Make the Right Decision, See What Falls
One of the hardest lessons to learn in poker is that sometimes even when you make the right decision you lose. After years of bad beats in huge pots where you were all but counting the money only to have it all snapped away from you in a 2 outer can be enough to crush a player’s will to play.
But in the end, the objective of a poker player should be to play good poker, and to know that sometimes no matter how smart or well you play, the odds just don’t always work out. Part of the concept of probability dictates that the improbable sometimes has to happenotherwise the element of chance is gone and what we’re really doing is just throwing darts. The luck element is as much of an exciting part of the game as anything else.
Beating yourself or other up over numbers doesn’t lead to anything but more bad tidings. If you can be honest with yourself, and know at the end of the day that you got your money in good, played strong poker online, and learned more about the game, you are going to be fine in the long run. Because the other part of odds is that the probable is probably going to happen, so in the long run, you will likely reap the rewards of strong play.
