The New Brian

[Talking Poker]

Here's my question: Why is it that people who win money think it's somehow not their money? What's the difference between winning $300 from a $3 buy in, finding $300 on the street, getting a paycheck for $300, or opening your wallet and seeing $300 siting there?

NOTHING.

In all those cases, you have $300. If you chose to take it to a 30/60 table, so be it... but when you lose it, I don't see how you can say you lose nothing (or $3 or whatever the case may be) - you lose $300. Not $299, not $301. $300.

I just don't get how people think $300 earned one way is worth more or less than $300 earned another.

If you want to gamble, gamble... but justifying it and pretending you're not blowing it when you do, thats just stupid.

P.S. When you do decide to take your shot at $30/$60 with your 5 BBs, please give me a little bit of advanced notice. I'm not say I'll be gunning for you or anything, but knowing you don't care about losing it anyway, I might as well be the one to take it. And if you wouldn't feel badly losing that money to a stranger, you'd probably feel GOOD losing it to me! I'll even immediately kick some of what I take from you back to this forum, via a contest, or a Freeroll held in your honor... that sort of thing.

You know... The more I think about it, the more I am loving your idea.