Daniel Negreanu

So, first of all, I love Brian Koppelman, who made the film.

And I think what they were going for is something obvious to the general public.

Visually, yeah.

Right?

Like, okay, it's very clear.

You know, he eats the cookie, he doesn't eat the cookie, and it means one or the other.

At the highest levels, something that...

you know, blatant, you're not going to find, you're going to find a lot more subtle things, maybe with posture or, or timing or, you know, different things like that.

But at the lower levels, you know, you know, you might see some, you might see, you know, with a lot of people when they're in a hand and they've bet whether they drink water in the hand is going to tell you something, generally speaking.

Well, the thing is, generally speaking, people don't eat food in the middle of a hand.

Like they're not going to bet and then just like grab a burger, right?

What they will do though-

Is, you know, they bet and it's up to you.

And then they're, whether they're, you know, uncomfortable or they do it unconsciously, they just want to do something to make themselves look relaxed or whatever.

And, you know, they grab a water where they don't really need it in that moment, but they're trying to take your mind off of the situation.

Yeah, because I think one of the things Rounders got right is that it's a poker movie, right?

But you don't have to be great at poker or really understand poker to enjoy the movie.

And that, you know, Oreo cookie tell, like, everyone gets that.

They're like, okay, that's simple.

If he would have went with something more subtle, you know, like licking your lips or looking to the right, I think it might have been lost on the audience.