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Daniel Negreanu

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“I've been thinking about this a lot lately actually. It's funny you bring this up because I've been thinking about when I'm at my best. And I think I'm at my best when I am comfortable like that, right? Where I'm not so stiff. worried about checking properly and worried about reading people. I'm like, no, I'm me. I'm gonna play some book. What do you want to do? You want to call me? Go ahead, do what you want, right? Because then I realized ultimately it's like I'm comfortable in that. My opponents aren't as comfortable in that. They're comfortable with this robot thing. But I thought more about that and how, especially with some tournaments coming up, I plan on really kind of sort of getting back to my roots in that regard.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but in some cases against really good players, you're just giving away information. If I'm playing against Phil Ivy, I'm not engaging in anything because he can read through it. He can sense based on what I'm saying, you know, the clues and where I'm trying to take him. And he reads through, he sees the tree through the forest or whatever you want to call it. The forest through the trees. And, you know, so then I would just be like Allowing myself to be exploitable.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Usually, some sort of strategy that I think about in terms of what I want to say and whatnot, but a lot of the time I just go, I go with it, you know.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was just so cool to me, you know, like just how he was so calm. And I think that too added more pressure to the amateur. And I think like, again, part of it is, even back then, it was 1998, there's still a big rail of people and there's lights and they're filming and all this kind of stuff. And it's a lot of pressure for a guy who's never been in this environment. And now I'm telling you, it can all be over soon. It will all be over soon. Just call it's finished.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, this guy who was an amateur heard that and was like, there's so much pressure in this moment right now. I can't handle this pressure. But Scotty just told me, if I call here, it's the pressure's gone. I don't have to be under it anymore. So he sort of hypnotized him into making the call. Know and Scotty had it Scotty had the full house and it was over for the guy. You call gonna be all over, baby. I just, I love that aspect, sort of the table talk dynamic, which isn't as prevalent today as it was back then. But that one sticks out. And probably because it was one of my first.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, for me, the one that stands out, and probably because I was so young. It was my first year, like one of my well, I won a bracelet that year I was friends with Scotty Wynne, the Prince of Poker, and he was heads up against the guy named Kevin McBride, and I was on the rail. You know, I'm like, wow, he's going to, you know, he's heads up. And he was so cool. Like he had a mullet, but it's perfect, right? He had the white shirt with the black thing. He's drinking a micolobe. Smoking a cigarette, whatever, you know, all chill. He bets it all in the river. And the guys thinking, and he psychologically owned him. And he said, he goes with his beer. He goes, you call going to be all over, baby. That's right.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you shouldn't be, but there are again, I think a lot of the young guys, they are thinking in that regard, like, oh, randomization.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You don't have to worry about, oh, well, if I do this now, then in the future, you know, I won't be balanced. I have to be balanced here or anything like that. That's like really boring and lame, right? Again, that is kind of the way the younger generation learns how to play the game, being balanced in every spot and then randomizing. Like, oh, I'm supposed to do this 50% of the time. Okay. So if my left card is red, I'll do it. And if it's black, I don't. So you're not even making, you're no longer making actual decisions for yourself, you're just randomizing. And that's way less fun for me than tailoring it to the situation.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Especially that event. The World Series of Poker Main event historically. Like, that's it. That's the pinnacle. That's where mainstream watches. That's where people are tuning in. And the gravity of the moment, it's so much bigger than people. Like everyone. Gets the opportunity to play armchair quarterback too, right? Oh, he should do this. You're not there. You're not under the lights. You're not under the pressure. It might seem easy for you at home. Know they can't. Certainly, the idea of the small sample with tournaments, I like the idea that”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's much more robotic, right? So if you're playing 20 tables. You're just making decisions based on what you know. You're not thinking about the depth of the situation and what just happened 15 minutes ago. You don't even know what happened because you can't pay attention to all that at once.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I typically like to play one or two, but I can play up to four. I find that past four, it's hard for me to keep up and keep track of what's actually happening. You know, it's a different mindset required. Like a lot of these young guys, they're accustomed to 20 tables at a time.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Enjoy so with online poker, I enjoy the convenience of it because you know you can be on your couch in your underwear, not leave your house.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So you're hitting the long run really quickly and you're creating a database on your opponents, right? So let's have online, I can see your data. I'm like, well, this guy, he's playing 40% of hands. He's betting the river 80% of the time. So now I can use that data and exploit you that way. When you play live, you don't have that.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, online poker and live poker, it's the same game, right? It's poker, but it's different in so many levels, right? I think playing online, you have to focus far more on fundamentals, you know, on game theory. You don't have the added bonus of looking across the table and getting any sense of whether your opponent is strong or weak. They're bluffing, whatever, you know. And also, because online poker, those that play it, you play far more hands. Like some of these guys are playing 10, 20 tables at the same time.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“100 Absolutely. If you're not doing that, because here's the thing, right? No human being plays perfectly balanced in game three optimal like a robot would. They're not, right? So there are opportunities there to take advantage of the things that they do that are slightly too aggressive or less aggressive. You know, for example, say most human beings don't bluff enough in a certain spot. So you don't have to call with the correct range of hands. You don't have to because they're not bluffing at the optimal frequency. So you don't have to call at the optimal frequency. You'd be making a mistake, frankly, if you did.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In a simulated world against the robot. It's not in practice against the human, right? You don't need to be doing that. So if you become a slave to the sin and always do what the Sim says, you're handcuffed to a certain degree.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. I totally can relate to what Magnus is saying. First and foremost, because when solvers were first introduced, I didn't come from that world. I was so intimidated because I didn't know how to use it. I don't know how to do an input. So I had two guys, one guy's a data scientist and another guy's like a poker savant, if you will. And they coached me and they did it. So today, if I was in a tough spot, and I'm like, I don't know, what would a solver do? I will send them the hand and they'll run the solve for me and then sort of give me the parameters of what to do. When I was playing, you know regularly using solvers with them. We were spending six to eight hours a day going over all these solves. So intuitively, I started to think and learn about what the solver would want, but I sort of understand where Magnus is coming from in that you don't want to become a slave to the sim, as I say, right? There's one kid I know I joked with him. His name's Landon Tice. And, you know, he made a play that the sim would say, this is a good play. But I'm like, it's a good play.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I think one of the best ways to learn poker is when you see a solver output and it tells you one of these things, try to figure out why. Why does this solver do this? Why does it want you to call with this and fold this and try to think about it on a deeper level? And you go, aha, probably because this card that I have here, you know, changes the range of my opponent's potential.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Lack of a better nerdy term, it blocks potential bluffing hands that your opponent can have. So let's say if your opponent would bluff with Queen Jack, but you have a queen. So there are less combinations of Queen Jack. So it will find a better bluff catcher, if you will. So that's what's really not intuitive to poker players. Poker players usually think like, well, my hand is pretty good, so I got a call. But that's not how a solver would think. A solver uses common matrix and, you know,”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is a pair of kings, but call with a pair of fours and an ace. So it's essentially telling you that you should fold this hand that is much better than this. So it begs the question why? Because what the solvers do is they use the information of your own cards to formulate all the possible hands your opponent can have. So if your opponent is, so basically if you had the king queen, it may say”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A hand. And the solvers do things that are really interesting. You've seen Alpha Go, I would imagine. Brilliant film, right? I thought. And I thought what was interesting is there was, you know, accepted theory from all the top Go players that this is what you do. But the AI was doing things way different. And they're like, this has to be wrong. But really, it wasn't. So for example, a solver may say this, right? Let's say you bet on the end and you bet a lot and a solver may say you should fold here with a pair of kings and a queen kicker.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So the solver will do that, right? And essentially, you don't input your hand. It tells you you'll look at the grade and be like, this is my hand. And it tells you what it is. But it tells you what you would do with any hand. It gives you the full output.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Again, imperfect in terms of the implementation of it. And memorizing all the variables that King Jack offsuit with the King of Diamonds is 13%. No human brain can do that. So, what you do is you bucket it. Like you bucket it into, say, instead of 10,000 variables, you have 10 buckets and you say, okay, with these hands, we do roughly this, and we do roughly this. And you try your best to stay within those lines. But again, what I love about live poker partly is that nobody will ever be able to master game theory and mimic a solver.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You try your best. So, again, Solvers are imperfect as well in terms of the way the humans utilize them because you can give solvers a certain number of inputs in terms of what you want it to solve, but a solver can think on many, many levels. So for example, the way that a typical player would do a solve is to say, okay, what does a solver think is the best play here? Bet one third pot, bet two-thirds pot, or bet one and a half times pot. You give it three parameters. It comes out with an output and it tells you what you should do with all the different hands you have. However, that's a simplified version of what a solver would really do because a solver might decide that seven times the pot is best. 10% of the pot. But when you're putting in a solve, you can only put in specific parameters. So that's why, frankly, that's typically the number, one-third, two-third, and one and a half times pot is what people often do. So they sort of have a vague idea of what a solver wants.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Learning, so I guess the way that you describe it is like in the old days, it required skill and talent, a card sense, right? That was the only way to become good. And today, that's not the case. Good study habits, a good work ethic in that regard can make you like a really good player, even if you aren't all that talented or gifted. Having a good work ethic is a talent, right? Not necessarily card sense, but if you're able, if you're able to put in the work and study from these solvers, you essentially have the perfect study tool now that we didn't have in my day”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like personality types. In my day, it was people that were dregs of society that didn't fit in. College goers with a degree. These are people who are street hustlers playing pool. They found poker, you know, and they had these unique lives, right? But now because poker can be studied, much like you study, you know, university or college, you had, for example, the German contingent who was literally analyzing data and coming up with strategies based on this. And it's like, what? And the old guy, you know, got to play by feel or whatever. And they're like.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, the game has changed in terms of the way people learn it, right? When I started out, the only way to learn how to play poker was to sit your ass on the chair and play. Yes, in person. Play. Maybe you jot down hands on a notepad. We didn't even have cell phones back then, right? I would write notes. I actually brought a notepad. And then analyze it and sort of try to figure it out that way and think about, you know, maybe talking to friends and different players. Like when I grew up, there was John Jawanda, Alan Cunningham, and Phil Ivey. And we would sort of create like a little bit of a mastermind. Well, how would you play this hand? What would you do here? That was a cent. That was the extent of it, right? We never had the correct answers. We always had theories about what might be right. Not until about five, six years ago where everything changed, where artificial intelligence created solvers that will specifically say, okay, this is the optimal play. This is the game theory optimal play. So now it introduced poker to a whole new group of”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“From them. So I've always been willing to sort of swallow my pride and get coached by younger players, who I might even be better then, but they see blind spots that I have that I might not. And they help me improve my game. I've always been willing to sort of look every six months or a year and say, is what I'm doing working? And if not, how do I get better? Most people from my generation, they go the other way. I don't know. They just have this idea that they figured it all out. Once you feel like you've mastered it, there's nothing left to learn. That's the moment where everyone else starts to surpass you.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. So complacency is a big issue for people who make it, if you will, right? So, in my era of the poker boom around the early 2000s, there was a group of players who were the big names, the stars of the game. Well, a lot of them had their egos out of whack where they just felt like, okay, I'm the best. That's it. Like, no, there's young guys learning. There's new software. There's solvers. There's all these kind of things. And if you're not keeping up, then you'll get surpassed. And I remember myself at a very early age saying, I never want to be that guy. And it was one of my first events in the late 90s. I was the young buck playing with the Tom McAvoy's and Brad Dowdy, the guys of the era, right? And I was doing things more aggressively. And they were scoffing at all these young kids with their aggressive three and all this stuff. And they were sort of mocking it, you know? And I thought, never be that guy. Always have the humility to be introspective and always have the respect for your opponents that while you're think you've got it all figured out, they're learning new things and you can learn.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I have a little bit of that in me, which again, you're reading the comments and all these kinds of. Like, I've been told many times throughout my career for the last 15 that I'm done. I can't compete anymore. And I enjoy proving them wrong.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think for me, I've always been really competitive, but I was never going to be a professional athlete. Professional snicker player. I wasn't good enough at any of that stuff. I didn't have the body type, whatever. But poker, it sort of levels the playing field, right? You're six, five, 240, big deal. We're not fighting here. We're fighting a different type of war. So the competitive aspect, I also have always been fueled throughout my career by doubters. So this is probably unhealthy, but... Every time people say, like, you're done, you're washed up, you can't win anymore, it just makes me. Want to prove them wrong.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I am 47. I'm financially okay. I don't need to win. I don't need to compete at the highest levels. So I think it was a boxer. I don't remember which one when asked this. He was asked the question, you know, how do you get up in the morning still and do those morning runs? And he says, you know what? I'll be honest with you. It's a lot more difficult doing the 4 a.m. run in Silk Pajamas. It just is, right? But I've always been self-motivated and I've always found a way. So it's harder in the sense of like It's not a need I can still get by without it. But so in that regard, it does feel like a little bit of work or like, oh my God, that's a lot of footage I got to get through. And I don't know that I have the time or I don't know that I want to spend 10 hours of my day doing that when I could be doing other things.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think the only thing that makes it harder is when you're young, right? You're in your 20s and you're trying to make your nest egg, you're trying to make your retirement money, you're hungry, right? You're like clubber lang and you know the gym. You're hungry. Whereas Rocky's in there take a picture”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'll make it a point to watch my opponents and then with like my phone I'll take notes and I'll keep track of different things that I'm seeing and that sort of and then what I'll do is I'll formulate a game plan like I'm playing the poker masters coming up in about a week and I'll look to see the tendencies of what my opponents are doing and then I'll come up with like some some things that I'm going to do some tricks of the trade if you will not game theory optimal stuff stuff that I think oh they're making a mistake here that I can exploit And then I look to do that in different ways and always look to, you know, throw curveballs.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I have dabbled in the past with like meditation and different things like that. And I know that there's health benefits to it. And I understand that a lot of people get a lot from it. And I've done it for good amount of like long periods of time. I found that for me, I think it was predominantly placebo. It really wasn't doing anything. Me that I felt like it felt like I was doing something, but I really didn't see any specific results from it. So I don't really do that too much. One thing that I will do for me is leading up is there's so much footage now?”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's really difficult. Like, I've done it before where I played the World Series of Poker and I made it a point to work out every day. But what that did was it sacrificed sleep. So then I found at 1 a.m. I would be more tired because I've expended more energy than I would otherwise. So I essentially like look at the World Series. It's six, seven weeks where my body's just going to take a beating, not like UFC fighter. But like a different kind of beating. And that's okay because I have so much confidence that within six weeks of just eating right and working out, I can get back to where I was.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Do. Yeah, basically, I created a meal plan. So, what I did for myself is because I'm really anal and nerd. I made a spreadsheet. Like a day's food, and I have six different ones, so I just follow it, like I don't, it actually makes my life so much easier when I don't have to think about what I'm gonna eat for lunch or what I'm gonna eat for dinner. I already know what I'm gonna eat. I already wrote it down. And it doesn't get boring because I'm switching it up every day, you know, every six days, occasionally I'll, you know, splurge and do something different during the World Series of Poker. I eat whatever the fuck I want to eat. At 2 a.m. I don't crave a broccoli carrot salad. Like I want chocolate, candy, and chips. So I'll just do it.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, I eat a healthy amount. I'm doing probably 150 grams of protein. Like 60 grams of fat, 50, and then about”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so during, like I said, when I'm not playing, I'm super regimented. I literally measure everything. I count calories, I count macros, I follow it to a T. Pretty balanced.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I get to sleep and I sleep like a baby. And I also nap really well. Like during the World Series, sometimes what will happen is that let's say I get knocked out of one event at 4 p.m. And there's another one that I can jump in. Instead of jumping right into it, I'll go into like a private room and take 45 minute nap and give me enough energy to continue and sort of reset my mind.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've been very lucky. Like, I'm blessed. I don't know if it's because of diet or what, but I've always been a very good sleeper.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So eight hours is my go to every night during the World Series of Poker. It's just not possible because of the way that it's structured. Sometimes the tournaments end at 2.15 a.m. I get home about three o'clock. Takes me 30 minutes, 40 minutes to get to sleep. So let's say I'm in bed by four. Well, the tournament said, you know, two. So I have to get up and whatever. So it's very difficult to get exactly eight a lot of the time and also get back there in time.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's about what I did 165. And then I spend the next month trying to, you know, lose it. But during the World Series, when I'm playing, the most important thing without question that I have to focus on, and this is why I stopped focusing on working out all this stuff, is sleep. If I'm not rested, I'm useless. If I only get five, six hours and I have to go back the next day and play 14 hours, the chances of me being at my best, very, very slim. So sleep is a priority.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's very little walking. There's very little working out. There's very little anything. I go into the World Series. And I expected to gain about 10 pounds during the World Series. Not good pounds, wasn't muscle.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, I think walking, I mean, I do a little bit of running, but hardly any. I don't enjoy it. I just like walking. And frankly, for fat loss, when usually what I'm doing. After big poker tournaments is getting back in shape Walking is ideal for it, right? So essentially, it's like the Tale of 2 World. During the World Series of Poker, all my sort of structured life thrown out the window.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, honestly, I just walk on the treadmill. I try to get 15,000 steps a day, and I just walk for basically like an hour while I watch a show or I'm on the computer or something like that. You know, I'm on the treadmill.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, my life is twofold. Like, one, when I'm playing, hardcore, and one when I'm not. And they look very different, right? So I'll give you a quick glimpse of like when I'm not. Up at 10 breakfast in the gym at noon Post workout meal, coffee, walk, I try to get, that's what I do for cardio, you know, just very like homebodied. I don't leave the house. It's very like boring and mundane, right?”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It doesn't go away That feeling, you know, you think you put it away in the pit of your stomach and you think it's gone. It's not, it's still there. Let yourself go, fuck. Know it's all right, there's nothing wrong with being a little bit emotional because once you've experienced it, you let it out, now you can move past it.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think this has been sort of a pattern in my life where in the evening after it happens, like I don't have it. I don't have that feeling of hope or resilience, if you will. I'm allowing myself to experience despair, which is exactly where I'm at. But then a good night's sleep. Wake up the next morning and just within me, I have that inner confidence to say, you know what? Fuck it. Get back on the hobby horse, find a way, make it work. And I do believe it's really therapeutic and worthwhile to allow yourself to feel and vent. So many people today, the Instagram culture world, I call it, it's like they want to act like they're perfect. Nothing bothers them. Bullshit, right? You're pissed off. It's okay to show it. Emotion's fine. We all have it. There's no reason you have to suppress it. Obviously, you don't want to have guys throwing selfie sticks around the room every time they lose a pot, right?”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Show up with $3,000 24 hours later. You know, money's gone. And I remember the moment vividly, it was at the Binion's horseshoe, it was about three in the morning. I was playing with seven other people. You know, I lost my last chips. I went to the bathroom, washed up, got out. They all left. And it was like a moment where I realized, like, okay, in Toronto, I was the big fish. But here, they were playing because of me. I was the sucker. I remembered every one of their faces. And then I remember not having enough money to get back to budget suites where I was staying. So I walked. I walked. And in that moment, I was thinking about like, is this something that I'll be able to do? Am I good enough? What am I going to do now? I'm in Vegas. I don't know anybody and I have no money, right? So that was certainly like what felt like a low point walking back behind Paradise and Twain, which is not a great part of town.”
2022-09-27 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source