Big Daniel Negreanu article in the NY Times today

[OldTexan]

A quote from today's (long) NY Times article on Daniel:

"Texas Dolly Brunson, who is 71 and has won nine lesser World Series of Poker competitions and two grand-prize W.S.O.P. championships, says: 'He may be one of the all-time greats. Maybe the greatest ever.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/ma...e6&ei=5070

Oh my...

[slickpoppa]

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''I don't believe much in banks,'' he says. ''Although I do have one bank account with not much in it, just a couple hundred thousand.'' He also doesn't believe in credit cards, or buying anything he can't afford to pay cash for, which is why he always travels with a wad of $100 bills held together with an elastic band.

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Is he just asking to get robbed?

[slickpoppa]

Also, this is a terribly written article.

[TheCroShow]

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''I don't believe much in banks,'' he says. ''Although I do have one bank account with not much in it, just a couple hundred thousand.'' He also doesn't believe in credit cards, or buying anything he can't afford to pay cash for, which is why he always travels with a wad of $100 bills held together with an elastic band.

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Is he just asking to get robbed?

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yeah because he is the only person in vegas that does this

[slickpoppa]

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''I don't believe much in banks,'' he says. ''Although I do have one bank account with not much in it, just a couple hundred thousand.'' He also doesn't believe in credit cards, or buying anything he can't afford to pay cash for, which is why he always travels with a wad of $100 bills held together with an elastic band.

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Is he just asking to get robbed?

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yeah because he is the only person in vegas that does this

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What percentage of those people are playing 4,000/8,000 poker games?

[shaniac]

It's not so much the article is terribly written--but the themes are SO tired. We've seen a version of this article 18 times already this year....just like the TV pieces that are produced about the poker boom follow the same cookie-cutter script.

Moneymaker, yep! THAT'S HIS REAL NAME.

[BeatOnRiver]

"His disdain for food is a reaction to his mother.... Mommy, as he calls her"

shock of the century!

[OrangeKing]

So that's the secret...you fold until you have the nuts! If you don't have the nuts, you don't play!

[IQ89]

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...which is why he always travels with a wad of $100 bills held together with an elastic band.


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Why would anybody in their right mind want to make this public?

[man]

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Also, this is a terribly written article.

[/ QUOTE ] it's almost as bad as allyn jaffrey shulman at cardplayer. she kills me.