If Daniel folded when he finds himself talking about his opponents river bet, he would win them all.

He talks himself into calling way too much.

Actually, at the time I thought - doesn't matter what he has, he should shove. But that isn't his style. He wouldn't do something like that, so if he had a pair of 4s beat, I think he should call. That is what I was trying to say.

#the hype

Here's a great article about Pierre Neuville. Dude's definitely got an interesting life and he seems real cool and a damn solid poker player.

- “I started to play poker in 1957,” said Neuville. “At that time I didn’t get tired – sometimes I played 20 hours a day. During six years at university in Brussels, poker players were coming from all over the world.”

- The games got serious during Neuville’s time at the Université libre de Bruxelles, which he attended starting in 1963.

- In 1969 he created a game and toy company, and by 1982 he’d sold that company to Hasbro, where he eventually rose to a role of vice chairman of the company in Europe.
- “When I took responsibilities, I was the signer for big amounts and I was the president in a few countries,” said Neuville. “They said I could take not one step in a casino.”

- Neuville continued along his lucrative career path, but after several decades of hard work in the games industry he retired in 2008 – which allowed him to return his attention to one of his earliest loves.
- Neuville was fearless, though, and jumped right in the deep end by playing the 2008 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event. “I met my wife 28 years ago, and for 20 years she never saw me with a card in my hand,” said Neuville. “The first time [after I retired] that we went on holiday, I said ‘let’s go to the Bahamas’, back in 2008. I told her, ‘I just retired – I’m going to play this tournament’. She told me, ‘But you can’t play, those are real poker players – you don’t know that game’
- “I was happy enough, I ended in 18th,” said Neuville. “It started my bankroll, and my bankroll’s never disappeared since then.”

- He once satellited into 23 consecutive EPT Main Events – a record that’s not likely to be matched any time soon.

- “When I arrive at my table, I have more than anybody, probably, all notes in my pocket,” said Neuville. “I have the history of each player at the table, all his results. I know all their first names – sometimes they are astonished because I call them all by their first names. I think it’s been very helpful to know who is a pro, who is aggressive, who’s in this tournament for the first time.”

Dude's a m'fkng badass!

Fedor and him are actually from the same city, would've been kinda fun if they both Finaltabled.

But DN is the much more likely one to have missed diamonds.

Definitely rooting for this guy, thanks for this great post. Bad ass indeed!

Max Steinberg is still in it.