Daniel Negreanu
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Podcast Appearances
And it was like the last card.
Yeah, that was great, that video.
You should never really think like this, but part of me felt like I deserve to win this hand, right?
So part of me was like, listen, I've lost so many in the last two weeks.
All right, let the poker gods be kind to me right now.
And it looked good.
I was in a great situation on the flop, great situation on the turn.
I'm about to be a competitor.
I'm going to be a contender in this tournament to win a big prize pool and turn the whole thing around.
It's all there for the taking.
And then boom, the last card, it just...
You know, it was a couple weeks of frustration in the moment of filming that I just had, you know, sort of a visceral reaction, you know, and I smacked the selfie stick.
And then, like, I see a corner.
I threw the selfie stick on the ground.
And, of course, social media blows up about how, you know, it was a violent act.
yeah you know i mean it's like have you never watched sports have you never seen a guy on the golf course smack his club or throw their helmet like you know there was the there's a guy justin bonomo is a poker player yeah and he's super how to for lack of a better word offended by everything and he was equating my throwing a stick on the ground to violence against women domestic abuse and the idea that like this makes women feel unsafe to play poker and so that was kind of a running joke for the last two weeks where every time i sat at a table the guys be like oh i