Daniel Negreanu
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Wait till the cards break even, as we say.
I think they did a study.
I remember there was like a study.
It was mostly related to gambling, but it was mice and they put them in a little maze and they go down these three tubes and they go down this one tube and there'd be cheese, right?
And then they go down again, cheese.
Three times in a row, there was cheese there, right?
The next time there was an electric shock there, not cheese.
The rat went, you know, the mouse went to get zapped.
He kept going back to get zapped until he died.
Like he kept going because he found cheese there.
So he continued to go chase that win despite it being, you know, now all of a sudden not worthwhile till they died.
And essentially what they said was that is essentially how they compared it to like, you know, the gambling brain and how people think about gambling.
Yeah, like beginner's luck can be detrimental.
If you have some early luck and you believe that this is just the way it's supposed to be forever, you know, it can put you in a delusional state.
Where you feel like, I'm just great.