Quote Originally Posted by oskar
There is a great article on the psychology of bad beats on 2+2 - don't call me a spammer again, please
Condensed to a sentence it sais that it is that expecting to win the pot is what makes you steam if you do loose it. It helps me a lot to keep my expectations low. I keep calling out the cards that I do not want to see. If I have AQ and my opponent has QT, and the flop shows a J, in my mind I have already lost that hand. I think this helps me a lot. I still steam of course, but it takes a little more than just a bad beat.
Exactly. The gap between expectation and accepting what really happened is 100% exactly what I'm talking about here.