Got Bluffed and can't get over it

[Reef]

So I convinced myself to fold the winner in a large pot when I was facing a large river bet. Of course, the villian showed me air. I knew I was ahead but had a moment of weak play where I was convincing myself of monsters that weren't there. Many hours later and I'm still having trouble letting go of that hand even though I had pretty good results for todays session.

Maybe this is just a rant, but any similar stories / advice / suggestions would be cool.

Reef

[miketurner]

Only calling stations never get bluffed.

[BigPoppa]

Remember all the times you've gotten paid off when people called your big river bets with 2nd best hands and think:
"Glad that's not me"

[Sparta45]

All the good players get bluffed from time to time. That's because they're actually capable of seeing that they're beat. It's no big deal.

[UATrewqaz]

Your bad laydown might have been a great laydown and you're dwelling the results for that one particular hand.

Calling huge river bets in NL with marginal hands is delicate.

I think as NL:TAP says, in NL the clearest and most accurate information you usually have is a large bet.

So just because it wasn't a correct fold THAT TIME doesn't make it an incorrect fold over all, you might have made the better long term +EV play.

[toots]

It was a bluff, not a penectomy.

[daveT]

I love playing short-handed with good players. It starts to become a very interesting game when I am bluffing, they are bluffing, they konw I am bluffing, I know they are bluffing, they know I know they are bluffing. they know that I know that they know I am bluffing.....

Whatever, it's a game of incomplete information. bluff and be bluffed, good luck at the tables.

[Manup]

happens to the best of us...thought this guy was going to puke at B&M game one night after he got pushed off like 60% of his stack with complete air. "I'm a trained cop, I'm supposed to be able to read people like a book..." Guess that's why the guy works in the burbs.

[AntonHeat]

happens to everyone just shrug it off and move on

[JJNJustin]

For the same reasons you stated in your post, if I am unsure on the river, and I have pot odds, heads up, I will make some looser than average calls, because of the possibility of it driving me nuts for hours later and causing me to make many mistakes and more unnecessary loose calls to make up for that one bad fold. Even if the loose call turns out to be -EV, making that call avoids that downward spiral into frustration that can cause you to play less than optimally, which is more -EV. Making the loose, slightly -EV call is the lesser of the two evils. Plus, I need to be totally focused on the hand I'm playing, without any distractions from previous hands. If I'm constantly dwelling on a past mistake which I no longer can do anything about, it is senselessly detracting from things I can do something about in the present.

-J

This is limit hold'em I'm speaking of. If you are talking about NL, that is completely different.