PokerTrainer

sales & poker

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

So sad to see

[Niko @0xNiko1]

An MIT professor offered his class a coin flip: win $125 or lose $100. Most students said no. Then he proved refusing was the smart move, and it explains why you're bad with money.

The bet is a steal on paper. Flip a coin, win $125 or lose $100. Do the math and you come out $12.50 ahead on average. It's what economists call a more than fair bet. Most of the room still turned it down.

They weren't being dumb. They were being human.

Here's the idea underneath it. You don't actually care about dollars, you care about how much each dollar changes your life. And the dollars you already have are worth more to you than the ones you might win. So losing $100 stings harder than winning $125 feels good.

Then he pushed it further. He told the class he'd force them into that winning bet unless they paid to walk away. How much would they pay? The answer, with their standard math, was $43. People will hand over almost half their money to dodge a bet that's tilted in their favor.

That's not weakness. That's a law of how the mind values risk, and it has a name: risk aversion.

And it's the whole reason insurance exists. Being uninsured is just this coin flip in disguise. You quietly pay to never be the person who gets wiped out, even when the math says the odds are on your side.

Once you see it, you notice it everywhere. Every warranty, every premium, every bet you've refused. You weren't being irrational. You were pricing the fear.

[Fetish @FetishBets]

I have no sex drive when my bets don’t hit. Bitch move I’m disgusted with myself rn

[spin @spinthart]

Hes deadass Shakespeare

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

@HBISB241637 @PokerNews @Charlie_Carrel Good ass take tbh. Dudes mental

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

@FamishDayReader Impressive hit sir 🤝

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

No. He shot the zombie 4 times then knife’d it for the extra $.
Real ball knowers understand this

[kordell @lledrok]

the greediest nigga you know used to throw grenades into other peoples windows on zombies

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

Watching golf and filling out new sale forms. Rough life

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

@MaxKodLebron @oooooooloop @Mookie__Bets @leviathanlocks Ayo could you shoot a dm Joseph?

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

Tell me he’s not perccc walkin. Buddy is a snail

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Tiger Woods told police he called Trump following his rollover crash: "I was just talking with the President."

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

#NewProfilePic

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

Staring at my nespresso machine like how you doing that?

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

#bought

[Jesse Cohen @JesseCohenInv]

Who's brave enough to buy the dip before the weekend?

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

@FamishDayReader @NookSmokes Funny thing is Akash’s cousin is actually a #rocket

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

@NookSmokes DoorDash & thc. Dangerous combo

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

Not even close to the level of @NookSmokes’s Aura

[alaska @145k4]

doordash membership cancelled wallah i am turning the ship around

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

lol

[GHOST @LordGhost____]

If u own a pet cat as a grown ass man you can’t say nothing to me. hoe ass nigga

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

lol

[Baalke legacy account 🕊 @PlzRiverMe]

The us government says it’s totally fine/legal if I want to bet on whether Jim Carrey is revealed to be a clone or not, but playing some poker online is just out of bounds. It’s actually a fuckin joke lol

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

@jvd0730 @KrazyPickzz @realty2x I’m not gonna argue with you if you truly think parlays are a good way to make $. Enjoy your day fam. Check those stats in 365 days lol

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

@jvd0730 @KrazyPickzz @realty2x Look at this baller

[PokerTrainer @PokerTrainer]

@jvd0730 @KrazyPickzz @realty2x $15 bets lol. Enjoy your chick fil a