Yes, these guys are just determined to keep taking advantage of the poker season.

And while Daniel Negreanu may be one of the favorites to become the overall winner of the 2008 World Series of Poker, PokerStars came up with an idea how can they take advantage of one of the game’s more popular players.

Scheduled this Saturday on July 12 at 14:30 EST, Daniel Negreanu fans can win an exclusive weekend with their idol valued at $15,000 plus $2,000 in cash for travel expenses to Las Vegas.

Pretty sweet deal especially since winners will be living in style at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and will even be invited to a private party or rather, barbecue, at Negreanu’s Vegas residence.

So aside from being wined and dined, what exactly do you get? Let’s just say you get a crash course on how to vastly improve your game. The package includes a 2-day seminar led by Negreanu himself on various poker topics including pot odds, implied odds, bluffing opponents and tournament strategy.

Winners will also work with Negreanu in live…

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Daniel Negreanu isn’t making any new friends lately. Only enemies.

With his bitter dispute with Annie Duke far from evaporating, he launched an attack against the 7 poker players who filed a lawsuit against the WPT (Duke was one of them incidentally). Drawing the ire of the man with funny glasses, Greg Raymer.

In his video blog at his site, Full Contact Poker, Daniel criticized the lawsuit as ridiculous and had bad timing.

"I think they’re making a really big mistake, not only for them, but for all poker players. The people at the WPT are going to destroy them – they’re going to smear their names, discredit them, show that they’re affiliated with online poker sites, and that’s exactly what the WPT is going to do."

Bad timing, he said, because it came at a time when poker is under fire at the US Congress with the Anti-Online Gambling Bill looming.

In retaliation, Mr. Raymer called the Golden Boy "stupid" and a "sock puppet for WPT" at an online chat in his home turf, PokerStars. Thus, began the word war.

Well this gets Daniel a bit ticked off, reported  Chipper’s Poker World. "Mainly because first of all he didn’t see that one coming from Greg, plus the fact that he gives a lot of credit for the WPT for giving poker the…

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The 37th World Series of Poker is out to set another record in cool money prize payouts.

While a lot of world poker events mushroom around the globe boasting of being the most expensive, most luxurious, biggest prize tournament, the WSOP always brings out the big kahuna every damn year.

The WSOP has officially released that this year’s $10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold’em World Championship Main Event Champion will be pocketing a whopping $12 million in cold cash. Making it the the largest single-event prize in live poker history.

Add to that the glittering 14-karat gold and diamond WSOP bracelet that the winner can pawn for a huge amount should he waste all his winnings and file for bankrupcy in a few year’s time.

The money trail doesn’t end there. The tournament also awards each of the top 12 finishers at least $1 million. The total net prize pool for the Main Event swelled to more than $82.5 million, bringing the total net prize pool for all 2006 WSOP events to more than $154 million.

So who will be the lucky bastard?

BetUSA.com recently released the odds for the 2006 WSOP Main Event where Phil Ivey is the clear-cut favorite at 150-1. But Golden Boy Daniel Negreanu is at close second at 225-1.

Annie Duke won’t be happy to hear that, but she’ll be glad to know that brother Howard is third favorite to win (250-1). And have you heard about this Rob Lederer posing as ‘The Student’? Clearly trying to…

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The recently-completed World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions (whew) has been hailed as having one of the most entertaining final tables of all time. With Mike Matusow and Phil Hellmuth seated in such close proximity, that comes as no surprise. What WAS a surprise to many of the players who fought and clawed to gain entry to the TOC is that Hellmuth was there at all. The Poker Brat, Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson were given "sponsor’s exemptions" to the event. This kicked off a firestorm of dissent, spearheaded by a blog post written by Daniel Negreanu, who said flat out that those who played by the rules and got into the TOC fair and square were lied to. Steve Rosenbloom of ESPN also wrote a column about the controversy. After the jump, you’ll see there’s still some hard feelings here, and a hell of a lot of ineptitude…

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Any time you walk into a card room, you not only have to look for the suckers but the sharks as well. In that spirit, Covers.com takes a look at Bodog’s new ad campaign:

Driven by a dramatic drum beat and quick cuts, each spot opens in a poker club, complete with beautiful people and upscale d?cor. As the camera works its way through the swank poker club, it stops to point out one of four poker ?predators? seated at a poker table: The Hustler, The Under Dog, The Ringer and The Wild Card.

These guys really aren’t the sharks you need to be worried about at the tables. After the jump, we’ll give you a look at the real poker predators… 21ST CENTURY CARD SHARKS The road dog gamblers of Doyle Brunson’s day were cut from similar cloth. Rugged guys who had to be as handy with their fists as they were with their chips. Poker’s a little more civilized now, and it’s not the ten-gallon hat you need to keep an eye out for at the Hold ‘Em tables. It’s these guys:

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They’re currently filming High Stakes Poker at the Golden Nugget in Vegas, and Daniel Negreanu just can’t not blog about it. Hell, you’d be talking about it too if you got stuck for almost a quarter mill. Anyway, since we hate hand histories, even from Negreanu, we’ll Babelfish the crap out of it:
“Not […]

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Interesting gossip from Prof at Las Vegas Vegas last night:

"I heard earlier today that Daniel Negreanu is, "…as of this week he is no longer with them (the Wynn)." This newsflash comes from a 100% reliable source."

If Negreanu is no longer with the Wynn, will the casino attempt to find a replacement for him? After the jump, we’ll handicap the probabilities… WHO’LL REPLACE DANIEL AT THE WYNN?

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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.

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Barry Greenstein, the “Robin Hood of Poker,” is currently playing an incredibly high-stakes series of events heads-up against “Kid Poker” Daniel Negreanu. He’s also playing the PokerStars WCOOP tournaments online under the handle “crazyplayer.” Captured at about 5:45PM EST from the WCOOP chat:
—ZSKIN— [observer]: Barry when will you play another match against Negreanu?crazyplayer: […]

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It’s not enough that the hours and hours of poker on TV could send Teddy Dupay on an Atlantic City bender, now you’ve got poker professionals trying to parlay their fame into dollars away from the tables too. We’re not talking about allegiances to online poker rooms here. We expected that. We’re talking about the type of shilling that would make Ron Popeil blush. First up, poker nice guy Daniel Negreanu. Daniel’s latest effort doesn’t involve banging some nanny from Grand Rapids or getting his mom to steam him a vegan meal.

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