Daniel Negreanu says poker players owe him 8 figures and runs a poll on outing them!

Poker legend Daniel Negreanu is owed more than $5 Million in loans handed out to fellow poker players and this week he took to Twitter to ask if he should publicly out those who owe him the massive sum…

The numbers in from almost 30,000 votes show a resounding YES to outing those who owe KidPoker, just over 50% of the total saying that only the dishonest debtors should be named and shamed.

The amount loaned by Negreanu – which he describes as ‘closer to 8’ figures – could account for almost 25% of his lifetime tournament winnings.

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With $40,045,583 recorded by the Hendon Mob database at the time of writing, Daniel sits in 2nd spot on the all-time list behind Justin Bonomo.

Whether he actually intends to take the polling results as a clarion call to out those who haven’t paid him, or if it’s perhaps a warning shot to his creditors isn’t clear, but some big names have weighed in on the debate already.

DNegs gave an example of what his World Series of Poker ‘banking problems’ look like…

Phil Galfond was among those sitting on the majority side of only outing those who have been dishonest in their dealings with Negreana, prompting a little joke from the Canadian…

Jungleman Dan Cates, Bill Perkins and John Duthie all gave their thoughts on Negreanu’s problem.

Cates remarked, “Well people who have no honor should probably at least be punished socially (shamed)” while Perkins joked:I’m telling you checks in the mail!”

Duthie relates that he too has loaned money and never seen it again, saying: “If someone (anyone) capitalises on your good nature, knowing they will never repay you, then this is theft, pure and simple”.

Bad debts, and the scam versions of it, however, are a serious matter. This year alone there have been two high-profile cases in the poker community -with Eli Elezra and Randall Emmett as the main players.

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Elezra was outed in January as owing Abe Mosseri $853,000, with a further mostly-unpaid loan of $100k from Cole South, and rumours of many, many more owed by the Israeli.

The Elezra debts came to light after an AMA session as he launched his autobiography, and the translator of Eli’s original work in Hebrew joined in the Negreanu debate…

Even more recently, producer and amateur poker player Randall Emmett was panicked into repaying $1million to rapper 50Cent in the now-infamous ‘fofty’ affair.

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Back to the here and now with Negreanu’s ‘outing poll’ and there was an unexpected tweet offering up some ‘old school’ advice on how to settle matters…

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