{"id":3520,"date":"2014-05-29T10:38:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T14:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2014-05-29T11:23:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T15:23:51","slug":"daniel-negreanu-broke-ready-to-kick-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/daniel-negreanu-broke-ready-to-kick-ass","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Negreanu: “Even when I went broke, I woke up the next day ready to kick ass”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With a lucrative PokerStars sponsorship deal and over $21 million in poker tournament winnings, Daniel Negreanu is one of the richest players in the world. So it’s weird to think of him as once being broke. But like pretty much every poker pro, Negreanu did go through a period in Toronto where he struggled to make it. However, as he told iGaming, he never let his bankroll problems keep him from sticking with poker.<\/p>\n

“Even when I went broke, I woke up the next day ready to kick ass,” Negreanu said. “There was no quit in me and I was determined to learn how to play better after getting beat. When I was getting beat I paid attention to why I was getting beat and I was trying to learn from every situation. Of course there was bad luck, but even at that age I didn\u2019t believe that my losses were just due to being unlucky. It was more the sense of, ‘What am I doing wrong?'”<\/p>\n

Obviously Negreanu worked through his early issues to become one of the game’s best. And this allowed him to realize his dream of playing against other top players in the WSOP. To hear Negreanu describe it, the WSOP, and Las Vegas poker in general, was much more exclusive:<\/p>\n

Playing a WSOP event was big back in the day, it was for real men! It\u2019s not like nowadays with all those pansy 1ks. The minimum buy in was $2,000 and most of them were $3,000 or $5,000. If you wanted to play small you\u2019d play satellites, while nowadays there\u2019s even $20 events going on everywhere, so I think it has lost a lot of its luster in terms of having that financial barrier. If you think to the nineties, the smallest buy in was bigger than it is now, which is kind of backwards if you ask me.<\/p>\n

If someone sat down at your table and you didn\u2019t know them there was no chance they were any good. It was just impossible, because if they were good, they would\u2019ve been in Vegas playing before that. The biggest change with today is, if you sit down at a table there\u2019s some 20-year old kid I don\u2019t recognize and people tell me that he\u2019s won $4,000,000 online that year. That\u2019s the huge difference, now the unknowns are much stronger while back then those were probably just businessmen who came to enjoy themselves<\/em><\/p>\n

If you’d like to see more on what Negreanu had to say about the old days of poker, we highly encourage you to check out Part I<\/a> and the more-entertaing Part II<\/a> of his iGaming interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With a lucrative PokerStars sponsorship deal and over $21 million in poker tournament winnings, Daniel Negreanu is one of the richest players in the world. So it’s weird to think of him as once being broke. But like pretty much every poker pro, Negreanu did go through a period in Toronto where he struggled to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[39,1678,1679,1680,1886,686,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}