For me it’s the moment right before the match starts… that little tension you feel when you already have your pick in. I usually drop my bets on Vivatbet and then just enjoy the game. That mix of hope, adrenaline and doubt is what gets me every time.
A fun fact: I have a friend who's a programmer, and she told me that AI doesn't even understand what "randomness" or "random numbers" are, for example. So you have to resort to all sorts of tricks to get it to produce a random result
I used to play online poker a lot. Watched a lot of tournaments, of course, but didn't use any statistic tools. Now I understand that it's absolutely necessary to make right decisions.