Daniel Negreanu Looking to Don The Poker Masters Purple Jacket™
Daniel Negreanu doesn’t need much of an introduction; after all, he sits atop poker’s all-time money list with $34,333,814 in live tournament earnings.
When it comes to the Poker Masters, Negreanu had high hopes of capturing The Poker Masters Purple Jacket™. He even bet more than 20 players $50,000 each in a must-win prop, meaning if any of them wins the most he’ll lose is $50K, but if he wins he’ll claim an addition $1,000,000+.
Negreanu will have to win this event if he’s going to do it, and at the same time hope the likes of Fedor Holz and Steffen Sontheimer don’t do too well. That’s because Negreanu managed just one cash in the preliminary events, finishing eighth in Event #1: $50,000 NLHE for $102,000.
It certainly hasn’t been going as well as he’d hope, which he’s talked about in his daily Vlog. You can check those episodes out on YouTube.
If Negreanu were to win, the $1,512,000 prize would mark the third-biggest of his career behind the $8,288,001 he received for finishing runner-up in the 2014 Big One for One Drop, and the $1,770,218 he got for winning the 2004 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic.
However, he does have four other seven-figure scores on his poker résumé including $1,119,610 for finishing fourth in the 2014 Aussie Millions $250,000 Challenge, $1,117,400 for winning the 2004 WPT Borgata Poker Open, and $1,087,160 for winning the 2013 WSOP APAC Main Event.