Anything like this in the pool world?

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AceHigh

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Has anyone seen Daniel Negrenaeu's open challenge? For those of you who don't know who Daniel is, he is one of the youngest superstars in the poker world. His challenge is for anyone in the world, and he said he would play anyone for 100,000 to 500,000.

My question: has anyone in the pool world ever made an open challenge like this? Now I know there have been open challenges to play sets for like $10,000 and $20,000, but has anyone ever made an open challenge to play sets for the amount that Daniel is playing for?
 
AceHigh said:
Has anyone seen Daniel Negrenaeu's open challenge? For those of you who don't know who Daniel is, he is one of the youngest superstars in the poker world. His challenge is for anyone in the world, and he said he would play anyone for 100,000 to 500,000.

My question: has anyone in the pool world ever made an open challenge like this? Now I know there have been open challenges to play sets for like $10,000 and $20,000, but has anyone ever made an open challenge to play sets for the amount that Daniel is playing for?
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I think that guy Superstroke was advertising in P & B and offering to play anyone in the world for a million bucks a few years back. I heard the offer stood as long as no one took him up on it.
 
I always wondered what happened with the guy in the Fl Keys that made
a pool and fighting challenge.

I think it was even 7ball (race to 21) and within 30 minutes they will have
an extreme fight. Each portion worth 10k each.

It was an open call and I think the guy wanted to try and get it on PPV.

I never heard anything after the intial offering.
 
pool and fight challenge

the guy in floridas name was blair and i remember him looking for challengers, i was just in the process of moving from florida, i will try to find out from my friends down there if it ever took place, he had flyers at every fla tour i went to that year,

pat
 
Maybe Boy George would take him up on it. He supposedly was going to fight a martial arts expert at the Sands (the story is in Playing off the Rail by McCumber) and I was actually there when he took 16K for Kamikaze Bob giving him the 7.

Doesn't even shoot shortstop speed but he might be crazy enough to try it.
 
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Several players have made open offers for a game to all comers.

Minnesota Fats did.
Luthor Lassiter did.
Several shortstops have, although some lived to regret it.
Buddy Hall did (before he became a pro, and was the best road man in
the country).

I believe that Shannon Daulton did at one time, although his money man
turned down a big game with James Waldon when he was there in Kentucky.
 
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Several players have made open offers for a game to all comers.

Minnesota Fats did.
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Yeah, it started a stampede of all the players, trying to get to him. He quickly called them all cowards, as he made a hasty exit. LOL ;)

Tracy
 
First, Daniel's challenge would mostly be televised or set up for a DVD special. Second, he has millions of dollars to back that up and also, Steve Wynn (owner of hotels and casinos in Vegas, if you did not know..) would back him in this challange. Also, Daniel is the "house man" at his poker room in his new casino-Wynn in Vegas.


Plus, playing for 100,000-500,000 is like a high stakes pool player playing for 10K-50K with a millionaire backing them. So it really isn't alot of money when you consider the bank roll that Daniel has and his backers have....But it is more exciting to watch poker, when this kind of money is on the line compared to pool, especially when you can see the players cards on tv... Unfortunitly in pool, you just don't know when players play for this kind of money, if they are just dumping their backers to get paid, that is why nobody gets overly excited about it....

I would think Barry "the Robin Hood of Poker" Greenstein, would be my first choice to take up that challange....followed by Phil Hellmuth...


After reading the challenge, I would think, he would have many offers...and he probably will...100K mimimum- 500K...I'm in as long as we can play some straight pool for a million dollars first!
 
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AceHigh said:
Has anyone seen Daniel Negrenaeu's open challenge? For those of you who don't know who Daniel is, he is one of the youngest superstars in the poker world. His challenge is for anyone in the world, and he said he would play anyone for 100,000 to 500,000.

My question: has anyone in the pool world ever made an open challenge like this? Now I know there have been open challenges to play sets for like $10,000 and $20,000, but has anyone ever made an open challenge to play sets for the amount that Daniel is playing for?
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In the 50's & 60's, Don Willis had a standing offer to play ANYONE for $25,000. To my knowledge nobody ever took him up on it. Probably had something to do with all the players in Johnston City, IL telling a reporter taking a survey, that Willis was the best...even though he didn't play in the tournament! When the reporter asked Willis about it, he asked to see the list of who the reporter had talked to. After looking it over, he said, "I beat them!"
Pretty much says it all! LOL :D

Bruce Christopher, aka Superstroke, ran an ad for a couple of years, offering to play anyone for $1,000,000. I heard someone actually took him up on it, and he immediately raised the ante (in the ad) to $1,500,000. They declined, and he quit running the ads. Nobody (except BC) knows for sure if it was legit or not. To my knowledge, he was never a player of any serious caliber...just someone with a bunch of money, trying to act like a bigshot. :rolleyes: JMO

Scott Lee
 
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Anybody who follows Daniel's poker journal knows that 100-500k isn't as much money to him as it seems to us. He routinely plays in private games where a single pot can reach 500k.
 
I read a story in a poker magazine; Bill Gates was in Vegas playing his usual low-limit game of hold'em. I guy named Brunson was playing his usual high limit. Gates sent a note asking Brunson for an autograph. Brunson invited Gates to his game. Gates stated he was considering stepping up in limits. He suggested Brunson change from his $2,000-4,000 game to one and two Billion and he would join them.
Now $1,000,000,000-2,000,000,000 that is high stakes. LOL

Wayne
 
Scott Lee said:
In the 50's & 60's, Don Willis had a standing offer to play ANYONE for $25,000. To my knowledge nobody ever took him up on it. Probably had something to do with all the players in Johnston City, IL telling a reporter taking a survey, that Willis was the best...even though he didn't play in the tournament! When the reporter asked Willis about it, he asked to see the list of who the reporter had talked to. After looking it over, he said, "I beat them!"
Pretty much says it all! LOL :D

Bruce Christopher, aka Superstroke, ran an ad for a couple of years, offering to play anyone for $1,000,000. I heard someone actually took him up on it, and he immediately raised the ante (in the ad) to $1,500,000. They declined, and he quit running the ads. Nobody (except BC) knows for sure if it was legit or not. To my knowledge, he was never a player of any serious caliber...just someone with a bunch of money, trying to act like a bigshot. :rolleyes: JMO

Scott Lee
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I saw Bruce Christopher's picture when he was a young man from the Johnston City tournaments listing him as a top player there. So it appears he used to be really good at pool and maybe still is, but turned his interest into making money. He claims to be the worlds richest pool player.
 
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