Daniel Negreanu has presented his plans for WSOP: 39 events and $1.41 million for buy-ins!

Canadian poker player would like to add new WSOP bracelets to his collection. Daniel Negreanu presented his tournament plans for the year. He for example wants to join The Big One for One Drop.

There are thousands of poker events all over the world. But only a few series interest the poker elite. At the top of it there is WSOP, where big money and prestige await. If you want to win a WSOP event, you have to plan well though. This year a good strategy is especially important as there are 78 tournaments to chose from.

As every year eyes of many poker lovers will be on Daniel Nagreanu. This pro from Canada has six WSOP titles (last two he got in 2013) and he was in the second place as many as 8 times (even in 2017). As for WSOP 2018 D-Neg posted this information on his blog:

“This time of the year I like to plan what I will be doing in summer as far as tournaments go. Of course it all depends on how I will feel at the time. There can be also something colliding with a given event. If I have another arrangement, like a tournament I will play the WSOP one only if I get eliminated from the first one before the late registration in the other finishes. I never play two at the same time. Haven't done anything like it in five years. I did so a few years back when we battled with Phil Ivey for titles and trophies. Since then however I play only one tournament at a time and give it 100%. If I get eliminated then I rearrange my schedule, look at what's available and play on.

Tournaments before and after WSOP are somewhat new for me. It's not only about $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl, but the events in Aria and May tournaments of WPT in Bellagio. They will provide many opportunities to play something with a pretty high buy-in.

There are also many events that give me joy and provide good memories, and they will take place once the WSOP Main Event starts. Previously the ME was the last one on the schedule, apart from The Little One for One Drop, but this year there will be $1,000,000 The Big One for One Drop, event with $50,000 BI and a few mixed games events. I am anxious to see how The Big One for One Drop will do this year. This will be the very last World Series 2018 event.

It's very likely that by the time most pros will not have much money left, so I plan to play Big Drop. I plan to pay $500,000 myself and sell the rest of my actions. I hate doing that, but it's just too much for a 3-day event. This will be the only tournament in which I will sell a piece and hopefully by the time I will have had a wonderful summer and some titles to my name.

At the end of the entry, Negreanu sums up he will have spent about $600,000 on events before WSOP. Mostly High Rollers and Super High Roller for $100,000 in Aria Casino (all with unlimited re-buys). He will also play the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl.

Daniel Negreanu intends to join the maximum of 39 events at WSOP 2018. Total buy-in for them will amount to $1,414,500. Poker player also promises everyday vlogs from the Las Vegas festival.

Below you can see the events that Daniel Negreanu will probably join at WSOP 2018 (in those not on the list we will surely not see him registering):

– 1st June: $100K NLH
– 2nd June: $2500 Triple Draw Mix
– 3rd June: $10K Omaha HL
– 4th June: $1500 Dealers Choice
– 5th June: $1500 2-7 NL Single Draw
– 6th June: $1500 HORSE (second choice event)
– 6th June: $10K NLH Heads Up (second choice event)
– 7th June: $10K Dealers Choice
– 8th June: $5K NLH
– 9th June: $1500 8-Game
– 10th June: $10K 2-7 NL Single Draw
– 11th June: $1500 Stud 8
– 12th June: $10K HORSE
– 13th June: $1500 2-7 Triple Draw
– 15th June: $50K Players Championship
– 18th June: $10K Stud
– 19th June: $1500 NLH Shootout
– 19th June: $2500 Big Bet Mix
– 20th June: $25K PLO
– 21st June: $10K 2-7 Triple Draw
– 22nd June: $2500 Stud 8/Omaha 8

– 23rd June: $10K PLO
– 24th June: $1500 RAZZ
– 25th June: $10K Limit Hold’em
– 26th June: $1500 PLO 8
– 26th June: $3K NLH
– 27th June: $10K RAZZ
– 28th June: $5K NLH (6-max)
– 29th June: $10K PLO 8
– 1st July: $10K Stud 8
– 4th July: $10K WSOP Main Event
– 8th July: 3K PLO (6-max)
– 9th July: $3K LH (6-max)
– 10th July: $5K: NLH
– 10th July: $1500 NLH/PLO
– 11th July: $10K NLH (6-max)
– 12th July: $3K HORSE
– 13th July: $50K NLH
– 15th July: $1.000.000 One Drop

I wonder if you guys keep posting stuff about Daniel Negreanu only because you know others will open the article to say how big of a fucker he is and that he should eat shit?

On April 04 2018 22:18 Spitfiree wrote: I wonder if you guys keep posting stuff about Daniel Negreanu only because you know others will open the article to say how big of a fucker he is and that he should eat shit?

it works... i opened just to post: MORE RAKE

On April 04 2018 22:18 Spitfiree wrote: I wonder if you guys keep posting stuff about Daniel Negreanu only because you know others will open the article to say how big of a fucker he is and that he should eat shit?

This and he's still the player with most earnings in the world though

On April 05 2018 09:29 Defrag wrote: Show nested quote + On April 04 2018 22:18 Spitfiree wrote: I wonder if you guys keep posting stuff about Daniel Negreanu only because you know others will open the article to say how big of a fucker he is and that he should eat shit? This and he's still the player with most earnings in the world though

Sure, as long as you don't count tournament buy ins in your net profit, or people who win zillions of $ in macau.

I've enjoyed his vlog last year, lookin forward to to this one!

I never really got the hate he gets, he's a paid employee of Stars, poker players are so butthurt about something completely standard in the business world.

Being a paid corporate shill is one thing, acting like you are on some moral highground is quite another. I never really got how some people fail to get this distinction.

i dont like seeing his face when i load up LP. maybe that could be removed in the future ^^

dont mind stuff being written about him since he's relevant in the poker community - sadly

On April 05 2018 13:58 LemOn[5thF] wrote: I've enjoyed his vlog last year, lookin forward to to this one! I never really got the hate he gets, he's a paid employee of Stars, poker players are so butthurt about something completely standard in the business world.

we're not hating him cause he s paid by Stars, we're hating on him cause he s a motherfucker which blatantly lies to his audience for money and somehow acts like he s doing the right thing.. I'm actually fine with motherfuckers that do ugly shit but admit that they are pieces of shit, this guy however is something completely else. I used to enjoy watching him in shows and etc. but what he's done is despicable and as WCCRider said he s an embarrassment to this community


Also if you're trolling, the 1st of april passed cmon...

No I'm serious
When you work for a company you start believing the hype yourself, your brain starts to spin everything in a positive way
And come on, have you seen anyone in PR departments or spokespeople be actually honest with public?
Sure they exist but there's handful of people like that, especially with obviously monopoly abusing companies like Stars has become, you either leave because you have strong moral fiber, or you stay, and it should be obvious you're bending morals etc. to anyone with half a brain.

He is what he is, a paid shill without strong morals, why hate him for it, if you somehow don't see through his "moral highground" instantly then joke's on you :-)


It's like people being angry at Stars... they built a monopoly and got acquired by an aquisition company with a criminal leading it, of course they're gonna fuckign abuse it, most companies would, that's how monopolies work, vast majority of the time they can't help themselves and instead of sustaining the monopoly, goodwill and the industry as a whole they jack up the prices for short term because performance and bonuses are based largely on quarterly financial reporting and targets

Seriously I often feel like a lot of poker players live in fairy land and then get surprised and outraged at stuff that's completely standard in the real world

No the jokes not on us, we obviously believe it, but the average guy who has no clue of how the system works believes him thats the problem. You try to justify someone's behaviour just because he might believe that what he's saying is true. Well Hitler believed there should be a pure race, so the joke was on all of the people he killed I guess? Just because thats how the system works doesnt make it any good or justified. Yes its obvious why he s doing what he s doing, it doesnt make it any good, he s a cunt and so are Stars and if we can explain to the normal guy why thats the truth, then thats perfect.

Should we just bury our heads and go with the flow just because things are? Do you believe this is how the world actually operates? Well thats how the masses operate thats true.

We had "dealers choice" in our homegame for a while. I got a slightly bigger edge by picking Pot Limit Omaha because position is more important than in NL holdem. Me and the most aggressive fish picking PLO, the tight guys and weak fish picking NL holdem

On April 05 2018 13:58 LemOn[5thF] wrote: I've enjoyed his vlog last year, lookin forward to to this one! I never really got the hate he gets, he's a paid employee of Stars, poker players are so butthurt about something completely standard in the business world.

i dislike standard business practice such as this as well though. I don't get your points, it seems like your basically advocating a slave-like behaviour, that we should just accept that this is the way it is and do nothing? good troll though

No, I'm glad people bring awareness to the uninformed
I don't get the heated emotion they are bringing into it tho, Doug's over the top rant about him being a little bitch was good comedy, but it seems some people genuinely hate him just because he takes millions and exposure that he craves from the only company that can give them to him in exchange for pretty much being their PR representative?

Wouldn't most of you do the same if you had his limited skill and age in a super high expense environment of live MTTs , if I gave you millions every year, guaranteed, made sure you will be famous, paid celebrities to spend time with you publicly and all you had to do is to find positive spin even on negative announcements and keep your mouth shut if there is none?

Lol
https://www.facebook.com/DougPolkPoker/videos/1321105737991035/
I mean get real guys

How can you hate Dnegs, he's pretty much a caricature you can't take seriously

The "keep your mouth shut if there's none" part is where Dnegs fails and that's why everybody ITT is annoyed with him ("more rake is better" just to name the most atrocious one I'm sure everyone knows about).

I still don't see how you possibly can't get it, your posts have to be a level, Lemon. He's a despicable character who deserves every bit of negativity (doesn't stop me from laughing at him as well).

Even this would be "acceptable" imo, if it wasn't for the "Hey I'm the VICTIM of vicious attacks here, I'm a good guy though!" show. Just utterly detestable.

On April 06 2018 04:43 LemOn[5thF] wrote: Wouldn't most of you do the same if you had his limited skill and age in a super high expense environment of live MTTs , if I gave you millions every year, guaranteed, made sure you will be famous, paid celebrities to spend time with you publicly and all you had to do is to find positive spin even on negative announcements and keep your mouth shut if there is none?

i would not take that deal.

theres a reason why we see so many people quit being pokerstars sponsored pro's, and that's because they would rather not be corporate shills even if there is money in it.

DN has a lot of weight in Stars policy, he is no puppet, they cant just kick him out if he refuses to shill the rake increase, he could have easily kept his mouth shut and I'd get ok with just saying "a company can charge whatever it wants", but that whole rake is better and, "oh its only 1 or 2 pennies" is jus being disingenuous.

On April 07 2018 00:09 Baalim wrote: DN has a lot of weight in Stars policy, he is no puppet, they cant just kick him out if he refuses to shill the rake increase, he could have easily kept his mouth shut and I'd get ok with just saying "a company can charge whatever it wants", but that whole rake is better and, "oh its only 1 or 2 pennies" is jus being disingenuous.

How does DN have weight in stars policy?

He's a PR tool, not a board member. This is a large corporation, how the fuck does their PR guy dictate their policy?

On April 07 2018 02:47 devon06atX wrote: Show nested quote + On April 07 2018 00:09 Baalim wrote: DN has a lot of weight in Stars policy, he is no puppet, they cant just kick him out if he refuses to shill the rake increase, he could have easily kept his mouth shut and I'd get ok with just saying "a company can charge whatever it wants", but that whole rake is better and, "oh its only 1 or 2 pennies" is jus being disingenuous. How does DN have weight in stars policy? He's a PR tool, not a board member. This is a large corporation, how the fuck does their PR guy dictate their policy?

Idk if it was Joeys podcast or somewhere else. But I specifically remember Dnegs saying on some podcast that he does have some influence in policy. I doubt that Dnegs is strictly a PR guy.

Also I assume Baal has some idea what he's talking about as he was involved the Pokerstars.

Does he baal? Do you Have that info? Because from what I've seen there's always been a lag in his responses, always says he's talking to stars only to come out with statements that seem like a PR meeting round table about a done deal decided by execs.


Like that clip from poker after dark where he just parroted the same statement that appeared in pokernews with the textbook PR tactic of taking something bad (big price increase in MTTs) and packaging it with something small but positive, they even took the pretty aggressive approach of using the hour tourneys nobody cared about as a really transparent promotion instead of something small that actually matters, that article was almost comically obvious.


I dunno guys, I worked in sales, corporate world, media company, studied business for years.
I've been in a company that was acquired and it felt like hunger games with people leaving weekly yet all official statements were these positive spins. That's a big reason why I play poker - I can say whatever the fuck I want and be true to myself, and what Stars and Dregs are doing seems completely normal and how big businesses operate to me, why it's hard for me to understand why you guys bring so much emotion into hating Dregs or Stars

dnegs owns a % of the company right? He is a significant stockholder from what i've heard [from polk/joey], and basically the company has to maximise profit for it's stockholders, that's what corporations are legally obligated to do. He probably doesn't look at stars policy too much but being a stockholder makes him influential in them.

On April 07 2018 07:49 LemOn[5thF] wrote: Does he baal? Do you Have that info? Because from what I've seen there's always been a lag in his responses, always says he's talking to stars only to come out with statements that seem like a PR meeting round table about a done deal decided by execs. Like that clip from poker after dark where he just parroted the same statement that appeared in pokernews with the textbook PR tactic of taking something bad (big price increase in MTTs) and packaging it with something small but positive, they even took the pretty aggressive approach of using the hour tourneys nobody cared about as a really transparent promotion instead of something small that actually matters, that article was almost comically obvious. I dunno guys, I worked in sales, corporate world, media company, studied business for years. I've been in a company that was acquired and it felt like hunger games with people leaving weekly yet all official statements were these positive spins. That's a big reason why I play poker - I can say whatever the fuck I want and be true to myself, and what Stars and Dregs are doing seems completely normal and how big businesses operate to me, why it's hard for me to understand why you guys bring so much emotion into hating Dregs or Stars

your argument seems to be:

1: It's normal
2: Therefore why get mad over it.

you can't see how that's a bad argument just by looking at intuitive counterexamples with similar logical form?

It shouldn't really be surprising as well, it is a cross cultural norm through history that propagandists, sophists, false prophets, or w/e you want to call them have been hated by those whose interests they undermined once people learnt what they were about.