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[QUOTE="Lheticus, post: 3190381, member: 111392"]
This goes back to one of my favorite quotes I ever came up with. (Based on one that already exists.)

"It's not whether you win or lose. It's not how you play the game either. It's [I]why[/I] you play the game."

If you play poker to win money, or just to win, if you prove chronically incapable of that of course you're not going to keep playing. This is exactly why I'm a tournament/sitngo only player--I proved myself chronically incapable of being a winning cash game player. But there are many possible reasons to play poker. In fact, I think I talked about this exact concept in one of my blog posts a while back. They can do it because it's fun somehow even in losing. They can do it for the social value. They can do it because, as others have said, they believe if only get lucky they can get a big win even though they know they probably won't--the "thrill of the chase." Personally I'd think lottery would be a better bet for those people, but whatever. The point is, just because in theory everyone who plays a game is trying to win doesn't mean that victory is the only acceptable outcome for playing it. It depends on the person.

You're getting concern from the OP?  Because I'm not.  He just seems curious to me.
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