Re: NL tournies, all in pulse races...even in freerolls
In behaviorist terms, it should look like this, basic classical conditioning:
"Poker context":Sharp money risk-> Increased heart rate
"Poker context" -> Increased heart rate
Where "Poker context" is an neutral stimulus (nothing about an all-in moment intrinsically makes you physiologically distressed), sharp money risk (for lack of a better term) is an unconditioned stimulus (not really, but for our purposes) for an unconditioned response (heart rate). This leads to poker context becomming a conditioned stimulus for the conditioned response of increased heart rate.
You're extinguishing it by playing with money you don't care about, so
"Poker context" -> no response
becomes the norm.
Again, you'll never entirely eliminate it, but you can probably lower it.
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