"The bet went to 80 grand each, sure "
No, it didn't. It was a 'double or nothing' situation, which means only ONE of them would've had to pay that kind of money. The 'nothing' in 'double or nothing' means if Judge wins, he pays 'nothing', which means he doesn't have to pay. That's the WHOLE POINT about the 'double or nothing', but I don't expect the coked-up hollyweird writers to realize that, of course..
Now, to answer the point itself. I really don't want to defend this piecemeal of a 'movie' (honestly, is this really a movie?), but what people say about Tys psychology sort of makes sense.
Anyone can excel when there's no pressure and they can put themselves into the 'zone', because success or failure doesn't matter.
When there's sudden pressure, and it suddenly MATTERS, it's a completely different.. ehh.. 'ball game', I suppose.
This means, you can be in Zen mode as long as you don't put any importance into it. Suddenly there's ego involved, money involved, winning is important, so you can't be in Zen mode anymore, which means, you can't excel the same way. It's very simple and easy to understand.
However, I think there's still bad writing somewhere, because Ty KNOWS this whole thing very well, so why would he be so confident all of the sudden that he can win when keeping score, playing for money and when the winning is important, to 'avenge' for his father and all that? Why would he ever let his ego write those checks he KNOWS he can't cash?
He voluntarily put himself into a situation that he had been avoiding all his life - competition, money, scorekeeping, win, ego... instead of just playing, being in Zen, being one with nature and the ball, and just letting the flow happen and win, lose, success, failure, score - those things don't even enter into it.
So the bad writing, in my opinion, isn't that Ty suddenly lost his skill, but that 1) Ty PUT(t) himself into that situation that he had been avoiding all this time though He 2) KNEW what it would mean.
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