It shows just how consumed he is by his own pride and refusal to lose. This makes it even sadder in season 4 when Yami plays the Seal of Orichalcos, ignoring Yugi pleading with him to not do so.
In the original version it was a filler conversation between Yugi's friends and Bakura.
The dub also foreshadows the fate of Pegasus's wife by having him give an internal monologue about it, which his VA Darren Dunstan delivers excellently. In the dub, Yugi is holding back Yami because he's still traumatized by Yami nearly killing Kaiba in the last duel and isn't sure he can trust the spirit. The Abridged Series ran with this as well, making Joey the Trope Namer for Brooklyn Rage. By contrast, the dub took Jonouchi's ruder speech pattern and gave Joey Wheeler a Brooklyn accent. The creator of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, who is actually British, had a lot of fun with this, to the point where Bakura became the abridged series's Breakout Character.
