Daniel Negreanu Rips Poker Pro for Outing David Peters
Outing different excessive rollers on social media over unpaid money owed is not the best way to go about resolving the state of affairs, Daniel Negreanu says.
The longtime match grinder, with out mentioning the events concerned by identify, spoke critically in a YouTube video of Dylan Linde’s choice to show high-stakes star David Peters over a lingering debt.
Linde, in a recent tweetstormclaimed that Peters, who has $50 million in reside match cashes, has solely paid him $27,000 of a $50,000 year-long debt associated to purchasing match motion. Negreanu defined within the video why he would not like the style by which the state of affairs was dealt with.
What Poker Legend Had to Say About David Peters Situation
Negreanu is a part of the identical excessive curler match neighborhood as Linde and Peters, recurrently competing within the greatest tournaments on the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and PGT occasions within the PokerGO Studio. That neighborhood has, as he acknowledged, been beneath assault from poker followers who appear to imagine all these high-stakes stars with tens of millions in The Hendon Mob cashes are damaged. Even Mike Matusow you may have taken photographs on the prime execs, going as far as to say the earnings are all “fake.”
Four minutes into the video, Negreanu defined that many “high-stakes guys” have “liquidity issues” with cash tied up in investments and backing different gamers.
“Sometimes they run short on available cash,” Negreanu mentioned of excessive rollers. “It’s pretty common. But there’s two types of people in that regard. Those that have every intention to pay, which, from my perspective, this gentleman did, because he was paying.”
He was referring to Peters making a $12,000 cost to Linde in February after which one other $15,000 cost on April 1 earlier than saying he cannot pay the remainder. Negreanu sees the funds as Peters at the very least trying to make good on an impressive debt, versus some poker gamers who do not pay something again.
“I’m a little more old-school with stuff like that, and I kind of like to differentiate the difference between people who are broke and cannot pay, and people who are scamming. Scammers are the ones who have no intention to pay, will deflect, will claim they don’t owe the money, whatever the case may be.”
“It appears in this case the other party, the player that owed, acknowledged the debt, was paying the debt, doing his best. But, you know struggling.”
Negreanu Has a Soft Spot
The GGPoker ambassador then mentioned he has a “soft spot for people like that” as a result of he is been in comparable spots when he was a teen coming to Las Vegas to play poker. He then critically spoke of the fashionable mentality — the “younger generation” — of taking to social media to deal with personal issues equivalent to this as an alternative of the old-school methodology of coping with it privately.
“That’s not something I’d do. If I did, there would be a long list of tweets that I could have about a lot of people that owe me money,” Negreanu claims.
Negreanu did, nonetheless, agree that the poker neighborhood has a accountability to out scammers. But he would not take into account Peters a scammer and mentioned he would “hesitate to take that to Twitter.” The social media hounds, he claims, “take glee and happiness” in a excessive curler being strapped for money.
Peters apologized for failing to repay the total $50,000 steadiness. He hasn’t issued a timetable on when the $23,000 he nonetheless owes Linde can be paid.
