Daniel Negreanu emerges from his home office where he’s just finished playing a tournament on PokerStars.

A couple of small dogs nip at his heels as he heads into the kitchen and grabs a bottle of water. We’re meeting to discuss his take on the state of poker, and he’s settling in for a long chat. Curling up on his sofa and putting his mobile phone on vibrate, Negreanu, one of the game’s most thoughtful practitioners, begins by telling me that he’s got lots of ideas on what needs to be done to take poker to the next level.

Considering that Negreanu is the one who conceived and shepherded the WSOP’s $50,000 H.O.R.S.E.