Daniel Negreanu has published a new blog post, blasting the poker community as a whole for letting the Black Friday scandal hit UB and Absolute Poker. Players, sites and media all share the blame, he says.

Daniel Negreanu has always been one of UB Poker's fiercest critics and this has far from changed after the events on Black Friday, which have threatened to shut down the site and leave players hanging in uncertainty.

In a new blog post on CardPlayer.com, Negreanu is now reiterating his critiques of the stigmatized site, claiming that professional players, media and the poker community alike will all have to share the blame for being too soft on the UB Poker question.

"There is one thing that frustrates me to no end. It's been a fight I've been fighting for a decade now, and I'm so very disappointed in how few top players would publicly join the fight with me. Privately, most are disgusted by UB, but publicly they've not said a word," Negreanu writes without naming any names.

"As a poker community, we failed miserably when it comes to the AP/UB tragedy. I did my best to always warn people not to support that company. I've told people there are plenty of safer places to play and that we shouldn't reward thieves/crooks/cheats/liars by giving this group a pass. As a community it was our responsibility to blackball this organization ages ago. Instead, too many in the media, and players alike, were weak willed and willing to give them a pass. It's a shame," he adds.

The Canadian Team PokerStars pro goes on to say that while he realizes that his position might be biased as he is representing a competitor site, he is also genuinely disappointed that he didn't do more to speak up himself.

"We can cast blame on Paul Leggat and players representing the site, but there is plenty of blame to go around in our community. Plenty of media outlets took UB money and often sugar coated/glossed over the scandal(s). Very few people dodge blame here. I genuinely feel some guilt as well that I didn't do more. Of course, I'm in a bit of an awkward position since I endorse a competing site and that brings into question my motives. It's a tricky position to be in that caused me to often be a bit less critical of them as I would have liked... and I've been pretty critical," Negreanu writes.

"I mean that company is a just an absolute joke! The owners (not past owners, same darn owners) cheated their customers, stole from their investors, and it looks like the last straw is that they will likely fold up like a cheap suit and run off with the rest of the customers money. Shame on them, but even more so, shame on us, the poker community, for allowing this to happen," he adds.

"As a community we should have ZERO tolerance for cheaters, for liars, or for companies that take advantage of us."

Finally, Negreanu also discusses his expectations for this summer's WSOP, revealing that he has high hopes of the 2011 series becoming his best so far, as well as he admits to be looking to his native Canada for his future online career.

Read the whole blog post here.

Source: Poker.org