Daniel Negreanu

But you really shouldn't let yourself do that.

Like you're not supposed to fall in love with any specific hands.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

One of the hardest things, especially about playing because the cash games and tournaments are different.

One of the most difficult things about, you know, being a tournament player is resilience because more often than not, like, so if there's a tournament with thousand people, uh,

to win the tournament, you have to get all of the chips.

That means there's one winner and 999 losers.

So it's very rare that you actually like win all the chips.

So you're essentially at some point in every tournament you play going to deal with like really bad luck and disappointment.

And sometimes those streaks can have you question yourself and be introspective about, okay, so I think I'm 47 now.

I think I've gotten better as time went on between distinguishing, okay, am I losing right now because of bad luck?

Or is it fundamentally decisions I'm making are not very good, right?

And that's one of the hardest things for anyone who plays poker to get to, right?

Why am I losing?

Am I losing because of my opponents being better?

I'm not playing well.

Or am I losing just because of luck?

And because there's so much variance in poker, a lot of players can be confused on both sides of the coin.

One guy's winning and he thinks he's great.