Door HansytheKing, geplaatst op donderdag 21 april 2011, 11:30. Views: 3.

Vijf dagen heeft Daniel Negreanu zich niet met de gebeurtenissen rond Black Friday bemoeid. Deels omdat hem dat aangeraden was door zijn zaakwaarnemer maar ook omdat hij ook in onduidelijkheid zat. Commentaar van hem zou enkel tot nog meer speculatie leiden. Vannacht verscheen zijn blog waarin Daniel zich voor het eerst uitspreekt over Black Friday:

"OK, so by now unless you've been living under the rock you know what happened on "Black Friday." While sites are running business as normal internationally, US customers have been blocked from playing online. It all happened suddenly, and it took the poker world by storm. Just when I started getting the hang of online poker, it's been blocked in the US."

"I haven't commented on Black Friday, not because I haven't been following the updates via twitter, but because any two cents I would add at this point would be pure speculation and I don't think that offers much to those that have been affected by this. That, plus I've been advised to not discuss the matter at this point which makes perfect sense to me.

Daniel schrijft verder dat hij in Las Vegas is waar hij probeert enkele grote live games op te starten maar voorlopig weinig success heeft.

"I tried to get a game together with Sammy Farha, Sam Stein, and BenB the other night, but it played super small. $50-$100 NLH/PLO. I genuinely thought there would be more action this week, but maybe I'm just being impatient. I just really want to play poker."

"I'm going to continue to go down there and play 5-6 nights a week, 8pm-2am, but if nothing really materializes in terms of higher limit poker, I'll have to find some other games somewhere. I'm sure some games will pop up somewhere, I'm just anxious to play."

"My heart goes out to all the families that this will effect, both from the media side, as well as the professional poker playing grinders who are supporting a family. This can't be easy to deal with."'

"As bad as things are now, I am hopeful for the future. For those of you struggling to figure out "What now?" it's time to dig deep and "be like water." Adjust, survive, and thrive. The game of poker is loved by so many people across the world and that's never going to change."

Daniels volledige blog kan je hier lezen.