“Real Talk” with Daniel Negreanu

by , Feb 16, 2012 | 1:58 pm

I watched it … you probably will, too. Draw your own conclusions from a pre-launch YouTube timeline that starts with “Kangaroos and Emus” and “Get Out of the Friend Zone!!!” then goes to “Your Anus?” and “Closet”. One thing I couldn’t help but notice on this relatively brand-new DNegreanu YouTube channel is that there’s not a PokerStars logo anywhere near it.

Daniel Negreanu is keepin’ it real for his fans with a new V-log that talks about Jason Somerville’s coming out of the closet to him — yay, go gay poker pros! — and then sympathizes with poker players who might inflict testicle-centric violence on Howard Lederer, Ray Bitar, and Chris Ferguson.

Negreanu’s disdain for the Full Tilt empresarios is from the gut, you can tell, but gotta say … his calling for essentially the equivalent of a lifetime ban — hoping/encouraging-by-proxy all poker players to shun them forever — sounds ironically similar to KidPoker’s childlike rants against Clonie Gowen back in ’08, when he beckoned for a poker-worldwide ostracization of Clonie after she filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against … um … Howard Lederer, Ray Bitar, and Chris Ferguson (among others) … claiming they ripped her off and that Full Tilt Poker was a shadier operation than many might believe. LOL-oops? (Tune in next week!)


4 Comments to ““Real Talk” with Daniel Negreanu”


  1. Dave Ferrara
    says:

    What is the latest with Gowen’s lawsuit?


  2. Dan Michalski
    says:

    June 2011 I believe a judge ruled it was inappropriate for another judge to dismiss her case and though I don’t know of she has, she can refile, I believe?


  3. F-Train
    says:

    The latest with her case is: Full Tilt is broke and unlikely to be sold.


  4. Dan Michalski
    says:

    i can agree with that. but hey, maybe we are wrong about the crooked frenchman coming to save them!