The investigative team used the casino cameras and realized that Lusardi was running a scam on them.

They launched an investigation and discovered several fake chips. However, tournament officials realized something was amiss when they noticed the number of chips in the game was more than what it ought to be. Nobody suspected him of cheating when he emerged as the chip leader on Day 2. Unhappy about his uneventful poker career, Lusardi introduced fake chips into the game. Poker player Christian Lusardi became notorious after the Borgata caught him using counterfeit chips at the Borgata Winter Poker Open in 2014. He played 291 tournaments in that time and cashed in 68 of them.Counterfeit Chips at the Borgata Winter Poker Open in 2014 This is mostly as a direct result of his $8,288,001 One Drop runner-up cash in 2014.

However, overall he is up $8,733,074 with an hourly rate of $3,405. Three of the five were winning years but the last two were not. Interestingly Negreanu also shared his wins and losses for the last five years overall. Negreanu also pointed out that with the $1 million buy-in One Drop returning this year he expects a lot of players to buy-in for $5 million in 2018 (but obviously staking is factored in here). In fact, after my $936,000 score I was up on the year but played a couple of the one day $25k events at Bellagio, rebought a few times, and ended the year in the red. Considering my average buy in on the year was $40,481 this is about as close as you can get to breaking even. This is before he factors in travel expenses. At the end of last year he, once again, revealed his win and loss figures for tournament poker on his blog.ĭespite cashing for $2,792,104 in 2017 it was a losing year for Negreanu, as he paid $2,874,164 in buy-ins, meaning a loss of $86,140 overall. Whatever you think of Daniel Negreanu he is always candid and prepared to talk about the bad as well as the good.

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