Scorching Your Bridges

Somebody once said that all was fair in love and war. Achilles took this to almost ridiculous lengths when he and the Greeks waged years of warfare against Troy all because of a Spartan king who lost his lost his beautiful bride, Helen, to a smooth talking Trojan named Paris. While burning bridges, both figuratively and literally in this case is permissible under the love/warfare model, doing so over a poker tournament would probably fall under the "reprehensible" category.