Daniel Negreanu earns his seventh WSOP title after years of coming up short
Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu has finally ended his more than ten-year drought at the World Series of Poker, picking up his seventh bracelet last night in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. He topped the 89-player field in the nine-game mixed event to take home $1,178,703.
“This is the tournament,” declared Negreanu after the win. “This is the one where all the best players show up. The structures are very long. It’s a real grind and to stay, meant to be sharp for five days. When you win this tournament, you earn it and there’s no fluking the $50,000 Poker Players Championship.”
Negreanu earned his last bracelet at the 2013 WSOP Europe €25,000 high roller event. He’s currently seventh all-time with $52,972,918 in career tournament cashes.
Eleven-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey ($158,719) was the first player eliminated at the final table in seventh place. Six-time WSOP winner Jeremy Ausmus ($200,896) ended the tournament in sixth place, followed by David Benyamine (5th for $265,054) and Dylan Smith (4th for $363,914).
After several hours of three-handed play, Chris Brewer pushed in his short stack against Bryce Yockey, only to fall in third place and secure $519,158 for his efforts. Yockey held a 15,750,000 to 10,950,000 chip lead over Negreanu to start heads-up play, with the back-and-forth battle lasting more than three hours.
Negreanu’s full house on the final hand of pot-limit Omaha gave him the title, as Yockey earned $768,467 as runner-up for the biggest cash of his career to take his total winnings to over $5.9 million.
