Ah, the "Internet Player," bane of the professional poker player’s existence. Expect now that the WSOP is all over ESPN, that the pros will be getting a little more media attention than usual, and will be focusing their ire on the legions of idiots and morons that chopped them off at the knees in the Main Event. From Steve Rosenbloom’s column, posted at the Jackson Hole Star Tribune:

"Instead, Negreanu was all in. Then all out after the river came a blank. And he was left to consider how the growing number of amateurs with their unconventional play will force him to alter his, force him to wait for good cards and wait on the fancy moves.

"You just have to dummy up," Negreanu said. "Don’t try to be sophisticated with them because they’re not going to understand sophisticated play. You want to play fundamentally correct. Don’t get as flashy, don’t get as creative because it’s going to get lost on them. Just go back to peddling the nuts.""

Does "sophisticated" mean "he should fold to me because I’m Daniel Fucking Negreanu?" Isn’t poker about "shifting gears" and "being unpredictable," not to mention finding those razor-thin edges you can exploit to hopefully get your opponent to put his own chips in the pot first? Don’t blame the Internet if you can’t catch up to "asshattery" used as "strategery." Sometimes the trick is luring them in [Jackson Hole Star Tribune]