Re: Why are we playing poker?
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Deep down, why are you playing poker on the most basic level?
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To win money.
At least you will do best if that is you only goal. Obviously there is more to it.
The book The Psychology of Poker explores this topic in great detail. If you really want to study the topic, then you should read the book. It's pretty good.
But I also suspect that there is some kind of Pavlovian conditioning going on with the winning and losing of pots and the chemical brain reactions to those wins and losses.
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