There are very few players on the planet who could bust out of a $500,000 buy-in tournament like the Super High Roller Bowl at ARIA Resort & Casino and still have a smile on their face later that same day. But there's little doubt poker's all-time leading money winner Daniel Negreanu is one of them.
Negreanu looked primed to make a deep run at the event's $7,525,000 first-place prize part way through Day 2 on Friday. He had Pratyush Buddiga on the ropes all in with the versus his own , but Buddiga wiggled his way out of it, spiking a nine to double through him.