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Originally Posted by zica
Yes, the cashout curse. It made sense but was wrong. What caused the change in results, imo, was a desire to get back to making new milestones in your account. Ie. if you deposited $50 for the first time, getting to $100 felt great, etc. so when we get up to $200 and withdraw $100, we want to get back up to $200 again quickly so we can get back to enjoying the feeling of making new milestones, to see out account say, $300.
This "want" caused me and others to change our play and we started losing because of it and, not realizing, we blamed the cashout curse.
Interesting. Totally buy this, as it's not that different from someone losing a huge pot, getting tilted, then trying too hard to chase that money in an effort to get back to even.
I used to have a belief that winning a huge pot was bad luck: that it meant I would get hosed in the next hand – as if the poker gods did not want you to win back-to-back monster hands. (The rigtards even claimed that this was part of some massive conspiracy on the part of the sites.) In reality, it was probably a situation of having jumped ahead and feeling like I had "free money" to burn, then accordingly, playing a bit more carelessly.