Daniel Negreanu: Annie Duke Is A ‘F***ing C***’

On the Annie Duke fan leaderboard, Daniel Negreanu ranks dead last.

Daniel Negreanu, the world’s second-winningest tournament poker player of all time and a beloved figure to many poker fans, is known for running his mouth over just about any topic you can think of. Usually he stops short of saying anything too offensive, but in a new interview he goes off on Annie Duke and unleashes some pretty harsh language on her.

In what almost looks to be a throwaway part of the interview, Negreanu is asked about the men who played in this year’s Ladies Event at the WSOP. After three sentences about the event in general, Negreanu turns the conversation to Annie Duke and doesn’t hold back:

What irked me is that this woman has the audacity on her website to call herself ‘the best female poker player in the world’. So on one side of the coin she’s fighting for, ‘Oh, we’re all equal, there shouldn’t be any gender thing,’ but when appropriate she decides to call herself the best female poker player in the world. 

So I’m like ‘how offensive are you, you f***ing c***? You want to say you’re speaking for women, yet you claim superiority over all of them.

This isn’t the first time that Kid Poker has gone off on the reigning NBC National Heads-Up Poker champion. In the past, though, he wasn’t so terse about it. Check out this old post for a laundry list of reasons that Daniel Negreanu hates Annie Duke, including her behavior the first time they met, at a tournament at the Four Queens in downtown Las Vegas back when he was 22 years old. Neither of them yet had their faces plastered all over television and magazines, so the account is an interesting window into a different time in poker even though it’s clearly biased.