David Negreanu
High Stakes Feud continued this week with Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk playing five sessions throughout Thanksgiving week. Following 5,751 hands, Polk put together a string of winning sessions to hold a lead of $595,771.64 after an upswing of over $775,000 against Negreanu.
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- Negreanu clawed his way back from the low of the session before finishing up just over six-figures down, and is now down $810,468.18 heading into the Christmas break. During the session, Polk and Negreanu played 904 hands are now 12,222 hands through the session, 278 hands from the official mid-way point. Watch Day 21 of Negreanu vs Polk.
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After the first 200 hands of High Stakes Feud were played from inside the PokerGO Studio, the match progressed to WSOP.com where Polk immediately eroded the $116,500 deficit that he had incurred in the first session. The next few sessions saw Negreanu retake the lead and hold a $222,832.70 advantage over Polk after 2,965 hands.
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The eighth session of High Stakes Feud would see Negreanu collect the win of $24,156.82 from the 457-hand session that was lacking of major hands between the two. However, the next four sessions of play would swing the match considerably into Polk’s favor as he collected four huge wins including an eight buy-in winning session this past Saturday in session 12.
The ninth session began fairly timidly between both players before Negreanu bluffed with queen-high on the river and was picked off by Polk with top pair to see him move into a lead of roughly $35,000. However, Negreanu struck back when he flopped a set of sevens on Polk’s pocket kings to prompt a rebuy from Polk only to have Polk turn the tide on the other table when he won a roughly $110,000 pot with flush-over-flush. From there it would be Polk’s session as he won the majority of the big pots including flopping a set and improving to a rivered full house after Negreanu turned the nut straight as the session ended with Polk winning $205,521.74 after 377 hands.
Thanksgiving week began on Monday with Polk and Negreanu logging their tenth session which would inevitably be their longest at 852 hands and just over four hours. With Polk now back in the black, he immediately furthered his advantage by scooping in lots of small pots as his lead moved out to roughly $85,000. Negreanu would regain some momentum by finding a double when he called all-in on the river with two pair against Polk’s ten-high. Negreanu then secured another pot when he found value with pocket kings as he now held the lead, but it wouldn’t be for too long as Polk began his climb out of the red. Polk found a double when he rivered a full house against Negreanu’s nut straight and then continued to grind away as the session ended with Polk winning $117,624.38.
Wednesday would be the 11th session of High Stakes Feud and there would be no all-in pots between the two as the biggest pot was roughly $53,000 across the 416-hand session as Polk ended up winning $120,023.59. The 12th session played out on Saturday, and it would secure the biggest win for any player so far as Polk collected $332,178.14 in winnings over Negreanu in the 684-hand session.
Action began fairly slowly between the two until Polk made a straight on the turn against Negreanu to move out to roughly a $50,000 lead. Polk would then go runner-runner flush against Negreanu’s Broadway straight to be up roughly $110,000, before picking off Negreanu’s bluff with king-high with his own ace-high to sit with a roughly $165,000 advantage. Polk then held with top pair against Negreanu’s second pair in an all-in pot to be up roughly $210,000 before that lead was extended to roughly $270,000 when he flopped trips.
Negreanu managed to claw away at his deficit as it dropped to roughly $200,000. before a string of pots went Polk’s way including the final hand that saw Negreanu all-in with pocket queens against Polk’s pocket eights. Polk turned a straight draw and rivered his set as Negreanu immediately quit the session which saw Polk finish Thanksgiving week nearly $600,000 in the black.
Session 12: +$332,178.14 over 684 hands
Total: +$596,197.89 over 5,751 hands
Monster session today. Hit everything. Every hero call went right. Every big bluff got through. Every runout gave me the nuts. Every all in went my way. This was the kind of session you dream about.
— Doug 'Truck Driver' Polk (@DougPolkVids) November 29, 2020
With 12 sessions now complete, 5,751 hands have been dealt of the 25,000-hand quota in High Stakes Feud. Polk holds a lead of $595,771.64 over Negreanu on the back of a near $800,000 upswing over the last four sessions as Poker Central will continue to provide weekly updates of all the High Stakes Feud action until a winner is crowned.
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The most high-profile sponsorship in the poker world has ended.
Daniel Negreanu will no longer sport the red spade, representing PokerStars everywhere he goes. He and the world's leading online poker provider have come to an agreement on what 'Kid Poker' called an 'amicable split.'
Negreanu had been the most visible member of PokerStars Team Pro since 2007, which he called 'an incredible run.'
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'It was a great run but we're no longer gonna be an ambassador for the company,' he said in an online announcement. 'I worked with so many great people, some really good people at PokerStars. I've had the opportunity to travel the world, play in Barcelona, Monte Carlo, PCA which were three of my favorite stops. I wish everyone the best.'
'I worked with so many great people, some really good people at PokerStars.”
Rebecca McAdam Willets, PokerStars associate director, group public relations extended the company's well wishes, in turn.
'Daniel has been one of the most influential faces of poker and indeed PokerStars for 12 years, and it has been wonderful to have his passion, support and insights throughout our relationship,' she said to PokerNews. 'We wish Daniel the very best for the future, as well as wedded bliss and tons of run good this summer.'
Negreanu's Long History With PokerStars
Originally, Negreanu played a major role in funding and building his own poker site, Full Contact Poker.
However, in June 2007, Negreanu reached an agreement with PokerStars to join their ambassador team alongside notable former World Series of Poker Main Event champs Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem. Full Contact Poker was migrated into PokerStars and the site reverted to simply being host to Negreanu's blog, forums, podcasts and other media.
Negreanu became a regular face on PokerStars' European Poker Tour and other international events. While he never managed to win a prestigious EPT title, he did make a few final tables, finishing fourth at EPT Grand Final in 2013 for €321,000, and cashed in a few $100K events at PCA and other stops.
While other stars from the early 2000s such as Hachem and Barry Greenstein faded from the spotlight and had their sponsorships lapse, Negreanu continued to carry the flag and remained one of the game's brightest stars. His profile only rose over the years as he became poker's all-time tournament money leader — since surpassed by Justin Bonomo — and evolved his game to continue to succeed against the new generation of crushers.
Recent Troubles
In recent years, Negreanu has been a lightning rod for criticism out of some corners as both he and PokerStars took some stances that proved unpopular with sectors of the poker community.
When PokerStars controversially cut high-volume rewards and hiked the rake across a number of games, Negreanu rationalized the changes, to the consternation of countless pros who hoped he would fight for their cause. In the process, he became a favorite punching bag of popular content creators like Doug Polk and Joey Ingram, who made a running gag out of Negreanu's defenses for the rake increase.
Then, some of his posted opinions ran afoul of popular 'The Chip Race' podcast hosts DK Lappin and Dara O'Kearney, who went after Negreanu on their blogs, resulting in a back-and-forth spat.
That one turned nasty, as did a heated exchange with Shaun Deeb in early May that saw both parties throwing insults and discussing a bizarre bet on which man would stay married longer.
Leaving on a High Note
Through it all, Negreanu remained and still does remain one of the most, if not the most, popular poker player in the world. He hopes fans will get to see him in a slightly different light now, and people around the industry will understand that the opinions he's voiced over the years don't necessarily come from on high from his sponsor.
'In a lot of ways, it's somewhat freeing,' he said in a video blog. 'For years, when I make a statement about poker, people say, 'You're just saying that because you're being paid to say that.' Which I know is not true — I could pass 1,000 lie detectors to prove that — but what's great about the situation now is I can go back to essentially making comments and statements about the poker community that I guess would have more credibility because of that.
'In a lot of ways, it's somewhat freeing.'
'I've had the luxury over the last 20 years of being on the inside when it comes to the business side of poker, the professional side of poker. I know what poker players are missing. I know what some of the people in business miss about what it's like to be a professional poker player. I'll still fairly discuss any issues, positive and negative, with them, with partypoker, with WSOP.'
Freshly married, Negreanu also said some things that evoked Jason Mercier's 2018 exit. He hopes to start a family in the coming years and said the split with PokerStars is just part of his 'life taking on a new direction.'
'I'm super excited about the future with my new woman,' he said.
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