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Daniel Negreanu: Poker | Lex Fridman Podcast #324
I'm gonna hit it up top.
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Cause I started to feel like this is your,
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I started to think,
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even though I haven't really played poker at all,
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that I'm good.
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And that was a really dangerous feeling.
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And everybody was really mad for walking away
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from the table.
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One of the other things that I think is interesting
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about poker too is good is relative, right?
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So you could be the seventh best player in the whole world,
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like literally seventh best player.
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But if you're playing with the other six,
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you're the sucker.
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You are like the worst player in the game, right?
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So like there's a lot of players, for example,
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like the Dan Blazarians of the world, right?
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He's not a top level player,
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like these guys you see on TV,
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but he probably makes more money than they do
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because he plays with people
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that are far below his skill level.
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So part of the skill of being a poker player
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is finding situations where you're profitable,
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regardless of your skill level.
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Another connection to life.
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Do you think Dan Blazarian is telling the truth
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about having made, what is it, $50, $100 million?
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Just a huge amount of money playing poker.
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Considering what I know about the private games
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and the types of players who play in these private games
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and the stakes that they play,
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I absolutely believe Dan has made,
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I don't know how many millions,
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but whether it's 50 or whatever,
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but it wouldn't surprise me
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that if you play in these games within a year
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or you find the right businessman
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who has way too much Bitcoin money,
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and in one night you take him for 20 million,
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I absolutely could see it.
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I don't see any reason why.
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Listen, where he got his money initially,
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that's up to interpretation from his father or whatever,
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but has he made a bunch of money playing poker?
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Absolutely, no question.
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Do you feel, as somebody who loves the game,
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do you think there's something almost ethically wrong
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in playing people much worse than you?
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So yeah, that's a good question
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because part of the reason I played poker
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and wanted to become professional
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was I wanted to make my mother proud, right?
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And I don't think she would be proud of me
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taking Grandma Betty's last $5 and down the street,
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sending her broke and taking her pension check.
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So I play at the high stakes
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against people who can afford it.
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They know who I am.
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I'm not a hustler.
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I'm not pretending I'm bad at poker to squeeze in.
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I was thinking about this just yesterday
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because I played in a game
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that if I played that sort of role
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where a lot of guys do pros
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that sort of play down their skill level,
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pretend they're just one of the guys,
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these guys can make $20, $30 million in a year, legitimately.
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Like I believe that like, if I did that,
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if I just said, you know what, I'm gonna go down that path,
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get into these games in LA, you know,
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and travel and do all this kind of stuff,
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I can make 20 million a year.
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But it feels a little greasy, right?
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I don't like to kiss anyone's ass.
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I don't like to ask anyone for a favor or things like that.
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So, but yeah, like I feel, listen,
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a rich guy who wants to sit down with a million bucks
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and get drunk and lose it, I have no empathy for that.
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I'm like, I don't have any moral qualms with that.
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So if a grandma Betty is a billionaire.
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Send it, send it, right?
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You know, absolutely, why not?
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Well, let me ask you about a tough period
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of your recent life.
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You had a rough, like we mentioned,
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the World Series of Poker losing $1.1 million over 48 days.
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What were you going through mentally during that?
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So here's the thing, you know, I do, like you said,
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I do a YouTube vlog every day.
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So I kind of share my thoughts and listen,
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I can edit that thing and keep out the bad stuff,
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but I think it's more authentic and genuine to show people
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the actual struggles and the pain that I go through,
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you know, without it.
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And I'd say the one thing I'm most proud of
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throughout the entire thing is the resilience
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because there are moments you see me where I'm broken.
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I'm just like, I can't take it.
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I broke a selfie stick this year.
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