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Daniel Negreanu Just Misses EPT Grand Final €25,000 High Roller Title

by Wicked Chops Entity on 5.2.2012 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

Not Daniel Negreanu won the EPT High Roller title.

Another high roller event, another near win for Daniel Negreanu.

Just a week after finishing sixth (and banking $444,699) in the EPT Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller event, Negreanu nearly captured another major buy-in title. Holding the chip lead at various stages of final table play, Negreanu eventually finished second in the EPT Grand Final €25,000 High Roller event, earning $786,201 (or €598,600).

Igor Kurganov of Russia defeated Negreanu heads-up for the title. Kurganov, who has a string of high roller event cashes to his credit over the past year, banks €1,080,000 for the win.

Negreanu now has over $16M in career live earnings, placing him second behind Erik Seidel (by less than a million) on the all-time money winner’s list.

Justin Bonomo (€266,000) finish fourth. Phil Ivey (€73,200) finished ninth. Get full pay outs here.

* Photo courtesy PokerStars Blog.

Tagged as: Daniel Negreanu, EPT Grand Final, Igor Kurganov, Poker News

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Daniel Negreanu Does Not Win LAPT Grand Final

by Wicked Chops Entity on 2.21.2012 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

Daniele Nestola and his friends look like they'd be fierce zombies.

While not quite 2011 Erik Seidelian, not a bad start to the year for Daniel Negreanu.

First, he banked over $250,000 at the Aussie Millions Super High Rollers event. Then he dropped a widely popular poker zeitgeist vlog on Full Tilt. He quickly followed that up with a final table appearance at the LAPT Grand Final.

Negreanu ended up finishing sixth, banking $48,730.

The event was won by Daniele Nestola, not a woman. Nestola takes home $289,300.

Get full results and payouts here.

* Photo courtesy of PokerStars Blog.

Tagged as: Daniel Negreanu, Daniele Nestola, LAPT Grand Final, Poker News

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Daniel Negreanu Makes LAPT Grand Final Final Table Final

by Wicked Chops Entity on 2.19.2012 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

According to their latest census, over 90% of girls in Brazil--like Aline Nakashima--are supermodel.

The LAPT Grand Final is down to eight (that’s our best way of avoiding the inevitable usage of Final final).

Making the final table is Daniel Negreanu, who eyes his first PokerStars tour title (however, he’s the first player to make EPT, APT, and LAPT final tables). Negreanu sits fifth in chips with 702,000. He trails overall chip leader Daniele Nestola with 1,892,000.

Carlos Ibarra is second overall with 1,297,000.

Final table play begins at noon Brazilian time. Get updates here.

Tagged as: Aline Nakashima, Daniel Negreanu, LAPT Grand Final, Poker News

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Daniel Negreanu Leading LAPT Grand Final

by Wicked Chops Entity on 2.18.2012 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

With around 50 remaining as of post-time on Saturday, Daniel Negreanu is the chip leader at LAPT Grand Final.

Negreanu is, of course, fresh off his verbal bitch-slapping vlog of Howard Lederer, Ray Bitar, and Chris Ferguson. In the above interview at the LAPT, he hints at a “fourth” person worthy of ire. We’re not ones to speculate–and by that we mean we’re totally ones to speculate–so we can best assume the fourth he’s referring to Gil Coronado, the “CFO” who has miraculously escaped any blame or scorn for the financial mess Tilt was in.

A total of 367 entered the LAPT Grand Final, creating a first place prize of $324,600. A total of 48 will cash.

Some other notables remaining include Felipe Ramos, the insufferably annoying Humberto Brenes, and Elio Fox.

Follow the action here.

UPDATE: A total of 24 remain at the end of Day 2. Negreanu around the average stack. Get full chip counts here.

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Daniel Negreanu Blasts Lederer, Bitar, Ferguson in Vlog

by Wicked Chops Entity on 2.16.2012 in Poker News | 2 comments

While this isn’t necessarily the first time Daniel Negreanu has bashed the actions of Full Tilt Poker–and specifically Ray Bitar, Howard Lederer, and Chris Ferguson–the above clip is the first time he’s done it in very clear language on a video blog.

Daniel really taps into the general public zeitgeist with this one. Along with calling Lederer (and the others) “a shameful little weasel” and “disgraceful,” he also says:

“I’d have no problem if…somebody came up to you and bash you in the nuts with a baseball bat.”

Damn. Watch the vid rant in full starting around the 6 minute mark.

In unrelated news, Negreanu also admits he’s STD free, so that’s good for him, although bad for the kayaking industry and means he may not ride a bike with or walk on a beach with a hot girl any time soon…

Tagged as: Daniel Negreanu, featured, Full Tilt Poker, Howard Lederer, Poker News

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