The Railbird Report: Negreanu Faces Phil Ivey and Gus Hansen in $2,000/$4,000 Game

Who’s leading the All Time Money List with $32,618,268 in cashes according to TheHendonMob? Daniel Negreanu! Who’s on top of the popularity ranking of the same live tournament poker database with 508,131 unique hits since the 1st of January, 2008? Daniel Negreanu! Negreanu is on top of the poker world right now, so much is clear.

Those half a million unique hits haven’t looked up Negreanu’s palmarès solely because they came across his name in poker reports. The Canadian, turned United States citizen, has kept himself busy with a whole host of other things as well. Besides the just released documentary on his life (KidPoker, check it out on Netflix), he’s involved with the hockey team coming to Vegas, asks a plethora of questions on different subjects via his twitter, and acts like a crusader against “The Donald”.

Though he’s widened his scope a bit, Negreanu is still first and foremost a poker player. And while his track record boosting $32 million in live tournament cashes might suggest he’s mostly a tournament player, he’s originally a cash game player. And while you won’t regularly see him playing the ring games at European Poker Tour stops, back home in Vegas he still strolls into the Bellagio poker room every so often.

Yesterday, Negreanu published a blog where he wrote about a $1,500-$3,000 mixed game where they played 8 hands of each game in an 11-game mix. Negreanu revealed many details of the game, and described a hand where non other than Phil Ivey made him lay down two pair in a stud hand:

To see what Negreanu did facing this bet, you have to check out his blog post. But what would you do?

Negreanu’s blog is great for poker fans as it gives a unique look into the world of high stakes poker. While shows like Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker have ceased to exist, high stakes games still happen on a regular basis in Vegas and other places in the world, with the usual suspects.

On top of writing about the recent hand against Gus Hansen and Phil Ivey, Negreanu reminisced about a game he played back in the day with the same line up. The stakes were high, but the chips were low;

After the tournament, a $4000-$8000 cash game broke out. The problem was, nobody brought enough money to buy chips to play a game that size, so we all agreed to play with $1 chips and settle up back in Las Vegas.

It’s this game where Negreanu lost a million dollar for the first time in his life, and again he wasn’t afraid to give a nice little anecdote;

He then says, “You hit beantown. First time you ever been stuck a big bean?” I still wasn’t quite sure what the hell he was talking about, then it dawned on me that I was stuck $1.3 million in the game while Ivey was all smiles. I guess a “big bean” is a million. Good to know.

Negreanu won a little bit in the game this week, …

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