Negreanu: Doyle Brunson Ran Manual Hand Simulations Up to 100,000 Times
Daniel Negreanu · $50M Poker Pro Shares Emotional Intelligence Tricks For Founders · Oct 6, 2025 · at 2:48
Poker champion Daniel Negreanu explains to Shaan Puri and Sam Parr how older generation poker legends figured out game math before software existed.
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“Doyle Brunson, before he had computers, he would run simulations by literally getting a deck of cards, a piece of paper and a pencil. He would take an ace and a king against a pair of fours, run out the board and say, okay, ace, king one. And he would do it like a 100,000 times, right?”
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