Negreanu's players profile

[J.R.]

that and travel/lodging expenses. stuff directly incurred as result of pursuing poker

[Nothinghead]

i forget where i read it (so it may not be reliable at all) but i think i remember daniel stating that his poker expenditures were something like 400k last year between tournament buy ins, travel, hotels, all the costs of being on the road, etc.

[InfernoLL]

Four million dollars. That's 400 $10k buy ins. How many $10k events do you think Negreanu played plast year? Even if he played every one in the country all year, he still made a profit of more than $3 million.

Also, it doesn't matter whether the year was typical or not. He has been a consistently successful player for years. The tiny financial gain he's going to make from promoting someone else's chapter in a book he also wrote in is insignificant compared to something like five or six other sources of income he has, one of which is making millions playing poker. He clearly made the comment about Harman's chapter because he either believes what he's saying, or because he wants to compliment a good friend. Either way your conclusion was bad.

[drewjustdrew]

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one of which is making millions playing poker.

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He's no Bill Fillmaff

[J.R.]

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Even if he played every one in the country all year, he still made a profit of more than $3 million.


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fo shizzle?

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He has been a consistently successful player for years.

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good thing he's never publicly discussed going broke as a result of drinking and blowing cash

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The tiny financial gain he's going to make from promoting someone else's chapter in a book he also wrote

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how tiny is it?

my point was the harman chapter sucks given what it is purported to be and he has a personal finacial interest in promoting the book, so his motives and conclusion are both suspect (In addition to my point that he doesn't consistently make 4 million a year playing poker), but its all IMO and I am a moron for responding to you so I leave for quiet repose.

[InfernoLL]

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good thing he's never publicly discussed going broke as a result of drinking and blowing cash


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"going broke" isn't that meaningful when you have a small bankroll and are good enough to rebuild it. I'd like you to enlighten me as to what magical angel came down upon him, drunk and broke, and made him sober up, gave him money, and somehow made him one of the most successful tournament players around. But he doesn't have any money (except this year) and he needs to contrive schemes whereby he promotes a book he wrote one chapter in by complimenting a different chapter so he can make a tiny royalty.

And all this because he has to squeeze every penny out of this specific project, despite having a video game, his own book, an official position at a new casino, an internet poker website, and, don't forget, he won four million dollars last year playing tournaments. Yeah, I can see how ignoring two much more likely motives for the comment about Harman's chapter and jumping straight to this completely ridiculous one could be a reasonable excercise of your opinion.

[GrandmaStabone]

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not to mention those two are very close, and we all know what he thinks of sklansky's material.

what's funny is that much of her chapter reads like a cliff's notes version of HEFAP.

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What's the story here? Perhaps I am behind the curve, but I've never heard anything relating the two. Anyone have alink to where some of this might be located so I could check it out?

[GrandmaStabone]

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Four million dollars. That's 400 $10k buy ins. How many $10k events do you think Negreanu played plast year? Even if he played every one in the country all year, he still made a profit of more than $3 million.

Also, it doesn't matter whether the year was typical or not. He has been a consistently successful player for years. The tiny financial gain he's going to make from promoting someone else's chapter in a book he also wrote in is insignificant compared to something like five or six other sources of income he has, one of which is making millions playing poker. He clearly made the comment about Harman's chapter because he either believes what he's saying, or because he wants to compliment a good friend. Either way your conclusion was bad.

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If I made 3 million/ year playing poker, and also had an income of 50k/ year selling handcrafted coasters online, I might still drop a "Hey, my coasters are cool" even if it only increased their income to 75k, money is money and if your gonna be a part of something your gonna promote it even if it's return pales to other sources.

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not to mention those two are very close, and we all know what he thinks of sklansky's material.

what's funny is that much of her chapter reads like a cliff's notes version of HEFAP.

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What's the story here? Perhaps I am behind the curve, but I've never heard anything relating the two. Anyone have alink to where some of this might be located so I could check it out?

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Not much of a story. Daniel and Jen Harman are good friends. Danny-boy isn't a big fan of Sklanski.

Not much else to say.

[GrandmaStabone]

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Danny-boy isn't a big fan of Sklanski.

Not much else to say.

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Where has he publicly stated this, and what are his reasons. Is there an article/ old post on this somewhere?