Re: Negreanu\'s exit
Also take into consideration that we don't know what Jim Bechtel's chip stack was at. Daniel's flop all-in was basically a pot-size bet and he had two players yet to act, including the preflop raiser and this "lucky" player as well as Nguyen, although he had checked. Daniel says Jim "studied for a minute", but that could mean anything. Jim likely thought he had the best hand, but he had one player yet to act and the UTG limper, so you have to take that into account. Daniel is a better player than 99% of the field, so the part that I question is him putting his tourney life on the line with 5-high against a respectable player. I don't know if he does that a lot in the tourneys that he's won so I can't comment on that. Daniel shouldn't want to put himself in the position of moving all-in on a draw and hoping nobody else has anything.
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