The war of words has heated up once more following last week’s spat between Annie Duke and Daniel Negreanu in which he called her a “f***ing c**t.”
PokerStars had originally responded to the feud by posting the statement:
“Daniel and Annie are both passionate about poker, and both aren’t afraid to speak their mind. I think this is a fact people like and appreciate about both players…Although Daniel Negreanu is a Team PokerStarsPro, he is an entity to himself and as such will always be encouraged to express his views and speak his mind as he would otherwise do so, PokerStars Pro or not.”
Duke, however, became extremely agitated by PokerStars’ response and launched into a tirade against the site’s apparent defence of their sponsored pro. The full transcript can be viewed here but a brief extract from her epic letter states:
“So I have a question for PokerStars: Are you equally encouraging and accepting of Daniel expressing his own opinions and views if he utters the equivalent Anti-African American, Anti-Semitic or Anti-Gay epithets? Is it just the c-word that is okay with you? In my opinion, comments that are degrading to a person’s race, color, gender or sexual orientation are offensive and do not fall under the “that’s his opinion, not ours” category.”
Daniel Negreanu and Annie Duke have had a personal dislike of each other dating back to the time when Daniel was a sponsored pro at UB alongside Annie Duke. Daniel had a volatile relationship with the site in which Duke is intricately involved in, as well as a whole host of personal issues between the two pros.
Several years ago, Negreanu had written a piece in his Full Contact Poker blog in which he list a plethora of reasons why he considers Duke to be a “low life.” Ultimately he concludes by saying:
“You a cheat, I’ll say so. You a bi-atch– I’ll say so. You a angle shooter, I’ll let my peoples know.”
A few years down the line and the personal vendetta between the two pros doesn’t show signs of abatting anytime soon.
His comments were only anti Duke which is okay by me because I also hate Annie Duke. Did you see her b***h out somebody when she caught her straight flush in the Main event this year? The person thought he had caught his high flush, and she tore him apart with her b***h attitude. She has no class, and her complaining to PokerStars shows her maturity level too. Daniel’s words were harsh but they were true and honest. And its just a word.. who cares. It would be different if he were hating a race or women in general, but if anything he’s defending women. He’s right. Team Daniel right here
Annie Duke is a complete Bi-atch and even though I don’t care for the”C” word, it fits her perfectly. You go, Daniel!
She is a mess and truly needs counseling.
Annie Duke is one of the most self serving people I can imagine. She lacks even the most basic decency (except when the cameras are on her, or she thinks it is serving her to fake being a human being). There are no shortage of people who absolutely despise Annie Duke. Her eagerness to jump on any opportunity to play the victim is shameful. If the full truth of her behavior were known to the public, I’m sure far more colorful and extensive language could and would be used to describe her than that used by Daniel.