Has Daniel thrown away all of his regular shirts now and only owns tank tops?

It's the DN "WifeBeater" collection.

I have a DN story:

Was playing in a charity poker event in NYC at a fancy place, lots of big names pros were there to attract people to come and play. Was a lot of fun the reception, good amount of boozing.

So we get to the poker tournament part. Prob about 2 hours into the tournament and I get moved to a table with DN. He's in the one seat, I'm in the nine seat. A really attractive woman, prob some sort of model, gets moved to the ten seat. As soon as she arrives DN starts chatting her up, asking her all these questions, trying to work some game, etc. The girl turns to me and whispers why won't this guy stop. I laugh inside because she prob has no idea that DN is a big shot in the poker world but found the sentiment funny. Goes on for another 10 mins and the girl whispers again to me asking if I can create small talk with her anytime DN tries talking to her. I said sure. Now I was about 29 at the time but far from an attractive dude. So DN tries talking to her and I immediately start talking to her in a low voice where DN can't hear and DN sees that she responds to me and we chat in a low voice, heads close together like I might be working some magic. We end up chatting for like 15 minutes on and off in this style.

So I get it all in with DN, my 88 vs his AK button vs BB and he hits trip kings to knock me out. I go around the table shaking everyone's hand wishing everyone well and when I get to DN he refused to shake my hand, totally blew me off. Saw my hand extended, scoffed at me and rotated his body back to the table. Total dick move at a charity event but I guess he saw me as an enemy. I stuck around a little to chat with some of the other guests and I saw DN was still trying to talk to the girl. I was sufficiently inebriated to try something I'd never do if I was sober so I walked up to the girl, tapped her on the shoulder, and asked if she could do a favor for me. She agreed since I helped her out and I pull her off the table to the side. I chat with her for a minute and ask if I can act like I'm putting her number in my phone just to piss DN. So I act like I'm typing it in my phone, I show her my screen and she nods like I got it right. As she's walking back to the table DN gives me such a ****ing glare that I'll never forget and I just die inside. Still laugh to this day about it. DN lost shortly after, maybe I tilted him, haha.

Not an amazing or crazy gambling story but found it funny as to what it revealed about DN

Great story. DN really is turning out to be a world class penor.

wp

Great story. I remember when DN went on Millionaire Matchmaker. He seemed awfully picky!

great story mang!

A+ story. Thx for sharing.

Love the story, well done!

‘We just celebrated our second anniversary’ would be the only final line that could’ve made that story even better.

we can't all write dutch boyd tell alls

Yeah, it's why this thread started getting kinda cringe for me when they got back together. I say it all the time, Amanda Leatherman was one of the first (if not THE first) "poker famous" person I met when I got into this game. Definitely a welcoming presence in a community that I've since found to be pretty caustic.

All that said...

In defense of the recent discussion, Negreanu's recent vlogs have been largely about Amanda, or in reference to her, or have outright included her in a manner that's often as unseemly as that passage from Dutch's book. So Amanda as a topic is quite germane here.

Something that strikes me funny: there is a lot of "I was a fan of his in 2005, but not anymore" sentiment. Doug Polk even said something to this effect. Has Negreanu gotten worse, or does it only seem like he has? I wonder if he is exactly the same person, except that in the late 1990s into the mid-2000s, we only saw the affable, bubbly public image he put forth. Alternatively, Negreanu is exactly the same person, but those who have pivoted from adolation to abhorrence were young and more impressionable during the boom**.

Adam Carolla talks about this all the time, usually in reference to Rosie O'Donnell. The warm-and-cuddly "Queen of Nice" persona, with the kids' puns and Koosh balls, served as a way to offset the raving tyrant she actually is offscreen. I wonder if Negreanu puts up a similar front for the casual fans, for all of the same reasons. A decade-plus and the rise of social media later, we are more privy to the real personas of those we formerly only saw on TV, and thus we get to see what they're really like.




**Loosely related to this, I'd love to see the age split between those who are surprised by the Ellen Degeneres brouahaha and those who were never fooled by her sunny on-air disposition. The former likely leans older, and probably started following her because of her 1990s sitcom or got into her talk show in the early 2000s. The latter crowd skews either younger or includes those who simply listen to a lot of comedy podcasts.

wt easily one of best posters here at 2p2

Has anyone ever seen SageDonkey and GentlemanJack in the same location ?

Possibly in the banned users list.

I hate to be the one to break this to you but you could have actually gotten her number.

Does he completely lack self awareness? What's with all the 'how lucky we are bs?

I have to say, how the turntables. I have never met Negreanu before so this is basically only an opinion based on watching him play live for the past 20 or so years. It is pretty sick how someone can go from the nicest guy ever, super calm and someone who never gets tilted or has a bad word to anyone to THE biggest douchebag the poker world has ever seen.

He acts like a mix of Hellmuth and Matusow, on steroids. He is tilting his ass off online, regularly swearing and cursing and calling people m*thers on stream and stuff like that. No idea what is up with him, but it is very weird.

Edit: he is going through what a regular grinder goes through at least 230 times a day.

I remember DN obsessively ranting about Annie Duke. Maybe the things he said are now especially true about himself today. I can't imagine I will end up thinking of Annie as a worse representative of poker than DN.

Kind of makes you wonder how low can he go.

You’re going to have to explain that one

Already did.

Beyond just in your head, for a laugh

MuckPls

I’m starting to believe he doesn’t really understand online tournament variance, some of the stuff he comes out with. Seems to be convinced that not getting super deep over his 50 tournament sample actually means something. He would probably not believe you if you told him that the best online tournament players in the world go on downswings lasting literally thousands of tournaments. He’d think you’re insane !

OK.