Gah, another juicy newsbriefable thingy to speculate wildly on with little information or context when we all could just make a phone call or send an email to find out what\’s up) … yet no Poker Beat to break it down. 🙁
Anyhow, check it out and decide with minimal information for yourself … Daniel Negreanu, \”caught\” on webcam via screencap … playing on a site that isn\’t PokerStars?
It\’s something new called PokerView — which looks like just about any other online poker site except instead of avatars you have webcam video. Very tell-revealing you might think in straight-up play. And Negreanu obviously isn\’t making any effort to hide his identity any more than he\’s actively trying to promote this new endeavor.
So many stories potentially in play here. Is Negreanu going the way of Hellmuth, Duke, Raymer, and Maven … seeking a new poker home? Does this new site have any connection to PokerStars (the biggest online poker company in the world, save for maybe Zynga)? Could this technology be a major step forward in TOS security, giving a real-time glimpse of who\’s really playing and what else might be going on in their seat. Could you mix it with Rush Poker to create online poker\’s version of chat roulette? And with that in mind, serious question … how long before people start showing their junk and contend it\’s merely a strategic maneuver if your schlong got the other guy to fold?
ALT HED: Show Me Your Nuts
(Thanks, DL, for the tip!) (Shame on you, DL, for trying to play me a chump!)
CONFIRMED: Not a real Daniel Negreanu endeavor.
