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April 1, 2007
Learning to Use
All My Powers
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Learning To Use All My Powers

April 1, 2007

Things have been going great in my life recently. I went to a Rodeo here in
Las Vegas and many of the best rodeo guys recognized me and dropped by
to kiss my hand. (Billy Bob Sway, John Marx, Jethro Hull, etc.) In fact, they
even put me on the jumbotron and had me saying, "Run pigs! Run for your
lives!"

A movie about my life is about to be green light as well. It's called, "I can
dodge bullets baby," and will star Emanuel Lewis and Charlie Murphy as my
brother. My wife will be played by Bobby Lee from MadTV. It's a big time
production, the budget is well over $35,000.

I was also asked to be the face of a new soft drink called, "Poker Superstar"
for poker players "Tastes better than Dutch Boyd's pee pee or your money
back!" I will be drinking 10 of these a day at the WSOP and will be refilling
the cans with my own urine for resale. I will also be happy to autograph the
cans for an additional $8.95.

I was asked to be the face of a new poker video game also. In this game you
can actually go into "KidPoker mode" which means you can see everyone's
hand and know when you are beat. There is a small glitch we are working on
with that software, though, because currently the software makes you call
anyway even when you are beat.

I have launched a new children's line of clothing as well. On the chest of each
T-Shirt is a big picture of me smiling. However, when you shake the picture,
or put it on "tilt," my smile will quickly turn to tears and you'll hear one of the
following great one-liners of our time:

"You can't even spell poker!"
"If it weren't for luck, I'd win every tournament."
"I can dodge bullets baby."

I also have a new poker course available at kungfukarate.com. This course is
chalk full of over 8 minutes full of useful information. AMAZING!!!

Right now I'm in Flint, Michigan, in a $23 a night suite with an excellent view
that is out of this world! The other night, I ordered a can of 1967 Welch's
grape juice for 47 cents from the pimp on the corner. Yum yum!

After all this I decided to play Chinese Poker with three Chinese men that
were staying in the room next door. They only had one chair so we all sat on
the kitchen floor. None of them spoke any English at all and were so
freakishly lucky it was unbelievable!

We started out playing for a penny a point and I was quickly stuck $247. I
was a little steamed up so I decided to see if they wanted to kick it up to
$1000 a point. They all seemed like honest people with high paying jobs in
Flint.

Then, in 100 straight hands Chin-Su and Min-Li had royalties and scooped
me! They ended up beating me for $2.7 million. What was I going to tell my
wife, "Honey, I just lost over $2 million playing Chinese poker with three
Chinese guys?"

The next morning I had to play the tournament in Foxwoods. It started at
noon but I decided to show up at 8:00pm when the day was almost over.
Would I let one big loss destroy me? Other people have, but I'm not other
people.

As the night ended, several questions came to me: should I spend $9 on a
bottle of Figi? No more taking the bus across country to tournaments
anymore. If I'm willing to lose almost $3 million to three random Chinese guys
in one night, I'm going to start taking the train to tournaments! Should I go
back to Flint to play those Chinese men again? After all, they were freakishly
lucky. How could I be so unlucky? Is my ego out of whack? How do I take this
huge negative, and turn it into me tapping into all of my super powers right
now?

Then boom! It all clicked! I called my wife and ORDERED her to do a good
deed for someone. With her being my wife, that would count as me doing half
of the good deed since we are married and all. I instructed her to write out a
check for $8.35 to "Poker Dealers Across America," a wonderful organization
that teaches dealers how to cope with abusive poker players.

I then told her to go down to the homeless shelter and to give each and
every person there a copy of my new book, "Why I'm the greatest thing since
sliced bread." Along with a copy of the book, I figured that it would inspire
the people there to have a bobble head of me that they could cherish each
night before bed. It would give them the inspiration to know, that while they
could never be me and will probably lead miserable lives in the shelter.... I
care about THEM. And I will break records... for THEM.

It always feels good to give. Giving those homeless people a piece of me
makes me feel entitled to win big and set records. I'm not just playing for me
anymore, those homeless people will now be living their lives vicariously
through me and I can't disappoint them.

With all this, imagine what a "Super Powered Daniel Negreanu" is capable of
at the WSOP in 2007? If I use all of my powers, who can stop me?

Someday I will thank those three Chinese men for taking my money.

(As strange as it sounds, a friend of mine had a very similar epiphany
recently. Checkout his blog here: BiggestLossEver)

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