Daniel Negreanu (pictured) recently made his opinions about Borgata’s lawsuit against Phil Ivey abundantly clear, going on several 140-character-fueled tirades defending his friend on Twitter. The Atlantic City casino is suing the poker legend for $9.6 million, claiming he won the cash using a technique it considers to be illegal.

Negreanu, never afraid to speak his mind, started out by questioning the judgment of the casino staff, who allowed Ivey to allegedly run his “edge-sorting” scheme in the first place: “Been reading up on poker news lately and the people running the Borgata high-limit pit have to be incredibly stupid overall.”

In the Tweet, Negreanu is likely referring to the fact that casino management agreed to allow Ivey to raise his betting limit from $50,000 to $100,000 per hand after he had already won millions of dollars playing baccarat and then continued to allow him to play even though he had been accused of using “edge-sorting” at a London casino.

He had praise for Ivey and reiterated the sentiment of many gamblers, saying, “My hat’s off to any man who can get an edge on a big-time casino. It’s just straight baller and I have zero empathy for the big fish.”

Going back to the mistakes made by management, Negreanu Tweeted, “Big fish sets all the rules, okays all the rules, they need to eat it when they get beat and not be whiny biatches about it.”

The “rules” to which he refers are the conditions for the high-limit session of baccarat set by Ivey (pictured) and approved by the casino. The seemingly strange requests included a dealer who spoke Mandarin Chinese and shuffled using an automatic shuffler, a private pit, the ability to have a guest at the table, and, most importantly, a deck of purple Gemaco playing cards.

It’s appalling to free-roll customers,” Negreanu continued. “Take their money if they lose but don’t pay when they win? Are you for real Borgata? That’s dirty.”

Negreanu continued the mini-tirade and called into question how Borgata’s image could suffer with gamblers after the incident. “Suing customers who crushed your souls is a bad look. You got bent over. Might as well smile and enjoy it,” he ranted. “No one in the world has empathy for Borgata in this. Stop playing victim because your hustle wasn’t as good as Ivey’s.”

The consummate gambler even admitted to having been played in the past, but always settled his debts. “I’ve been hustled before, but the idea of not paying was never even a consideration! Borgata – you got hustled bad. Get over it already,” Negreanu said.

In one of his final Tweets on the matter, Negreanu summed up how many gamblers view the whole situation. “Borgata, you thought Ivey was stupid and you tried to bury him. He hustled you, smoked you, and left you feeling silly. Stand responsible!”

Borgata is suing Ivey, along with his alleged partner in the scheme Cheng Yin Sun and card manufacturer Gemacofor lack of quality control.

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