Talk:Daniel Negreanu
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[edit] "Kid Poker"
He didn't think that one through, did he? LOL, Good one.
[edit] Uh???
I really think the "struggled with a reputation for alcohol abuse" is speculation and irrelevant at best, and should be deleted. Would the user who posted this information provide the sources for such a claim? I have read poker forums on the internet where various people suggested that he was drunk based on some aggressive comments he made, however I hardly think that warrants an entry on wikipedia. Him responding to the claims does not necessarily give it any legitimacy - he said he responded to the claim because, as he put it, it was "absolutely insane". Online forum speculation is not grounds enough to warrant an entry into wikipedia. Also, is the information about the feud with Annie Duke necessary, especially considering it isn't even mentioned in her entry? Why not then mention his allegations of cheating levelled against Men Nguyen, his "heated" dealings with Mason Malmuth and David Sklansky (Mason in particular), or for that matter, every feud that every professional poker player has had, or was speculated to have had, with every other one? I think this would be somewhat impossible to do, and largely speculation or non-notable in most cases, so I think this should also be considered as irrelevant on Daniel's entry and thus removed. Anyone else have thoughts on the subject? -- User: JasperCornelius
- He's posted a few times on his blog about his experience with mixing alcohol with poker, where he lost a lot of money, sort of bordering on abuse: I woke up not remembering even one detail of any hand I played that night. I had no idea if I’d won or lost until I went to Bellagio the next day and noticed that there was $70,000 missing from my safe-deposit box. Some links: [1], [2], [3]. This is of course a different sort of problem than the belligerent comments on Usenet. -SpuriousQ 04:36, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Wow... Thanks for that. Yeah, I had only read those comments posted by those who seemed to have a personal vendetta against him on the usenet-related boards and so I doubted the validity of their statements. After reading Daniel's articles about it, I still doubt somewhat that alcohol was responsible for his comments (seeing as though the feud in question happened post-2000 - a time where Daniel claimed to have stopped drinking to an incapacitating level) but I suppose the alcoholism claim is somewhat verifiable. Still, I'm not sure if the details on this single feud is necessary or even as a result of alcohol at all - as I mentioned before, Daniel has had a number of relatively high-publicity feuds with various individuals, and to implicate alcohol in all of them (or any of them, for matter) is probably speculation and unprovable information at best, and utterly false at worst. Unless there's something else I'm missing out on? - JasperCornelius
- I agree 100%. I think the best thing would be to have one paragraph dealing with his feuds and another about his use of alcohol. After all, they are both fairly interesting and well-documented. -SpuriousQ 11:05, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Yeah, agreed too. I don't really see how the two are connected at all (apart from through speculation) and there are other feuds which certainly deserve mentioning if the Annie Duke one is worthy of a mention at all. If anyone else who follows "celebrity" poker players is reading this, I would also like to get your thoughts on whether a section about his feuds is appropriate. I don't think one paragraph would suffice (because I can think of at least 3 which deserve mentioning), and also, if Daniel's feuds are listed then other major players' feuds should be listed too. This would be both a laborious task not to mention the fact that objectively assessing highly subjective situations with limited information is challenging and possibly not worthy of being put into an encyclopedia. All-in or fold? - JasperCornelius
[edit] video game
Daniel is the featured player in a new video game called STACKED that uses the Poki artificial intelligence poker engine by University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group. I added an external link to the video game, but it was reverted (spam link). Maybe a more appropriate link would be I'm Stoked About STACKED by Daniel Negreanu. His participation in bringing this innovative AI-based poker engine to the general public seems noteworthy to me (at least compared to some of the other stuff in the article). --Toms2866 01:48, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Servicing Men
Removed the line about servicing men. I am guessing that it wasn't true since there wasn't a source cited. However, feel free to prove me wrong. Ilrosewood 05:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Vegetarian
Vegetarian and loves sushi? I dont get it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.136.59.38 (talk • contribs).
I don't get it either. That should probably be worderd differently. 80.221.157.153 19:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Do we really need the Tournament finishes of over $50,000?
This article is the only one that has a list of Tournament finishes of over $X0,000. I propose that we remove it, because none of the other poker player articles have that kind of list. I'm open for any ideas. Red Director 18:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] His shirt in the 2006 WSOP
I'd like to point out that he was wearing a Bob Marley shirt during the final round of the WSOP. The particular Bob Marley shirt was the frontal portrait of Marley drawn as a composite of canabis leaves.Jolb 23:50, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Highest ITM Main Event Finish
I don't think his highest in the money main event finish was 11th place. Look at his record. Half of his 25+ finishes are 1st place. The only reason it could be 11th if this is only talking about the WSOP main event. Can someone clarify this, please? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.214.27.164 (talk • contribs) 03:52, January 31, 2007 (UTC)
- the WSOP main event is the $10,000 Championship Event in which his highest place was 11th in 2001 here are his hendonmob results http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=181
and this is the 1-11 placement in 2001
- 1st Carlos Mortensen $1,500,000
- 2nd Dewey Tomko $1,098,925
- 3rd Stan Schrier $699,315
- 4th Phil 'Tiltboy' Gordon $399,610
- 5th Phil Hellmuth Jr $303,705
- 6th Mike 'The Mouth' Matusow $239,765
- 7th Henry Nowakowski $179,825
- 8th Steve Riehle $119,885
- 9th John Inashima $91,910
- 10th Arturo Diaz $63,940
- 11th Daniel Negreanu $63,940
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[edit] Full Contact Poker
I just did a search for FCP and I got redirected here. I think there should be a seperate article for FCP because it is more than just Negreanu's site. User Sbpatel
