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Has Daniel Negreanu confirmed his participation? Given his history with and opinion of AD, it could be seen as a bit hypocritical of him to play. Hard to ignore and sit out on the huge overlays though.

How in the world would it be hypocritical for Daniel to play a poker tournament simply because Annie Duke was involved?

I can't quote him, but per his blog he thinks she's a low-life. He's told more than 1 story about her, and how he doesn't care for her as a person (never mind a card player). I would think it could be hard to play for someone (she is the commissioner) you have such a low opinion of.

Pretty much this... But given the declining availability of poker shows on TV, unfortunately I will most likely be watching.

He wouldn't be playing for her. He'd be playing for himself to try to win money and possibly more notoriety.

If nothing else I hope to see Hellmuth blow up

also, I laughed when I read the ESPN article on this and they said that several big name poker players including "Jamie Gold and Jonathan Duhamel" were left out

Where is Phil Ivey

If that sort of reasoning helps him sleep better at night, then so be it.

Also note the thread title. This is (or appears to be) her and JP's league.

The league will expire before the 5 year card expires.

Nobody cares about this

This.

Nobody cares about these people...
Or their silly, over-the-top self-promotions...
The world's Elite Pros are not gonna be lining up...
To get incomprehensible "exemptions" from AD.

I'm amazed NVG is taking this seriously...
Annie may as well appoint herself Queen of Atlantis...
And decree Eric Seidel shall be Lord of the Thighs.

whatabunch of bitchers. I think it'll be fun to watch, and I think they did a pretty good job with the criteria and the formation of the league. Beats the hell out of the WSOP coverage.

Yeah, fair enough, but I'd still like to know Daniel's opinion about the whole thing.

plus i'm pretty sure everyone in here would die to have one of those cards

There was a quote from Daniel in some article basically saying that he needs to know more about the TV deal and business plan before he forms an opinion.

Interesting, so he's not saying FO right away, basically if this takes off chances are he might be IN.

no phil laak this sucks already

What use would a card be if you didn't have $20k to buy in?

Apart from that, carry on.

Somehow I qualified. 80k is a lot to shell out for this, but may be easy to sell shares with the overlays

by the responses to your post, you're not the only one, but you guys are wrong.

This is a live poker tournament league responsible for rewarding live players, so why would they include online results or online only players? Online players have a chance, they just need to go play live.

Also, this is NOT old school players since most of the qualifications include tournaments post 1/1/2008, which correct me if I'm wrong, is way past the start of online play. meaning online players have had their chance for the last 3 years to qualify.

If you are pro poker, you should be pro this league. You may not like everything about it, but at least it's a start.

GL FS&G, hope this goes well.

I can't imagine Daniel would be dumb enough to say f off at this point, even if he wanted to. I would expect more of an it's-too-good-of-an-opportunity-to-pass-on blog soon.

There's some excellent players there.

The variance in these tournaments is going to be atrocious.

Exactly

I am sorry Doyle should be able to play in any poker league he wants for as long as long as he wants without qualifying. He should have a life time exemption. Granted it might for less than two years, but it should be about respect to our elder statesman.

will all events be held in vegas? cant find any info about locations but I heard a rumour about cannes?

All events will be at Palms in Las Vegas.