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I check in with the Psychology Forum every week or so, so perhaps I am seeing something that does not exist. Or perhaps I am seeing a trend that more regular readers do not. So I ask: does it disturb anyone else that so many of the recent threads are about desperation in one form or another, either overt or masked?

I obviously have my own poker obsession (or I would not be reading or posting here), but I also hope that I have some perspective on my game. And it is a game.

I don't want to seem pretentious or flip. But it seems to me that poker is a great metaphor for life, but it is not life its ownself.