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Daniel "Jungleman" Cates Issues Challenge to the World
Daniel "Jungleman" Cates is fed up with the negative exposure poker has received since Black Friday. For that reason, the high-stakes cash superstar intends to capture the world's attention with his play on the felt in December.
The Poker Farm announced Thursday that Cates issued an open challenge to anyone willing to go to the Prague Poker Festival on Dec. 6. The challenger will face Cates in a heads-up match at stakes of €200/€400 with a minimum buy-in of €100,000. The match will be streamed online at ThePokerFarm.com, will be on a 15-minute delay, and the hole cards will be...
i watched some of cates coaching vids and i gotta say i was kinda shocked how kind of "simple" he was thinking about the hands. and than this super cocky challenge, saying hes the best HU NLH player in the world... srsly we need ivey to shut this guy up xD
10-27-2011 09:58
philwdrimdromkin wrote
Yeah, I think Cates must've hired Don King as his publicist.
xD that made my day 
10-27-2011 11:50
" Daniel "Jungleman" Cates is fed up with the negative exposure poker has received since Black Friday. " now WTF does this mean.. like he is no part of those exposures right.... what a joke...great player sure... but this cocky statement with this line just makes me wanna puke....
10-27-2011 14:32
Please tell JUNGLEMAN "idiot" that it's called BOBBY's room . You know that place in Belligio which he will never go for some strange reason...hee hee Why wont he play 2,000/4,000 a hand with Gus Hansen, Abe Mosseri, doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey or Patrick? You know all the regulars who REALLY play high stakes. Cates is a complete joke and BTW, No player is interested to fly across the world to do anything with him. He is thinking this would be great PR for him. Maybe he needs to drink the Kardashian cool-aid and keep talking!!! lol lol lol
10-31-2011 20:26
You are kidding ... right? Step One: Fire your manager for thinking up such a silly promotion. If you thought it up yourself ... start listening to your manager who is cringing in the corner 
You want to step up ... start with yourself. Take a $100,000 weight loss prop bet and drop a few pounds. Work on your image from the ground up with some charity work. This arrogant "I am going to improve poker's image" not only sounds like BS ... the fact you are doing it in Prague of all places where Black Friday has had little effect makes the site nonsensical 
Treat your game like a business? Ok, start talking to real business guys. You need a good manager and a good PR person. You need a personal strategy and a poker strategy. Keep a healthy ego but this over-the-top bombastic I-am-the-center-of-the-universe "save poker" attitude is just childish ... really. You have a few decades before you are even eligible for the Poker Hall of Fame so build something real. If this was not your idea ... play the games you are committed to and tell the "genius" that roped you into this that at your level of poker play, you cannot afford amateur hour.
It sounds so silly that as an amateur player I cringe reading the PR on this. Man o man.
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11-04-2011 17:22
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