Daniel Negreanu(credit: Neil Stoddart)
Daniel Negreanu says he'd be interested in taking on Donald Trump in the 3rd edition of The Celebrity Apprentice.
Annie Duke did most poker players proud on the second installment of Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice. The 2004 WSOP Tournament of Champions winner was the runner up on the season, losing (some say unfairly) to Joan Rivers in the finale.
However, the controversy that was generated may not have been so good for the game, or perhaps, those who play the game. Well, maybe it was the editing.
As Daniel Negreanu says in his blog, “I wasn't all that thrilled with how the profession of poker was portrayed on the show and I'd like a crack at giving people a different perspective. Too much emphasis was put on words like "deceit" and "manipulation" and while those are tools used at a poker table, I don't believe that if you play poker for a living those tools are something that are necessary in order to succeed in life, or in a game like Celebrity Apprentice.”
He congratulated both Joan and Annie on their performances and answers those who ask him if he’s thinking about doing the show that it’s a definite ‘consideration’ because he “loves competition” and ‘it looks like it could be a lot of fun.”
With any luck, Negreanu will be among the contenders on Season 3 and give the world another look at poker players and how they play the game of life.