Daniel Negreanu Critical of Poker Pro for Outing High Roller Over Unpaid Debt

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 event 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 current tweetstorm, claimed that Peters, who has $50 million in dwell event cashes, has solely paid him $27,000 of a $50,000 year-long debt associated to purchasing event motion. Negreanu defined within the video why he would not like the way wherein the state of affairs was dealt with.

What Poker Legend Needed to Say About David Peters Scenario

Negreanu is a part of the identical excessive curler event group as Linde and Peters, usually competing within the greatest tournaments on the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) and PGT occasions within the PokerGO Studio. That group has, as he acknowledged, been below assault from poker followers who appear to consider all these high-stakes stars with hundreds of thousands in The Hendon Mob cashes are broke. Even Mike Matusow has taken photographs on the prime professionals, going as far as to say the earnings are all “faux.”

4 minutes into the video, Negreanu defined that many “high-stakes guys” have “liquidity points” with cash tied up in investments and backing different gamers.

“Generally they run quick on accessible money,” Negreanu stated of excessive rollers. “It is fairly frequent. However there’s two varieties of folks in that regard. People who have each intention to pay, which, from my perspective, this gentleman did, as a result of 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 remaining. Negreanu sees the funds as Peters no less than making an attempt to make good on an impressive debt, versus some poker gamers who do not pay something again.

“I am a bit extra old-school with stuff like that, and I sort of wish to differentiate the distinction between people who find themselves broke and can’t pay, and people who find themselves scamming. Scammers are those who don’t have any intention to pay, will deflect, will declare they do not owe the cash, regardless of the case could also be.”

“It seems on this case the opposite occasion, the participant that owed, acknowledged the debt, was paying the debt, doing his finest. However, you realize struggling.”

Negreanu Has a Tender Spot

The GGPoker ambassador then stated he has a “gentle spot for folks like that” as a result of he is been in related spots when he was a teen coming to Las Vegas to play poker. He then spoke critically of the fashionable mentality — the “youthful era” — of taking to social media to deal with personal issues similar to this as a substitute of the old-school technique of coping with it privately.

“That is not one thing I might do. If I did, there can be a protracted record of tweets that I might have about lots of people that owe me cash,” Negreanu claims.

Negreanu did, nevertheless, agree that the poker group has a duty to out scammers. However he would not contemplate Peters a scammer and stated 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 will likely be paid.