Daniel Negreanu goes online to fix flaws in poker game
Excellence-propelled competitive success is a funny thing in a double-edged sword kind of way. Once that success is achieved, there’s temptation to figure out what inspired it and cling to it as your game’s natural tactical evolution renders those methods obsolete. You know they work; after all they’ve worked before. The problem, as years pass, is that you’re essentially playing a different game than the one that proved those methods so functional.
Daniel Negreanu got his start in poker in Toronto’s 1980s pool halls and came to his success on the strength of his instincts. He’s not exactly a poker player of the David Sklansky mode, playing by feel. His strongest weapons are an analytical mind combined with an uncanny ability to read opponents; we’ve all seen him call out his opponents’ holdings before they’re revealed, regardless of whether he’s making the right play against the named hand.
In that Negreanu has built a presumably multimillion-dollar bankroll and has parlayed his personable charm, talent and gift of gab into a career transcending the cards he plays, he’s recently done a remarkable thing: With an almost unparalleled tournament record, a mixed game of which he says “There’s no eight-game lineup in the world that I feel like an underdog in,” and the busy schedule that comes with celebrity, he’s going back to the drawing board in Texas Hold ‘em.
Negreanu’s sterling reputation as a player took a hit with the launch of this season’s “High Stakes Poker” episodes. With his confidence in that venue shot due in large part to psychological hurdles set by a bad run of cards over recent seasons, Negreanu played substandard poker and paid dearly for it. The experience of not only getting outplayed by the likes of the “big three” (Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius), but also overthinking even simple plays, got the world buzzing. Inexperienced low-stakes players were so bold as to suggest that Negreanu couldn’t beat a $100 buy-in cash game on PokerStars. It was a massive assault.
In a March 31 blog entry published on FullContactPoker entitled “A New Challenge Awaits,” Negreanu wrote the following:
Daniel Negreanu goes online to fix flaws in poker game
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