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For more poker content go to Deeb is one of the original online tournament grinders and we flew to Mexico to shoot the lat. — shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 21, 2020. You not really a #wcoop grinder if you’re not one handed 10 tabling on touch pad in a Mexican hospital with covid — shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 21, 2020. Deeb appears to be in good spirits, even making light of the situation he finds himself in. There's no love lot between Daniel Negreanu and Shaun Deeb! This week’s podcast – Episode 145 with your hosts Remko Rinkema and Brent Hanks – features the biggest name in the game. Daniel Negreanu, a.k.a. ‘Kid Poker’ only needs gentle prodding from Remko and Brent to respond to the latest developments in his bitter Twitter feud with.
The legend of Bryn Kenney grew considerably a few months back, when he finished 'second' in the Triton Million for more than $20 million — he actually won the biggest prize after a heads-up deal with Aaron Zang. In doing so, he also made himself poker's No. 1 all-time tournament money winner.
And if that, along with his eccentric fashion choices, hasn't been enough to endear him to poker fans over the years, Kenney added further to his legend with a recent turn on Joey Ingram's show. There, Kenney proclaimed he had 'about half' of his net worth on the line in the Triton Million, between his own piece of his buy-in and his numerous side bets.
'Don't try this at home,' he said with a laugh.
Deeb Takes Exception
While that may be easy for Kenney to laugh about now, and something poker players who take big shots can use as fuel for their own dreams, at least one person didn't see the humor in Kenney's aggressive bankroll play.
Shaun Deeb saw the situation a bit differently. In his mind, Kenney was simply gambling degenerately with money he couldn't afford to pay if he lost.
This clip is just sad. It’s scary he says he had half his bankroll on his piece of the tourney and then made a ton… https://t.co/27diF5JZIO
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb)High-Stakes Pros Come to Kenney's Defense
Kenney has been playing high stakes for more than a decade, thriving both live and online to become one of the true mainstays of high-stakes poker. Many of his peers, seeing Deeb's criticism, came to Kenney's defense.
Jason Koon said that while Kenney's bankroll choices can be questionable, he's always been reliable when it's time to make good on his word.
@shaundeeb I’ve know Bryn for a really long time. We have had several times where we didn’t see eye to eye and I wo… https://t.co/YcPG7Pp45F
— Jason Koon (@JasonKoon)Fellow high-stakes regulars Timothy Adams, David Peters and Adrian Mateos also rebuked Deeb.
@shaundeeb How is possible to make this serious accussation publicly without enough information to do it? Its mindb… https://t.co/Fvz5Aqrlzn
— Adrián Mateos Díaz (@Amadi_17)
@shaundeeb Very out of line to accuse something like that and throw out words like freeroll when you don’t know. Th… https://t.co/49FOwLchnH
— David Peters (@dpeterspoker17)@shaundeeb Think this is pretty unfair. While Bryn can rub some ppl in poker the wrong way thru being a bit brash/c… https://t.co/Q2IOtf6coi
— Timothy Adams (@Tim0theeAdams)When Christian Harderpointed out that Kenney could have included the side bets in his overall assessment of his risk and that the side bets could furthermore have been staked, Kenney called it 'very on point.'
For Deeb's part, he hinted that he had other evidence of Kenney's financial irresponsibility, but he indicated he couldn't share them publicly.
An Old-Fashioned Heads Up for Rolls Offer?
According to Deeb, the story ends with a tale as old as poker time: a beef between two players getting settled with an offer for a heads-up match. Once a fairly common occurrence online, it doesn't happen much nowadays, although Mike Dentale and Cate Hallfired one up a few years back.
In any case, while the furor from his tweet about Kenney was still simmering, Deeb said he received an offer from Kenney to duke it out, either with fists or chips.
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Shocking bryn messages me threatens to fight me next time he sees me and then challenges me to hu 2k4k 8g I accept… https://t.co/Kdci0Zk4ei
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb)Safe to say that's a match many in the poker world would love to see, but the more likely outcome is that each player continues to crush on his own path in poker, and nothing further comes of this dust-up.
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18 Feb
Double World Series of Poker bracelet winner Shaun Deeb had to find a new place to play this week after being told he wasn’t getting a seat at the highstakes game running alongside the Circuit stop in Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, and he won’t be returning anytime soon if his tweet yesterday is anything to go by…
Explaining that:
‘Basic summery (sic) of the story is poker room manager tells me high stakes game is public I try to sit an (sic) told I am not allowed to play guess he doesn’t understand what public means’…
…Deeb can now add the Florida cardroom to whichever casino pissed him off previously, rumours that it was the Rivers Casino in Schenectady where he was apparently accused of ‘going north’ last year never really being substantiated or denied.
In any event, Deeb enjoys a good poker rumble and it wasn’t long before another of poker’s mouthiest pros was on his case, Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow having a pop at the 4-time WCOOP champ…
To clarify matters somewhat, one of the Seminole Hard Rock ambassadors explained to Deeb that the casino itself wasn’t behind the ‘no seat for Deeb’ decision…
Deeb is hardly new to drama in the poker world, and regular readers may recall last year’s Poker Night in America shitfest featuring Deeb, Doug Polk, Brandon Cantu and the seriously-disturbed Salomon ‘hashtagking’ Ponte among others, Deeb somehow surviving Ponte’s nasty verbal assault on him, his wife and everything inbetween….
…but Deeb isn’t exactly the good guy in among all the heated exchanges which have gone public…
Quite what Deeb had done to find himself blocked out of the ‘public’ highstakes game is unclear, but it’s not unusual for such things to happen.
2012 WSOP Main Event winner Greg Merson found himself locked out of Bobby’s Game at the Aria, taking to Twitter in 2016 to call out Jean Robert Bellande and the casino in no uncertain terms…
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…rumours circulating that Bellande had Merson kicked off the table to make room for a ‘deep-pocketed fish’ or simply hadn’t let him play to begin with, as reported at the time by PokerTube.