I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.
For people that are degenerates, if you've spent so much time feeling a certain way, it's actually uncomfortable to feel like a winner. The familiarity of losing is, in an inverse way, comforting. At least you know where you stand.
The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls.
With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whatever the pot is. In poker, you may have a certain goal for the day. But the truth is, as soon as you win, more often than not the first thing that comes to mind is: If I'd bet more, I would have won more.
You're not supposed to get rattled in poker; you're supposed to remain poker-faced!
