Daniel Negreanu

If I go in on you, are you going to call me?

And risk like, you know, guaranteed pay jumps of like moving up a few spots.

So really the question comes down to like, are you the type of guy who just wants to inch up?

Or are you going to go for it?

And you're going to go for the win.

I think ultimately there's some value in being the guy who says, you know, I don't care if I come seventh.

I'm not worried about going from seventh to fifth.

I'm here to win.

They're the ones that are willing to risk it, right?

So there are some people who, you know, if there's five left...

you know, and they're third in chips and there's two guys very short and you, you know, they'll have ace king and someone moves, they'll just fold.

They fold the hand because they want to wait for those two other players to get broke.

And that way they let, you know, they make actual money.

So you, I guess the thought process between winning first place and winning the most amount of money are different.

They're conflicting, right?

Because in order to like win the, if you're just, if your focus is only on winning the tournament, you will make mistakes financially where you had guaranteed income for just folding, right?

Let's say a guy has one chip left.

You know, one chip and me and you have good chips and I go all in with you and I lose.

Now that guy, you know, got the guaranteed, you know, he got the pay jump that I wouldn't have got.

So there's some extremely stupid mistakes you can make from a financial perspective, but it's often at odds with, you know, giving yourself the best chance to actually come first.