Negreanu Takes Two Decisive Pots

Date: 2005.08.15 | Category: Hand Of The Week | By: Phil Hellmuth   

Last month, 24 big-name poker players were invited to the $20,000 buy-in Fox Sports Net (FSN) Tournament held at the Wynn Las Vegas hotel and casino. We started with four tables of six players each with the final six playing “live” on FSN. The day was ideal for this tourney, since no other major sporting event was scheduled — a rarity indeed.

The 8:30 a.m. starting time. did not agree well with the players, who had just spent the month playing at noon for the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Further, we had to raise the blinds at a fast pace in order to eliminate players in time for the live part of the show. Still, no one complained — we knew what had to be done, and it was actually a fun event to play in!

All of us would have rather been playing poker that day at the Rio instead the Wynn because that would have meant participating in day five of the WSOP, the top honor in poker with a $7.5-million first prize.