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Players who have advanced down the poker path, but are not yet winners, need to realize that their main enemy is likely to be themselves. How can I talk in such general terms about a whole group of break-even and small-losing players? Easy. What I'm saying is true for almost every single member of that enormous group of players. That's why I said it, and I'm glad I did. I've talked about the Threshold of Misery at my seminars. This is what you cross when you've lost more than what you envisioned was likely in a poker session. Beyond the Threshold of Misery lies a land of danger. Here you can add to your disaster without feeling any more agony. That's because your capacity for agony has been maximized. Anything added is unfelt. People will argue that trimming $60 off that $387 loss I talked about isn't as good as winning $60. They'll tell you that if you win $60, you can spend it. But you can spend the other $60, too. In fact, it's really the same thing. Exactly the same thing. That's right, it's not almost the same thing, or the same thing in some theoretical sense, but exactly the same thing. It's just as real and just as spendable. Spendable? How can you spend money you don't have? But, my friend, you do have it. You don't believe it? Let's pretend you lost that $387, instead of the $327 you might have lost had you continued to play your best game. Now you're heading for home feeling battered, but I walk up to you and say, "Here. I think you could have done a little better tonight, so here's $60." I hand you three $20 bills and disappear beyond the door before you can react. "I can't believe this," you mumble aloud. "The Mad Genius just handed me $60 for free. I think I'll go buy me one of those instant cameras." But then it dawns on you that you could have done the same thing yourself. You could have lost $327, instead, and then you could have spent your own $60 on the instant camera. Hey, I guess money won and money not lost are really the same, you realize. online casino Back to casino news