3…2…1…FIGHT

Moving up in stakes –

It plays out a little differently for everyone.

How does everyone actually want it to go?

They want to run hot and feel comfortable in the new player pool.

But that pretty much never happens.

Higher stakes come with big emotions.

New opponents come with big emotions.

Winning a bunch at once comes with big emotions.

And feeling comfortable means being able to accept that giant stack of new emotions you’re currently having while still having a good time and enjoying yourself.

Then to sustain it, you have to have a skill edge against tougher opponents, and continuously accept everything that comes with playing for more money.

A lot of things have to line up.

So how does it actually play out?

Somewhere along that path, something tends to break.

Maybe variance doesn’t cooperate.

Maybe the whale leaves, and the game dies.

Maybe you punt it off from the pressure.

Maybe things are going alright, but you feel so uncomfortable that you decide the game just isn’t for you.

Or maybe you run good and stick the landing, but never actually get to enjoy the game you love at the stakes you dreamed of one day playing, because all the discomfort has you stuck in your head the whole time.

So yea, moving up in stakes tends to almost never play out the way people want.

Out of all the randomness with variance and the ecosystem, there’s only one thing we can really control.

Whether or not we can accept those big levels of emotion.

If you can’t?

Then it’s only a matter of time until the experience gets intense enough that you either leave or blow up.

Either variance breaks you, or you break yourself.

But if you can accept it all?

Then at least you have a fighting chance.

And with enough chances, you’ll almost surely stick the landing and get what you want.

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