Digital Cowboy

This is a quote from Daniel Negreanu:

“If you’re not emotionally stable enough to lose a couple hundred thousand and say, ‘Ehh, it happens.’ then you shouldn’t be playing high stakes poker.”

This is a guy that is only 30 years old and only got “serious” about poker 4 years ago. According to him, he used to play recklessly and the result was that he was often broke. Completely broke.

He would rustle up enough to get back in a game and work his way back up. His epiphany came when he threw a big party in Vegas for his 26th birthday and he says, “I woke up the next morning and couldn’t remember a single hand I’d played the night before but I’d lost $70,000.” He decided then that he was too old to keep this up and got serious. He’s made multiple millions in the four years since, gotten married and is in the process of selling his million dollar home to buy a fifteen million dollar home.

At thirty.

Sign me up.