Negreanu continues his ugly run in High Stakes Poker!

• Author: Qid
• Filed under: Daniel Negreanu, High Stakes News, High Stakes Poker, Poker, Uncategorized, blogs, poker tv
• Date: Mar 30,2009

Daniel Negreanu is a world class poker player, but somehow everything seems to go wrong in the High Stakes Poker! He has lost three times to quads and in this season he had to reload second time in last episode, after he collided with Eli Elezras pair of aces with a flush draw and missed.

High Stakes Poker and Daniel Negreanu don’t match well.

Daniel watched the latest episode yesterday and writes about it in his blog:

I woke up about 7:00pm and watched High Stakes Poker on GSN. Yup, some great memories I got from that show, I’ll tell you what! I counted the number of hands I won in the last two episodes. The grand total is two: one where I flopped trip queens and the other in a limped pot where I flop the nut flush, bet the flop, and get NO action! Brutal.

Well if you put it that way it sounds quite brutal. The way how Daniel played the hand seemed quite brutal as well, but Negreanu explains that also in his entry:

Now here is what a lot of viewers don’t get. Most people on the show run it twice in all in pots. Knowing that, when you do have a drawing hand you can be a bit more aggressive with it since even if you are called, you will usually have a decent chance to chop the pot. It makes aggressive plays with draws easier to make, and allows you to semi-bluff more pots away from an opponent. Essentially it makes semi-bluffing slightly less risky.

Daniel missed this time and had to reload again, second time in this season and he is probably stuck the most in fifth season of HSP, at least $400k. Lates episode included also a really nice move by Barry Greenstein, who bluffed Elezra off the pot with just a six high!

If you haven’t watch the show, you can find it find at the pokertube. Daniel’s blog can be found here.