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20 years after that hand on High Stakes Poker, Daniel Negreanu is still getting coolered by Gus Hansen, and this time at the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP).
Playing Day 1 of the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship, the two poker legends faced off with monsters that saw Hansen rake in a pot against Negreanu with a better full house.
However, unlike that iconic encounter from Season 2 of High Stakes Poker in 2006 (in which the turn card that day gave Hansen quads over Negreanu's boat), on this occasion, Kid Poker had clearly learned his lesson from two decades ago, losing only a small pot instead of going broke after telling the Dane, "Jeez, I'm sorry I didn't raise you!" after the hands were tabled.
Check out the action below, as captured by PokerNews reporter Dan O'Hair:
Two Old School Legends Do Battle
Three players took fourth street, but after Negreanu bet with 4♠4♦3♦3♥ showing, only Hansen continued with Q♠7♦ in the hole and 7♠8♠Q♦7♣ exposed. Tom McCormick folded on fourth street.
Negreanu and Hansen checked fifth before Negreanu improved to two pair on sixth and fired another bet. Hansen stuck around, bringing the hand to seventh street.
After Negreanu checked, Hansen bet and received a quick call. Hansen then rolled over Q♠7♦ for sevens full of queens, while Negreanu could only laugh as he tabled 6♦4♥3♣ for fours full of threes.
"Jeez, I'm sorry I didn't raise you!" Negreanu said after discovering his full house was second best.
Echoes of Two Decades Prior
Friday's Stud hand may have come in a different game, in a tournament rather than a cash game, and at a very different time in both players' lives and careers; however, it tantalizingly echoed that famous High Stakes Poker hand from almost exactly 20 years ago.
Both Negreanu and Hansen recently spoke with PokerGO to relive the moment that the Canadian described as "one hand that exemplifies my High Stakes Poker career," while Hansen told the broadcaster, "poker in 2026 is a different animal than it was back then."
Negreanu said he had spoken to Hansen about the hand "many times since" and that it was "way more tilting after listening to his reasoning, because everything he thought what was I wanted him to think. He played the hand so bad!"
Meanwhile, on Hansen's part, who took down a pot worth $575,700, possibly the largest in televised poker history at the time, he admitted: "In a vacuum, looking at it now, I could have played it a little better, and Daniel could have played it a little better."
On Day 1 of the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship, Negreanu did manage to get away, possibly banishing some of those demons.
Hansen is No Stranger to Rare Hands in This Event
Remarkably, Hansen was involved in an even rarer hand in this event at last year's WSOP, after chopping a hefty pot with Dzmitry Urbanovich, which led Poker Hall of Famer Nick Schulman to say, "I've never seen that before, wow, that's an amazing one."
While players making flushes against each other in Stud is nothing unusual, this hand was a different story. By the time seventh street had been dealt, Hansen had made an ace-high flush of A♥J♥10♥9♥3♥, while Urbanovich had somehow arrived at the exact same ace-high flush in clubs. With neither player able to claim the superior hand, the pot was chopped.
The sheer rarity of two players making identical five-card ace-high flushes in different suits left the table stunned, with one player commenting that it was only the second time they had ever seen such a hand.
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