Daniel Negreanu Eliminated in 4th Place (€175,000)
So it folded around to Daniel Negreanu on the button, who shoved for 1.205 million. Martin Hruby in the small blind thought about it briefly, and then announced, "OK, I call."
Said Negreanu, "YESSS!!! Oh, did I say that out loud?"
Negreanu:
Hruby:
Board:
Negreanu was unhappy, to say the least.
"Good luck. I shouldn't even shake your hand because that's the dirtiest thing I've ever seen, but I will anyway. Ewwww that's greasy." He was clearly still on considerable tilt from the huge three-way hand that knocked out Luca Cainelli, and his cheery tone could not entirely mask his upset. "Why did you slowroll on that hand? When you had the nuts, and...?"
"I don't slowroll," said Hruby quietly in broken English.
"When he went all in, then I went all in, and you thought about it, and then you said call? You don't remember?"
Hruby: "Yeah."
Negreanu: "Why would you think about it? You had a straight."
Hruby: "Well, it was a big pot for me."
Negreanu: "But you already had a straight," Negreanu said, "You had the nuts."
Hruby: "Yeah, I know."
Negreanu: "Ha. It's all right. It was just weird."
Negreanu agreed to Konstantinos Nanos' request to have his photo taken with him before heading to his exit interview, where he continued to talk about that big three-way pot - "It was really bad poker etiquette but I'll give him a lesson because I know he's new," Negreanu said of his fellow Team PokerStars Pro. Either way, there will be no triple crown for Negreanu this time, Phil Ivey will stay just a shade ahead in the all-time money list for the moment, and as we head into the dinner break, there are three players remaining.