Daniel Colman wins 2014 WSOP Big One for One Drop, Negreanu takes #1 spot all-time profit

A young online heads-up specialist, Daniel Colman, defeated one of the greatest live tournament players of the last couple decades, Daniel Negreanu, in the final heads-up to win the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop and an amazing $15,306,668 main prize.

The tournament was also a significant fundraiser for charity, raising $4,666,662 to support access to clean water and sustainable water management in communities around the globe.

Negreanu commented about Colman after the tournament: “What makes him tough is he is very good at playing flops,” he said. “If you want to be a good poker player, pre-flop poker is not where it’s at. He plays lots of flops, he’s very careful. Think boxer-wise. He had his guard up and threw a lot of little jabs, then when someone would open up, he’d throw the knockout punch.”

Daniel Negreanu, a member of Team PokerStars Pro, is now at the top of the all-time live poker tournament winnings list after he took home more than $8 million with a second place finish in the biggest buy-in tournament of the 2014 World Series of Poker*, the Big One for One Drop.
Negreanu won $8,288,001 for his runner-up spot, taking his lifetime earnings to $29,796,381 – more than $3 million more than Antonio Esfandiari who had previously topped the leaderboard.
This achievement follows his recognition earlier this year as the best poker player of the past decade by independent poker ranking service Global Poker Index (GPI). This recognition follows an outstanding performance by Negreanu in 2013, where he won a number of big poker tournaments and received numerous ‘Player of the Year’ awards.

Final results:
1. Daniel Colman – $15,306,668
2. Daniel Negreanu – $8,288,001
3. Christoph Vogelsang – $4,480,000
4. Rick Salomon – $2,800,000
5. Tobias Reinkemeier – $2,053,334
6. Scott Seiver – $1,680,000
7. Paul Newey – $1,418,667
8. Cary Katz – $1,306,667

Colman already caused some drama refusing any interviews after his win. He only gave a short interview to ESPN, preferring to deflect any possible attention away from himself and his win and point all the eyes towards the One Drop organization, to which $111,111 of every buy-in was donated.

who is daniel colman

used to be "dont taze me bro" before he was 18, now hes "mrgr33n" or something along those lines, plays 5k hyper HUs, up over 1M on sharkscope. player999 plays the same games but lower stakes, he can probably give us some insight into how he plays and how good he is

I played w him & Olivier Busquet all summer at Aria 2 years ago, and I found him to be a pretty nice / very funny guy. With that said: that kid litterally would not stop talking at the table ever. Just constantly needling people and shit talking in a (i thought) kinda funny way. Apparently on the internet he's also a huge chat shit talker / troll. I'm like positive he's one of those guys that "wants to see the world burn". So when I saw he denied the media after his win, gave no words or interviews, my initial reaction was like "Ofcourse, don't these people know this kid is the biggest troll ever?"

Then he gave some heart felt response to his actions on twoplustwo about how he doesn't want to promote poker because it's "evil" and that he's "conflicted" with loving an evil game etc, and if you ask me that's just complete bullshit caz if you ever met this kid irl he litterally does not stop talking ever and loves to needle the shit out of people constantly.

High level troll.

On July 03 2014 16:54 Daut wrote: used to be "dont taze me bro" before he was 18, now hes "mrgr33n" or something along those lines, plays 5k hyper HUs, up over 1M on sharkscope. player999 plays the same games but lower stakes, he can probably give us some insight into how he plays and how good he is

words can't describe how good he is
nice attempt by Negreanu though haha

his 2p2 post:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=43862667&postcount=2553

lol^^^

Looks like he works out.

player999 give us more man

Originally Posted by mrgr33n13 View Post I really don't owe anyone an explanation but Ill give one... First off, I don't owe poker a single thing. I've been fortunate enough to benefit financially from this game, but I have played it long enough to see the ugly side of this world. It is not a game where the pros are always happy and living a fulfilling life. To have a job where you are at the mercy of variance can be insanely stressful and can lead to a lot of unhealthy habits. I would never in a million years recommend for someone to try and make it as a poker pro. It is also not a game where the amateurs are always happy to be losing their money for the sake of entertainment. The losers lose way more money at this game then winners are winning. A lot of this is money they cant afford to lose. This is fine of course because if someone is dumb enough to gamble with money they cant afford to lose, that's their problem. Im not really buying that though. In a perfect world, markets are based on informed consumers making rational transactions. In reality sadly that's not the case, markets are based on advertising trying to play on peoples impulses and targeting their weaknesses in order for them to make irrational decisions. I get it if someone wants to go and play poker on their own free will, but I don't agree with gambling being advertised just like I don't agree with cigarettes and alcohol being advertised. It bothers me that people care so much about poker's well being. As poker is a game that has such a net negative effect on the people playing it. Both financially and emotionally. As for promoting myself, I feel that individual achievements should rarely be celebrated. I am not going to take part in it for others and I wouldn't want it for myself. If you wonder why our society is so infatuated by individuals and their success, and being a baller, it is not that way for no reason. It is their because it serves a clear purpose. If you get people to look up to someone and adhere to the "gain wealth, forget all but self" motto, then you can get them to ignore the social contract which is very good for power systems. Also it serves as a means of distraction to get people to not pay attention to the things that do matter. These are just my personal views. And yes, I realize I am conflicted. I capitalize off this game that targets peoples weaknesses. I do enjoy it, I love the strategy part of it, but I do see it as a very dark game. Happy to read any ones opinions that could convince me otherwise of my views.

Seems like an intelligent guy.

He's from Holden, MA too. So many good poker pros in MA... nutsinho, pooruser, and this guy. I live here but I'm just ok.

someone buy player999 in next year, cmon lp pool it

I never understood why LP never had some type of program where the website would sponsor a worthy player into a tournament, and that player would represent the website in various ways. It would be fun for the members of LP and, if that user did well in the tournament, it would draw more people to LP and create a cycle that could be repeated on a larger scale.

I assume there's a decent amount of revenue coming in when you combine LP and its sister-websites(s). Maybe there could be a small fund raiser of sorts to help pay for 1/3 of the cost, and LP can pay the rest of the entry into a tournament. Of course, only people who help with the fund raiser can be a candidate for the tournament seat. Also, there could be a vote or maybe a LP tournament to decide who gets the seat into the sponsored tournament.

Edit: Maybe there could be a percentage of some sorts for LP. For example, the person could give 5% or whatever, back to LP if they cash in the top 200 of the WSOP main event, or if they cash in the top 20 of a smaller event. Dunno, just an idea.

LP pay for 66% of the buy in to get 5% back? You never understood what??

On July 03 2014 21:49 Nitewin wrote: LP pay for 66% of the buy in to get 5% back? You never understood what??

Notice I said, "or whatever." The, "or whatever," lets you know it's just an idea, and not something I put much thought into. LP would obviously ask for a percentage that benefited them.

Basically, stop being a little bitch.

On July 03 2014 21:30 PuertoRican wrote: I never understood why LP never had some type of program where the website would sponsor a worthy player into a tournament, and that player would represent the website in various ways. It would be fun for the members of LP and, if that user did well in the tournament, it would draw more people to LP and create a cycle that could be repeated on a larger scale. I assume there's a decent amount of revenue coming in when you combine LP and its sister-websites(s). Maybe there could be a small fund raiser of sorts to help pay for 1/3 of the cost, and LP can pay the rest of the entry into a tournament. Of course, only people who help with the fund raiser can be a candidate for the tournament seat. Also, there could be a vote or maybe a LP tournament to decide who gets the seat into the sponsored tournament. Edit: Maybe there could be a percentage of some sorts for LP. For example, the person could give 5% or whatever, back to LP if they cash in the top 200 of the WSOP main event, or if they cash in the top 20 of a smaller event. Dunno, just an idea.

It would be cool if they could just make patches or something for those of us playing to wear

I'd wear one for the Main for sure

id hate to be this dude....completely conflicted with the thing he focuses all his attention on .. seems like he's living a nightmare.

complete hypocrite.

On July 04 2014 02:21 MARSHALL28 wrote: id hate to be this dude....completely conflicted with the thing he focuses all his attention on .. seems like he's living a nightmare. complete hypocrite.

this view seems like a huge misinterpretation of what he thinks

I don't see the hypocrisy in these 2 things:
1) Thinking poker is bad for most people
2) Caring more about himself than these people

You could then argue that he is trying to protect these people by not advertising the game after his win. But he is not gaining anything directly by doing that, so he will avoid "ruining people's lives".

And then on the tables, he directly gains from them, so he takes their money.

Funny coming from a guy that goes out of his way to bumhunt ginette22 and multiple other fishes. If he acted in a respectful manner online, i can believe what he's saying but this is someone known for insulting/trolling/trash talking his opponents to get more action. He even has a history of multi-accounting vs the very own person that taught him how to play poker.

If he wants to deny media thats fine. But to say that poker is dark and grimey and that poker doesn't owe him anything makes him a self serving hypocrite. He can at least respect the game that put him in the place he is today.

He also has history of getting leofernandez's account banned because one of the biggest HU fishes of all time (sixthsense) was playing on it. And he was making a LOT of money off him, and still reported him to PS.