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

[PokerPaul]

Both of them very good players with big BR's.

Both of them could find easier less risky propositions but at this point its all about bragging rights and "being a man".


Daniel keeps getting critized, but why not BArry? is he that much better? Or is his BR that much bigger?

[ggbman]

It's overdone, but the rational in that Daniel is the one who declared he would play anyone anytime for huge amounts of money.

[Russ McGinley]

I, for one, like Daniel. I've never met him but he *seems* like a nice enough guy. However he is also a young millionaire and his head has probably grown a little too big. I remember when Venus Williams first hit the tennis scene, she put out some ridiculous challenge that she could beat any male player ranked 200 or below in the world, and she played some guy nobody's ever heard of and he beat the piss out of her and she complained about him hitting too hard and blah blah blah and that was the end of that.

Daniel gets attacked a lot on here because:
A. His (perceived) constant ragging of 2+2/Sklansky
B. The people who post on his blog/forum are basically his servants and since he rags on 2+2/Sklansky, so will they
C. Most of us are jealous of him, whether they will admit to it or not
D. Daniel keeps saying after his matches how unlucky he got and bad beats, etc.
E. In this current case, Barry G. is a well-respected poster on these forums, and even posts/answers questions in the hell-hole known as the WPT forum

I suspect that if Daniel were to play a match against a truly disliked poker player (Fischman, Boyd, Hellmuth, etc.), a lot more people would be rooting for Daniel.

[CrazyN8]

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E. In this current case, Barry G. is a well-respected poster on these forums, and even posts/answers questions in the hell-hole known as the WPT forum

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Who does he post as?

[Russ McGinley]

barryg1

[invictus]

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

[Russ McGinley]

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

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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.

[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."

[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]

Pretty good answer.