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Daniel Negreanu's Real Talk video blog

Daniel Negreanu has recently started recording video blogs about his life and opinions on stuff related to the poker scene. Yesterday, he uploaded a new video where, among other things, he once again voices off against Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and Ray Bitar. It's a ten minute video that is definitely worth watching.

Check it out below:
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PokerTracker CEO believes compacts will be the future of US online poker

In an interview with PocketFives, PokerTracker’s Steven McLoughlin said that he believes the future of US online poker lies in interstate interaction. When asked about the prospects of a federal bill, McLoughlin answered: "Everyone I spoke with has low hopes for it. Everyone wants a Federal solution, but nobody is banking on it anymore. What the industry is hoping for is a Federal compact solution will be created between states. A compact is an agreement between two states; this is how other interstate gambling is managed such as multi-state lotteries and horseracing. Like it or not, I think compacts will be the future of online poker in the USA." Several American states have shown interest in approving intrastate online poker in recent months.

The interview also covers h<A name="cutnews"></A>is view on the <A name="cutnews"></A>current state of the market and whether or not we can see PokerStars service in the US in the future.




Traffic Report

A lot has changed in the poker world since last year. The game's popularity suffered a big loss in April 2011 and seems stagnated since Black Friday. PokerScout.com made a Year over Year traffic report that shows in numbers what's happened with the big and medium rooms over the past year.

Surprisingly, PokerStars lost only 11% in traffic in the past year in spite of not operating in the US anymore. The quick recovery only shows how strong the marketing of the company is. Large poker rooms such as PartyPoker and iPoker Network have obviously gained customers from rooms that closed doors like Full Tilt and the Cereus Network. Merge Gaming stands out among the notable gainers, doubling its traffic from a year earlier. 888Poker and Bodog have also increased their traffic by large numbers.

Check PokerScout's report below:

Top three:

PokerStars 11%
PartyPoker 22%
iPoker Network 13%

Notable gainers:

Merge Gaming Network 100%
888poker 76%
Bodog 59%
Winamax.fr 48%

Notable decliners:

Full Tilt Poker 100%
Cereus Network 99%
International Poker Network (IPN) 45%
PKR 26%
Ongame Network 22%

Small but interesting:

Chico Poker Network (formerly Action Poker Network) 302%


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first when i started DN vblog, and he started talking about women, i'm thinking "DN is obviously gay" .. then i forward a bit and he talks about some dude coming out and valentines day. Lol

even tho DN is right this vid just seems like a good marketing trick for his image/pokerstars

cool video, i agree with his points

On February 16 2012 15:24 dnagardi wrote: even tho DN is right this vid just seems like a good marketing trick for his image/pokerstars

i agree with this, but i still enjoyed the bashing and think he's 100% right. Someone clearly need to kick Howard in the nuts!

On February 16 2012 17:30 Balzamon wrote: Show nested quote + On February 16 2012 15:24 dnagardi wrote: even tho DN is right this vid just seems like a good marketing trick for his image/pokerstars i agree with this, but i still enjoyed the bashing and think he's 100% right. Someone clearly need to kick Howard in the nuts!

This. Felt a bit cheap but still good.

More like him, ferguson and bitar all should be put in jail. fuck just a kick in the nuts.. they deserve much worse.

That being said, all I really care about is that i'll get my money back sooner or later.

drawoh eid

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On February 16 2012 15:08 uiCk wrote: first when i started DN vblog, and he started talking about women, i'm thinking "DN is obviously gay" .. then i forward a bit and he talks about some dude coming out and valentines day. Lol

lol yeah. when i was starting out at poker i used to watch a lot of wpt tournaments. i really thought dn was gay the first time i watched him.

On February 16 2012 15:24 dnagardi wrote: even tho DN is right this vid just seems like a good marketing trick for his image/pokerstars

I can tell you that this is not true and that Daniel was very likely advised to not comment much on the issue.

lol, nice blog negranu

awesome video. seeing daniel get actually pissed is great

ps die howard

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On February 16 2012 15:24 dnagardi wrote: even tho DN is right this vid just seems like a good marketing trick for his image/pokerstars

yeah especially with his little grin on the face.

I thought it was awesome. Good points and he should enjoy saying them. It feels good to listen to as well so I surely can imagine it's good to say it!

On February 17 2012 00:17 superfashion wrote: awesome video. seeing daniel get actually pissed is great ps die howard User was warned for this post.

trying to findout what could he be warned for?
post got edited i guess?

not sure if serious, but u can make a correlation between the 2 posts that got warned..

On February 17 2012 12:04 HeRoS)eNGagE wrote: Show nested quote + On February 17 2012 00:17 superfashion wrote: awesome video. seeing daniel get actually pissed is great ps die howard User was warned for this post. trying to findout what could he be warned for? post got edited i guess?

nope, that's what i posted. look up at hevad's post too

surprised no one has used the Sideshow bob defence

On February 17 2012 12:49 superfashion wrote: Show nested quote + On February 17 2012 12:04 HeRoS)eNGagE wrote:   On February 17 2012 00:17 superfashion wrote: awesome video. seeing daniel get actually pissed is great ps die howard User was warned for this post. trying to findout what could he be warned for? post got edited i guess? nope, that's what i posted. look up at hevad's post too

die howard etc posts aren't allowed anymore it seems

I kinda liked the *** howard campaign