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.

he literally made a life rant about markets that exploit people's weaknesses and stuff like that, like it is a really bad thing and then he says "I capitalize off this game that targets peoples weaknesses". He does basically the same thing he ranted about...

"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. " yeah, sure... like he doesn't care if poker dies and again bashing the game he spend most of his life with?

complete hypocrite... but at the same time completely understandably, because it's easy to have this distorted vision about poker.

On July 03 2014 17:04 JonnyCosMo wrote: 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.

Yes. It is all pure trolling. Declining the interviews (he's trolling the media among other things) and trolling further with that response

On July 03 2014 22:08 PuertoRican wrote: Show nested quote + 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.

Clearly.

Trashtalking aside... It's one thing to play the game and It's another to participate in media or promotional coverage. On a purely personal and self-serving level that kind of attention is just too loud for me. Most people are here because the games are (or were) as good as they are and do little to nothing to promote it themselves. Thats why you pay rake, eh? Disconnection, safety and control. Given the choice, would you honestly promote it coming with the intention of poker bringing overall happiness and good into peoples lives? No way in hell. Intending only to bring in fresh clueless fish it's easy to ignore what actually happens to most players. Poker can help people if they're open to it and can see past the confetti. There are potentially mathematical/logical/psychological skills developed if the person is interested but if not are they really benefiting beyond mindless gambling that may get them in serious trouble and will likely cost them money? If poker was to totally dry up and die completely live and online (no real playerbase) perhaps some would begin promoting homegames with total newbies but most would just quit or play with some buds.

p.s. he looks like doomer, no? total doomer clone

You guys know Coleman's story? Like 2 years ago he was an FTP/stars railbird watching the high stakes games. He would observe Livb/Adonis playing high stakes hu sngs. He would call out Livb's hands in observer chat so Livb sharks coped him and saw he won at micros so he took him under his wing and coached/staked him. A short time later he now owns the 1k hyper and 5k turbo lobbies and has won the One Drop

Player999, is he better than liv now if he is multi accounting him for action (super shady to do to the guy that made you). Would you say mrGr33n is better than skaiwalkurr?

lol wut, he isnt doing that

i accept the fact that this game destroys a lot of people's lives. it's beyond my control, and if they lose their money to me, better than them losing it to the casino.

this dude is trying to say that the game is a problem and destroying people's lives, yet trying to rise above the fact that he's the one that's benefiting from it. you can't have it both ways which is why i'm calling him a hypocrite.

why is refusing to promote it "rising above the fact that he's the one benefiting"?

would you promote the game in his position?

tbh to say something that hypocritical proves hes a full troll and isnt serious at all. guy must love stirring people up on such a high scale. lmao he wins the one drop then says poker is bad and destroys lives. ahahah you gotta give him props hes trolling the fuck out of everyone and still people are second guessing this

On July 04 2014 19:56 MARSHALL28 wrote: i accept the fact that this game destroys a lot of people's lives. it's beyond my control, and if they lose their money to me, better than them losing it to the casino. this dude is trying to say that the game is a problem and destroying people's lives, yet trying to rise above the fact that he's the one that's benefiting from it. you can't have it both ways which is why i'm calling him a hypocrite.

-Fish see fortunes being made, intense action, fame, how "easy" it seems and get suckered in. That's the way it's always been because they're vulnerable.
-Regs see a situation that already exists (the casino industry) that they can then take advantage of in a calm and controlled way. Less vulnerable. They have developed math/logic/psychological/strategical skills through experience and can turn a profit.

It's anothing thing entirely to promote and take part in (actively or passively) trying to "grow" the industry by suckering more new players in. You could argue the regs are contributing to the promotion of poker through volume and rake generation and definitely through media coverage making them look like superstars. Even if all regs stopped playing the game wouldn't go away, you would just have a different tier of regfish at the top of the chain. Thats the nature of the game.

i'm assuming that the "destruction of lives" is not just about money, it's also about psychological injuries related to poker, so...

poker, like all pvp games, is a sport. there are winners and there are losers. it's not fun being a loser. games that cause negative fun for players are evil. all sports are evil. competition is evil.

...what is evil?

On July 05 2014 05:05 fira wrote: poker, like all pvp games, is a sport. there are winners and there are losers.

TRIPLE edit - I'm an idiot, I failed to read your whole post before responding haha. (Note to self. Don't respond before reading whole posts. Ok.)

Grats to this guy. I read that someone said he has 1 mill or so in online winnings? I wonder how much of the buy-in was staked.

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.

if you think there s a single human being that isn't a hypocrite you're living in an illusion

anyway- guy seems to be quite intelligent - thats what created those conflicts too, he obviously realizes way much better himself and his actions than anything you guys can write here... but he is either in a really deep utopian dilemma or trolling

The utopian view + narcissism would explain everything he s saying + actions + why he would try to multi account win vs his former coach

A lot of respect for his opinion. Not so much in combination with how he acts online apparently.

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.

that is not what the word hypocrite means

ok looking through posts here, you all need to look up the word hypocrite

oops double post

Personally I find it more hypocritical that people (subconsciously) adjust their opinions to suit what is benefiting them in life in order not to having to live with what they think is hypocritical. This guy is on the money. You should totally be allowed to think poker does not have a net positive contribution to society and still play it because it benefits you.

+1

I think everyone is good for poker and this is pretty cool of him, but it almost sounds like "Sheldon Add3ls0n" backed him for the event with the further coverage

i think this is cool for a couple reasons,
it must be awkward being on tv, what if you say the wrong thing? fart? mallrats style.

Such a bad troll the more I think of it tho.

A quick, "congrats, thx, tough field, managed the win, come out and play the next one with me" woulda been sweet.

nobody will know outside us in the inside of the poker matrix.

normies etc will overlook it, they prolly wont even mention it on tv

imo the real news is ivey's bracelet, daniels multiple ft's and 2nd in this

i think its funny he said that tho

i call poker my evil money making machine

he did totally demonize poker back to the pits where it derived with backgammon etc

w/e its not bad press, who is this guy?

WTF is this talk about multiacc vs his former coach????????

player999 at first your posts disappointed but now I see you just don't really know much about him which is what it is.

Dan said it happened 5 years ago, when he was like 17-18 he got his account banned from some site with no real explanation why, only speculation would be abuse of chat. This banning happened AFTER he got coaching from the Liv guy. When he made a new account, he said the player pool was small and speculation was he wanted more action/not get banned again.

within these time frames, he ended up playing his old coach liv with this new account and never told liv that it was him. He didn't go out of his way to cheat his coach, he went out of his way to cheat the entire SNG HU community. All of this was said to be 5 years ago

He said he regrets his actions and blames it on reckless youth.

On July 05 2014 10:22 Nazgul wrote: This guy is on the money. You should totally be allowed to think poker does not have a net positive contribution to society and still play it because it benefits you.

Well you're right, that doesn't make you a hypocrite, but it does make you somewhat of an asshole towards society :D

No, it doesn't. It makes you realistic. Also, society is a much wider term that dwarfs the poker playerbase. If it wasn't you playing and presumably winning then it would be someone else. The point is that you can't change the game if you decide to avoid it for whatever reason. Realistically, it'll still be there only there will be more money for some other player. If we took out the individuals choice and made it a group choice real money poker would die almost immediately but realistically selfishness and greed push the game onward.

On July 05 2014 17:17 Spitfiree wrote: Show nested quote + On July 05 2014 10:22 Nazgul wrote: This guy is on the money. You should totally be allowed to think poker does not have a net positive contribution to society and still play it because it benefits you. Well you're right, that doesn't make you a hypocrite, but it does make you somewhat of an asshole towards society :D

I generally find it the other way around.

On July 05 2014 15:04 Highcard wrote: player999 at first your posts disappointed but now I see you just don't really know much about him which is what it is. Dan said it happened 5 years ago, when he was like 17-18 he got his account banned from some site with no real explanation why, only speculation would be abuse of chat. This banning happened AFTER he got coaching from the Liv guy. When he made a new account, he said the player pool was small and speculation was he wanted more action/not get banned again. within these time frames, he ended up playing his old coach liv with this new account and never told liv that it was him. He didn't go out of his way to cheat his coach, he went out of his way to cheat the entire SNG HU community. All of this was said to be 5 years ago He said he regrets his actions and blames it on reckless youth.

Something is wrong here because they still are close friends.

yes like I said he didn't go out of his way to cheat his coach, he just changed his account name after being banned and did not tell anyone. That is from his own posting on 2+2 I don't have the link but he has like 165 total posts so can be found easy enough.