Misclick Proves Costly Even For The Professionals
April 7, 2009
Daniel Negreanu, one of the highest regarded players at the poker tables this week tells about how he was playing in a $1000 No Limit poker tournament and he lost out due to a misclick.
It just goes to show that even the poker ‘greats’ sometimes experience their fair share of bad luck.
Negreanu tells how he was playing poker from the comfort of his sofa at home and then the worst thing imaginable happened.
Negreanu was sitting in 4th place in a $1000 no limit hold’em poker tournament when he was dealt suited connectors 3/4 of spades, seeing the pot raise past what he was prepared to wager on the hand he got up from the sofa, only to see that on his movement from the sofa he had accidently placed all his chips into the pot, all 330,000 of them!
Knowing that this wasn’t going to end well all Negreanu could do was watch as two other callers entered into the pot.
The flop sealed his hands fate as one of his opponents reveals A/K diamonds, seeing the flop his three diamonds.
The crushing blow didn’t spell the end of the tournament for the poker professional but did leave him in a position that he didn’t want to be in, time to fight back he decided.
Then lady luck really took a hold on Negreanu as he walks with his laptop to the bathroom after 12 hours of poker play.
On his way back to the safety of his sofa the connection to the poker client freezes leaving Negreanu sat out through the blinds, costing him almost half of his remaining chips.
Once back connected to the client he finds himself at 32nd in the tournament with only 34 remaining.
With Negreanu feeling let down by lady luck at this point, he sees his 66,000 chip deplenish into a visit to the rails.
Just goes to show that all those times amatuer players experience the same fate, professionals get it too.
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