Negreanu: Modern Poker Players Take Longer Because They Calculate Combinatorics
Daniel Negreanu · $50M Poker Pro Shares Emotional Intelligence Tricks For Founders · Oct 6, 2025 · at 3:08
Daniel Negreanu explains how professional poker strategy shifted from reading tells and gut intuition to in-hand combinatorics and mathematical calculation.
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“A lot of the more modern players are much more deliberate. They take a lot more time because they're actually doing for the most part, they're doing calculations we didn't used to do. It used to be like this. I'd look at Sam and I'm like, yeah, Sam's full of it. He doesn't have it. I call. That's the equation. However, now people are doing what's called, this might be a little bit above your audience's level of understanding, but counting combinations.”
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