Holding the king of spades, the J ♠ 9 ♠ 6 ♠ flop seemed favorable. Negreanu’s defending of king-queen in the big blind seemed pretty typical, and from there, he got one of the best flops he could hope for with his exact hand. Negreanu likely already had a read on his opponent, Carol Harmon, as being tight and straight-forward, meaning her preflop raise to 2,500 at blinds of 300/500 with a 500 big blind ante showed a good amount of strength, even on the button where many players will have a bit wider of a range. With the information he gathered in the hand in question, Negreanu was able to put his opponent on an extremely narrow range of hands based on her play preflop, on the flop and on the turn. He actually explains in his MasterClass that this is not some magical mystical power – no White Magic here – but rather it comes down to putting your opponent on a range of hands, and narrowing those hands down as you gain more information. Anyone who has watched any significant amount of WSOP or poker coverage in general has witnessed him put these skills to use to extract vital information that has helped him make some great folds, calls and moves. Negreanu, second on poker’s all-time money list, is renowned for his world class table talk. “Everything at the table conveys information.” The Reddit post about the hand has people talking, with over 100 comments so far. Out of context, folding the third nuts to a single bet on the turn might have seemed rather outrageous to some people watching from home, but poker hands never occur in a vacuum. At a televised feature table during Day 1 of the $10,000 WSOP Main Event, Negreanu put his reading abilities and exploitative play on display for the poker-viewing world to see, making a big fold with the third nuts. “Everything at the table conveys information” is a now famous quote from six-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu portrayed in YouTube ads for his poker MasterClass.

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