Emotionless and Pseudo-Play Money

[RocketManJames]

Just a random thought...

Say we had a gifted mathematical/psychological game player who basically has what it takes to play winning poker (ignoring emotions).

Now, what if this person were trained by some rich benefactor in such a way that the whole time he would get paid to play this silly game called poker. Let's assume that this player is oblivious to the real world of poker, and knows nothing about it. He thinks this game is basically play money, and over time he gets good at it. Since the money isn't a part of the game anymore, I figure he would be nearly emotionless, or at the very least he would have zero fear of losing money.

Would this player be much better than how he would be if he had been playing out of his own roll, etc? Could it be that training players in such a way could produce superior players?

Maybe this is all hooey, but at the very least, variations on what I said above might prove to be worthwhile discussion material.

-RMJ