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Two questions that are somewhat related:

Let's say you step up to a new limit, or you're playing a new or difficult game. How do you accurately determine if you're a winner in the game? Assuming of course that you don't want to wait many thousands of hands for your winrate to stabilize.

When you're analyzing your play, how do keep from becoming results-oriented? In other words, how do you definitively say "I played that right, even though I lost" or even more difficult "I played that wrong, even though I won"?

Thanks.