Daniel Negreanu accuses Global Poker Awards of impropriety after "trolls" win best podcast award
PokerFraudAlert Radio always gets snubbed by the Global Poker Awards. I don't let this bother me, because the awards are a joke anyway, nor do I really give a shit about awards in general. The snubbing is a running joke on the show.
However, when I noticed this year that Negreanu's DAT Poker Podcast wasn't one of the finalists for "Best Poker Podcast", I had a feeling he was going to be bitter. In fact, I was kind of surprised it wasn't one of the choices, given Negreanu's star power along with the other two hosts (Terrence Chan, Adam Schwartz) who came over from the 2+2 Pokercast.
Anyway, we didn't hear anything from Daniel about it for awhile, but when David Lappin and Dara O'Kearney were the winners, that was too much for him to handle. David and Dara wrote some blogs critical of Negreanu a few months ago, and now he apparently hates them.
Rather than explain this further, here's SrslySirius' cliffs on the topic from 2+2:
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Originally Posted by SrslySirius
* Daniel posted a (now deleted) tweet about certain player traits being "cancer". He received a lot of backlash.
* Dara O'Kearny wrote
a blog post criticizing Daniel for this, among other things. The thumbnail image was Daniel's infamous blackface snafu.
* Daniel called it a hatchet job and dismissed Dara as a troll.
* Later, Dara and his co-host David Lappin won a GPI award for best podcast. On the broadcast, Daniel was visibly disgusted and said "ewww".
* Daniel went on Twitter and made vague passive-aggressive
comments (as he often does), questioning the winner selection process.
* Later, Daniel went
on his own podcast and said that Dara and David are just trolls, and that he has an inside GPI source that says their win is not legitimate.
* The Chip Race Podast twitter account
says it doesn't want the award if Daniel's "rigged" claims are true, tagging PokerStars and GPI.
* David tweets
something similar, tagging Eric Danis to inform him that Daniel has accused him of impropriety.
* Daniel gets very angry and resorts to more name calling, as seen in the image I posted earlier.
And here we are!
