Daniel Negreanu

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.

Yeah.

Right.

So I have a little bit of that in me, which again, you reading the comments and all these kinds, like I've been told many times throughout my career for the last 15 that I'm done.

I can't compete anymore.

And, uh, and I, and I enjoy, you know, proving them wrong.

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 kinds of things.

And if you're not keeping up, then you'll get surpassed.

And I remember...