Daniel Negreanu’s Woes Continue on High Stakes PokerTom Dwan Benefits from Kid Poker’s Mistimed Bluff |
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Daniel Negreanu has lost a lot of money on High Stakes Poker.
To be fair, the four-time bracelet winner has been incredibly unlucky. Over the history of the popular television cash-game series, he has lost a six-figure amount to opponents holding quads on three different occasions. And that’s just a small sample of the big hands he’s run into, not to mention the times his hands couldn’t hold up in big pots.
On Sunday’s episode of High Stakes Poker, Negreanu couldn’t help but relieve himself of most of his stack again — although this time, it wasn’t luck that did him in. It was a couple of misreads and the unfortunate happenstance of squaring off against the one and only Tom Dwan.
Negreanu was active throughout the episode, playing a major role in about half of the hands that were televised. He even started off the show by winning the first hand, flopping a boat with his pocket threes against Andrew Robl and his A
3, who unluckily caught some of the Q
Q
3 board.
But Robl, who got himself into trouble later on in the episode against Patrik Antonius, was actually able to get out of the hand without too much damage after the action on the flop went check-check. Robl called a small $6,200 bet by Negreanu on a 2
turn, but was smart enough to check behind after Negreanu checked the 6 river.
Kid Poker, clearly hoping to induce a bluff out of the young Robl, was gently derided by his tablemates after the hand for his play.
“You can never be too careful,” Dwan ribbed, after Negreanu pretended to shoot himself in the head to display his displeasure with how he played the hand.
“Nice game we have over here,” Antonius added, eliciting laughter out of the group.
But while Negreanu might have gotten paid off with a river bet on that hand, he took the criticism in stride as he happily raked in a modest pot.
His demeanor was a little less cheerful after he tried to pull a move on Dwan twice later on in the episode — failing each time.
In the first notable hand, six players ponied up the price of a $1,600 straddle to see a flop. Dwan was the biggest beneficiary of the Q 3 2 flop, hitting two-pair with the modest Q 2 that he called from the big blind. He bet out $5,400 into the $11,000 pot, only to see Negreanu raise to $12,800 with his A 3. Dennis Phillips invested about 20 percent of his remaining stack with a call with his open ended straight draw with 5 4, but Dwan quickly ended the party by repopping the action up to $48,400.
Negreanu and Phillips both folded, sending the pot to durrrr.
Negreanu was able to recoup some of his losses the very next hand after he flopped the nuts with his A Q on a K J 10 board against Dwan, who flopped top pair with his K 9. But Negreanu only bet on the flop, deciding to check both a scary 8 turn and the Q that came on the river. Dwan checked behind both times to lose a small pot, but let Negreanu know, “You could’ve won a decent sized pot there,” saying that he’d probably call a turn or river bet, if not both.
Negreanu showed that he wasn’t afraid to put his chips in the middle in the final hand of the episode. Unfortunately, for him, it was against Dwan when he had the nuts.
Negreanu opened to $6,500 before the flop with an adventurous J 8 during Dwan’s straddle hand, but Dwan upped the price of admission to $23,600 after he peeked at his A K. Negreanu called.
The flop came A A J, and Dwan fired out a $28,200 continuation bet. Negreanu called again.
After a K turn gave Dwan the nuts, the New Jersey pro declined to slow down — putting out a $56,600 bet into the $106,200 pot. That’s when Negreanu made his biggest mistake of the night. Hoping to rep a monster, Kid Poker raised to $138,600, leaving himself only about $140,000 behind. Dwan, showing his keen instincts, just called to try to get Negreanu to take one final shot on the river.
The PokerStars pro finally gave up though, waving the white flag and sending the $383,400 pot over to Dwan.
While Negreanu had a tough outing this week, he wasn’t the only one.
Robl, a solid online pro, got felted when got the last of his money in with A Q against Antonius’ A A. The two players decided to run it twice, though Robl joked that “maybe four times would be better,” referencing the time he improbably won a huge pot off Antonius in an Aussie Millions cash game when he was way behind in a PLO hand. That time, they ran it four times and Robl came from behind each time to win the pot.
This time, however, Robl was not as fortunate. Neither of the two boards helped him, and he slid his stack over to the Finnish pro before rebuying.
In next week’s episode, Phil Laak joins the party. For a recap of that episode and every episode of High Stakes Poker this season, check back to CardPlayer.com every Monday.
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