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Danny Negraneu sets Twitter on fire. Again. (Warning, contains profanities).
Tikay10
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Danny is very Marmite, I happen to admire him, but many don't, & I completely get that.
Pretty sure he'll have gained a few more haters though after it seems he lost his rag on Twitter last night.
Here's the cliffs, not that they really matter;
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
Comments
First, this;
I never said sophisticated. It isn’t.
It’s standard basic trolling and you are absolutely a troll.
More accurately, a sanctimonious “wa*ker” is the term I believe you people use.
Soon followed by this;
Your obsession with me is f*cking bizarre dude.
Whine, ****, and cry all you want, I’m not going anywhere.
Get a life you fuc*ing loser. It’s pathetic.
And the customer is always right. Right?
Certainly, the rule here in SB&G is, & always has been - "we are customer-obsessed".
And so if anyone in Sky Poker or Sky Bet said that, it'd be a Yellow Card for sure, maybe even a Straight Red. It would.
But here's the thing, which Danny has to bear, & to a far lesser degree, we do too, here at Sky Poker. (Because, generally, folks are much more polite here).
Customers can & often are as rude as they like on Twitter, & on Forums like this, when things go wrong. You only have to read this Forum, or Twitter, when a Freeroll goes pete tong, or a few MTT's fall over, or Bet have a problem, as they do about once every year or so, to see the level of vitriol aimed at Sky Poker or Sky Bet. Rude, or what? You bet it is. Over at Stars, magnify that by a zillion.
And yet if the Ambo, Staffer, or Forum Bloke replied in kind, there'd be **** to pay, those who are being so rude would be up in arms.
You can't say that to me.
Things have got a bit out of kilter & one-sided I think. If folks wanna be outrageously rude to a Business or it's Representative, surely they must expect a bit back from time to time?
So if you were Mr PokerStars, what would you say to Danny Negreanu today?
Well said Danny, or on yer bike, son?
He's apparently a spokesperson for poker players across the world. He hates poker player traits tho....
His main goal is to continue to be a brand ambassador for PS and I imagine he would stomp all over anyone at all to maintain that.
He reminds me of Tom Cruise in that they both obviously think they are transcendental.
He reminds me of a chihuahua too.
PS - Do I sense - just reading between the lines, like - that you are not a Danny fan?
I'm just not sure why he's a spokesperson for poker players when he hates poker players...
he should be above spitting the dummy out, speak up about why/how the award was rigged in his opinion,and refrain from labeling others as "you people " .
Or should that read EEEYYWWW ppl .
We had a poster on here - think he's moved on now - but in various debates he always referred to everyone as "you lot". I mean, if you want to win a debate, first you need to face the same way, & win the hearts & minds. "You lot", & "you people" is not exactly going to win any Diplomacy awards is it?
Hope
you lotyou & The Dame are well.The "streamer of the year" nominees were a total joke, really showing how out of touch GPI are and how little they care about their own awards (Jason Somerville being one of the 4 on the list despite streaming about twice since 2015, Jaime Staples and Jeff Gross two sort of popularish (at the time) Stars pros, then a worthy winner in Lex). No real twitch grinders like Matt Staples or AllinPav who put in proper work.
Would that carelessness extend to "rigged" awards? Who knows, don't think anyone should really care!
Think I agree with most of that, especially as to Lex.
@Darkangel7
Have to say, I utterly abhor the use of the term "cancer" in a poker context. Those using it lightly have no idea of how offensive it can come across to some. Exactly the same as, for example, "retard" "spazz" & the like. It's not done intentionally though, they just don't think it through.
Also worth pointing out that as far as I am aware, Dara is a top top bloke & I don't believe for a second he would be party or privy to any jiggery-pokery with the voting process.
At the same time I am a fan of DN on the table I do think off the table he can be abit hard to listen to. I know a few people shared the voting of the podcast on facebook but I wouldn't have though thats against the rules or any jigger-pokery.
That said I do think that there is some traits that some poker players have are untasteful, but that can go into any walk of life.