Daniel Negreanu's very own containment thread. All things Danny go here

That cable power rack he has is literally all he needs. That thing does everything. He doesnt also need the press machine and the PecDec is just lol. Then he skimps out on the boxing dummy instead of hanging a good heavy bag from the ceiling.

Then a treadmill, eliptical, and a skiing machine when 8-9mo out of the year he can just run outside around his nice gated community.

But I guess if money is no object you just get random things you like and stuff them in a room.

The Concept2 rower was good add but those other machines are just silly.

Lol @ that 9542 hand. Yea dude, if you open a double suited hand in PLO you are going to get priced in to call (if you cherry pick a hand for V AND ignore ICM mind you..). But wait! - how about not opening a trash hand that is -EV in the first place? No, according to Daniel you dont understand maths and PLO if you think that is correct play.

Daniel playing is the sole reason 100k PLO tournament is getting 80+ runners.

Hes the definition of privelage

I found it strange he didnt know that 33 was a jam vs a button open with 25bb and a pretty clear one at that. I think anyone who is playing 100k tournaments should probably have this down pretty well. I play almost zero NLHE any my inclination was that it should be a jam.

5 days into Bahamas and he’s down a Milly already lol.

Charity poker for the IDF. LOL.

Has anyone ever mentioned how out of breath he is while he walks and talks, at like what seems to be a 1.5mph pace?
Maybe sub out some weights for 20 min on the elliptical

Daniel unfortunate in the 50k PLO. SOme dude decides to 4b/get in 43bb w AQ74ds (lol at PLO tournament players) and cracks Daniel's AA77.

In Daniel's world you win 100 percent of the time you're a 2-1 favorite.

I didn't notice it at all really but what I did notice was everyone nick picking at Daniel in this tread with negative comments.

Negreanu got criticized for that sort play ITT, he 3! and called allin in a few months ago with AKxxds. The idea is to bluff with blockers and some equity and then you are priced in to go all in with less than a pot push. It probably isn't that terrible if people are doing it in 100Ks.

Its an obviously terrible play by V with a shitty hand that looks pretty.

For what might be the 1st time in dnegs vlog/youtube history. He sunran day 1 of an online tournament

There is some point to the play. If you have fold equity preflop or on the flop, it might be a decent bluff. You are like 32% against AA77, but against KK or a strong rundown, maybe like 42%. If you get enough folds, it may be OK to be like 38% on average when you gii.

The idea is to reraise with a hand you can't flat call with that has blockers and good equity allin.

It may be a bad play, but there is a point to it, not just a complete donk play.

Daniel thinks he's so good at PLO because hand matchups preflop are typically in the 55/45 range, so he can just claim he "lost a flip".

Him going ham with 9542 double s00ted and then defending it was pretty comical though.

I mean, I guess you expect to be super live (except for suits some of the time) so there's that....

I agree with this logic but the hand selection is bad if that is what the guy was going for - for one his hand can easily flat and play deep in position. Instead he ends up bloating the pot against hands that he doesnt do great against, AKxx hands for instance, as well as forces himself to go with it against AA which is a bad situation obv. DNegs raising range OOP at 40bb v BU limp is going to be very strong with probably 0 folds, only hands that he already decided that he doesnt mind playing big pots with. Like premium rundowns etc but mainly AA. If there was some history where DNegs had shown earlier that he raised OOP with shitty hands and then called to set himself up for bad spots, then maybe AQ74ds is good enough to reraise v his range but I doubt it.

Other guy's hand plays much better in position with higher SPR, no point ripping in GAMBOL 40+bb.

You are right. DN probably has little he is 3-betting OOP and folding. He is old school and small ball. Plus he would always see the flop getting 2-1 if he was somehow bluffing.

There was a play DN was criticized for a few months ago where he 3! a late position raise with AKxxds and called off for less than pot. I didn't think that one was so bad, as he had blockers, allin equity, and should have had FE. I do think that PLO tournament players are using that sort of hand for 3! bluffs and that isn't bad in general.

i have enjoyed following daniels rep arc

starting out as the kid wonder and considered to be among the absolute best for many years -> being considered a old timer fish from around the early hsp years -> getting this rep a bit revived to semi-weak reg for a few years after studying for the doug HU -> going down a bit year after year and now being considered an absolute fish reg

let's see if he has another bounce back in him

It's only going to get worse from here. Ever since he started his "limping is pimping" crap his strategies have just flown out the window. Would be surprised if he had a positive ROI in any NL event he's played in the past couple of years - I can't speak to PLO or mix but I presume it is much the same.

He is not a fish or even a regfish, but there is a question whether he is +EV in the $50K+ buyin events he plays other than mixed games.

sure buddy, the guy who limps pre isn't a fish.

I can't argue about mixed games ( I have no clue about anything but NL and PLO) but at NL he is 100% the fish

I am sure he knows rules about limping, has some reason for it, and isn't like some fish in your 2/5 game.

obv yeah he has his reasons but vs the NL regs in 5k's and 10k's it's just a torch, and against the SHR wizards it is lighting money on fire. I'm not questioning that he is a decent player (his track record obviously confirms that he is) but against decent current regs he is unfortunately behind the times.