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Close but no cigar for poker pro Daniel Negreanu, who is fast becoming the Dan Marino of the World Series of Poker Europe. He and Card Player Magazine owner Barry Shulman went at it for hours before Negreanu finally lost out. Negreanu had made the final table of last year's WSOPE, placing 5th.
But his second place finish means that Negreanu now tops the All-Time Money List. He takes home 495,589 pounds while Shulman walks away with 801,603 pounds. The total prize pool was 3,340,000 pounds.
Shulman's son, Jeff, will be competing at the 2009 World Series of Poker final table next month.
"It's a lot of fun for me to be here right now," Barry Shulman said. "It's been great. When I moved to Vegas, I took up poker. I tried to prove that I could beat the best in the world. I got pretty good for a while, but then I started to focus more on my business at Card Player. Since then, I have not been playing as hard. Now, I'm back on the winning trail and feeling very good about it."
Shulman first took the chip lead by moving all-in postflop and turning a flush with Ah-5h against Negreanu's Ac-As. Negreanu battled back, but only to fall short in the end.
Here were the list of players who finished in the money including our friend Doyle Brunson:
Event 4: No-limit hold 'em main event Buy-in: 10,000 pounds Entries: 334 Prize pool: 3,340,000 pounds Players in the money: 36
1. Barry Shulman (801,603 pounds) 2. Daniel Negreanu (495,589) 3. Praz Bansi (360,887) 4. Jason Mercier (267,267) 5. Markus Ristola (200,367) 6. Chris Bjorin (150,267) 7. Antoine Saout (114,228) 8. Matt Hawrilenko (87,074) 9. James Akenhead (66,533) 10. Eric Liu (51,536) 11. Keith Hawkins (51,536) 12. Thomas Bichon (51,536) 13. Tony Cousineau (40,481) 14. Teddy Sheringham (40,481) 15. Ram Vaswani (40,481) 16. Saar Wilf 32,198) 17. Doyle Brunson (32,198) 18. Sandor Demjan (32,198) 19. Craig Burgess (25,918) 20. Steven Fung (25,918) 21. Konstantin Bucherl (25,918) 22. Liz Lieu (25,918) 23. Arnaud Mattern (25,918) 24. Peter Gould (25,918) 25. Yevgeniy Timoshenko (25,918) 26. Men Nguyen (25,918) 27. Andre Akkari (25,918) 28. John Kabbaj (21,142) 29. Christian Harder (21,142) 30. Christian Kruel (21,142) 31. Tommy Pavlicek (21,142) 32. Steve Zolotow (21,142) 33. Michael Fosco (21,142) 34. Oyvind Riisem (21,142) 35. David Ulliott (21,142) 36. David Docherty (21,142)
