Dan Smith has beaten Daniel Negreanu in heads-up action to take the $1.4m first prize in the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic $100k Super High Roller; Sergio Aido, Jason Koon, and Bryn Kenney impress.

Let’s face it, during the Poker Masters; Daniel Negreanu got handed his ass on a plate. It was a humbling experience for the most successful live tournament proponent the world has ever seen. The one-time kid of poker handled it with the grace we expect from the man who carries our torch more often than most.

“I am not as good as these guys,” Negreanu tweeted at the time, “I have a lot to learn.”

The way the elite and the rest prepare for poker is like comparing a Rocky Balboa training camp with Floyd Mayweather. Negreanu is somewhere along the spectrum, and time will tell if he has the ability and grit to catch Rocky’s rooster.