The cost of mistakes

[mason55]

Something that many people forget when thinking about no limit hands is that most of your money goes into the pot with equity. Sure, you might get 50bb into the pot with 33% equity, but you're not actually losing 50bb when you do that. When you look at the money in the pot, that mistake might be even smaller.

Another key concept to remember is that when you put your money in, you're putting it in against your opponents range. You might be a 66% dog to the exact hand he had but you might be ahead of his range, and that's what really matters (as long as you're figuring his range correctly).

Say you have AA and the flop is 742 rainbow. If your bad opponent will get it in with a set or any overpair, even though you have very little equity if you get it in against his set, you have 80% equity against his range. So when he stacks you for 100bb this time, dont look at it as a 100bb mistake, look at it as an 80bb win in the long run.

You'll drive yourself crazy if you look at every hand and see how many bb's you lost against an individual hand instead of his entire range.