Daniel Negreanu is in a zone. But this is no hot streak at the poker tables. Oh, no. Daniel Negreanu is all sorts of fired up about Full Tilt Poker.
You may remember our article from last week about the mini-controversy surrounding his interview with Poker Player UK. Negreanu covered several topics in the interview including the improvement in his online poker game and the current state of televised poker. His comments on those topics were plenty to get people talking, but he also had a few choice words on the subject of the ongoing Full Tilt Poker scandal.
On the Full Tilt Poker pros: “I’ve spoken to all of them. They are embarrassed and have disdain for their leaders. They trusted Howard (Lederer)…I didn’t. I don’t trust that family. It’s a family of scoundrels.”
Continuing on the subject of Lederer: “I don’t think he’s evil, but he’s arrogant. He talks to people like they are stupid. I don’t think he set out to defraud people, it’s just negligence, arrogance and incompetence.”
After all the talk on the poker message boards about the interview, both from poker fans and from Negreanu himself, one may feel it would be wise for him to just let it fester, stop talking for a while, and just keep playing poker. But in the immortal words of Boon from Animal House, “Forget it, he’s rolling.”
In the latest edition of his blog on FullContactPoker.com, Negreanu absolutely lets loose on the three primary antagonists in the Full Tilt fiasco – Lederer, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, and Ray Bitar. It is a true “tell me how you really feel” moment. Suffice to say he won’t be getting any Valentine’s Day cards from the trio next week. There is really no sense in paraphrasing the monologue or parsing it in any way, so here is a good, old wall of text:
“I’m disgusted by them and what they’ve done to smear the game with putrid decision making. Ray is a buffoon, Howard is arrogant, condescending, and incompetent, and Chris is a liar and has the warmth of a snow pea. These were never my friends, I never cared for any of them. I never trusted them for a second, and my “read” was always that these were not my kind of people. Why are they different from the rest of the group? These three were on the board, admittedly making all the decisions, and jeopardizing millions of dollars worth of players money that still hasn’t surfaced. You guys suck. I hope to never see any of your faces at the WSOP anymore, and I hope you live with the shame you deserve for the rest of your lives. Your own personal, private hell. You deserve all the wrath you’ve received from the poker world, and much more. You are scum and each of you absolutely deserves a few swift baseball bat swings to the groin area, old school Vegas style.”
Fortunately for Daniel Negreanu, he is as self-aware as anyone out there. “I know that I’d make for an awful politician because I always prefer to choose the brutal and honest truth and I’m not afraid to rock the boat,” he wrote. “My history and track record has proven that to be the case.”
There’s no doubt about that.
Daniel is my hero! Always has been, as for those “scoundrels” i always had a bad feeling about them.
Negreanu is blastin on those idiots and I love him for doing that.You are the man hope to see you at the tables once full tilt opens :)
Daniel cracks me up. He has great points of views. He was hilarious on Short Stacked Radio the other night. He thinks that the management of FT should be castrated LOL.
Just goes to show you,—-you can’t trust a poker player,—they seem to have a bad habit with potraying the untruths.—-don’t you think!
The reason they absconded with our loot is pure greed.Daniel your motto of Honour before self interest is a way of life for you.Well done on comments.
Daniel,Ozis have a saying”DONT PIDDLE ON MY BOOTS AND TELL ME IT IS RAINING”.This applies to Full Tilt management.
Daniel hits the nail on the head.
Thank you Daniel Negreanu. Lederer, Ferguson, Bitar, are scumbags and should pay for their greedy crimes. Several years in prison and their families left flat broke and homeless is just punishment.
In no way shape or form am I defending what was done to the individuals harmed by what the people responsible at Full Tilt did, but Daniel needs to think a little bit more before he spouts. Yes, speak out loudly and clearly against what they did, but use some common sense and keep it about what happened, not about his personal hostility toward Annie Duke (not overlooking the fact that I too think the woman is a total sociopath who I wouldn’t trust past the end of my nose, or that far for that matter). In one article, I read about Daniel saying they had no right to judge a child molester who had been dealt with by a court of law (again, they should have refunded the guy his money, only because by not doing this, they drew attention away from his horrific misdeeds and onto themselves) and in another, he is advocating violently taking the law into one’s own hands. Saying it would have nothing to do with him and that if someone were to engage in this type of violence, it wouldn’t be because of what he said does not absolve him of responsibility. I’ve done a lot of taking up for Daniel’s outspoken views, but this is just going over the line and Daniel needs to think things through and act more responsibly.
Sounds like Daniel may of had alot of money tied up on that site(as a player). Although he probably wont admitt it, being the PokerStars front man and all.
Those MF’rs Owe me Forty Large & THE JUICE HAS BEEN RUNNING!!!!
Tell you what Daniel, you help me with my game!! I’ll help you with the Old School Vegas Lynching! lol
P.S.
Just so you know, Although I’m quite Bitar about them with holding my Doe. Im not quite to the piont of brutal beatings. So if someone winds up beaten in the desert, dont come knocking on my door! unless its with a Big Fat Check! of course;)