Daniel Negreanu wrapped up his fourth PokerGO Tour win of the year on Sunday to claim a tasty $265,000 in the sixth event of the Pot Limit Omaha Series II in Las Vegas.
The face of GGPoker has been on somewhat of a heater in 2024, highlighted by his first WSOP bracelet in over a decade in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship.
Once again, Negreanu was toppling big names in the $10,100 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha tournament event. Here’s how the stacks looked at the final table:
| Position | Player | Final Table Chip Stack |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alex Foxen | 3,435,000 |
| 2 | Daniel Negreanu | 3,370,000 |
| 3 | Nick Shulman | 1,980,000 |
| 4 | Nacho Barbero | 1,925,000 |
| 5 | Jeremy Ausmus | 1,910,000 |
| 6 | Matthew Wantman | 390,000 |
There’s definitely more satisfaction when beating the best in the business, as we recently heard from Bryn Kenney’s dig at Phil Hellmuth. That being said, DNegs will be pumped to have cleaned up at a table which could’ve been ripped straight from an episode of Poker After Dark.
Here’s how it went down.
Foxen Starts Day 2 Ahead
Alex Foxen, who’d already won close to $350,000 in live high rollers over the last month, started the day with a marginal lead over the second-placed Negreanu. It didn’t take long before Foxen sent Nacho Barbero home after flopping a set of kings and cracking the Argentine’s aces.
However, it was Negreanu who would then steal the show. First, he won a couple of significant pots against Foxen, including a big river bluff with 8♦7♦6♥4♥ against Q♣J♥9♠6♦ on a 8♠7♥9♦5♣5♦ board.
Then, he knocked out Nick Schulman and Jeremy Ausmus in back-to-back hands.
Negreanu opened for 300,000 with 9♠7♠7♣3♣ and Schulman jammed his remaining stack of 725,000 with J♥J♦3♥2♦. The 5♠4♥3♦6♣K♠ runout brought a straight for Negreanu to wrap up the hand and send Schulman packing.
The very next hand, it was all in pre-flop again, this time between Negreanu’s K♦J♣10♠7♠ and the A♣K♣8♠3♣ of Ausmus. It was pretty much a coin flip going in, but Negreanu flopped top pair and turned trips on the 9♦J♠3♦J♦6♣ board to make it two-for-two.
Not long after, and with less than a 10bb stack in the small blind, Matthew Wantman limp-called pre with K♥J♣9♥8♠ against Negreanu’s A♠Q♠6♥2♠. Wantman then jammed on the Q♦J♠6♦ flop and was snapped off by Negreanu’s two pair.
Wantman still had a 34% chance to win the hand but Negreanu upgraded to a boat on the Q♣ turn and that was all she wrote.
Negreanu Wins Again
This gave Negreanu a commanding 3:1 chip lead moving into heads-up play. Just as Foxen appeared to be clawing his way back into contention, he ran into full house over full house. The river on the Q♠10♥Q♥A♣10♦ was the worst thing that could’ve happened for Foxen and his A♦10♣7♦4♥, who then got into a raising match with Negreanu’s superior A♥Q♣6♣2♠.
That winning hand saw Negreanu pick up just over $265,000 and move into second on the PokerGO Tour leaderboard for 2024.
| Position | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Negreanu | $265,200 |
| 2 | Alex Foxen | $171,600 |
| 3 | Matthew Wantman | $119,600 |
| 4 | Jeremy Ausmas | $93,600 |
| 5 | Nick Shulman | $67,600 |
| 6 | Nacho Barbero | $52,000 |
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