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Originally Posted by Barry Urinstein
The moment I learned that Daniel Negreanu hates Erik Seidel I became a huge fan of Erik.
It couldn't be something as weak as all-time winnings could it? I guess ES is creeping up on Kid Poker and he's won $20 million since 2010.
It might have something to do with politics, DN's political knob goes to 11.
If it's not something stupid like that and the animosity is non-winnings poker-based, I'd love to hear the background.
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Originally Posted by Barry Urinstein
If you look at his play in older shows you can see how he was very much ahead of his time. He seems to have rock solid fundamentals coupled with a strong intuition. As a stupid kid I thought “Erik Seidel is the most boring man on the planet”, but today I know he’s an endboss, pure class, amazingly controlled and restrained.
I know many people hate it but I could watch Seidel, Antonius, Durr, Ivey, Luckychewy, Holz, Colman etc. all day just for the
"solid fundamentals coupled with a strong intuition". Probably because my game is mostly intuition; I'm not smart enough to apply poker theory.
They aren't going Hellmuth/Matasow/Tony G/J Gold tedium nor the even worse unearned Kahn/Kassouf pla-skool exhibitionism and I know people think that's poker's future/good for TV blah blah blah but the only time I like watching loud a$$hats playing on TV is to see them get pwned.