Daniel Negreanu is again in World Poker Tour motion and it is like he by no means left after having bagged an above-average stack Friday night time heading into Day 4 of the WPT World Championship.
“Child Poker” is not precisely a child anymore — he is 48 — however he is enjoying like he did when he was a lot youthful and crushing it in WPT occasions. The GGPoker ambassador ended the session, which concluded at round 9:30 p.m. PT from the Wynn Las Vegas, with 2.4 million chips. That may put him at 48 massive blinds when Day 4 begins at midday PT on Saturday (25,000/50,000).
A lot earlier within the day, one other previous WPT champion completed because the co-bubble. Tony Dunst, the World Poker Tour tv announcer, misplaced to a rivered straight in the identical hand (at a unique desk) as Yi “KitKat” Klassen had her aces cracked to bust. Each gamers shared 370th place cash ($17,400).
Glaser Leads, Reigning World Champion Jorstad Out
Benny Glaser is the Day 3 chip chief.
When the session started there have been 399 gamers within the $10,400 purchase in event out of the unique 2,960, a WPT report. Gamers started dropping shortly proper from the beginning and continued to take action all through the nine-hour session, and that included 2022 World Sequence of Poker Major Occasion champion Espen Jorstad.
Early exits earlier than the bubble burst included David Jackson and Brian Rast. Those that did not money are lacking out on probably tens of millions of {dollars}. The winner, to be topped Dec. 20, will take dwelling over $4 million and all six gamers on the last desk will obtain at the least $1 million.
As soon as the sector reached the cash, quite a few different massive identify execs cashed however had been eradicated. The listing contains Kenny Hallaert (360th for $17,400), Frank Stepuchin (333rd for $17,750), Steve Buckner (319th for $18,450), Ben Yu (296th for $19,150), Kathy Liebert (288th for $19,150), Andrew Neeme (286th for $19,150), Espen Jorstad (262nd for $19,900), Dan Smith (194th for $21,750), and NFL Corridor of Famer Richard Seymour (161st for $24,800).
When play resumes on Saturday, all 128 remaining gamers may have a assured minimal payout of $29,450, and the pay jumps will turn into large late within the session and transferring ahead into Sunday’s Day 5.
Leaving the Wynn with the chip lead was Benny Glaser, who bagged 7,565,000 (151 massive blinds). Lucas Foster was the closest in second place at 7,095,000. The total listing of chip counts weren’t accessible on the time of publishing.
WPT World Championship Day 3 High Chip Counts
| 1 | Benny Glaser | 7,565,000 |
| 2 | Lucas Foster | 7,095,000 |
| 3 | Soheb Porbandarwala | 6,300,000 |
| 4 | Corey Paggeot | 5,865,000 |
| 5 | Adam Hendrix | 5,530,000 |
Assured Daniel Negreanu Advances
Negreanu does not play many tournaments exterior of Las Vegas anymore as he defined to PokerNews throughout an early Day 3 break interview. As such, he does not play the World Poker Tour usually lately aside from the 5 Diamond World Poker Traditional at Bellagio.
However for individuals who adopted the WPT throughout its early years, you will in all probability bear in mind the Poker Corridor of Famer dominating. In reality, a lot of Negeanu’s first main scores got here in WPT occasions.
In complete, he has two WPT titles, 9 last desk appearances and $6.4 million in profession earnings on the tour. With a money for $301,000 or higher, he’ll surpass Carlos Mortensen with the very best World Poker Tour earnings. His final WPT championship got here in 2004 when he gained the Borgata Poker Open.
“A few of these occasions again then had been actually, actually massive,” Negreanu mentioned as he reminisced with PokerNews about his WPT glory days. “This one is on par, even greater than all the opposite occasions there, so I acquired actually enthusiastic about it and I used to be joyful to come back out and play.”
On the first break, Negreanu, who was seated on the televised function desk, had simply 20 massive blinds. However confidently defined that “20 massive blinds for me is like 600 massive blinds” for many others.
With $49.7 million in lifetime stay event cashes, good for third all-time in line with Hendon Mob, that is not such a wild or boastful declare. It is solely cocky if you cannot again it up.
*Photographs courtesy of WPT.
