Why is maximising expected monetary value not plausible for large amounts of money?

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My teacher asked us which of these gambles do you prefer:

$g_1=£500,000$

$g_2=0.1£2,500,000 \oplus 0.89£500,000 \oplus 0.01£0$

The EMV for each gamble is £500,000 and £695,000 respectively, indicating to me that $g_2$ is better. However my teacher said that for large amount of money, expected monetary value is not a plausible utility. Why is this?