Daniel Negreanu let tens of thousands of viewers see his cards during his September 23 YouTube stream of the WSOP Online $25,000 High Roller Championship. They watched him get his chips in as an 86% favorite before an eight on the turn swung the hand against him. The river left him fourth for $415,699, ending his bid to become the tenth player with nine WSOP bracelets and claim his first online bracelet. For fans of poker and casino streams, seeing Negreanu’s cards made every decision easier to follow and the final hand all the more painful to watch.
The Cards Were Up, Then the Eight Landed
With four players left, Casimir Seire shoved from the small blind with nine-eight offsuit. Negreanu called from the big blind with pocket tens for about 28 big blinds. Viewers could see his pocket tens before he called, following the decision as it unfolded on the delayed feed.
The ace-nine-six flop left Negreanu approximately a 4:1 favorite. Then the eight gave Seire two pair. The king on the river brought no rescue, completing the ace-nine-six-eight-king board. Negreanu had eliminated Pedro Neves in fifth just one hand earlier.
A $25K Final From the Player’s Seat
Negreanu told viewers that had been "our chance" to win the tournament. He said it was difficult to ask for a better situation, while admitting he had felt something would go wrong. When he switched off the stream, Seire held roughly five times as many chips as his nearest rival.
The GGPoker ambassador broadcast with a delay and his hole cards visible, combining his own commentary with access to every hand. During the session, he jokingly wondered whether anyone else streamed $25,000 finals while showing all their cards.
That combination was the attraction: viewers could follow an eight-time champion’s reasoning while he competed for another title, rather than relying solely on commentary from outside the game.
How the Final Unfolded
Before that final hand, Negreanu had led with seven players left after his pocket queens beat Parahat Nurmuhammedov’s jack-seven. His ace-king then lost a three-way all-in to Ole Schemion’s ace-queen after Schemion flopped two pair, eliminating Roman Emelyanov, who held pocket sixes, in seventh.
Schemion subsequently finished sixth, while Negreanu doubled up to stay alive. Finland’s Seire eventually won his first bracelet and $906,647, making four of a kind to beat Brazil’s Fabiano Kovalski heads-up. Kovalski earned $699,120, with France’s Erwann Pecheux third for $539,095.
Two Final Tables, Still Chasing Number Nine
Negreanu’s earlier $10,000 PLO event, played over September 20–21, paid him $71,409 for seventh after he entered the final seven second in chips. Austria’s Andreas Freund topped 228 entries for $428,456. Negreanu’s two finals paid a combined $487,108 in prize money, not profit.
His eighth bracelet came on July 2 in Las Vegas, when he beat Artur Martirosian heads-up in the $100,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha for $2,257,718. That event drew 83 entries and a $7,968,000 prize pool.For more players sharing their cards, decisions and reactions, explore poker streams on CasinoStreamers.
References
- eighth bracelet (http://wsop.com/tournaments/result/613/)
