Daniel Negreanu

And I think I'm at my best when I am comfortable like that, right?

Where I'm not so stiff and worried about, you know, checking properly and worried about reading people.

I'm like, no, I'm me.

I'm going to play some book.

What do you want to do?

You want to call me?

Call, go ahead, do what you want, right?

Because then I realized, you know, ultimately it was like, I'm comfortable in that.

My opponents aren't as comfortable in that.

They're comfortable with this, you know, the robot thing.

But I thought more about that and how, especially with some tournaments coming up, I plan on really kind of sort of getting back to my roots in that regard.

Yeah.

Like I've gone, I've, I've been flowed.

And like I said, you know, I took on some coaches and that was really learning game theory.

Cause I felt like it was important to always stick, you know, keep up with what's going on.

And then I do feel like to some degree, um,

It sort of took away a little bit of my own instinctual ideas in terms of what I should be doing, right?

So I think like the most dangerous version of myself is a deep understanding of the game theory.

with my wisdom of many years and comfort of just sort of like being myself at the table.

For me, until someone knocks him off the podium, the king of poker and the goat is Phil Ivy.