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Daniel Negreanu

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Oh, you know, I have to make sure that I'm balanced.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

No, you don't.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

You might not.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

You're playing with this guy now for three hours.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

You might never see him again.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Mm-hmm.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

So just make the play that makes sense for you, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

So yeah, I approach that event very differently than I would like playing against the high roller players that I play with.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Does that mean more aggressive, essentially?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Less, actually.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

So when you play against really good players, you have to take small plus EV scenarios where you push the envelope and you're playing really aggressive.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

You're bluffing off your stack.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

You got to do this.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

You got to focus a little bit more on being balanced because otherwise, you know, you're not going to beat these guys.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Whereas if you're playing with amateurs and you're playing with regular players, for the

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

probably don't need to do that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

You don't need to do that nearly as much.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

You can probably slowly but surely build your stack without taking, you know, those high risk, high variance situations because you'll find better situations.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Well, I think amateurs generally, the biggest mistake they make is they think that pros are bluffing more than they are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

So like a pro will bet all his chips on the end.