Daniel Negreanu 2013
Daniel Negreanu today won the WSOP APAC Main Event for A$1,038,825 collecting his fifth WSOP bracelet in a dominating final table performance. The Team PokerStars Pro never looked out of his comfort zone and held a significant chip lead from pillar to post.
'Number five,' said Negreanu when handed the bracelet. 'More to come. It's pretty, very pretty.'
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Negreanu claimed the jewellery after finally knocking out the tenacious Daniel Marton, the last of his opponents from a field of 405. Negreanu had entered the heads up with a dominating lead of around 11m to Marton's 1.2m but a quick all-in double for the Australian breathed some life back into the contest when Negreanu's A♦8♠ couldn't hold against Marton's J♠Q♠. He had Marton all-in again with A♥8♣, this time dominating a loose 8♦4♠ three-bet shove, but an incredible A♦5♦7♠6♥9♦ gave Marton a gutshot straight on the turn and a chopped pot on the river. Then they both flopped a straight for another split. It took just one more all-in to settle it with Negreanu's pocket deuces holding Marton's suited ace.
It was George Tsatsis who had seemed to be providing the most problems, thanks to his position on Negreanu's left, but he lost the pot of the tournament to bust in 4th when his flopped trips lost all-in to a two-outer with one card to come. Some would say he deserved it for nit rolling Negreanu's top pair, top kicker shove but given the money at play a little reticence is excusable.
Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian professional poker player who is widely regarded as one of the best poker players of all time. As of January 2021, he had won 6 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets (1998, 2003, 2004, 2008, and twice in 2013) and 2 World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles (2004 Borgata Poker Open, 2004 Five Diamond World Poker Classic). 2013 Events 66 Cashes 13 ITM% 19.7 Buy ins $1,211,883 Payouts $3,203,423 Profit $1,963,500 Avg Buy In $18,363 Hourly Rate $3200. 2014 Events 56 Cashes 13 ITM% 23.2 Buy ins $3,183,926 Payouts $10,284,090 Profit $7,100,164. Daniel Negreanu.
Negreanu's vast live experience paid dividends throughout as he seemed to exploit the big bucks pressure felt by his opponents. Did Kid Poker feel any stress? No. 'This is fun. I'm having fun,' said Negreanu. It was just another shot at another title. Before play began today Negreanu already had 3 seven-figure scores and 29 six-figures to his name. That's a phenomenal amount of know-how and final table familiarity.
Today's win, which is worth USD$1,081,750, pushes Negreanu's live winnings up to $17,471,425 pulling him in close behind Erik Seidel on the all-time money list. Seidel and Phils Ivey and Hellmuth are all now within shooting distance of Negreanu.
All-Time Money Top Ten
1. Antonio Esfandiari, USA, $24,050,081
2. Sam Trickett, UK, $19,835,680
3. Phil Hellmuth, USA, $17,877,921
4. Phil Ivey, USA, $17,633,676
5. Erik Seidel, USA, $17,584,493
6. Daniel Negreanu, Canada, $16,389,676
7. John Juanda, Indonesia, $14,980,323
8. Michael Mizrachi, USA, $14,436,188
9. Jamie Gold, USA, $12,245,468
10. Joe Hachem, Australia, $11,819,530
Negreanu also extends his lead over fellow Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel in the Canadian all-time money list. Duhamel has clocked up an impressive $11,504,712 in live winnings since his first cash in 2006.
Negreanu's WSOP bracelets
April 1998: WSOP $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em, 1st, $169,460
May 2003: WSOP $2,000 S.H.O.E., 1st, $100,440
May 2004: WSOP $2,000 Limit Hold'em, 1st, $169,100
June 2008: WSOP $2,000 Limit Hold'em, 1st, $204,863
April 2013: WSOP APAC A$10,000 Main Event, 1st, A$1,038,825
I won!!!!!!!!!!!! YES! Very happy right now. Thanks to all my friends and family for giving me the confidence I needed! So happy!!!!
— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) April 15, 2013Sign up to the @PokerStarsBlog Twitter account for breaking news, views and interviews.
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I posted a poll on Twitter mentioning that in 2017 I cashed for $2,792, 104 and asked if people thought that was more or less than the total number of buyins I spent on the year. I mention this because I think my 2017 was a good illustration of the illusion that players cashing for $2 million in a single year is a great accomplishment. In the old days, before super high rollers, you could all but guarantee that cashing for $2 million would mean the player had a winning year. Well, the truth is, if a player plays the full high roller schedule and cashes for $2 million, they are all but certain to have had a losing year, and that’s before expenses.
Daniel Negreanu 2019
I felt like I had a decent year in terms of results, but when you break down the numbers into an actual profit vs loss, I essentially broke even!
Buyins: $2,874,164
Payouts:$2,792,104
Profit: -$86,140
Considering my average buy in on the year was $40,481 this is about as close as you can get to breaking even. In fact, after my $936,000 score I was up on the year but played a couple of the one day $25k events at Bellagio, rebought a few times, and ended the year in the red.
With the $1 million buy in One Drop coming back this year, and the Super High Roller Bowl, and countless high rollers held here in Vegas and across the globe, it won’t be much of a stretch to see players spending upwards of $5 million in buy ins. $5 million dollars. Just in buy ins.
Granted, most of the players do not fund 100% of their action, but that’s irrelevant to the jaw dropping numbers we will see in 2018. I do stake myself in these events. I have separate deals with companies like PokerStars and Poker Central, but this income is unrelated to my buy ins. I make the decision to play and risk money that I’ve earned. Having said that, I will likely be selling action into the One Drop as it just seems like a bit of a crazy amount of money to risk in one tournament. I’ll likely sell about 50% of the action and I don’t charge mark up.
Here is a closer look at my last 5 years on the circuit followed by the totals. I would have provided a longer history but I didn’t keep accurate enough records of my tournament play until 2013 so this will have to do:
2013
Events 66
Cashes 13
ITM % 19.7
Buy ins $1,211,883
Payouts $3,203,423
Profit $1,963,500
Avg Buy In $18,363
Hourly Rate $3200
2014
Events 56
Cashes 13
ITM % 23.2
Buy ins $3,183,926
Payouts $10,284,090
Profit $7,100,164
Avg Buy In $56,855
Hourly Rate $14,045
2015
Events 49
Cashes 11
ITM % 22.4
Buy ins $1,513,125
Payouts $2,482,479
Profit $952,920
Avg Buy In $30,880
Hourly Rate $3388
2016
Events 49
Cashes 10
ITM % 20.4
Buy ins $1,546,355
Payouts $300,431
Profit (-$1,246,693)
Avg Buy In $31,558
Hourly Rate (-$3097)
2017
Events 71
Cashes 21
ITM % 29.6
Buy ins $2,874,164
Payouts $2,792,104
Profit (-$86,140)
Avg Buy In $40,481
Hourly Rate (-$144)
FIVE YEAR TOTAL
Events 291
Cashes 68
ITM % 23.4
Buy Ins $10,329,453
Payouts $19,062,527
Profit $8,733,074
Avg Buy In $35,496
Hourly Rate (Hours 2565) $3405
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In the next few days I’ll write a follow up blog with what my goals for 2018 as I do each year. We’ll also look back at how I did for my 2017 goals. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Let’s make 2018 a kick ass year!