Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Okay, so I promised to reveal what Negreanu told me about Micon, so here goes...
During mid-late Day 2 of the $3k Limit event, I was moved off my very good table to a not-so-good one, with Negreanu to my left. Table basically had no fish and I also ran bad, so I only lasted a few hours, and missed the money by 14 spots. Blah.
But anyway, Brandon tweeted at me that he would excuse me from an "expensive burger bet" I lost to him if I asked Negreanu about Micon, and recorded it.
I decided to ask Negreanu, but not record it. Simply put, I generally like Negreanu, and think he's good for poker, and I don't want to be a dick and secretly record him, even if it would make for good forum/radio lulz.
However, I see no problem in revealing the general details of the conversation, as it was at the tournament table and not private or quiet.
I started off by asking him, "Did you hear about what happened to Bryan Micon?"
I was fully aware that Negreanu may not have known that Micon and I were no longer friends.
Indeed, that seemed to be the case, as Negreanu instantly shot back, "I'd call it karma!", but then realizing we might be friends, qualified it with, "...Umm... I think?"
I told him that I agreed it was karma, and suddenly Negreanu was off to the races, feeling safe to vent.
Basically he said the following:
- Micon was obsessed with harassing him about Choice Center, and Daniel had no idea what caused the obsession
- He had a 2-hour telephone conversation with Micon at one point, trying to get him to calm down with the anti-Choice-Center rhetoric. Micon spent the entire time insisting it was a cult and that it was hurting people, and wouldn't back off his assertions, so Negreanu finally had to give up after arguing with him for 2 hours (lol)
- He didn't like that Micon repeatedly bashed Choice Center without having personally experienced it. He said that Micon was posting "a combination of misinformation and half-truths, with a few small truths mixed in", and wouldn't stop.
- He finally gave up debating publicly with Micon about it, when it became clear to him that Micon was trying to just use the whole thing to get attention for himself, trying to be the guy who made Daniel Negreanu look crazy/stupid.
- He felt Micon "obviously has a lot of anger in him" to be behaving the way he does
- He had no sympathy for Micon's situation with the Seals bust, saying that even if you disagree with the law, you can't just break it for profit and expect no consequences, or call yourself a victim of the government when you get busted.
- He "wanted to say something publicly" criticizing Micon's gofundme page, but restrained himself because he felt it would just create unnecessary controversy.
- The person who gave Micon the Choice Center paperwork was NOT Martha, but rather a friend of Micon's named Katja. I did not get Katja's last name.
Anyway, suffice to say that Daniel isn't going to be contributing to Micon's legal fund.