2010 World Series of Poker Event #23: $2500 Limit Hold’em / Six Handed – PokerNews.com
July 1, 2010 by admin
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2010 World Series of Poker Event #23: $2500 Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
PokerNews.com Brock Parker and Daniel Negreanu were the last two men standing, Negreanu drawing a huge throng of spectators into the featured table arena to watch him … |
2010 World Series of Poker Event #23: $2500 Limit Hold’em / Six Handed – PokerNews.com
June 13, 2010 by admin
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2010 World Series of Poker Event #23: $2500 Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
PokerNews.com Brock Parker and Daniel Negreanu were the last two men standing, Negreanu drawing a huge throng of spectators into the featured table arena to watch him … |
PokerStars: Peter Eastgate Absent from WSOP – Poker News Daily
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PokerStars: Peter Eastgate Absent from WSOP
Poker News Daily Whether it be Phily Ivey, PokerStars Team Pro Member Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, or last year's Main Event winner Joe Cada, the pro are always out in full … Daniel's Room Opens on PokerStarsPocketFives.com (blog) |
Daniel’s Room Opens on PokerStars – PocketFives.com (blog)
June 11, 2010 by admin
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Daniel's Room Opens on PokerStars
PocketFives.com (blog) Now, there is Daniel's Room, which is available exclusively on the virtual felts of PokerStars and fronted by sponsored pro Daniel Negreanu. … PokerStars: Peter Eastgate Absent from WSOPPoker News Daily |
Poker in Twitter: Mother’s Day, PokerStars Big Game, and Charity Tournaments – Poker News Daily
May 11, 2010 by admin
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Poker in Twitter: Mother's Day, PokerStars Big Game, and Charity Tournaments
Poker News Daily Playing with Daniel, Freddy Deeb, Vanessa.” Vanessa Rousso herself was ready for action, Tweeting, “Tomorrow I play in Fox TVs new show The Big Game… can't … |
Daniel Negreanu goes online to fix flaws in poker game – ESPN
April 21, 2010 by admin
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Daniel Negreanu goes online to fix flaws in poker game
ESPN "One thing Daniel has going for him is that he's very realistic," said Justin Bonomo, who's been observing the experiment closely. … |
High Stakes Snapshot: The Old Triple Straddle
April 20, 2010 by admin
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The hand in question starts off with David Benyamine posting his $400 small blind. Next is Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, who posts his $800 big blind.
Then Daniel Negreanu puts on the $1,600 straddle. Eli Elezra posts the $3,200 straddle and, last but not least, Tom Dwan re-re-re-straddles to $6,400.
When you add in the $200 antes it adds up to $13,800 in the pot before the cards are even dealt.
Doyle Brunson, the first non-blind, looks down and sees A♥ Q♥. With the $6,400 straddle on, Doyle effectively has 24 big blinds.
With a solid hand and 24bb he chooses to just make the unexploitable play of moving all-in. Doyle would be more than happy win the blinds, antes, and straddles, but his hand is good enough that it has decent equity if called by anything but aces.
By moving all-in Doyle is guaranteed to see all five cards and can’t be forced to fold like he may have been had he made a smaller raise.
When Doyle moves in, he and the entire table burst out laughing, except for Mike Matusow. Matusow, directly on Doyle’s left, wakes up with K♠ K♣ and announces that he’s all-in too.
Doyle immediately stops laughing and let’s a hilarious “Oh no” slip.
The biggest nit at the table, who’s folded all but one hand, wakes up to kings when there’s three straddles and a $150,000 shove in front of him. Easy game.
Doyle realizes that once Matusow shoves he probably has AA or KK or sometimes QQ and that his A♥ Q♥ is in rough shape.
Each of the remaining blinds does his best to try and squeeze out AA to no avail.
When the dust clears Doyle and Matusow agree to run the whole board twice.
The first board’s flop comes out 3♣ 3♥ J♣. The turn brings the 8♥ and a backdoor flush draw for Doyle.
The river binks the 6♥ and the Grandfather of Poker sucks out with the backdoor flush to guarantee himself half the pot.
The second board’s flop comes K♦ J♦ 4♠ and this time Matusow has to dodge the gutshot.
The turn comes A♣ and the river bricks off the A♦ and Matusow somehow dodges and wins the second half.
After all that excitement the two end up splitting the $319,000 pot – a fairly anti-climactic ending to a pretty interesting situation.
If you haven’t seen the episode it’s worth it just to hear Doyle’s “Oh no” when Matusow moves in. It’s the best thing since his Ivey impression.
More Strategy Snapshots from High Stakes Poker Season 6:
Episode 9: Big Mistakes Benifet Benyamine
Episode 8: Ivey Fivebets Light
Episode 7: Negreanu Bluffs Into The Nuts
Episode 6: Good2cRaSZi Bluffing
Episode 5: Welcome to Ivey World
Episode 4: Ivey Goes Vegetarian
Episode 3: Negreanu Bailed Out by River
Episode 2: Hoivold Sent Packing
Episode 1: Hellmuth Felted
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High Stakes Poker Snapshot: Negreanu Bluffs Into The Nuts
March 30, 2010 by admin
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The Set-Up
Episode Seven is playing even bigger than normal High Stakes Poker with a mandatory $1,600 straddle.
In this hand it’s Tom Dwan’s straddle.
Everyone folds to Daniel Negreanu on the button who raises to $6,500. The two blinds fold and Tom Dwan re-raises his straddle to $23,600.
Negreanu makes the call and the flop comes A♦ A♥ J♥. Dwan c-bets $28,200 into the $49,800 pot.
Negreanu thinks and calls. The turn comes the K♣ and Dwan fires again, this time $56,600.
Daniel Negreanu goes into the tank before raising to $138,600. Dwan chooses to just call the $80kish raise.
The river comes T♠. Dwan checks and Negreanu checks through. Tom Dwan tables the A♠ K♦ for the nuts and Daniel Negreanu mucks J♦ 8♠ face down.
The Breakdown
When it’s folded to Negreanu on the button he raises to $6,500 attempting to pick up the blinds and antes with a somewhat weak J♦ 8♠.
Both the blinds fold and Dwan makes it $23,600 with the A♠ K♦, an obvious three-bet for value.
Because Dwan plays so aggressive and three-bets so often, people are going to end up calling with a much wider range than they would against a tight player.
That said AK is going to be a three-bet for value hand almost always vs a button raiser when there’s a straddle on. Negreanu flats the re-raise with his weak jack.
He probably feels that because he’s around 300k effective deep and in position vs Dwan’s wide re-raising range he’ll be able to out-maneuver him post flop.
Of course this thought is delusional.
The flop drops A♦ A♥ J♥ and Dwan c-bets $28,200 into the $49,800 pot.
Dwan flops trips with a king kicker and doesn’t need to start hammering away with full pot bets.
Betting half pot on the flop and the turn will put enough money in the pot to win be able to win Negreanu’s stack by showdown.
Negreanu makes the call with his two pair aces and jacks with an eight kicker. He’s thinking if Dwan doesn’t have an ace his hand is good.
The turn comes K♣ and Dwan fires a second barrel, this one $56,600 into $106,200.
With a full house Dwan opts to second barrel with the nuts rather than slow play.
When you’re an aggressive player slowpaying isn’t as necessary. You’re betting all the time anyway so people naturally won’t believe you, so there’s no reason to slow down, just keep firing and let your image work for you. People are going to think you’re bluffing anyways.
Negreanu thinks and decides to turn his jacks into a bluff and raises to $138,600.
This play doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense poker theory wise.
The raise is attempting to represent a full house or a made hand, lets for second look past the fact that Daniel Negreanu already made the near nuts twice in this episode and played both extremely passively and showed down both, and just look at what he’s trying to get Dwan to fold.
When Tom Dwan three-bets before the flop and then fires two barrels on an A♦ A♥ J♥ K♣ board his range is polarized.
He either has a monster, or he’s bluffing. There are approximately five different fullhouses he can have, none of which he’s folding with his image.
The only hands Dwan may two barrel only to fold against a raise that are better than Daniel’s jack would be something like A♠ 9♠ or another ace rag hand. But in that case Dwan would likely take a different line realizing that he will not often get three streets of value from a worse hand.
Thus Daniel’s raise in this exact spot only folds out hands he’s already ahead of. It’s another example of “I don’t want you to outplay me so I’m going to try and end the hand right now and oh yeah, I don’t really want to think about ranges at all so I raise.”
So Negreanu raises as a bluff and Dwan elects to just flat call with the nuts. He knows that either Negreanu is bluffing or he has a monster.
The river comes T♠ and Dwan checks.
Dwan realizes that should Negreanu actually have that (smaller) monster he’s going to be shoving the river regardless when checked to and as a bonus if he is bluffing he’s giving Negreanu one last chance on the river.
Negreanu wisely decides not to pull the trigger and checks through. His jacks are obviously no good vs Dwan’s aces full of kings.
Hands like these show you why Dwan’s relentlessly aggressive style is profitable. He coerces his opponents into making terrible errors that they probably wouldn’t make against other opponents.
And Daniel Negreanu continues his poor showing on High Stakes Poker. He has to be the biggest loser dollar-wise that the show has ever seen.
More Strategy Snapshots from High Stakes Poker Season 6:
Episode 6: Good2cRaSZi Bluffing
Episode 5: Welcome to Ivey World
Episode 4: Ivey Goes Vegetarian
Episode 3: Negreanu Bailed Out by River
Episode 2: Hoivold Sent Packing
Episode 1: Hellmuth Felted
High Stakes Poker Season 6 Set To Kick Off
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On to Round 2 of the NBC Heads-Up Championship
March 8, 2010 by admin
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After my 3rd place finish at the High Roller event in LA, I knew I needed to make my way back to Las Vegas. I had an invitation to play in the NBC Heads Up Championship, how could I say no to that?
I came back that same night after the finish of the High Roller event. I rode back with a couple buddies crammed in their tiny 2 door car… I rode in the back seat!
We left around 2 am and arrived in Vegas around six. It was a miserable drive, but I was happy to finally get here.
I chilled out the first day I was here, just hanging with friends, drinking some beers and having a good time. The next day was the drawing party for the event. It was pretty cool, I was able to bring two of my good buddies, Andy and the one and only- Daniel O’Brien, and two of his friends as well.
We all had a great time there and I found out who I was matched up against, Daniel Negreanu.
He’s not exactly my first choice from the field, as there are plenty of much weaker opponents. However, I was not totally opposed to the thought of playing him as I knew there would be a good chance our match would be the featured one.
I have also played a lot against Daniel and feel like I have a good read on how he plays.
Our match did end up being on the featured table, and also the fastest one. I knocked him out of what I would guess to be around the 10th hand of the match.
I got all the money in on a board of J-3-3-2 holding QQ vs his 55 in a 3-bet pot. The structure of these matches are fairly fast paced, as they are made for TV.
Saturday, I will be playing Pieter De Korver in my first match. If I win this match, I will be in the money and down to the final 16. Hopefully I can win both matches tomorrow and be on the final day on Sunday when only 8 players are left.
First place in this tournament is a cool half million. Not bad eh?
Stay tuned to pokerlistings.com to follow the action
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It’s an all-star turnout for PokerStars.net at The Venetian – Las Vegas Sun
February 25, 2010 by admin
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It's an all-star turnout for PokerStars.net at The Venetian
Las Vegas Sun He beat top poker pros Daniel, Phil Hellmuth, reigning WSOP champion Joe Cada, Gavin Griffin, Dennis Phillips, Chris Moneymaker and Vanessa Rousso. … NAPT gathers $43025 to Fight Against HungerPokerHeadline.com The Faces of the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) in Las VegasTrue/Slant NAPT Venetian: Day 1, levels 5 and 6 (200-400-50)PokerStars.com (blog) Bluff Europe Magazine -FlopTurnRiver.com (blog) -Bluff Magazine all 69 news articles » |
