[einbert]

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I saw a post somewhere ( I beleive it was on pocketfives) recently saying something along the lines of "In order to be a good poker player you need to be able to take a $100 bill and burn it". The point is you have to be able to remove yourself from the money aspect of the game and just make +EV decisons. However I thought this was the total opposite of the truth. As a poker player you need to make sure all your actions are going to be +EV in the long run, which burning a money obv is not. What do you guys think of this quote, and are there other (better) quotes that fit this thread title?

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In poker the chips are points, not dollars. You can't think of what's in front of you as being worth a Cadillac--doing so would have disastrous implications. You use those chips to do battle. You protect them, but at the same time you aren't afraid to lose them all in the right situation. If you've calculated that pushing all-in on the river as a bluff is a profitable play, even though your opponent will call sometimes, you know that you are going to lose that stack of chips sometimes. But you do it anyway.