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[QUOTE="ratmantoo, post: 1378461, member: 25922"]
I understand you wanting to help people you percieve as "throwing thier money away" from the point of view "been there done that". Although this is commendable it is not always a true reflection of the persons mindset. As previous posters have pointed out there are those players that play for fun and droppoing a couple of 100 dollars is not going to be a biggie to them.

On the site I play on there is someone who regularly plays in the low stakes games aswell as a few of the large buyin tourneys etc. They are definately a loosing player. I ran into Q8o against KK (all in preflop) with this player and of cos they lucked out with a straight, lost it and commented "WTF? How could you call with that?". Thier reply was "I only play for fun". Acouple of weeks later I was surprised to be approached at one of our gaming events by a woman whose son always attends the event asking if I played on Piggs Peak with the nickname "Ratmantoo". I replied yes I did and she introduced herself as this player. I now understand her comment fully. To say they are very well off is an understatement and she plays online to keep herself busy. Loosing a couple  of grand is no problem to them and is way better than sitting in the pub (she is a recovering alchoholic).She also has no inclination of trying to improve her game.

This is probly a rare example and yes there are people with genuine problems out there, however it is impossible to help them all.
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