Kill A Cat

When all else fails,
one has to be willing to go the extra mile.

So next full moon I'll drive deep into a dark and creepy forest.
There I'll ritually slaughter and disembowel as small to medium sized animal (preferably a cat but a porcupine will suffice). To improve the overall experience I will do all this while standing on one leg and howling at the moon...

There's no hard evidence that this will improve my poker results.
But, being a player-who-used-to-be-winning (aka a loser), time away from poker equals money saved.
So with a bit of sketchy math it's cleary an excellent idea:

Kill a cat = Ev- (time, gasoline, the killing, the howling, cramps from standing on one leg, ...)
Losing at poker = Ev- (time, money, stress, pain, anxiety, ...)

But:
Ev(Kill a cat) > Ev(losing at poker)
And:
Being at rock bottom =
Ev- > Ev-- =>
Ev- = (almost) Ev+ =>
Ev+ > Ev-
<=>
Ev(Kill a cat) > Ev(playing poker)
Ev- > Ev--
<=>
Killing a cat = excellent for poker results