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If you’re considering becoming a professional poker player or are just love watching pros win stacks of cash, let Daniel Negreanu give you a reality check.
Playing heads-up cash games online for hundreds of thousands of dollars isn’t something most poker players will ever experience. However, poker fans recently got a taste of this action with Daniel Negreanu squaring off against Doug Polk at WSOP.com. Beyond the play on the felt and results, there was plenty of action behind the scenes as well. More than 22,000 responded to Negreanu's poll, with 65 percent guessing Negreanu's buy-ins were less than his total cashes for the year — in other words, that he enjoyed at least some profit.
The legendary poker pro wrote a year-end blog with his results from 2017, revealing he had won over $2.7 million last year. That seems like a ton of money, right?
- Dan Bilzerian – $200 Million. Bilzerian is a huge Instagram star and claims that most of his fortune.
- Daniel Negreanu has won 6 bracelets and 1 rings for total earnings of $19,550,955. See all events where they placed in-the-money.
Not quite, per Negreanu:
Well, the truth is, if a player plays the full high roller schedule and cashes for $2 million, they are all but certain to have had a losing year, and that’s before expenses.
I felt like I had a decent year in terms of results, but when you break down the numbers into an actual profit vs loss, I essentially broke even!
Buyins: $2,874,164
Payouts:$2,792,104
Profit: -$86,140
Crazy, right? His $2.7 million didn’t even cover all of his buy-ins into events. Although he said most players don’t fund everything by themselves, he does pay his own way into events despite sponsorship deals.
Negreanu also broke down how he did this year in terms of cashing out in tournaments: He said he played in 71 events and cashed out in JUST 21 OF THEM! The previous year he went 10-for-49 and 11-for-49 in 2015. Yet when he tallied up his five-year total, he went 68-for-291 and made an $8 million-plus profit.
What does all that mean? If you can stomach all the losses and balance them with occasionally cashing in, all while affording the expenses, you could be a pro.
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Day 33 was, to put it mildly, quite an eventful session between long-time rivals and foes, Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk. The dormant rivalry heated up once again for the first time in months.
Heading into the High Stakes Feud, the fierce rivals were far from cordial with each other. Polk has taunted and tormented Negreanu for years. He even went so far as to purchase a billboard in 2018 outside the Rio in Las Vegas during the World Series of Poker to mock the then PokerStars ambassador.
The bitter feud continued right up until the heads-up challenge began in October. And then all of a sudden, the poker pros became cordial with each other, almost as if they had suddenly become best friends.
Daniel Negreanu Total Poker Winnings 2019
But it appears the honeymoon is over. After Day 30, in which Polk booked a $298,000 win, Negreanu complained about how unlucky he’s been getting. Polk took offense to those comments and claimed he’s the one who has been unlucky overall, and posted a video on Twitter of him doing a celebratory dance.
Negreanu then answered by winning $390,000 the following session, and then picked up a small win on Day 32. In the latter session, Polk began limping buttons to lower variance as he’s trying to ensure he holds on to win the challenge so that he also wins his massive side bets.
On Day 33 (Wednesday), however, the rivalry intensified when Negreanu began repeatedly tanking in response to the button limping. After the match, he said his reasoning was he needed to take extra time to think about his decisions now that Polk is using a different strategy.
Polk took issue with the tanking. He stopped the match after 30 minutes to communicate with Phil Galfond, who was designated as an intermediary for the challenge.
Galfond, who recently won his own heads-up poker battle against Chance Kornuth, was put in the position to determine if Negreanu could continue tanking or if he would be required to speed up the pace of play or face a penalty. Polk immediately took to Twitter to publicly trash his rival for the first time in quite some time.
“Completely pathetic showing from @RealKidPoker today Tanking 20 seconds to open, tanking 20 seconds to check flop, tanking every single decision in an effort to slow the game down to nothing. Total piece of s**t move,” the Upswing Poker founder wrote.
Back to the felt
Fifteen minutes after the players sought mediation, Galfond inevitably ruled no penalty would be enforced and that tanking is within the rules. But he also advised Negreanu to discontinue tanking in the spirit of competition.
Negreanu obliged as the players returned to the felt. The tanking came to a stop, and so did Negreanu’s winning. Polk, who trailed early in the match by over $50,000, completely destroyed his opponent from that point on.
Negreanu may have lit a fire under his rival’s backside. The button limping from Polk also stopped, as he picked up the aggressiveness and dominated like he has throughout most of this challenge.
After the dust settled, and three hours of play complete, Polk ran up another $136,239 profit in 560 hands. The poker stars have now played 19,922 hands with Polk’s lead back up to $701,948 and 5,078 hands remaining.
The bitter, intense rivalry between two long-time foes is most definitely back. Will it remain that way, or will the players put it behind them and go back to being cordial? You’ll find out that answer on Day 34, which takes place Friday at 2:30 pm PT.
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