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Looking Back at 2015: Daniel Negreanu's WSOP Main Event Run
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2016-01-04 08:24
The Main Event of the Word Series of Poker is always something that garners plenty of attention and that raises plenty of hype, so it's only natural to include it in any yearly retrospective. The 2015 Main Event conjured up memories of the 2009 edition of the Big Dance, when Phil Ivey, another poker bad boy, made a run for the final table and the title. This year, the one who had the eyes of the
poker community on him was PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu, whose possible presence in the top 9 of the tournament had everyone excited, given all the benefits that would've meant for the game as a whole and for the WSOP brand as well. Negreanu locked horns with eventual winner Joe McKeehen in the Main Event, and their interaction grew to be viewed as a major turning point in the tournament by many, in hindsight.
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Negreanu's Main Event was definitely one for the ages as he didn't just get all the right cards, he got all the right opponents too for a while. He faced off with Phil Hellmuth, whom he busted, and by Day 7, he had amassed a massive stack. McKeehen on the other hand managed to chip up even more, and at one point, he had enough to unleash a torrent of aggression few players dared /could afford to fight back against. Negreanu was one of these players. Despite the Canadian's efforts, McKeehan couldn't be stopped. Eventually, the inevitable happened when Negreanu's last-ditch A,4o fell to McKeehen's lowly Jd, 3d. From that moment on, McKeehen never looked back.
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