Daniel Negreanu
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Maybe you jot down hands on a notepad.
We didn't even have cell phones back then, right?
So I would write notes.
I actually brought a notepad.
And then, you know, analyze it and sort of try to figure it out that way and think about –
maybe talking to friends and different players.
Like when I grew up, there was John Jawanda, Alan Cunningham, and Phil Ivey.
And we would sort of create like a little bit of a mastermind.
Well, how would you play this hand?
What would you do here?
That was the extent of it, right?
We never had the correct answers.
We always had theories about what might be right.
Not until about five, six years ago where everything changed.
where artificial intelligence created solvers that will specifically say, okay, this is the optimal play.
This is the game theory optimal play.
So now it introduced poker to a whole new group of people
like personality types.
In my day, it was people that were dregs of society that didn't fit in, not college goers with a degree.