This is episode number 44 with Daniel Negronin.

Welcome to the School of Greatness.

My name is Louis Howe's former pro athlete turn lifestyle entrepreneur.

In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock

your inner greatness.

Thanks for spending some time with me today, now let the class begin.

Yo, yo, yo, what's up, great, thanks so much for tuning in today, I'm very excited

about this episode with the one and only number one poker player in the world, Daniel Negronin.

Now I used to watch Daniel play poker about 10 years ago when I was in college and I can't

believe I was actually in college 10 years ago now, but I used to watch him on ESPN late

at night and I thought I'd try to be cool and play in the dorms with all the fellas,

$20 cash games and play, hold them until like 4 a.m. in the off season.

And I was never any good, but I thought I'd try to be good and be competitive.

But I was just always too, I couldn't really, I didn't have a good poker face.

So it was pretty embarrassing and I never really won anything.

But it was a fun journey and it really helped me appreciate how challenging it actually

is to be a great poker player.

And I was a bad poker player in, you know, one college dorm and let alone to be the number

one poker player in the world, it's pretty incredible what Daniel's been able to create.

And what's even more inspiring is that he used to be number one, then lost his mojo for

a while, let's say his mojo, and then he got it back recently and won a couple bracelets

and became number one in the world again.

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