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January 29th 2007
WPT Tunica – Negreanu just misses out on third WPT title
The WPT World Poker Open at Tunica concluded last weekend, and though the final table was not as exciting as some might have hoped, it was the scene of a number of broken records.
Negreanu’s second place finish here meant no player has won more money, made more final tables (7), had more top three finishes (7), had more cashes (14), or had more consecutive cashes (4) on the World Poker Tour than him. Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu now stands as the second highest earner in tournament poker history with over $9 million in tournament earnings. The only player ahead of him is Jamie Gold, and considering $12 million of Gold’s total $12,100,997 tournament earnings came from one tournament, the two players do not even merit comparison.
But beside the myriad of individual records Negreanu broke there was another, less prestigious record that fell in Tunica: the record for the longest WPT final table without an elimination. Sadly this meant four hours and forty minutes (or 93 hands) of mind numbingly boring poker with before a player finally hit the rail.
There were exciting moments of course, such as when Negreanu won an all-in battle with A-Q versus A-K, but on the whole play was tight and dull. The player to finally break the duck was J.C. Tran, who fell in sixth place when Young Cho re-sucked with two pair on the river after Tran had caught top pair on the turn.
Trans elimination seemed to lift the cloud hanging over this final table and the action finally picked up. The eliminations came thick and fast before Bryan Sumner found pocket aces to eliminate Young Cho in third place, leaving himself with a huge chip lead going into the heads-up battle with Negreanu.
It was by all accounts a crap shoot, and with such a chip disadvantage Negreanu would need to double up if he was to stand any chance of taking his third WTP title. Unfortunately for Kid Poker he couldn’t get Sumner to commit his chips when Negreanu had a decent hand, and he ended up all-in with a mediocre A-3 up against Sumner’s pocket eights. The eights held up and Sumner was the latest WPT champion.
The final table payouts were as follows:
Bryan Sumner - $913,986
Daniel Negreanu - $502,691
Young Cho - $257,058
Gary Kainer - $199,934
Kido Pham - $171,372
J.C. Tran - $142,810
Submitted: 29/01/2007 11:46:11
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