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Daniel Negreanu is officially connected a blistery streak.
Negreanu won a $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em lawsuit astatine the Poker Masters connected Sunday astatine the PokerGO studio, defeating a tract of 66 entries to gain $178,200.
This marks his 2nd tourney triumph successful 2 months aft a winless streak that dated to 2013.
Negreanu besides claimed the wide PokerGO Cup points title successful July aft helium ended his tourney drought, and helium is the person to assertion the wide Poker Masters rubric — and the purple overgarment that comes with it — aft 5 of 12 events.
Negreanu, a 46-year-old Las Vegas resident, has much than $43 cardinal successful vocation tourney earnings, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database, and six World Series of Poker titles.
But helium said the archetypal Poker Masters successful 2017 made him recognize that helium needed to enactment connected his poker crippled to support up with today’s young players.
“I retrieve it was the archetypal infinitesimal that I realized, ‘Oh my god, these guys are conscionable amended than me.’” Negreanu told PokerGO. “It made maine recognize that I person to spell backmost to the laboratory and work. Then to spot the enactment wage disconnected successful the PokerGO Cup is awesome.
“To spell backmost to back, with a accidental present to travel afloat ellipse and triumph the jacket, I truly consciousness powerfully not lone that I can, but I consciousness similar I’m going to triumph it. I consciousness similar I’m moving good and everything’s going good.”
Negreanu won heads-up Sunday against Nick Petrangelo. In the last hand, Negreanu, holding a large spot lead, conscionable called with pouch aces. Petrangelo shoved his abbreviated stack with queen-ten suited, and Negreanu called. Petrangelo got nary assistance connected the flop and was drafting dormant connected the turn. He earned $132,000.
Negreanu leads the Poker Masters leaderboard with 281 points aft besides finishing 3rd successful different $10,000 No-limit Hold’em event. Brock Wilson is 2nd with 272 points, and Sean Perry is 3rd with 239.
The Poker Masters runs done Saturday, finishing with a $100,000 No-limit Hold’em event. Final tables tin beryllium watched unrecorded with a subscription to PokerGO.
Starting tomorrow: Poker Masters 2021 kicks disconnected with Event 1: $10,000 NLH
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