Daniel Negreanu

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 nineties.

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 think you've got it all figured out, they're learning new things and you can learn 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 than, but they see blind spots that I have that I might not.

And they, you know, 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 make, how do I get better?

But 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.

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.

In person.

Yes, in person.