It s a lot easier to drop one grocery bag when you are trying to carry eight at one time. To be greedy is to be never satisfied. But success in poker absolutely requires a person to occasionally lose. If you want every chip, that means you invite every trouble, every opponent, and every difficult situation under the sun to take you on. When the battle is Ralph against the world, I ll be betting on the world.
Greedy players don t know how to lose.
Greedy players mostly lose in a huge bonfire of calamity. Learning to lose sensibly is one key to winning. If you can't handle losing, you'll never win over the long haul. If you can t lose without losing every nickel you can beg, borrow or steal while propping your eyelids open with toothpicks after playing for forty hours, just set fire to your bankroll now. You ll do it eventually.