First ... welcome back Eddie.
Second ... your opening premise is true. The money in the pot is not yours. It is available to be won but you have no claim to it ... so if the pot has $45 in it, regardless of how much of that $45 you put in, and the bet is $5 then you are receiving 9-to-1 odds on that call. If you begin to feel that you have "your" money in the pot it encourages weak/bad/loose calls.
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To the true gambler, money is never an end in itself, but simply a tool; as language is to thought.
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