When poker trash talk gets a little too real: some Negreanu x Mizrachi nostalgia.
When Daniel Negreanu and Michael Mizrachi first crossed paths, things got heated. On Season 4 of NBC’s National Heads-Up Poker Championship back in 2008, they shared how an online game almost escalated into a real-life confrontation.
Mizrachi recalled, “I’d just knocked him out of a game. I got lucky in the hand, but I was just goofing around. And then it got serious.”
Negreanu added that there was talk of flying to Vegas to settle things, but it never came to blows.
Instead, their rivalry played out at the poker table, where Mizrachi eventually took the win. According to PokerNews, it was all just part of the game, and the two are friendly now.