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In Parts 1 and 2 of this series I detailed the many incidents involving Annie Duke and Daniel Negreanu over the years, and now I will throw in my 2-cents regarding the recent verbiage used by Daniel Negreanu in the pokerplayer.co.uk interview, and the way Annie Duke has spun it.
Yes, Negreanu is a representative of [...]

In Part 1 of this series I outlined the early run-ins between Annie Duke and Daniel Negreanu which were the genesis of their animosity toward each other. In this installment I’ll discuss the recent flare-up between the two.
The “FEUD” between Annie Duke and Daniel Negreanu had been on hold for a number of years prior [...]

There has been a lot of talk recently about a specific interview with Daniel Negreanu that appeared on pokerplayer.co.uk recently where he calls Annie Duke a “F***ing C***”, causing a firestorm of opinions in the poker world. Unfortunately, the interview is just the latest transgression in what has been on an ongoing feud between the [...]

A while back I wrote a satirical blog entry titled Vince McMahon meet Doyle Brunson, where I detailed a plan to “script” poker: Adding some bad guys ‘Heels’ for poker fans to boo, and hero’s to prop up and cheer. Well, poker got a bit of WWE feel recently when the Daniel Negreanu vs. Annie [...]

Last week WickedChops Poker posted a two-part series on the Ultimate Bet Poker Super-User scandal. Throughout the in depth articles many mentions were made to “sources” but few were named, that is until UB spokesman and poker pro Joe Sebok outed himself on his PokerRoad blog as one of the sources who supplied information and [...]

The new calmer version of Tony G is one of the most popular poker players in the world, both with fans, and with his top-level opposition. Fans love Tony G (Real name Antanus Gouga) for his comical table talk, and incessant needling of the other players -especially if Phil Hellmuth happens to be anywhere near [...]

During Season 6 of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour, EPT officials announced the creation of seven poker awards that would be given out to the tour’s top performing players, including the coveted Player of the Year award. In addition to a trophy, each Season 7 award winner will receive a prize package for the first [...]

I suppose cheating poker players out of $22 million -that’s just the total from Ultimate Bet-will keep a story going for quite some time, but the Super-User scandals that plagued first Absolute Poker and then Ultimate Bet have once again found center stage thanks to some more investigative work by the like of Haley Hintze, [...]

The poker world was shocked by the news that during a rafting trip in Oregon with some close friends, poker superstar Phil Laak suffered major injuries including broken bones in his wrist and elbow, as well as facial lacerations, when he crashed his ATV on Thursday.  
Laak was treated at a local hospital and is recovering [...]

One of the more recent scandals that shook the online poker world dealt with collusion, and unlike the strategic –some would say soft-collusion– that took place in the StoxTrader scandal, in this case the players’ involved shared information and weren’t looking for a small added edge; these players were actively looking to cheat other players [...]