[Taylor Caby]

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My main HU experience in from limit but I agree with Taylor. It's not so much that you play worse when you lose (altho everyone does), it's that your opponent's play much better. Weak predictable players gain the confidence to bluff, and even if they didn't you fear that they may have forcing you to call where you could previously have folded with ease. Good players, flush with a good score, adrenalin and happiness are willing to experiment and try new and unusual lines they never would in the normal course of things. It's much harder to win when you've lose over the past half hour.

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Isn't this expressed in several poker books as a pretty basic and fundamental principle?

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Basically, yes, but not exactly. Still, many top online players feel that it doesn't apply to them.

I'd be interested to see what Phil G's take is on this discussion/phenomenon.

tc