Daniel Negreanu went eight years without winning a live poker tournament, a stat that is still hard to believe. After Sunday's win in Poker Masters Event #5: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em for $178,200, he now has two victories since June. And he just might have an old rival — Doug Polk — to thank for the recent success.
On June 11, Polk posted a video on his YouTube channel about the length of time it had been since Negreanu won a poker tournament. One month later, "Kid Poker" scooped a $50,000 buy-in PokerGO Cup event for $700,000 and would eventually be crowned the overall series champion.