Guy from my homegame busts Negreanu (almost)

From his facebook updates during the WSOP $1k Donkulus (stimulus), names changed to protect the guilty. How'd you like to be on Negreanu's left all day.

XXX does not like having Daniel Negreanu sitting directly on his right. He and another Canadian one seat over stole my blinds mercilessly for 4 hours.

XXX got tired of Negreanu stealing his blinds and reraised in the SB with K-T suited. Negreanu reraised all in and as I was contemplating folding, he joked that I had too much in the pot to fold. Short as I was, he was right. So I called my last 1000 and the flop came A-K-x and my kings beat his pocket Queens. After the hand, he said he had a feeling he was going to lose that one.

XXX, After Kid Poker doubled me up, I beat him in another big pot. I had TT and he had a seven. I made a hero call on the river with a board something like 7-Q-J-4-2. I don't know what his other hole card was, he announced a pair of sevens when I called, then mucked when I showed TT. That put me back in the tournament and Negreanu busted out soon after when he bet all in on a random low flop with A-K and the other Canadian to his right turned over KK.

Funny thing about Negreanu was that he was posting everything live on Twitter. "Running bad. QQ lost to K 10 guy called all in. Weird cause I felt like I was gonna lose it." http://twitter.com/REALKIDPOKER.

Anyway, Kid Poker was pretty much like you see him on TV. Very patient with all the fans interrupting him for autographs. He gets thumbs up.

Erick Lindgren Owns Phil Gordon on Poker After Dark...by Texter

On this weeks Poker After Dark featuring E-Dog (Erick Lindgren) and Phil Gordon (along with Phil Ivey, Jennifer Tilly, Patrick Antonius and Jennifer Harman); Erick Lindgren basically calls Phil Gordon an idiot who can only analyze a poker hand when he has a hole card camera to use. Probably the funniest exchange I've seen on the show so far.

Basically, Phil comments that he thought Erick was on a flush draw after Patrick had called Erick's bluff which Erick didn't show. Erick was already fed up with Phil after Gordon had made a speech before play started (something about trying to play with the most mentally challenged players possible but not doing a very good job this week...) he asked Gordon if he read that speech of a teleprompter as if he wrote it a long time ago. Then Gordon goes on some diatribe about how great Patrick's life must be. He calls Patrick the chosen one...and Antonius says "chosen for what?"...all the while Gordon keeps guessing at other peoples hands...then the Lindgren incident occurs.

Phil kind of comes across like that kid from your neighborhood who tries much too hard to be everyone's friend but no one really likes. His quest for validation from the other players is pretty transparent.

Click the link to check it out at the 5 minute mark of segment 2: Poker After Dark

I wonder if this incident predicated Phil Gordon's article about Lindgren on ESPN? which you can read about in Daniel Negreanu's blog here: Daniel's Blog