We’re going to have some people who never dreamed of playing $10,000 or $5,000, anything that big. How is that bigger than the World Series Main Event?įor one, the buy-in is bigger. We’re creating the largest $25,000 buy-in prize pool in poker history. People can buy in for $25,000, but there’s a full year in which players can win a free pass. It’s got 300-plus platinum pass seats worth $30,000 each that will be contributed to the prize pool, as well as an additional $1 million added to prize. What’s the big deal with the Players Championship? Negreanu covered other topics in his Q&A with For The Win, which has been edited and condensed.

You don’t get many opportunities to get that close to winning the Main Event. “What really stings is I would be in that situation today and I never would have played the hand the way I did. “I lost the pot, a huge coin-flip situation,” he continued. The board ran out Jack-10-blank-blank-blank.” I got involved in a hand with Ace-King against a pair of 6s. “It was 2001, and there were 12 left in the World Series of Poker Main Event and I was chip leader. When asked for his worst “bad beat” in his legendary career, Negreanu told For The Win while promoting the just-announced PokerStars Players Championship that it wasn’t a tale involving a good hand that lost to a better one, but that it was “impactful and devastating” just the same. Daniel Negreanu has played countless hands of Texas Hold ‘Em poker, but there’s one that haunts him to this day.

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