Before he posts his infamous annual goals blog, KidPoker has once again given a very honest account of the highs and lows of tournament poker.

Daniel Negreanu

Whatever you think of Daniel Negreanu he is always candid and prepared to talk about the bad as well as the good. At the end of last year he, once again, revealed his win and loss figures for tournament poker on his blog.

Despite 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. This is before he factors in travel expenses.

Considering my average buy in on the year was $40,481 this is about as close as you can get to breaking even. 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.

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).

Interestingly Negreanu also shared his wins and losses for the last five years overall. Three of the five were winning years but the last two were not. However, overall he is up $8,733,074 with an hourly rate of $3,405. This is mostly as a direct result of his $8,288,001 One Drop runner-up cash in 2014. He played 291 tournaments in that time and cashed in 68 of them.

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