Brain Damaged?

[Bluffoon]

A team of U.S. scientists has found the emotionally impaired are more willing to gamble for high stakes and that people with brain damage may make good financial decisions, the Times newspaper reported Monday.

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[Bluffoon]

This explains a lot of what I see going on in the poker room.

[autobet]

This won't come as a surprise to those of us who have been around gaming for a long time, many of the top players are brain damaged psychopaths!

Most ordinary/normal people cannot fade the variance of big time poker/investing, but those brain damage psychopaths kick ass!

[tek]

Yes, but what about these people and tilting? I would think they would do very well or very poor. In other words they will end up at one of the tail ends of the bell curve or perhaps fluctuate between the two...

(Plus we'll ignore the sample size.)

[dogmeat]

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A team of U.S. scientists has found the emotionally impaired are more willing to gamble for high stakes and that people with brain damage may make good financial decisions, the Times newspaper reported Monday. {quote}

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I have no doubt people that have a reduced (due to injury or whatever) emotional response to themselves and the world around them would do better in any game that involves finances - which means that poker players who have this "problem" or those that learn to be undetached emotionally from their opponents and the money involved do very well at the game.

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