Daniel Negreanu enjoyed his first serious crack at a bracelet in The Bahamas, when he went deep in the $25K Dealer's Choice Championship. And you can get to re-live it with him courtesy of his latest vlog from WSOP Paradise (watch it all above).
Negreanu started Day 2 with an average stack, with the field growing to 49 entries, including Phil Hellmuth, who was playing his first tournament since landing in The Bahamas.
By dinner break, Negreanu was down to 255,000, around half the average, after losing a couple of big hands, but got back to average with only 15 players left and seven getting paid, before dipping down into the danger zone again. "As you've seen when I won the $50K PPC," Negreanu explained, "it's never a smooth ride to the top, you'll have ebbs and flows."
Unfortunately, it wasn't to be this time, with Negreanu falling in 11 place to John Racener in a hand of PLO. Negreanu limped with 
and called a raise from Racener who had 
and flopped a straight with the board coming out 
. Racener told him that he would have folded to a raise but Negreanu isn't results oriented and said, "That doesn't mean it's the right move."
Negreanu also delivered some good news for fans, revealing that he would be late-regging the $100K Triton Main Event that resumed for Day 2 at midday ET today. He started the day with a 25 big blind stack and is still in at the time of writing.
Hellmuth and the sandwich
More importantly, Negreanu asked Hellmuth about the infamous sandwich incident from the 2022 WSOP, when Hellmuth decided to scoff from the middle, completely ignoring the conventional way of eating it along with the bread.
Hellmuth was preparing to move in on a new sandwich and Negreanu started filming. "Here we go buddy, let's go, show 'em how you do it," Negreanu said laughing. "I prefer it when you eat from the middle. The roast beef sandwich where you ate from the middle. No one's ever eaten a sandwich like that in the history of sandwiches."
"It was a hot dog, actually," replied Hellmuth, clearly misremembering, unless the footage in the link above has been doctored. "I was trying not to get the cards... I was at a final table. I was being respectfiul," Hellmuth explained.
The final four players are playing for the bracelet as the Dealer's Choice Championship comes to an end today. You can keep up with all the latest from Paradise in PokerOrg Instant.
