Daniel Negreanu took a hearty shot at Phill Hellmuth this week at the World Poker Tour.

They were seated at the same table during Day 2 of the event when the topic of the $50,000 Player's Championship at this year's WSOP came up, and Negreanu told Hellmuth he's probably an 800-1 favorite to win the event.

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"In mixed games, obviously he doesn't spend a lot of time on it and he's not very good at a lot of the Limit games," said Negreanu. "So I was needling him, because that's what we do, so I said, 'you're about 800-1 to win that event.' So now he wants me to book action on 800-1."

"You could pick an internet player off the rail who you could teach for a year and he's probably 800-1. I haven't played a lot of those games, but recently I've been playing a ton of mixed games on the internet and it's been helping my game a ton. Right now, I'm trying to improve and get better at every game because the Hold'em tournaments are so deep that I think it's more difficult these days." Said Hellmuth.

Daniel admitted that the original offer was just to get a rise out of Hellmuth, but a bet will likely be in place before the WSOP kicks off in May. "Laying 800-1 is no fun on anything," Negreanu told "So instead I told him I'd lay him a price on a crossbook. He's down to 250-1… so now we're getting close."