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January 31, 2006
HEADLINE:
Daniel Negreanu Wins WSOPC Poker Championship
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Daniel Negreanu won the WSOP Circuit Championship at Grand Casino-Resorts
in Tunica, Mississippi. The $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker
Circuit championship event attracted a field of 241 players and
offered a prize pool of $2,289,500. Daniel's win paid $755,525
and is the first major victory for Negreanu in more than a year.
Holder of three WSOP gold bracelets, the 2004 Poker Player of
the Year ends the string of tournament losses from the past year.
Some of his lackluster year may be attributed to his increasing
involvement his business interest. The Wynn poker room deal took
up the first six months of 2005, and Daniel writes a syndicated
poker column carried in 40 newspaper...read by millions. He does
all of that, stops in Tunica and wins it all.
In an interview with WSOP Media Director, Nolan Dalla, Daniel
said of his win:
I had a strategy designed for each individual player and
pretty much followed it at the final table. The key to winning
for me is that I stayed out of marginal situations. I don't want
to get into a race with 6-6 against A-K and hope to stay alive.
I think what I am best at is playing after the flop, and I wanted
to get as many situations as I could where I was up against (an
opponent) and could take them on after the flop. My goal is to
see the most flops I can. I like to set traps. I let (opponents)
get involved, and then trap then. If I get them drawing dead (which
happened twice at the final table in big pots)-that's always the
plan.
Heads-up play lasted just six hands and on the sixth hand Bryant
'BK' King of Spokane, Washington was all in, he finished in second
place when his pair of kings with a 4 kicker was bested by Negreanu's
pair of Kings with a 9 kicker. King received $416,690 for runner
up. Complete tournament results are available at PokerPlayerNewspaper.com.
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