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Daniel Negreanu

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

And of course my masterclass, I think does a good job of sort of compartmentalizing, like, you know, how to attack it on a deeper level.

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

And we, you know, we get it.

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

I try to get into what's funny when I did the masterclass,

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

I asked them, I was like, well, you know, how high end do you want this in terms of poker?

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

And they're like, we want really, really high end.

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

And I was like, oh, sure.

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

Then I started to explain really, really high end.

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

Like, OK, well, maybe the one below that.

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

Right.

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

So I try to explain really complex, you know, theory in a more palatable way in English, if you will, because some of these kids, you hear them talk and you'd be like.

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

Listen, I still think the book holds up to a certain degree.

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

Obviously, like, you know, it isn't optimal because there's like a more advanced strategies.

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

And if you played that way, people will figure out a way to exploit you.

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

But if you're like an average player playing an average buy-ins, like that's sort of what I coined like small ball approach, absolutely will work.

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

You know, at the highest level, you have to add much more, a lot more bluffing.

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

But overall, I think it's still, you know, for the most part, there's a lot of really, especially with tournaments, there's a lot of really good principles in the book.

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

So the biggest difference when you play, let's say nine handed, you know, against eight other players and, you know, heads up is first of all, just the type of hands and the number of hands you're going to have to play.

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

So the way that it works is if there's nine people, two out of the nine hands, you have to put in money and the other seven, you could just fold for nothing.

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

Okay.

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

When you're heads up, you're forced to put money in every single hand.