as i was laying down to sleep, frustrated from taking another bad beat, probably one of the worst i feel ive ever taken, i lost 35 dollars on the hand in a cash game. I wont bore you with info on the hand nor swear i played it right cause i may not have. However, after the beat i was considering posting the hand and complaining about it and i realized that once a day someone posts something similar in the beginning forum and one of the pros always says the same thing, "just keep playing winning poker, dont consider moving up in stakes so they will respect your bets." and while i couldnt agree more, i always wondered why nobody has said "Look n00bs we still get sucked out on at the highest stakes possible," everyone seems so fine with getting sucked out its as if there came a point where you guys sucked out on so many people that you realized that luck evens out and that for every bad beat you take, youll give one too.

I think one of the best things for dealing with this is Harrington on holdem, i really really valued how in the practice problems he'd take you through it and youd obviously see why his opinion was correct, and most of the hands turned out to be losing hands. It hit home that its not important that you win the hand but that you made the right play.