Daniel Negreanu lost just over $2.2 million in live tournaments last year, but he’s already booked a tournament win and cut into that deficit in 2024.
The Poker Hall of Famer took down the first event of the PokerGO Tour’s Last Chance Series, a $10,100 (about P561, 474) no-limit hold’em tournament that attracted 91 entrants to the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas on Tuesday. In the middle of the night, he wrapped up the victory with a lucky four-outer on the river to secure a $218,400 score, larger than any cash he earned in 2023.
In a 23-minute YouTube video earlier this week, Negreanu laid out his plans to change it up and produce a winning year in 2024. One proclamation he made is to run better. He might be on to something after having two crucial pots go his way, one against his bitter rival Justin Bonomo.
At the final table, he went all in preflop with ace-king for his tournament life against Bonomo’s pocket queens. A king on the flop would send “DNegs” the pot, while leaving Bonomo, the poker player he’s been feuding with for weeks on X over the Israel-Palestine war, with crumbs.
Bonomo was out in fourth place for $91,000, putting him over the $63.3 million mark on The Hendon Mob, only trailing Bryn Kenney all-time ($65.1 million).
