Daniel Negreanu has won his first major online tournament. Victory in the 39th event of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) brought him $216k in prize money.
The event was a 6 max PLO tournament with a $5,200 buy in. The high buy in kept the field down to 180 but that was still enough to more than cover the $400k guarantee—the final prize fund reached an impressive $900k.
Negreanu has been running hot this year, winning the first WSOP Asia Pacific Main Event for over $1m and coming 4th in the recent EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final for another $420k.
According to the Global Poker index (GPI) his live tournament winnings are now $17.8m and he is in 15th place in the GPI Top 300 which ranks players based on their live tournament performance over the last three years.
