[Maddenboy]

Good question.

By "losing" poker, i assume you mean "losing money, net" as opposed to "playing like a loser, fish, suboptimally." The difference may be slight, or there may be no difference, but I am convinced that the latter is definitely true, based upon watching her play and hearing the hand recaps after a losing-and-trying-to-climb-back session.

I actually dont know. and neither does she. I do have two observations, which she wont deny. First, she gets her money back less than half the time during that same session. Second, she occasionally gets all or most of her money back, (winning poker, or just a reversal of her running bad? not sure) keeps playing, and starts to slip back down instead of making it all the way. Put another way, she plays to get ALL of her money back, not most.

Maybe we should figure a way to keep track of that. If it turns out not to be good, she would have to stare the numbers in the face and (hopefully) decide not to press so hard.