Daniel Negreanu's very own containment thread. All things Danny go here

Simply need to tank jam that river and would’ve made the POY points jump. Shows he never for once thought he was behind

Negreanu was one of the first players to bust the $10k HORSE event. I don't care how unlucky you run ... if you are supposedly one of the best at every game I don't see how you can bust a limit event within a couple levels.

He's just completely off his game, only way to salvage the series is a big score at the 100k or 250k or win a bracelet.

He had 40k off of 60k on the last break of the night then lost most of that in a huge Stud pot vs an aggro guy who made his draw on 7th street v Dneg's trips and then had one bet left which he lost to the same guy a few hands later.

Maybe better players have more chips at that moment and could come back, but its hard to win when you get rivered in a ~14 big bet pot at 5k limits.

He's just no where near good enough at games outside of NL.

For the rest of the year most of the field in something like HORSE are out grinding the cash streets on a daily basis in some variant or another.

Dnegs sits at home all year and plays a FEW NL tourneys at pokergo.

Even the NL guys are at Triton all year round playing to a much higher level than pokergo studios.

He may have been alrite at one time, but those times are clearly over. If you don't put in the reps you will get left behind.

Out early in the 100K NLHE.

I’m not a vlog watcher - how downhearted is he getting about his results?

Entered and reentered.
Two bullets.
That's the Daniel we've come to know and love.

I'll assume you're also not a previous vlog watcher, either. We've seen multiple years during which he gets stuck seven figures at the WSOP, yet he continually tells the audience how well he's playing and how good he feels about his game. This is certainly no different.

Even the two bullets that iwasbanned mentioned above would elicit a "Y'all don't understand, it's still just two buy-ins, no different than if I did it in the $300 Gladiators" response.

More bad luck. He ran A9s into AA.

More bad luck. He ran A9s into AA.

Spoiler for the next vlog:

'Oh I ran into aces twice, can you believe it? Twice!!!!!!!11111ONEONEONE'

'No stress it is the 10k razz tomorrow and we are a tier 1 razz player and it is one of my favourite games'

Daniel played like **** got mocked won a flip jammed into aces rebought and then blew up 20 bigs with nut flush draw and a gutter on the turn vs a guy shoving in a 3 way pot

should be a fun shitshow of a video

also wouldnt be shocked if daniel jumps into the 3k nl freeze before jumping into Razz because of structures

This years tilt began when the guy called with 10s vs his AK deep in the 500 tourney.

It grew when he oopsied the 53-1 fold.

It grew again when Nick won the 99 v QQ hand and then Nick went on to win the bracelet.

Now it’s starting to boil with every little beat. The set of 9s losing to the straight.

Now he’s dusted 2 bullets in the 100k.

It will be 2 more bullets in the 250k.

He will be on selfie stick # 2 by the weekend.

He also check rasied and called a flop re-raise
On

A35 two clubs with a7qq nut flush draw in a heads up pot where he was a blind vs the button open

Putting in about 90 percent of his stack then folding getting almost 20-1 when the 3 paired the turn.

Bc surely if his opponent had a wheel he'd just check the turn behind
Or maybe even just take his cards and throw them in the garbage once the board pairs

This is all spot on. It's really wild how it seems to snowball out of control for him year after year. He's playing worse and worse as the series goes on. Feels like his only hope is winning some 50/50 spots in the $250k and binking it. Or binking some low buy in tournament/online event that has unlimited rebuys. Maybe the flip and go tourney ?

I really want to see him get a bracelet but dont see it happening . He had the skill, I just think it's turned into a combination of him being too rich to care and too stubborn to study /learn.

yep. and hearing him cry about his "bad luck" is pretty intolerable. guy has run top 99.99999 percent in poker and can't handle losing a few flips.
i'll give him credit for staying marketable. but a lot of that stemmed from being in the right place at the right time initially.if he binked a few tournaments 5 years later instead he'd be just another guy.

I suspect GG pays his buyins or part of them. They want him playing all these events. That may be partly why plays high rollers for 2 bullets, etc.

He seems to be playing sloppy. Wtf with twice folding a pair getting huge odds in PLO and limit Omaha high.

Yep. Theres definitely a lot to dislike about him, but you can't help but root for him. You can tell how much a bracelet would mean to him even with all of the money and fame he already has.

And he's a great ambassador for the game. He could have easily took his money, early success and walked off into the sunset , instead he continues to grind ,vlog for all of us to see , and interact with fans and sign autographs.

overall I'd agree he's a phenomenal poker ambassador.

only thing Daniel's done sort of correctly this series is to take an occasional day off. but even Terrence said during their most recent podcast that he thought Daniel was still playing tournaments he said he wasn't going to. so he's not capable of following the simplest of his own plans.

still love the vlog tho.

My guess his contract with GG is $6m+ and part of the contract is he must vlog daily during WSOP and play x dollars of buy-ins.

Tournaments are hard. One thing I've noticed from watching the vlogs this year is that Becker and Tice, both strong players in mid-stakes or lower, are stuck a small amount for the summer so far despite several cashes. That's just the nature of tournaments. If you don't make final tables, you are going to bleed money.

Negreanu had several cashes in the PGT mixed series back in Feb-March. He also finished 10th in the $10k dealer's choice at the WSOP this year. He's not dead money in non-NLHE, even if he's not absolute top tier. A big problem for his ROI every year is that he plays most of the toughest events while skipping a lot of the easier stuff. Many days he's either playing NLHE against the high roller wizards or mixed games against people who prioritize those formats over NLHE/PLO. Meanwhile he will skip events like the Monster Stack where his edge would be biggest. Makes sense to avoid slow mega-field events from the standpoint of maximizing your bracelet chances-per-time, but it diminishes his raw profitability.

If you look around the WSOP, not many guys are firing the $100k NLHE and also the $10k HORSE. You are taking on the best competition in wildly different formats. Basically, his game selection is terrible. He has that luxury because he has the budget to do it. If he wanted to save face and just show a profit every year, he could fire a full NLHE schedule and I suspect his results would look pretty impressive.

He should really stay out of the super high rollers. He thinks it'll be easier to win one because the fields are small, but the toughness of the field far outweighs the number of entrants. He's pretty much drawing dead unless he really dedicates some time to learning how to play them. The $100k is basically a Triton event with more "lower tier" regs who don't make the trip and less VIPs that are at Triton to support Paul and Richard. Dnegs is such a dog in these things with how passive he plays

he's dead money in the high rollers though.

I'm guessing it's part of his contract with GG. Who wants to watch endless vlogs of him playing the Gladiator, Monster Stack, Millionaire Maker, etc??

+EV for both GG and Daniel for firing big buy-ins during WSOP