why is everyone ripping Daniel N? why not Barry G too?

[Russ McGinley]

[ QUOTE ]
I know it's hardly to the point, but I have never heard of the Venus Williams incident mentioned above. Did it really happen?

[/ QUOTE ]

Yes, and to clarify, it was actually BOTH Williams sisters who challenged anyone. Some guy played them both and beat them both one set apiece, then they modified their challenge and said any male lower than 350 (the guy that beat them was like 203 or something).

The correlation is that both Negreanu and the Williams sisters (at the time) were both very arrogant about their game and apparently felt the need to prove that they could beat anybody, and in the Williams' case, they were pretty quickly grounded back to Earth and I wonder if Daniel loses more matches than he wins if the same thing will happen.

[Smoothcall]

If live poker has been his bread and butter for years why has he gone broke so many times losing huge sums of money aquired through tournaments? People keep saying its his bread and butter. But until he hit these big tournies in last year and half or so there was no bread to butter.

[Kyo Souma II]

[ QUOTE ]
If live poker has been his bread and butter for years why has he gone broke so many times losing huge sums of money aquired through tournaments? People keep saying its his bread and butter. But until he hit these big tournies in last year and half or so there was no bread to butter.

[/ QUOTE ]

When has he written about going broke in the past 3 years?

-kyo

[Jim T]

Here's the story on the Williams Sisters match, as told by the male tennis player:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4247242-103977,00.html

"Preparation is crucial. Remember that a game like this is light-hearted - taking it too seriously would be a mistake. My training regime consisted of a leisurely round of golf in the morning followed by a couple of shandies. I turned up on court feeling suitably laid-back.

My first game of the afternoon, just a one-set match, was against Serena. A hint: try and play your match somewhere quiet, where you're not going to be pestered by big crowds or lots of press - we were out on one of the back courts at Melbourne Park, No 17 I think it was. I felt so relaxed that I didn't even warm up properly. We started playing and I raced into a 5-0 lead.

At this point Venus turned up to watch. She had just finished a press conference after a quarter-final loss against Lindsey Davenport. In the end I won my game against Serena 6-1 but by the time we were at the net shaking hands, Venus was on court, ready to have a go against me as well. The game against Venus was very similar. I ended up winning 6-2."

[Shaun]

Because Barry G. is the WPT board's hero of the moment.

[Shaun]

Or because two plus two's membership consists of numerous gay prostitutes who were secretly offended by Daniel's obviously insensitive remarks.

[NoRiverRats]

To answer your question, people here are harder on Daniel because his life is more open to the public, his blog tells all. As a result, everyone with an opinion, well informed or not, feels comfortable commenting.(Which frankly is fair, if Daniel doesn't want the compliments and criticisms, he should stop publishing his life story on the web.

Barry doesn't let is all hang out on the web, we know less about him and his life, only what he wants to tell whomever is intervewing him. Believe me, if he had a blog people here and elsewhere would be talking/posting about it.

[gojacketz]

Haha, Russ, you make me laugh:


In 1998 both Serena and Venus were beaten easily in one practice set each by chain-smoking German doubles specialist Karsten Braasch on an Australian Open practice court. The Williams sisters were hanging out in the ATP office, boasting how they could beat the No. 200-ranked man, when in walked the No. 203-ranked Braasch. According to onlookers, Braasch delighted in slicing, dicing, and drop-shotting the sisters, who were not well-acquainted with opponents that had more in their arsenal than a hard flat forehand and backhand. Braasch beat Serena 6-1, and Venus 6-2.

That made my day...

Gojacketz

[Smoothcall]

i don't know the exact dates but years ago 3 or 4 or 5 it was reported that he was broke and in debt to his friends. This was after many big tournament wins. So where did all that money go? And i believe he has stated this himself too. I don't know 100 percent if he said he went broke. But he at least said he went through most of the hundereds of thousands he had. He blamed it on his old girlfriend bothering him to come home while he was playing. And his drinking. He worte this article in cardplayer.

[Russ McGinley]

I was indifferent to the Williams sisters before this "challenge". This made me hate them. Venus' decline into mediocrity has made me indifferent to them again.