Comments on: Overcoming bad beats (part I) http://www.pokersift.com/general-poker-articles/overcoming-bad-beats-part-i/ Home of the BigPoker Bloggers Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:30:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: greedo http://www.pokersift.com/general-poker-articles/overcoming-bad-beats-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-518 greedo Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:59:15 +0000 http://www.pokersift.com/murf72/overcoming-bad-beats-part-i/#comment-518 A huge component to expectation... is the element of what is at stake. How would you feel if the tournament described above was a freeroll with first place prize of 500 fulltilt points compared to the Stars Sunday Million with first place of $250k. Monetary investment is positively co-related to emotional investment. Bottomline is money is important.. and more money is MORE important. As long as money is important when we lose it, it effects you. The more at stake, the more it effects you. It would be just like losing your job. It means more to a single mother than it would to a millionaire. Same thing with poker... if you have a big monetary investment you will have a big emotional reaction. That is part of the reason why the big times pros can sluff off big losses, because they have the bankroll that allows them to look past the short term deviation. A huge component to expectation… is the element of what is at stake. How would you feel if the tournament described above was a freeroll with first place prize of 500 fulltilt points compared to the Stars Sunday Million with first place of $250k.

Monetary investment is positively co-related to emotional investment. Bottomline is money is important.. and more money is MORE important. As long as money is important when we lose it, it effects you. The more at stake, the more it effects you. It would be just like losing your job. It means more to a single mother than it would to a millionaire. Same thing with poker… if you have a big monetary investment you will have a big emotional reaction.

That is part of the reason why the big times pros can sluff off big losses, because they have the bankroll that allows them to look past the short term deviation.

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