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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Here now’s the second part of our Before They Were Poker Stars series.

After Chris Moneymaker won the WSOP championship event in 2003, the dude became the poster boy for poker, he became a household name and many were inspired to go online and learn the game. Hey, if that fatass can win $2.5 million, maybe they can, too.

It sort of became the official beginning of the worldwide poker phenomena, and in the 2004 WSOP championship another non-pro dominated — Greg Raymer.

Before throwing himself into stardom, Raymer was a lawyer fron Connecticut. His  poker experience began in college. "I started in my college fraternity, playing nickel-dime poker. I then didn’t really play again until I was working my first job as a lawyer in Chicago," he said.

He worked as a blackjack card-counter in the Indian Casinos in Minnesota during grad school and law school to make extra money. When he moved to Chicago, he found there were no blackjack games available that were beatable for any worthwhile amount of money, but then he stumbled across a charity poker game.

"I liked it, and decided to become a winning poker player for extra money. I bought a bunch of poker books, found rgp, and went from there, moving up from 3-6 to 20-40 and eventually 150-300 here in Connecticut."

Like Moneymaker, Raymer earned his WSOP seat playing at PokerStars.com. He defeated…

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Two new WSOP episodes on ESPN tonight, and it should be good television. The first hour is Event #22, the $1500 buy-in No Limit tournament, where Minh Nguyen, Greg Raymer and Mark Seif get to see if Devilfish Ulliott does indeed prefer the company of men. Not to spoil anything - and this may or may not be a clue - but Raymer comes in swinging the big chip stack.

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Trying to be the first back-to-back WSOP Main Event champion since Johnny Chan did it 1987 and 1988, 2004 champ Greg Raymer was eliminated from the Main Event early this morning,but left to a huge standing ovation and the respect of the poker community. According to LVV, Raymer went all in with A-9 and ran into pocket fives that ultimately sealed his fate. Latest chip counts to come later in the morning… Goodbye Greg Raymer & Thanks! [LasVegasVegas]

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