Big Pot (Actually, This Time)!

[user46298]

A lot of Daniel Negreanu's hard work building his stack up to the second place level has been undone just now with a big confrontation vs. Jason Mercier. The million+ pot started out as a standard sort of hand, with Negreanu calling Mercier pre and then both players checking the {4-Spades}

flop. So far, so standard for the last four hours.

The {K-Spades}

turn saw another check from Negreanu, and a bet of 220k from Mercier. Negreanu made the call.

The river was the {9-Hearts}

, and now a third check from Negreanu saw a bet of 383k from Mercier. As Negreanu counted out the chips, it looked like he wasn't going anywhere - and sure enough he called, having built the largest pot of the day so far.

Unfortunately his {Q-Clubs}