He soon got the poker bug and would host private games in his basement, or even play in the cafeteria at school. Negreanu ended up becoming a blockbuster star of the game he was introduced to by friends at his local snooker centre. “It wouldn’t matter if I was wrong, it was just the case of seeing what I could pick up.” What they were like in high school, whether I liked them, whether I could trust them, would they be honest. “I would make up stories in my head about who they are. I’d sit on a bench for like an hour and I wouldn’t say anything, and I’d watch people walk by. “To some people, it may sound a bit silly.
“When I was learning the game as a teenager, I just noticed patterns,” Negreanu said. Inside life of a high stakes poker pro: $50m pots, a brutal beating after $10m haul and why winning can be BORING
