how to recover from a bad beat

Originally Posted by AFchung

How do you guys recover from these sick bad beats? And what kind of rationalizing/reasoning do you tell yourself whenever you get a bad beat?

This is all the rationalizing you need:

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53,460 games 0.005 secs 10,692,000 games/sec

Board: Qc 4s 5h
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 18.384% 18.38% 00.00% 9828 0.00 { Q9o }
Hand 1: 81.616% 81.62% 00.00% 43632 0.00 { KK }


80% favorite to win on the flop. So 8 out of 10 times you're winning this hand and more than likely now have an overwhelming chip lead on the rest of the field. And after suffering this beat you can logically assume that this donkey won't last a lot longer playing how he is.