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Originally Posted by Ansky
Actually if he wanted to bet 1m I bet he would get action, I don't think its such a big number that he couldnt get takers.
happily surprised so far
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Originally Posted by frhly
I know how you felt when you first read about it, and I absolutely agree with you - Negreanu would be crushed if he just jumped and played everyone at 25/50. Anyway, since Daniel didn't provide any specific details, he has so many opportunities to make this bet -EV for those who decide to bet against him, so I wouldn't be that excited.
This is most likely what will come from all of this if anything does at all. Instead of okay I will play xxxxx hands in xxxxx time at these stakes and win, it will probably end up being a bunch of weird rules that have never been used in a prop bet before to make it more +ev for him.
50k hands in 2 months isn't going to happen if its 25/50+ for him, maybe if it was done at 5/10 zoom (which if you are reading this DN, klink mentioned this in his offer and it is BY FAR your best route) he could get that many hands in 2 months but it seems pretty unlikely. The possible cheating in 5/10 zoom scenario will be very high with random people playing in those games because he is playing
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Originally Posted by Mason Malmuth
First, Negreanu has significant celebrity status, and this might mean that if he started to play these games, some wealthy business people who also have an interest in poker might want to sit down and play just so they can say that they played with Negreanu. And if this is the case, and assuming it does happen, then Negreanu should be a clear favorite to win in the game even if he doesn' play quite as well as the top online high stakes no-limit players.
Unless pokerstars changes the way the high stakes games run, there is probably close to no chance that DN and one of these types ever end up in the same game together