Positive Thinking

Well, you often hear pro players saying that you can’t win if you don’t have the right mindset: that if you are going to go in expecting to lose, you will lose.

I think Daniel Negreanu is the player I have heard speak like this the most, how poker is often about attitude and mood.

This clip, then, would explain why Daniel is the master:

Though this is obviously uncanny, it is a good message for people playing against themselves out there. If you go in expecting to lose, it doesn’t necessarily change the cards, but it can affect your brain, the way you respond to events, putting yourself in spots you normally wouldn’t be in, etc. The more ‘in favor of yourself’ you can be, the more power you would seem to effect.

Though, man, it helps to have superpowers.