Like two great heavyweight fighters, Daniel Negreanu and Annie Duke just keep going at each other. Well…actually it’s more like Negreanu taking shots at Duke through the media, and Duke trying to play the mature, media-friendly card in response. And it appears as if we’ll be awaiting another one of these responses from Duke after Negreanu bashed her in a recent interview with PokerListings.com.
It’s almost as if the site was asking Negreanu about Duke’s Poker Hall of Fame nomination just to incite some more venom from the cookey Canadian. And they certainly got it when he said, “For what? Robbing people at UB? Owing Russ Hamilton money and never paying him back? For stealing money from people at the poker table? For representing poker in the worst light imaginable when she was on Celebrity Apprentice? For all those things then yes.”
The entertaining rant continued when he added, “If you took out the “F” and added an “Sh” in the word fame then yes, I think she should be inducted. Along with her brother, the Lederer family would be the king and queen of the Poker Hall of Shame.”
If ever there was a great rivalry in poker, it’s the one that still persists between Negreanu and Duke. Only the rivalry isn’t really based off of poker skill any more because Kid Poker easily wins in this realm since Duke rarely hits the tables these days. Rather, their rivalry has been totally media-based – especially in recent years.
Of course, Duke didn’t always suck at poker since she was one of the top players in the 90′s, when her and Daniel Negreanu first met. Over the years though, their relationship turned sour when Duke began belittling Kid Poker over what she deemed to be inferior play. Apparently, Negreanu still carries resentment over the way she treated him back then.
