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Boycott Daniel Negreanu?

by Bill Rini on August 31, 2010

in Online Poker,Poker,Poker Pros

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Earlier this month Gambling 911 ran a story titled, “Negreanu Poker Website Needs to be Boycotted.” The reason for the author, Jagajeet Chiba, to call for a boycott was because Daniel Negreanu called Annie Duke a “f*cking c*nt.” The quote was from an interview he gave and he complained about the fact that Annie Duke said that the women’s events in poker should be eliminated because they discriminate based on sex but at the same time she says that she is the “best female poker player in the world.” Okay, fair enough. The guy is entitled to his opinion whether or not you agree with him.

The feud between Annie and Daniel goes back many years and Daniel has been quite vocal in his condemnation of Annie. This is not the first shot fired between the two. Bottom line is that they don’t like each other and that is not nor has it ever been a secret.

And Gambling 911 in their never-ending quest to become the National Enquirer of poker journalism seems to be fanning the flames running several different articles on their website despite the fact that nobody seems to care about this long-running feud between Duke and Negreanu. For instance, they ran this headline a couple of weeks ago:

Poker World In Shock Over Negreanu Attack On Duke: “F***ing C***”

There was one person who claimed to be shocked at Daniel’s comments; Annie Duke. So apparently, Annie Duke is the “poker world.” Because they don’t have a single comment from another poker player or anyone in the poker industry expressing shock. Hell, if you know anything about anything the fact that Daniel thinks Annie is a f*cking c*nt is not even news. He’s been talking about her in a negative light for years.

One of the people doing the most fanning of the flames is a guy named Jagajeet Chiba. He’s the one who started calling for a boycott of Daniel’s website. And just today, with absolutely no new news and apparently nothing new for him to write about, he penned “Daniel Negreanu’s Downward Spiral, Disrespect for Women, Poker Buds” where he utters this classic line:

Negreanu not only disrespected Annie, he disrespected the entire female race with his “f***ing c***” remark. Annie’ brother, Howard Lederer, came to her defense.

Hate to break it to you there Chiba, but female is not a race. The fact that this then goes through an editor who signs off on it being posted on their website boggles the mind.

Back in January of this year I wrote about how their crack team of investigative journalists uncovered a breaking news story that Party Poker was charging account inactivity fees. Of course, they were only 4 years late in reporting about it (the fees went into effect in 2006 or before) but someone mentioned it on 2+2 and someone over at G911 had never heard of the fees and wrote about it like he had just cracked the story of the year.

But going back to this Chiba guy, he writes in his most recent online missive:

While away I was shocked to find that Negreanu had yet to apologize to Annie Duke, and even more flabbergasted to learn that the poker community appeared to condone his behavior.

Wait, didn’t another G911 “journalist” write the following on the G911 website?

Screen shot 2010 08 31 at 2.52.17 PM Boycott Daniel Negreanu?

So he did apologize and it was reported in your own f*cking publication!!! Also, he’s flabbergasted to learn that the poker community appears to condone Daniel’s behavior yet his own publication said the entire poker community was shocked and outraged. So which is it? One journalist on G911 says the poker community is shocked and another saying he’s flabbergasted at the poker community’s ambivalence.

I mean, come on. If I can remember that you published an article about Daniel’s apology you would think whoever edits G911 could at least remember it and send a note back to Chiba saying “Uh, dude, he did apologize. Please rewrite and send back to me.” Or, “Yo Chiba-man, we’ve been trying to play up the poker community outrage angle on this and your last submission saying that the poker community is not outraged, while 100% accurate, is contrary to our goals of making something out of nothing.”

Maybe we should be boycotting G911.

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The Week That Was

by Bill Rini on August 23, 2010

in Online Poker,Poker

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I just wanted to thank everyone who has sent money to help out the family of Wanphen Pienjai. We’re still not at our goal but we’re off to a good start. You can check out any of the threads below about Ron Fanelli or Wanphen to get all the details.

Also, please, please spread the word. Believe it or not but not every poker player reads this blog (I know, crazy, huh?) so if you can just write a few lines about it on your blogs or posting something on a message board it will help people know about this good cause.

Looks like the WCOOP at PokerStars is gearing up again. Starting September 5th and going through the 26th, the World Championship of Online Poker will host 62 events and haver over $50 million in guaranteed prize pools. Get on over there if you’re starting to come down off your WSOP high.

Not much else going on at the moment so I’ll just leave you with some traditional Thai dancing being performed for parents on Mother’s Day (Aug 12).

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Someone rightly pointed out that it would be easier if I just posted my Stars and Tilt screen names. Considering that my Stars screen name is billrini and I’m not fooling anyone I figured what the heck. So if you would like to make a contribution to Wanphen’s family on either Stars or Tilt the screen names are:

PokerStars: billrini
Full Tilt: billytwoguns

Thanks to everyone who has donated so far. I can’t tell you how much it’s appreciated.

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Fund Raiser for the Family of Wanphen Pienjai

August 18, 2010 General Ramblings

I recently wrote about Ron Fanelli, The MadYank, and how he has admitted to stabbing and murdering a local Thai woman, Wanphen Pienjai, here in Thailand [view his confession]. The thing that really disturbed me about this whole incident was how Wanphen’s family was being impacted. In Thailand there is no real social safety-net. There [...]

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Ron Fanelli aka The Mad Yank’s Confession

August 17, 2010 Poker

One of the reporters from the Phuket Gazette sent me video of the press conference where Ron Fanelli, the MadYank, confesses to the media that he killed Wanphen Pienjai. I’m still working on a post that will give details on how people can donate to a fund raiser we’re doing on Thailand Friends. My girlfriend [...]

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Why Won’t They Just Let 3D Poker Die An Honorable Death?

August 17, 2010 Online Poker

In what I can only imagine is was an attempt to put me on tilt, 888 has proudly announced the release of a 3D client. Sorry, this is one of my pet peeve topics so I’m going to rant a bit here. 3D poker has never taken off. Never. Ladbrokes launched their 3d client sometime [...]

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The Week(s) That Was

August 15, 2010 Online Poker

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Make Matusow Wins Florida State Poker Championship

August 14, 2010 Poker

Looks like Mike “The Mouth” Matusow has earned a little money to help pay off his $2 million weight loss prop bet with Ted Forrest. Now he’s just $1,900,000 short. Not according to Mike though: So, I guess Mike is saying that he’s already paid off Forrest. True? Hard to say based on a single [...]

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Mainstream Media Backing Legal Online Gambling?

August 13, 2010 Is Online Poker Legal?

I’ve seen a few sights link to the LA Times op ed piece about why online poker should be legalized and regulated but I also ran across a similar point of view from Forbes. Increasingly it seems that the mainstream media is taking the industry’s side in this debate. In many cases, such as in [...]

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