Daniel Negreanu

World-class, I don't think you'd have much of a chance, really.

Right.

So that's the question of essentially if you're not looking at your hand preflop, you're basically giving up a fundamental advantage, right?

Where you're going to be playing way suboptimally in terms of your hand selection, right?

Because if you don't look at your hand, you might have a two and a three.

That's not good.

But now you're playing it.

So you've invested whatever, two, 3,000 bucks with absolute garbage.

And it's very difficult to climb that hill, right?

So it's much better to actually look at your cards and go, okay, I'll throw away the two and three and I'll play the ace king.

Yeah, so it's one of those viewer discretion is advised, like 10-7.

I've just noticed this throughout my life.

You know, it's a tendency thing that I've been lucky with it.

So that's just sort of... But it's not like I'm going to look at 10-7 and go, oh, wow, you know, I'm going to call an all-in or anything like that.

I'll play it in situations where it makes sense, but, you know, it's rare because it's not a very good hand.

There should be.

So here's the thing.

Poker players, some have said it's unlucky to be superstitious, but we're all a little bit superstitious.

A little bit, you know?

And so I don't know, maybe it is a case where when I have 10-7, I feel somehow energetically that, you know, I'm more likely to catch something, which may actually make me more apt to be aggressive and confident in the hand.