand with Q10 and obtained a name from Negreanu, who had raised with the AA from the button. The board got here down Ok546Ok to lock up the title for Negreanu. Petrangelo earned $132,000 because the runner-up, simply at some point after cashing for $43,800 because the sixth-place finisher in occasion no. 4.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the last desk:

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