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Daniel Negreanu

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

Like, that's not interesting.

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

But an interesting situation where you're not sure what you did.

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

Jot the hand down.

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

Write it out.

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

And then either a, you know, use some of the tools, whether it's the solvers, if you're, you know, advanced enough or ask your group, you know, like have a couple of friends at your level and talk through the different decisions and start to learn that way.

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

Right.

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

Cause those mistakes that you make or those tough, those tough hands, that's where the real learning comes from.

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

Like, so that, so basically if you're, cause you're going to be in similar scenarios in poker, you're rarely going to have the identical situation, but you'll have situations that are similar, right?

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

You know, you raised with Ace King, someone three bet, another guy goes all in.

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

Okay, well, what do I do in that spot?

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

You know, it's, you're going to have similar situations in the future as well.

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

So figuring that out, the more you can do that, you chop away at, you know, different strategical mistakes, you know, you used to make that you no longer make.

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

So there was a guy named Michael Acevedo.

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

This is, again, for a little bit more advanced players, but it's a book called Modern Poker Theory, I think it's called, which sort of explains game theory, right, to the novice, right?

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

So it's a little bit, I think if you're new to poker, it's probably above average.

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

the rim for you.

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

But once you start to get a little better and you want to understand how to do it, it's probably a good resource for as far as books.

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

And there's also like tons of people who stream poker, professional players.

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

And then you can get in there and you get in on the chat and you start talking, you ask them, you see people, you know, explaining their thought process and things like that.

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

There's so many free resources.