Daniel Negreanu Starts His 2016 WSOP Grind in the Present

When the 2016 World Series of Poker’s $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Championship kicked off at 3 p.m. local time in Las Vegas on Saturday, poker’s biggest superstar was in his seat in the Amazon Room, raring to go.

“I’m super excited,” Daniel Negreanu told PokerNews, right before his first event of the 2016 WSOP kicked off. “I’ve been waiting for this for like 300 days. It’s fun. I love the grind. The last three days I’ve just been wanting to play.”

Negreanu always plays a ton of tournaments on the WSOP schedule, and traditionally registers late, but due to a number of changes, including earlier start times and faster Day 1 structures, he made sure he was going to be on time today.

“My schedule ends up being the same is it always is,” he said. “The only difference is I’m not going to be late regging nearly as much. I plan to show up right on time and put in a few extra hours of grinding, because the structures have changed and it just makes more sense to show up on time.

“I’m actually excited about the structure changes, because I think it’s going to take a lot of people time to adjust to the fact Day 1s are a lot quicker and Day 2s a lot slower. I’m excited.”

Last year, Negreanu famously finished 11th in the 2015 WSOP Main Event, narrowly missing out on a seat in the November Nine, but coming back to the scene of that disappointment doesn’t seem to phase him at all.

“I haven’t even thought about it until you mentioned it right now,” he said. “It doesn’t dawn on me. It’s not a thing. Last year is last year. It’s totally different now, a brand new start and my first event is the $10,000 Stud. Really, there’s nothing that happened last year that is relevant today.

“Let me ask you? Is there any value in holding on to negative things that …

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