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This is from his twitterSunday July 5 i show up to WSOP as 'Caesar: with 100 models, 11 muses w body paint, a chariot w 2 horses, and a drummer dropping rose petalsLOL! I take it he will be wearing a toga as well. Yikes.

This guy came back from New Zealand to have a stellar 2007 (I think $2.5 million in cashes) and then disappeared again. Anyone know where he is?

Nice tie, Daniel.

OK. I now read Doyle's blog as well. Isn't it odd that Hellmuth's blog says he went to the concert with Doyle and Todd Brunson, but Doyle says him and Todd ran into Hellmuth who was there with Clonie Gowen? Hellmuth doesn't even mention Clonie in his blog. Doyle's blog also says they dropped off Phil and Clonie at the hotel at the end of the night. Again, Phil makes no mention of Clonie Gowen whom he was with all night.WTF is going on here?

I'm not sure if DN talked about it in his blog, but Phil Hellmuth's latest blog explains why Daniel is in Australia right now.

My picks are Dwan, Townsend, Wasicka and Schreiber in the final 4.

Helmuth vs. Durr is another good one

For those who don't mind spoilers, just type in Wire season 5 leak (no quotes) on youtube and you will see 3-4 segments from later on in the season.

Only about 200 players in the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E., and I think I have an excellent chance to win that tournament. In fact, supposing a 200 player field, I would guesstimate that I would finish in first place anywhere from 2% to 3% of the time. That works out to about 50-1 or 33-1. I realize that DN is good at all forms of poker, but doesn't this statement assume that Daniel is 4-6 times better than the average player in that 50K HORSE field? That field is filled with very talented pros. Sure, you'll get a few great online NL players who want to take their shot and also guys like Gavin Smith who

Is there a sub-plot, a background story etc. about Gordon and Lindgren that most people don't know about? It seems like their dislike for each other goes deeper than PAD and Gordon's comments on his blog.

**** Spoilers *******What a great post! Just to add to the point about McNulty, I would say that through the first three seasons --although the show technically has what may be termed as an "ensemble" cast-- the two major characters were McNulty and Stringer Bell. The producers kill off Bell at the end of the third season and make McNulty's character a peripheral one at best. Yet, despite the emotional investment the viewers had on these (as well as some other departed characters such as D'Angelo Barksdale, Frank Zobotka etc.) , the show is able to come back, not miss a beat and perharps even

The deal with The Wire is that if you watch the first 3-4 show and actually pay undivided attention, you'll be so hooked that you won't want to do anything else while atching the rest of the episodes.But, if you start out watching while running on a tradmill or doing something else that makes you miss certain things, the show is not for you.It's certainly not like the first episode of every season of 24 where it'll garb you from the second the show starts. But that's not a negative thing in my opinion.

I was just kidding, man. Sorry if I offended you. At any rate, this is ultimately a matter of preference. So, while I disagree with it, I certainly respect you opinion.

LOL! Yeah the Sopranos is so real that the boss of the crime family can see a therapist for years and no one would even try to whack him for that. Or that Christopher's character would screw up royally, write script about the mob, have his fiancee be an informant to the FBI and STILL manage to stay alive. Or Meadow and Anthony, Jr. can be in their late teens and STILL think their daddy is in the garbage business. C'mon, if you look hard enough, the show has more holes than a pound of Swiss cheese. Unfortunately, you can't seem to notice them cause you got head buried in David Chase's nuts.

OK, I'll give it a shot. First, The Wire covers a much larger fragment of the society than does Sopranos. In the past four seasons, cops, drug dealers, labor unions, politicians and school kids & teachers have been covered with amazing depth and detail in The Wire. Second, the social commentary provided by The Wire about both human nature and, on a more focused basis, the urban decay in today's America is much more profound than what Sopranos have to offer even if the mob family depicted on that show is seen as an image of the society as a whole.Also, it seems to me that the grittiness of

Of course I remember. I've watched both shows from Day 1. And while the Sopranos was a truly a masterpiece in its first 2-3 seasons (and still remains a VERY good show even though not as good as before), The Wire is in another league.

One could even argue that there should have been more than 7 black contestants in the final 24 and the judges as well as the producers have deliberately kept the number of black contestants to about 25-30% of the field for ratings purposes.Just go to any black church and you'll find at least one, if not more singers who can blow a lot of the white kids in that Final 24 out of the competition. Of course some people now will say whay I just wrote is racist. LOL!

I think The Wire might be the greatest show in the history of TV. It certainly is better than anything I have seen and that includes great shows like the Sopranos, Law & Order, Hill Street Blues, Homicide, 24 etc. If Daniel has the time and the requisite attention span to watch the Wire from the first episode of Season 1 and pay attention to all the sub-plots, character developments and the details that make this show great, I would certainly recommend that he watch The Wire over any other show.And yes The Wire is > Sopranos. And most people who watch both shows on a regular basis woul

I wonder if Daniel was reluctant to take a break from THAT table and go do commentary. I'm sure he would have preferred to switch places with Gabe on the day when he was playing with Ivey, Antonius, sbrugsby, D'Agostino and Lindgren. I mean with the exception of Doyle and Daniel Alei, that looked to be a table full of a bunch of "juiceballs" for player of Daniel's caliber. Jamie Gold, Sheiky, Bill Chen, Victor Ramdin and Mike Matusow are all very good tourney players, but not necessarily the best cash game players. I wonder if Daniel said he would only switch places with Gabe on the day when

Yeah, here's the link from hendonmob:http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=16825The buy-in was around 73K last year.

I'm pretty sure it's not a misprint. I remember reading about John Juanda winning that event (I think there were only around 10 entrants) at the Aussie Millions last year.Anyone know if DN will play?

The final vote: wouldn't Matusow have to be absolutely furious to vote for Evelyn Ng over Daniel? I mean, the Mouth and Negreanu look like they are pretty good friends and I've watched a couple of interviews with Matusow where he makes it clear that he doesn't think much of Ng. This would have to be a total emotional "you screwed me over and I will do the sae to you" type of vote, and I'm not sure that Mouth would do Daniel like that.

In his most recent cardplayer article, Hellmuth writes:In fact, even as I watched the TOC on television, I picked up things. For example, I took a long look at Negreanu (and rewound the TiVo a time or two) when he made a big bluff, and another long look when he made a big bet with a strong hand. I believe that this will help me in the future when I face him, which I inevitably will.To me, Hellmuth announcing to the world that he has been watching Daniel on Tivo and was supposedly able to pick up some sort of tell and/or pattern is just ridiculous. Is he so arrogant that he thinks that, even if

During the Circuit, Daniel said it was the way she acted after she made the river net plus the fact that she hadn't led out at the flop when she had been trying to pick up these types of unraised pots on the flop if she got any piece of it earlier.

Daniel talked about this as being a key hand in the tournament for him during Cardplayer's The Circuit. Cyndy Violette claims that she meant to bet 300K instead of 150K, but she only put 150K in the pot and Daniel would not have been able to call 300K if she had acted correctly. She also explains why she acted the way she did during the play of this hand (which Daniel correctly perceived as weakness).The key hand was actually before that . I was in the big blind and Daniel was in the small blind. Scott Fishman was on the button. Scott just limped in and we both checked. The flop came Q 9 3 (2