My longterm progress disqulifies me from fish status but I tend to tilt hard sometimes and go all in with pocket 10 or play a little too LAGish after too much vodka. I think the main reason fish keep playing is that they do win sometimes. I was congradulating a 67/3.3/.9 donk (he had a fish icon from autorate on PT) for sucking out all way to $1000+ at party 100NL when another fish icon started braging about how he hit $1500 once. As a TAG I will never hit 1000 at 100NL. Sure, persistant fish are longterm losers but do u think they think about the 10,000 they lost in poker total or the 1500 they won the other night? The memory of that one big win keeps the fish redepositing and the smarter LAGs "making moves".