Negreanu is Fairway to Felt Champion
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Daniel Negreanu has fared much better in the golf/poker side event here in Vilamoura, taking the title and just over €8,000 for which he got a round of applause and a rail rubdown at the same time. "It's all about the golf," he countered - his team having shot five under par and won themselves a modest 2,500 extra chips. The first half of the challenge, played yesterday, was actully won by the team consisting of Team PokerStars Pro John Duthie, former Dutch national golfer Willem Vork and Joachim Selzer from Germany, but the larger chip advantage moved on to the tournament part of it didn't give any of them enough momentum to win.
Negreanu beat Pieter de Korver heads up after around five hours of play, and he took the lion's share of the prizepool, with the Dutch EPT winner bagging €4,444.
EPT founder John Duthie won an extra prize - four rounds of golf at Pinhal - for playing the shot closest to the pin and Willem Vork won the same for longest drive. The popularity of golf among poker players might signal the planning of more of these events in the future. We're waiting for the Triathlon To Table Takedown in the Pokernews press box.