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Daniel Negreanu

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

This is what you do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

And that's it, you know, and then everyone's similar to that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

And then you have, of course, the outliers who try to do things a little differently and confuse people.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Yeah, specifically there's one guy who last year sort of took the poker world by storm, and his name is Michael Adamo.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

And he was doing things, like I said, most of the top pros play very similarly with the way that they construct ranges and their bet sizing and all these kind of things.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

He was doing some crazy things that nobody else was doing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

So he studied, you know, sort of a different form of poker and it was unorthodox and it, you know, it throws people off because he's in his comfort zone with these bet sizes and different things, whereas everyone else, they're not well studied in those spots.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

So as a result of him being unorthodox, he became like a monster and very difficult to play against because he really knew what he was doing with it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

It was tournaments.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Yeah, he was crushing tournaments.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

He was going against the norm in terms of what is like, you know, this is what you should do as a poker player in this spot.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

He wasn't doing that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

He was doing what he thought was best.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

And he was doing things outside the norm that, again, in a vacuum, you could look at that and you go, that's incorrect.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

That he should not do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

That is a clear-cut mistake.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Even, you know, the solvers or the computers or game theory would say, this is wrong, what he's doing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

But it's not wrong if he's doing it in a way that he's exploiting other players' tendencies.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

So for example, with him, say he's playing far too aggressively.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Okay.