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I understand what you're saying. But why would your financial ambitions be satisfied if you won 2m? Because you can buy a house, live off interest, create a hefty retirement account? What do millionaires do with millions, most of the time, is create millions more. 6m is three times that of 2m. duh.
I agree all I need is 2m. But with that 2m my goal would be turning it into more, with little risk of course. A lot easier turning 6m into 10m then 2m into 10m and so on.

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As I say, it's a personal thing. If all I could think of doing with 2m is make more millions, I think I'd be pretty depressed. My observation of people who make lots of money is that it is the process and not the ostensible reward which counts. They like making money. That's fine. I don't - that's fine too. I left the world's most famous university with a good degree and could be making millions now. I didn't. I travelled the world, pratted about. I don't regret that. When I got my girlfriend pregnant and had to settle down, I had the opportunity to get well paid jobs and I didn't take those either. I don't regret that either. Most of my college friends are now becoming very rich. They work very long hours and have very short holidays whereas I get paid quite well, do bugger all, and have long holidays. I don't regret that.

I am sure that I wouldn't regret coming third, and losing out on $2m guaranteed, if I'd taken the chance at first. But I would regret missing out on a good chance to become world champion, immortalised forever.

I don't know much about the ME FT. I was on holiday, blowing my poker bankroll on long days of summer leisure. But I do know that if I've played 78s and flopped the right end of an OESFD, I'm putting all my chips in, particularly against a player as aggressive as Jamie Gold because second and third are both nowhere and when I've got $4m already, $6m is going to mean precious little more.

That's me though. A lot of people think differently, which is why a lot of people have a lot more money than me.