In this week’s poker news round up Daniel Negreanu wins the PokerStars Shark Cage, the war continues between PokerStars and their VIP players, and much more.

Sports fans live for the moment when two greats at the peak of their powers clash. It happened in poker this week. It failed to live up to its billing. The players are blameless.

Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu are arguably the two biggest names in poker. This week they appeared at the final table of PokerStars: The Shark Cage Season 2 (the show was filmed during the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final in Monte Carlo, and was aired on TV this week).

Joining Ivey and Negreanu in an amazing final table lineup was Andre Akkari, Antonio Esfandiari, Maria Ho and Jennifer Shahade. You look at that list and want an Ivey v Negreanu heads-up clash, and that’s what the fans got.