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Daniel Negreanu Has High Expectations For 2018 World Series of Poker
Daniel Negreanu’s campaign for more World Series of Poker bracelets starts in a few weeks in Las Vegas, Nevada. The six-time bracelet winner has come close in recent years to adding more jewelry to his collection. Negreanu sets high expectations for himself on an annual basis and 2018 is no different. This week on his Full Contact Poker blog, Negreanu outlined his prospective schedule and his overall goals for a season of buy-ins worth close to $1.5 million.
Volume, volume, volume
Of the 78 events listed on the WSOP schedule, Negreanu is set up to play a maximum of 39. His calendar starts on June 1 with the $100,000 No Limit Hold’em High Roller and wraps up with the $1 million Big One For One Drop.
Negreanu’s summer plans start even before the World Series opens. The $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl opens on May 27 and Negreanu is among the 30 lottery selections for the event. The $25,000 and $100,000 High Rollers at ARIA and Bellagio that parallel Super High Roller Bowl are also on his list.
Over the course of the six-week Rio grind, Negreanu only has four scheduled days off for himself with two aligned back-to-back before the start of the $10,000 Main Event.
Mixed Games galore
Negreanu’s chase for more bracelets is more intensive on mixed game events over no-limit hold’em. In recent years, Negreanu swore off playing the novelty four-figure Hold’em events like Millionaire Maker and Monster Stack citing that he didn’t enjoy them.
There are 11 no-limit events on Negreanu’s schedule and the lowest buy-in among them is the $1,500 No Limit Shootout event. For standard no-limit hold’em, the smallest entry is $3,000.
Every mixed game in the book is on Negreanu’s list with a wide range of $10,000 Championship events listed. Last summer, Negreanu lost heads up for bracelet number seven to Abe Mosseri in the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo event.
The tournament is one of the first for Negreanu this summer. It is joined in the $10,000 category by the Dealers Choice tournament, HORSE, Seven Card Stud, and Pot Limit Omaha. In total, Negreanu plans to participate in 13 $10,000 buy-ins.
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Time to close
The hunt for a seventh bracelet has been treacherous for Negreanu. His drought dates back to October 2013 when he won the WSOP Europe €25,600 High Roller in Cannes, France. In the time between then and the end of 2017, Negreanu collected three silver medals across nine final tables.
Last year alone, Negreanu made the final table of four events, including the sought-after $50,000 Poker Players Championship. Negreanu’s 11 cashes resulted in an 11th place finish under the controversial WSOP Player of the Year points system.
On United States soil, Negreanu is in a drought that rivals the Las Vegas desert. Negreanu has not won a bracelet in the U.S. since 2008 when he won the $2,000 Limit Hold’em event. That tournament no longer exists. Negreanu won bracelet number five in Australia in April 2013 when he won the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific A$10,000 Main Event.
Negreanu habit of losing to tough competition dogs him with Paul Volpe, Dan Colman, and Eli Elezra among the players who have beat topped ‘Kid Poker’.
Following up on his goals
Negreanu’s blog at the start of 2018 featured his list of goals for the year. At top of the list is for him to win a bracelet this year. The goal in 2017 was to win three and Negreanu stated that winning a bracelet is “not as easy as it looks.”
The best chance at a bracelet for Negreanu might be in the Big One for One Drop. A field of at most 50 players is expected and Negreanu took second the last time around in 2014. Negreanu would knock a goal off his list by final tabling One Drop or Super High Roller Bowl.
Hitting 115 cashes is also on there and would require Negreanu to finish in the money 10 times.
Gone are the days of massive bracelet bets but Negreanu is still plenty motivated to add to his World Series of Poker legacy.
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WSOPE Returning To King’s Casino In October
The European version of the most prestigious poker festival returns in October in King’s Casino, Rozvadov.
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Nevada Poker Report Feb. 2018: The Upward Trend Continues
February was a good month for live poker in Nevada. The Nevada Gaming Control Board’s latest revenue report shows a 1.44 percent year-over-year increase in poker revenue for the month, despite the number of poker rooms and poker tables continuing to decline.
Poker revenue for the month was $8,960,000, with the NGCB counting 64 poker rooms and 587 poker tables in February. In February 2017, the state’s 67 poker rooms boasted 600 tables and tallied $8,833,000 in revenue.
This trend is pretty impressive, Revenue increased even though the number of rooms decreased by nearly five percent, and tables by two percent.
Because of this, on a per table basis, February 2018 saw revenue rise by more than $500 compared to February 2017:
- February 2017 table average: $14,721
- February 2018 table average: $15,264
2018 live poker revenue in Nevada
12 month poker room and table trend
March 2017: 66 poker rooms and 596 poker tables
April 2017: 64 poker rooms and 586 poker tables
May 2017: 62 poker rooms and 724 poker tables
June 2017: 62 poker rooms and 731 poker tables
July 2017: 63 poker rooms and 724 poker tables
August 2017: 63 poker rooms and 603 poker tables
September 2017: 62 poker rooms and 598 poker tables
October 2017: 61 poker rooms and 572 poker tables
November 2017: 62 poker rooms and 580 poker tables
December 2017: 61 poker rooms and 562 poker tables
January 2018: 63 poker rooms and 568 poker tables
February 2018: 64 poker rooms and 587 poker tables
Poker in Clark County
The NGCB counted 39 poker rooms and 471 poker tables in Clark County in February, which includes the heavily trafficked and larger poker rooms from Las Vegas.
That’s a decline from a year ago when there were 40 poker rooms and 476 poker tables. It’s an increase over last month’s numbers when Clark County had 38 poker rooms and 453 poker tables.
Clark County can lay claim to 90 percent of the total poker market share in Nevada. In February, Clark County poker rooms accounted for $8,119,000 of the $8,960,000 poker dollars collected by the state’s card rooms.
Poker on the Las Vegas Strip
Poker revenue from the Strip’s poker rooms was $5,626,000 in February, even though the Strip only accounts for a fraction of the poker rooms and tables in the state, 18 and 276 respectively.
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Nevada poker rooms by the numbers
The largest poker rooms in Las Vegas are mainly found on the Las Vegas Strip:
Venetian (The Strip) – 37 poker tables
Bellagio (The Strip) – 37 poker tables
Orleans (Las Vegas off-strip)- 35 poker tables
Wynn (The Strip) – 28 poker tables
Aria (The Strip) – 24 poker tables
South Point Casino (Henderson) – 22 poker tables
Green Valley Ranch Casino (Henderson) – 22 poker tables
Red Rock Casino (Summerlin) – 20 tables
Historical data and trends of poker in Nevada
Here’s a look at several key poker metrics from the UNLV Center for Gaming Research, which has been tracking the number of poker rooms, tables and revenue since 1992:
Year | # of Rooms | # of Tables | Total Revenue | % Change YoY |
1992 | 92 | 564 | 74,701,000 | -2.57 |
1993 | 89 | 571 | 70,814,000 | -5.20 |
1994 | 93 | 586 | 71,667,000 | 1.20 |
1995 | 92 | 574 | 66,520,000 | -7.18 |
1996 | 82 | 539 | 64,485,000 | -3.06 |
1997 | 77 | 490 | 61,509,000 | -4.61 |
1998 | 76 | 526 | 58,873,000 | -4.29 |
1999 | 70 | 546 | 63,244,000 | 7.41 |
2000 | 68 | 473 | 63,064,000 | -0.28 |
2001 | 65 | 475 | 59,673,000 | -5.38 |
2002 | 57 | 386 | 57,791,000 | -3.15 |
2003 | 58 | 383 | 68,276,000 | 18.15 |
2004 | 79 | 484 | 98,862,000 | 44.80 |
2005 | 96 | 701 | 140,224,000 | 42.00 |
2006 | 106 | 886 | 160,929,000 | 14.77 |
2007 | 113 | 907 | 167,975,000 | 4.38 |
2008 | 113 | 913 | 155,724,000 | -7.29 |
2009 | 114 | 905 | 145,580,000 | -6.54 |
2010 | 109 | 920 | 135,200,000 | -7.13 |
2011 | 104 | 872 | 131,877,000 | -2.46 |
2012 | 99 | 809 | 123,253,000 | -6.54 |
2013 | 88 | 774 | 123,891,000 | 0.56 |
2014 | 79 | 736 | 119,904,000 | -3.18 |
2015 | 76 | 681 | 118,023,000 | -1.57 |
2016 | 73 | 661 | 117,753,000 | -0.18 |
2017 | 71 | 615 | 118,455,000 | 0.60 |
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Hard Rock Atlantic City Commits To Being A ‘Good Neighbor’ With The Community
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Poker Industry PRO: Partypoker Reveals New Powerfest Plan with $40 Million Schedule
In a reversal of January’s more low-key event, the next Powerfest will be its largest ever and put it in direct competition with the biggest online.
The next Powerfest online tournament series will have a staggering $40 million in total guaranteed prize pools, partypoker announced on Wednesday.
It is the biggest guaranteed prize pool partypoker has ever run and puts Powerfest on near-equal footing to PokerStars’ flagship annual tournament series, SCOOP, which is slated to run over the same dates next month.
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Poker Industry PRO: 888poker Heralds Success of WPT500 London
888 and WPT blend online and live Day 1s to great effect with $1 million guaranteed tournament.
888poker and the World Poker Tour (WPT) are heralding the recent WPT500 event in London as a success.
The event was ambitious: $1 million in prize money guaranteed, requiring almost 1800 entries to the $565 tournament to cover. They got there—just—with 1,810 total entries. To get players in seats, there were a combination of online and live Day 1s, with starting flights in London, Newcastle and Milton Keynes as well as online on 888poker.