Negreanu

sthief09 · #1 08-19-2004, 02:41 AM

I like the guy. he does his thing without being obnoxious or cocky, like some of the other players. I also used to be in Poker School Online and he was an instructor, before he went on his tear this year.

but what was he doing in the main event? he played terribly. he took a stab at every pot they showed, often with nothing (Q2s on a coordinated board). he called a huge overbet with KQ. I really thought that last hand was atrocious. preflop he says to the guy that he thinks he has a medium pair (I assume that it's due to the big bet), which basically announces that he has KQ or AQ. then the flop comes wiht a 9 and an 8 and he bets the turn when he spikes a Q, and he calls an all in bet (I guess he was pot committed) with KQ when he basically told his opponent what he had preflop?

I generally hate TV poker and all these TV poker posts, but I just thought he played really poorly. he tried to bully his way through the early stages against loose players in a 2400 player field. I honestly feel like, based on the hands we saw on tv, that he deserved to go out in day 1.

MarkL444 · #2 08-19-2004, 03:21 AM

I dont know what youre talking about. I always go all in when I put my opponent on a set.

TheJackal · #3 08-19-2004, 03:38 AM

He was short-stacked, you can't fault the guy for trying to make something happen with a good hand. He said previously that he should have just played just straight forward because the novice players are "Unbluffable". Who really cares about the main event anyways, Dan showed his poker prowess by winning the best all around award. Yes he didn't play well in the main event but he still made money this year at the WSOP AND his is #1 player of the year on cardplayer list.

jwvdcw · #4 08-19-2004, 06:13 PM

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Who really cares about the main event anyways

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ummmmm....nearly every card player out there. Are you trying to say that he just played poorly because he didn't care??

TheJackal · #5 08-19-2004, 07:22 PM

No I'm saying that the Main Event this year had 2600 people in it and even the best pros in the world would have trouble winning it. If I were Daniel I wouldn't feel bad about the main event, because he won the AAPA, which he felt was more important.

dakine · #6 08-21-2004, 05:03 AM

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No I'm saying that the Main Event this year had 2600 people in it and even the best pros in the world would have trouble winning it. If I were Daniel I wouldn't feel bad about the main event, because he won the AAPA, which he felt was more important.

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Homer · #7 08-19-2004, 08:02 PM

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Who really cares about the main event anyways, Dan showed his poker prowess by winning the best all around award. Yes he didn't play well in the main event but he still made money this year at the WSOP AND his is #1 player of the year on cardplayer list.

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Everyone cares about the main event.

What you said is like saying, "Tiger Woods is #1 in the world and has already won the Tostitos Open and Weedeater Invitational this year, so who cares if he tanks it in the US Open."

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Doc JS · #8 08-20-2004, 08:11 PM

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Who really cares about the main event anyways?

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I can think of about 5 million reasons to care about the main event! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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bomblade · #9 08-19-2004, 03:41 AM

I definitely agree that he played very poorly, from what we saw. But we didn't see everything. They seemed to show him whenever he was going to lose the hand. I recall later in the day, he had made a poor play that cost him most of his chips, and by the next time they showed him, he had most of them back.
He did say after that he didn't play well. He knew he made a lot of bad plays, especially on the bluffs. I think a lot of the big guns had trouble with that field. They had 4-5 players at their tables that were amatuers. Impossible to bluff, call every hand down, type of players.

Scooterdoo · #10 08-20-2004, 01:57 PM

I keep hearing the comment that the amatuers were impossible to bluff, but of the hands they showed on TV, Negreanu kept on bluffing into players who had the goods with modest bets. No player, amateur or seasoned pro would lay down these hands to his bets.