Daniel Negreanu Down $226K in World number of Poker So Far

Canadian poker professional Daniel Negreanu who’s won five World number of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and more than $18 million in tournament cashes throughout his illustrious poker profession is devoid of a great 12 months so far at WSOP. At minimum, not according to his very own tournament tracking application, which shows him down $226,000 after barreling through 31 events already only at that year’s gathering. The figure was at ‘just’ $176K, until he busted the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship in 102nd place this week. And that’s despite five cashes, which will certainly be impressive for many players.

Can’t Profit for Losing

The downswing is really because, inspite of the five cashes ( which may have garnered him $45,088 so far), he’s poured $271,111 to the 31 events (with the priciest being the One Drop tall Rollers No limitation Hold’em tournament that benefits charity and that paid champion Tony Gregg a healthy $4,830,619 for first. Last year’s $18 million + winner, Antonio Esfandiari, only took fourth this year, along with a buy-in that was almost 1/10th of last year’s $1 million, he made off having a ‘paltry’ $1,433,438 for in 2010’s fourth place finish. Yes, the rich get richer).

Before you lose any rest over Negreanu’s downward trend, however, look at this: he’s doing pretty much over all in tournaments up to now in 2010. Back in April, he took straight down WSOP Australia for $1,087,160, and Leer más