Paul Phua Stops Negreanu’s Quest for Another Bracelet in WSOP Europe High Roller

Bad fortune continues to conform to Daniel Negreanu on his track down for another World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. DNegs was inward chain and could almost touch his next win while playing in a WSOP Europe event, but one time once again missed come out after a defective beat.

King’s Casino inward Rozvadov, Czechoslovakian Republic, is the habitue home of the WSOP Europe and other major European poker events. It saw the WSOPE €25,000 (US$25,000) No-Limit Hold’em Platinum High Roller amount to a come together Tues dark as the initial field of force of 67 drew land to a winner.

Among those allay inward the run until the really oddment were Negreanu, Gab Yong Kim, Shaun Deeb and Alice Paul Phua. Negreanu led the final IV inwards chips, but Phua kicked him out of his sit and sent him to the rail.

Back To The Drawing Board

Negreanu, who took shoot down the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl utmost month, found himself inward what could hold been a rewarding situation. He was coming sour a crucial loss that saw his bag 7s lose after Deeb found an Ace on the board, and needed some help.

It looked ilk Negreanu was going to capture it when he flopped bag Aces on a subsequent hand. However, Phua picked upwardly a circle on the bout to assign DNegs on the ropes. The vote out gibe came shortly after.

Negreanu, with the openhanded dim ante at present at 400,000, had almost no quality but to tour all-in when he looked land and saw bag 5s. No ace else joined inward the hand, except Phua and his pocket 4s.

It seemed like a great chance for DNegs to catch support into the game, but peeress Luck had a different story in mind. She delivered a 4 on the washout to throw Phua the helping hand and Negreanu another high-risk beat.

That makes 19 consecutive WSOP net tabulate appearances for the six-time bangle winner. Negreanu has cashed inward a list of events o'er the years, but, for the most part, the vainglorious finishes bear on to elude him.

Still, he took rest home near $146,300 with his fourth-place result, so it wasn’t a make out disaster. Deeb went come out next with around $205,000, and Kim strike down to Phua inward the final heads-up. He was fighting to rest alive, but couldn’t hang on and Phua, who co-founded Triton Poker, continued to trounce him down. Phua pocketed nigh $482,000 for the win, spell the runner-up grabbed just below $300,000.

WCOOP Main Event

This afternoon, the cards will fell inwards the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) $10,300 Main Event. Only niner players remain, including Spain’s money leader, Baron Adrian Mateos.

The Spanish capital aborigine entered Day 3 yesterday in provisional 8th position among the lastly 39 survivors. When the time stopped up(p) at the destruction of the day, the four-time WSOP bangle winner was allay in eighth put with just below 11 billion chips.

Right now, all finalists get a guaranteed prize of at least $122,217, but they’re eyeing the first prize of $1,293,825. Mateos, known as Amadi in online poker, will pop out with a heap of around 2 billion in front of Dylan Marlais Thomas Muehloecker and “boerni21,” who is the shortest pile remaining in this event.

Leading the wad is Luis “Luis_faria” Faria, with a stack of more than 46 jillion chips. That puts the Lusitanian pro inward an almost unbeatable berth to be threatened for the title. However, as Negreanu simply proved, anything is possible.