Daniel Negreanu has conquered the WPT, the WSOP and every other venue placed in front of him. "Beating Poker: Volume 1" owners get a look inside one of poker's greatest minds....

Accomplishments: Daniel Negreanu is one of the most influential poker authors and players around. He has earned 3 WSOP bracelets, is the reigning Player of the Year and is 4th all time on the earnings list.

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With just 45 players remaining, my stack of $108,300 was good for fourth overall. As long as I didn't do anything too stupid, I felt like I just might crack the ice and make a WPT final table. With five tables left, there were several familiar faces: Hoyt Corkins, Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, Paul Wolfe, Howard Lederer, Gus Hansen, Surinder Sunar, and Billy and Kristi Gazes, just to name a few.

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If you've read a few of my tournament series columns in the past, you know that I often get sidetracked from the actual play of the hands and discuss things that don't really pertain to poker. Well, in this series, I'm simply going to cut to the chase and get to the meat of the hands, since there were so many interesting hands I'd like to share with you.

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My next stop on the World Poker Tour would see us aboard the beautiful Voyager of the Seas, by Royal Caribbean. Easily the most beautiful cruise ship I've ever seen, it had everything; there was just so much to do. Of course, the ship was so big that it was also pretty easy to get lost! In fact, on one of the many times I did get lost, I happened upon an ice rink! How cool is that?

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I did learn a valuable lesson from the whole ordeal, for which I'm thankful. It was a lesson that I think just might be the single most important poker lesson I've ever learned. It has nothing to do with playing tight from early position or folding A-Q to a raise. It's much deeper than that.

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Finally, after traveling to Paris, Los Angeles, and the East Coast, I got home-court advantage. The World Poker Tour's next stop was at Bellagio, and I was fresh and ready to play. Then again, I wasn't so sure that home-court advantage was actually an advantage.

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I was really psyched about my chances. I was playing well, was in good chip position, and believed I had a pretty good read on my opponents. I wasn't going to be happy with anything less than that $1 million first prize. The very first hand dealt, I took on the chip leader, Paul Wolfe, with 10-10 against his 6-6 in a relatively small pot, and took over the chip lead right off the bat. I continued to climb, and soon was over the half-million mark in chips.

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I got a great night’s sleep, was fully recovered from the mental anguish attached to losing half of my stack late on day one, and was ready to make a run on day two. Right off the bat, within the first round of play, I was climbing — 50K, 60K, 70K — just like clockwork.

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Not too long after my last disappointing trip to the East Coast — you remember, the one where I played like a donkey and blamed it on an overdose of caffeine — I found myself back in Atlantic City, but this time there would be no excuses. No caffeine, and no cockiness, I was going to play my best this time.

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Finally, I get to write a column in which I actually make the final table! It feels like it’s been so long. The World Poker Tour events haven’t treated me very well thus far, but money is money and it was nice to be in the hunt. If you read Part II, you’d know that my biggest obstacle at the table was now gone. Mike Laing, a tough, aggressive player, was seated to my left, which made things difficult for me.

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As promised in my last column, I’d like to go into detail about a key hand I played against Mike Laing on day two of the championship event at the Four Queens Classic. I started the day near the bottom of the pack, 33rd out of a remaining 42 players. Short-stacked, I caught a very lucky break against Tony Cousineau.

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