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Daniel Negreanu

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

But no, you're not.

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

You were just lucky in the beginning.

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

Bad beat jackpot you were playing in.

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

One of the other things that I think is interesting about poker too is good is relative, right?

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

So you could be the seventh best player in the whole world, like literally seventh best player.

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

But if you're playing with the other six, you're the sucker.

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

You are the worst player in the game, right?

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

So there's a lot of players...

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

For example, like the Dan Blazarians of the world, right?

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

He's not a top level player like, you know, these guys you see on TV, but he probably makes more money than they do because he plays with people that are far below his skill level.

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

So part of the skill of being a poker player is finding situations where you're profitable, you know, regardless of your skill level.

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

Considering what I know about the private games and the types of players who play in these private games and the stakes that they play, I absolutely believe, you know, Dan has made, I don't know how many millions, but I, you know, whether it's 50, whatever, but it wouldn't surprise me.

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

That if you play in these games within a year or, you know, you find the right businessman who has way too much Bitcoin money, you know, and, you know, in one night you take him for 20 million.

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

I absolutely could see it.

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

I don't see any reason why.

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

Listen, where he got his money initially, you know, that's up to interpretation from his father or whatever.

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

But what, but has he made a bunch of money playing poker?

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

Absolutely.

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

No question.

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

So, yeah, that's a good question because, you know, part of the reason I played poker and wanted to become professional was like I want to make my mother proud.