Vanessa vs Victor 1 time!

Is Dario still with Stars?

To those of you wondering wether you should take up a challenge from Daniel Negreanu to play NLHE, just watch the hand at 18:30 following.

It´s right up there with the worst play I´ve ever seen in my life lmao

Interesting. Most people on here seem to think that Gus and the FTP team would crush anyone Daniel can pick from Stars, yet Gus is saying he gets to choose the players Daniel plays with......

Although Daniel has more to pick from, some of them are really only on the Stars team for publicity more than actual ability, and its still 3 v's 3, even if Daniel has more to pick from. Sounds like Gus is making excuses already!

We don't know the Stars team yet, but since Daniel is making the challenge, i'm going to assume he thinks he has some kind of edge. (The edge may well be that FTP and Stars are putting up the prize so he has nothing to lose of course!) But still, he is picking this format for a reason, so with that in mind, I think Daniel and Stars will take down Gus and FTP. Either way, as good as Dwan and Bloom are, I don't think they will have as much of an edge as people seem to think, hope it happens, and its a good match and good publicity for online poker, bringing in more players, which I am sure if the main aim of the whole thing anyway.

They really will have a bigger edge.
Its HU, team FTP are basically HU specialists and team stars sit and grind MTT's or get Supernova to be on the team.

If it was cash team FTP would destroy them while SnG's i think anything can happen, a lucky AA vs KK here and there but who knows.

I think it could be a easy win for team FTP.

how does one manage to misunderstand this... Gus wants to choose matchups(is gus gonna play DN or w/e ... etc) .. not the players. or maybe i managed to misunderstand it, heh.

I agree with you.

If gus took like half a million from negreanu from that pot, why don't they play both a live HU session 500-1k or 1k-2k, with a minimum amount of hands required? (or whenever the big loser wants to quit) Makes more sense, it's way better for TV (if they air some episodes later) and it's better than husng, that we all know that starts a million BBs deep and ends in an all in for 18bb K7o>A2s.

Pretty sure Gus wants to choose players who aren't lame and crap for TV.

So basically he'll choose Cody and Elky.

so worst pros arrange challenge

LOL Negreanu hater much??

I doubt this would make a top 100 of worst played hands I have seen in my life! It would take less than 5 minutes to find a spot where Daniel himself played worse than this. He almost guesses his hand, infact his guess is so close, it doesn't matter that he is out by a fraction! But so much of his play is able to be seen on TV, so it takes seconds to find clips where he looks like a genius or a donkey. What you always miss, in minutes of footage, from hours of play, is the context.

Achilles2k You don't seem to be able to make up your mind? Big edge or anything can happen? My point was that its not a straight, heads up cash game, so the edge will be less than it would be. I think Daniel knows what he is doing. He is challenging people who should have a big edge, who might even think that their edge is so big, that they can win while the game is slightly different. I think Daniel knows he can take some of that edge away with a different format, and if it happens, I guess we will see how much of a difference it makes. Either way, it looks like most people are pretty interested, and I know I am!

anchorman style

Negreneau would crush em all

viktor is a HU machine. daniel is getting into more than he can handle.. i wonder what the money will be like

Why would durrr or blom rock up to EPT London just to play this? Neither
Usually play the EPT's. unless stakes worth their while don't see it happening.

Does Daniel still play poker? I was under the impression that he just weakly fondles himself to old WSOP coverage and post-BF headlines. I picture him perpetually sitting in his webcam "spot," shouting nonsense in a tattered bathrobe.

Was probably the first pro that I actually liked, he talked a lot less back then.

Lets not forget Daniel and viktor have already played a superstar showdown. Blom won the first but Daniel the second so try not to write him off just yet.

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/2011/s...nu-079807.html

Right, the quote from Gus is: ".@RealKidPoker Since you have tons of PS pros to choose from, and I have my two, I should get to pick the match ups."

Pretty sure that means once Daniel has picked his teammates, Gus gets to pick who plays who in the first round.

Should be fun.

Haha this - Battleships > Short stack HUSNG

...should be 200bb buyin across 4+ tables

Ok, please post a hand he played worse.

Just to make sure, I want to see a hand that beats snap calling a pot sized bet for $13000 with 98o on a 456x board with one player left to act behind you, then once this very player reraises to about 50.000, snap calling that also. Remember, he´s holding 9 high, drawing to a gutshot, and once he hits, the board will read 4567x.

Once the river brings the 2 (pot roundabout 120k), "hero" Daniel checks and says he figured villain had a set all the way.

Please find a hand that was played worse than that, and you sir are my hero. I think there´s a zero percent chance you will find anything that beats this hand. Daniel´s standard pay off wizzardry is so standard compared to this uber donkey play.


PS: Just to make sure, him reading villain´s hand near perfectly makes his play only worse. It may also very well be some sort of justification (calling turn makes even less sense if he put villain on a straight lmao).

Good news for the rail birds and poker in general.
It'll be interesting to see who Stars get to play. Is Gus picking the two other Stars team pros?

there must be more to this fake "rivalry".
I don't think Gus, from out of nowhere, would needle Daniel about a 4 year old cooler.

just watch any high stakes poker episode he's in, he does **** like this all the time, like calling raises oop with ****ty suited cards and then just folding the flop

theres a reason he was the biggest net loser on that show (-2M$)

If this isn't Negreanu's shadow lurk account I'll be astonished.

I played this hand much worse!

Check out 'Todd Brunson makes Negreanu laydown the Nut Flush!' on you tube.

Don't think so? Hey, thats cool, its all about opinions, its just that yours in this case is wrong!

lol

ooops! outed!!!

By jjjjudas no less, some irony there......

lol @ the haters ITT. Every single person here will watch this if it's available to them.