quick question

[ripdog]

Daniel Negreanu, or however you spell it, called Mike Matusow a donkey during the tourney that was on thanksgiving. What did he mean?

[eMarkM]

Basically another term for maniac or really bad player who doesn't understand the situational nature of tournament poker. Professional tournament players are usually loath to go all-in without the nuts during the beginning and middle stages of a tourney (short stack situations not included). They feel their abilities are such that they don't want to risk putting in all their chips on a marginal or coin flip hand. They look down on players who shove all their chips in on lesser quality hands, often way overbetting the pot when they do so.

In this case it was the 97o, blind steal hand that elicited the comment from Dan N. where the two of them put all their chips--and they were both big chip leaders at the time--in on the 9 high flop. Not exactly the kind of hand you're willing to risk your whole tourney on.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Just a guess: someone who is stubborn, hard to push off a pot.