“In ‘Confessions of a Winning Poker Player,’ Jack King said, ‘Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it seems, but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career.’ Walking in here, I can hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can’t stop thinking about the way I lost it.”
— Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), “Rounders”
Oh yes. You know about this. You are a sports fan, so while you may never have lost three stacks of high society to your bad beats, you’ve surrendered something else, something worse, something much, much worse: small chunks of your sanity.