Colman vs Negreanu
Big One for One Drop, 2014. The final hand.
Heads-up at the 2014 One Drop
The hand
Daniel Negreanu and Dan Colman. Blinds 800K / 1.6M, ante 200K.
Before the flop
- Blinds 800K and 1.6M. Negreanu has the button.
Negreanu calls. Why
Negreanu. Short-stacked, a limp can set a trap: if Colman raises, an all in over the top puts him to a hard decision with the pot already bigger.
- Colman raises to 4M.
- Negreanu moves all in. The famous decision
Colman calls. Why
Colman. Heads-up, king-queen is a strong hand, and against a short stack moving in it is ahead of many hands and rarely far behind.
Negreanu had ace-four and flopped two pair, but the turn gave Colman a straight.
The flop
The turn
The river
Before the flop
The famous decision
Negreanu. With about thirteen big blinds, ace-four is too good to fold heads-up and too short to call and play the flop. All in picks up the pot whenever Colman folds.
The result
Colman wins at the showdown with Straight, Ace high.
- NegreanuA♦4♣
- ColmanK♦Q♥Wins
Why it is famous
The final hand of the 2014 Big One for One Drop. Daniel Negreanu limped on the button with ace-four and moved all in over Dan Colman’s raise; Colman called at once with king-queen. Negreanu flopped two pair, but the ten on the turn gave Colman a straight and the $15,306,668 first prize.
What to take from it
A limp and a re-raise all in hides a strong hand, but it lets the other player see the flop cheaply when they call.
Sources
What the sources do not say. PokerNews gives Negreanu’s all in as 20.85 million; whether that counts his ante is not said, so it is not shown as a number. Colman’s stack is not given; he covered Negreanu.
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