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aniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu is one of the most successful, respected, and influential
D poker players alive today. He has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets
and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles. In addition, as of this writing, he
has amassed nearly $40 million in prize money, making him the biggest live tournament
winner of all time. Daniel has also received numerous awards and honors within the
poker community. He has been inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, was named Player
of the Decade by the Global Poker Index (GPI), and is the only player in history to receive
the coveted WSOP Player of the Year award more than once. In addition to his winnings
and honors, Negreanu is known for his genial, boisterous personality as well as his
balanced lifestyle and his use of mindfulness, meditation, and visualization. Perhaps
the thing that Daniel is most well-known for, however, is his secret weapon—the almost
mystical ability to pinpoint his opponents’ exact cards through reasoning, deduction,
and a superior awareness of human behavior and psychology.

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 CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

“
It’s become like breathing for me, and essentially
that’s where we want to get you with a lot of the
concepts we’re going to share.
“

MASTE RCL ASS

 CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Daniel Negreanu’s Masterclass.

Daniel believes in a four-stage learning process. In the first stage, you don’t
understand the concepts. In the second stage, you understand what you are
doing wrong, but you don’t know how to improve. In the third stage, you learn
how to improve at these concepts, but they feel difficult to apply. In the final
stage, these concepts become automatic—you can employ them without
any conscious effort; they’re as automatic as breathing. Daniel’s goal is to
get you to stage four with the poker concepts he teaches in this class.

UP YOUR GAME

Get to know your new instructor by seeking out footage We’ll often advise you to watch livestreams of poker
of high-caliber tournaments in which Daniel has played. games on Twitch.tv to learn from other players. We
Make a personal assessment of his style of play compared recommend that you browse games on Twitch and find
to that of his rivals. What are his main strengths as a your favorite player, whose playing style feels suited to
player? your own. You can usually tell how good a player is by
the stakes they play, and some players will answer your
Dedicate a notepad to this MasterClass. Make notes questions in live chats. Generally, the higher the stakes
on lessons you want to revisit. You will also be expected the better, but the best players aren’t always the most
to complete various written exercises as the course articulate at expressing their thought processes. Once
progresses. you’ve settled on a channel, you can kick back and try to
spot hands which match the concept you’re learning.
Throughout the class, we’ll ask you to review past
hands with Daniel’s lessons in mind. When you play live,
make sure you record your hands in your notebook. If you
play online, make sure you are using database software, so
that you can review your playing history. HM2 is the most
popular software among players; H2N is a newer, more
up-and-coming option; PokerTracker is a simple option
that doesn’t require much computing power.

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