888poker eMagazine Takes a Look at Risk Taking

In February, the 888poker eMagazine created a study of more than a dozen countries to see which of them was the luckiest. Fast forward to May, and the online poker site has taken a look at the psychology of risk taking.

Regardless of whether you play poker or not, you take risks every day. From driving the kids to school, to crossing the road, or even something like using milk for your coffee that is slightly past its use-by date, you take risks and often do so without thinking about them.

Obviously, poker players take risks when they are at the tables because they are playing a game of incomplete information. When a poker player makes a bet or raise, they are risking their chips to chance.…