Daniel Negreanu - Great Insider Gossip - Page 9

RichGangi · #81 05-01-2007, 09:10 AM

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Daniel Negreanu is one of the great gamblers of our time. He offered to play anyone for up to $10 million dollars head-up in any game (about ten different games twice). He willingly got beat out of a million dollars playing seven-card stud (which he is terrible at) against Barry Greenstein. He played (and lost big... and admitted it) the best LHE players online HU at his poker site because he believed in it. He lost a million dollars playing high stakes golf even though he probably couldn't shoot under 100 tomorrow. He lost a million in the big game and admitted it in his blog, even swallowing his pride saying that he's afraid to play that high anymore.

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My English teacher taught me that the first sentence of a paragraph should be a good summary or introduction to the later sentences. Guess you missed that lesson.

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NH, sir.

tiltseeker · #82 05-01-2007, 09:22 AM

Mike Gallo · #83 05-01-2007, 10:02 AM

Bump so Daniel can see this and retort.

JoeM · #84 05-01-2007, 10:04 AM

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Would you rather he be boring as hell and have great money management skills?

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Yes.

best wishes,
mason

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Mission accomplished.

samsdmf · #85 05-01-2007, 10:09 AM

More breaking news: Jamie gold got dropped by bodog

BostonMetro · #86 05-01-2007, 10:29 AM

A great gambler isn't always going to get the best of it. Maybe that's why you can only write books using your lessons from grade school english and no top pro thinks you can play at a high level. Maybe that's why you are afraid to make correct plays at final tables because you are afraid the viewers will think you look stupid. Gambling doesn't always mean winning. It means gambling.

Mike Gallo · #87 05-01-2007, 10:35 AM

A great gambler isn't always going to get the best of it.

Then he or she does not qualify as a great gambler, this person qualifies as an action junky.

Mcot · #88 05-01-2007, 11:19 AM

daniel got lucky in a few donkaments and will be bustors within 10 years.

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kleath · #89 05-01-2007, 11:27 AM

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A great gambler isn't always going to get the best of it.

Then he or she does not qualify as a great gambler, this person qualifies as an action junky.

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Meh in that type of world you have to give action to get action, no one wants to gamble with a nit. aka -ev gambles are fine if it leads to higher +ev propositions later.

BostonMetro · #90 05-01-2007, 11:38 AM

I think that's true. I also think that Sklansky is one of the greatest gamblers of our time. He and Negreanu are just different types of gamblers. Negreanu lost big in HU play at the Wynn and FCP because he saw big longrun dollars behind that. He's not as big of a dog in the big game or golf as to lose as much as he did before he quit. He gambles big and I think to some extent that has to be admired. The bottom line is that if Negreanu and Sklansky both wrote books on how to play poker or tournament poker right now by themselves, Negreanu's would smoke Sklansky's. But he wouldn't do it because he's a better author - but because he's a better player. That is why 2+2 has farmed out all of their specialty books recently to players who have succeeded publicly.