all very true. loads of people though have had lucky breaks and not had the talent/knowledge/energy/drive to capitalise and whatever we think of Dnegs defo can't say that about him.
I am not denegrating him in anyway. I fully recognise a large amount of my success in poker was down timing too. I was also born in a succesful country, could have bought a house that was cheap, and am white male. Running good.
You see the luck thing everywhere. I am doing a contract where I worked 20 years ago, and there a few people there that I used to work with who have done very well through jobs, property, pensions etc. I know other who left who were just as bright, worked just as hard, joined companies that then closed, have had multiple forced moves, not found it easy to get decent work etc. Randomness is huge.
I work with someone who talks about how I am very unlucky because of a few very minor bad things that have happened over the last few months. I just can't persuade him otherwise. His logically thought process is terrible.
Negreanu appears to have worked hard, but has almost certainly run really good too.