Brewer's: Go it Blind

Don't stop to deliberate. In the game called “Poker,” if a player chooses to “go it blind,” he doubles the ante before looking at his cards. If the other players refuse to see his blind, he wins the ante.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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