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11-11-2005, 10:56 PM
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Negreanu and Wynn getting a divorce!
From allvegaspoker.com
It was a really interesting idea when it was originally announced last year. The likable and easygoing professional poker player Daniel Negreanu would play exclusively at the new Wynn poker room. He would serve as an ambassador by ushering high limit players inside, and hopefully build some credibility for Wynn’s new poker room. There was only one problem. The big game never left the Bellagio. Daniel Negreanu’s contract with Wynn obligated him to play exclusively at Wynn’s poker room. This meant that Negreanu missed out on the high stakes cash games across the street at Bellagio. Negreanu said that although his contract with Wynn was lucrative given his responsibilities there, it wasn’t rich enough to compensate for missing out on all the action at the hugest cash games in town. Negotiations recently held between Negreanu and Wynn that could have led to a new contract fell apart because of Wynn’s insistence that Negreanu confine his play to Wynn’s poker room. It’s a shame that this concept didn’t work. I like the idea of celebrity endorsements, and it would have been cool to see more professional poker players endorsing local card rooms. That sort of thing goes a long way toward giving a particular poker room some personality. Could you imagine the Vegas poker room where a guy like Phil Hellmuth might be ambassador? Or, how fun would it be to try and pair a poker celebrity with the poker room at the El Cortez? Actually, I think Scotty Nguyen would be perfect at the Imperial Palace! 
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11-12-2005, 07:07 PM
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Re: Negreanu and Wynn getting a divorce!
it has a poker room - you may not like it, but it has one.
It'll be hosting the World Poker Blogger Tourney Winter Classic, so we'll have a few pros there as well - Now, if you tell me the Imperial Palace won't be there much longer, that I will believe... RB
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#6
11-14-2005, 07:48 AM
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Re: Negreanu and Wynn getting a divorce!
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[ QUOTE ] how fun would it be to try and pair a poker celebrity with the poker room at the El Cortez? [/ QUOTE ] Sam Grizzle. [/ QUOTE ] Could he scrape up a buy-in for the 1-5 stud game? If so he'd fit the El Cortez perfectly!!
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#7
11-14-2005, 01:26 PM
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Re: Negreanu and Wynn getting a divorce!
if wynn wanted to compete with the belagio poker room he should have hired a more qualified manager. players couldn't give "a rats ass" if negreanu is imbassador.
wynn needed a great poker mind (ie like belagio's bobby baldwin) to give the players what they want. sklansky or malmuth would have been ideal candidates.....
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#9
11-15-2005, 03:45 AM
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Re: Negreanu and Wynn getting a divorce!
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if wynn wanted to compete with the belagio poker room he should have hired a more qualified manager. [/ QUOTE ] There isnt a MORE qualified manager in LV than the current one IMO. And it isnt even close. Nor did she come from LV. To get a very good poker room manager today, one needs to look outside LV and look towards the most successful POKER ROOMS not inside a casino. Which is exactly what Steve Wynn did. Making a personal call to the current poker room mgr. Thats a rarity indeed.
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11-15-2005, 01:59 PM
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Re: Negreanu and Wynn getting a divorce!
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[ QUOTE ] if wynn wanted to compete with the belagio poker room he should have hired a more qualified manager. [/ QUOTE ] There isnt a MORE qualified manager in LV than the current one IMO. And it isnt even close. Nor did she come from LV. To get a very good poker room manager today, one needs to look outside LV and look towards the most successful POKER ROOMS not inside a casino. Which is exactly what Steve Wynn did. Making a personal call to the current poker room mgr. Thats a rarity indeed. [/ QUOTE ] If I was opening a poker room I would not want someone with a strictly Vegas back ground. There are a lot of guys out there that have been working 20 years, but only have 1 year's experience 20 times over. I do not know the manager at Wynn, but I have heard really good reviews of her ability.
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