Re: You people win
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Great post. I know myself i put way too much emphasis on the beats, and not enough on the dumb plays. The bottom line is that the PROFIT in poker comes from chip conservation when you are behind, and chip extraction when you are ahead. The beats will come, let them.
In your example, you said you lost 500 over a session. And for a lot of people, that loss would have been directly related to the set over set disaster that "unfairly happened to you". But yet, as you said, had you not donked off that 250 over 2000 hands, and you had extracted another 250 when you were ahead, then your session would have been breakeven. And then you would have said to yourself, this time i got unlucky but still broke even. When I get lucky, I'll cash in big time.
It's all in the perspective.
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