The cost of mistakes

[the machine]

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I think this is very accurate. I made one mistake in a big pot last night that took most of my stack when I was up about 50bbs, I reloaded and eventually made it back to being up about 20bbs for the night. You can see how much I would have been up if I would have just stopped and seen the trap I was falling into. Even if I could have just cut that loss in half I would have been up well over 150bbs.

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but what you forget to include is the meta game factor that you losing a pot has on other players. this may help you to win more pots and bigger pots down the road.