Shaun Deeb discusses Negreanu feud, comments on markup, upcoming 2019 WSOP preparation and more. Sign Up for Upswing Poker's PLO Matrix. A precise and easy. The latest tweets from @shaundeeb. Double World Series of Poker bracelet winner Shaun Deeb had to find a new place to play this week after being told he wasn’t getting a seat at the highstakes game running alongside the Circuit stop in Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, and he won’t be returning anytime soon if his tweet yesterday is anything to go. Explaining that. For more poker content go to Deeb is one of the original online tournament grinders and we flew to Mexico to shoot the lat. Shaun Deeb has been on the grind in this year’s World Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars. The American pro traveled to Mexico to play these events, and has collected 57 online cashes.
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The legend of Bryn Kenney grew considerably a few months back, when he finished 'second' in the Triton Million for more than $20 million — he actually won the biggest prize after a heads-up deal with Aaron Zang. In doing so, he also made himself poker's No. 1 all-time tournament money winner.
And if that, along with his eccentric fashion choices, hasn't been enough to endear him to poker fans over the years, Kenney added further to his legend with a recent turn on Joey Ingram's show. There, Kenney proclaimed he had 'about half' of his net worth on the line in the Triton Million, between his own piece of his buy-in and his numerous side bets.
'Don't try this at home,' he said with a laugh.
Deeb Takes Exception
While that may be easy for Kenney to laugh about now, and something poker players who take big shots can use as fuel for their own dreams, at least one person didn't see the humor in Kenney's aggressive bankroll play.
Shaun Deeb saw the situation a bit differently. In his mind, Kenney was simply gambling degenerately with money he couldn't afford to pay if he lost.
This clip is just sad. It’s scary he says he had half his bankroll on his piece of the tourney and then made a ton… https://t.co/27diF5JZIO
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb)High-Stakes Pros Come to Kenney's Defense
Kenney has been playing high stakes for more than a decade, thriving both live and online to become one of the true mainstays of high-stakes poker. Many of his peers, seeing Deeb's criticism, came to Kenney's defense.
Jason Koon said that while Kenney's bankroll choices can be questionable, he's always been reliable when it's time to make good on his word.
@shaundeeb I’ve know Bryn for a really long time. We have had several times where we didn’t see eye to eye and I wo… https://t.co/YcPG7Pp45F
— Jason Koon (@JasonKoon)Fellow high-stakes regulars Timothy Adams, David Peters and Adrian Mateos also rebuked Deeb.
@shaundeeb How is possible to make this serious accussation publicly without enough information to do it? Its mindb… https://t.co/Fvz5Aqrlzn
— Adrián Mateos Díaz (@Amadi_17)@shaundeeb Very out of line to accuse something like that and throw out words like freeroll when you don’t know. Th… https://t.co/49FOwLchnH
— David Peters (@dpeterspoker17) @shaundeeb Think this is pretty unfair. While Bryn can rub some ppl in poker the wrong way thru being a bit brash/c… https://t.co/Q2IOtf6coi
— Timothy Adams (@Tim0theeAdams)When Christian Harderpointed out that Kenney could have included the side bets in his overall assessment of his risk and that the side bets could furthermore have been staked, Kenney called it 'very on point.'
For Deeb's part, he hinted that he had other evidence of Kenney's financial irresponsibility, but he indicated he couldn't share them publicly.
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An Old-Fashioned Heads Up for Rolls Offer?
According to Deeb, the story ends with a tale as old as poker time: a beef between two players getting settled with an offer for a heads-up match. Once a fairly common occurrence online, it doesn't happen much nowadays, although Mike Dentale and Cate Hallfired one up a few years back.
In any case, while the furor from his tweet about Kenney was still simmering, Deeb said he received an offer from Kenney to duke it out, either with fists or chips.
Shocking bryn messages me threatens to fight me next time he sees me and then challenges me to hu 2k4k 8g I accept… https://t.co/Kdci0Zk4ei
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb)Safe to say that's a match many in the poker world would love to see, but the more likely outcome is that each player continues to crush on his own path in poker, and nothing further comes of this dust-up.
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This week’s podcast – Episode 145 with your hosts Remko Rinkema and Brent Hanks – features the biggest name in the game. Daniel Negreanu, a.k.a. ‘Kid Poker’ only needs gentle prodding from Remko and Brent to respond to the latest developments in his bitter Twitter feud with the reigning WSOP Player of the Year Shaun Deeb.
“I had no issue with him!” says Negreanu, “This asshole puts a tweet out that says, ‘I can’t wait for the divorce tweet in two years’. That’s out of line.”
Negreanu does not hold back on this week’s podcast, revealing that he’s seen a private chat between Deeb and his friends.
“Even they are saying ‘What is wrong with you?’. Even if you felt it, why would you say that? I just found a funny way to tell him the truth. [Amanda] said ‘Who’s is this fucking guy?’”
From calling Deeb out regarding an angle-shoot the 2018 WSOP Player of the Year allegedly carried out against an 80-year-old man to questioning Deeb’s decision to miss the birth of his firstborn for SCOOP, the two-time WSOP Player of the Year himself admits he got childish, but in his own words, regarding Deeb’s controversial views on mark-up, “To call people scammers or cheaters is just bullying. Yeah, I fought back with some low blows, but he deserved it. He started it!”
Looking Ahead at the 2019 World Series of Poker
Shaun Deeb Wife
Aside from Negreanu’s war on Deeb right on the cusp of the World Series, the podcast delves into some facts about Kid Poker it’s unlikely anyone outside his inner circle knows. If you want to know who his Top Five Poker Players of All-Time are, you’ve got to take a listen, not least because there are a couple of surprising names in there.
Negreanu’s WSOP Summer centers around his Vlog and the package that everyone’s talking about – buying a piece of his World Series, of course. Negreanu details the release date and tells all about the idea, as well as talking about how he wants it to be accessible for all at a low price with no mark-up at all. It’s his motivation for playing some really low buy-in events in Las Vegas this 29th May- 16th July.
“The Super High Roller Bowl crowd are intense, the crème de la crème, they’re the best, no question. But I want to see what the state of poker really is at the grassroots level.”
With Brent chiming in about his own first-ever experience of the WSOP, can you guess when Negreanu first traveled to the greatest poker show on Earth? We’ll give you a clue – he met a guy called ‘No Home Jerome’…and he wouldn’t even get to play an event.
From his first bracelet to Kane Kalas’ latest prop bet against Doyle Brunson (‘Kane is getting +EV, but they both have a good bet and it’s a lot closer than people might think.’), Negreanu spills the beans about the $25k Fantasy Draft, the songs he knows by heart and whether there’ll be meat to eat at his and Amanda Leatherman’s wedding.
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As well as the extended interview with Kid Poker, Remko and Brent round up the latest High Roller of the Year standings and discuss the Power Rankings, where Alex Foxen has proved he can do no wrong. Listen to the full podcast in the player below.