I've been reading Small Stakes Hold'em, and they make a great point, and I want advice on how to avoid a trap they point out.

It's about how you learn. From the beginning of time humans learn from what they experience...

You touch fire; you get burned and learn not to touch fire.

Then along comes poker.

You touch the fire (call that all in with JTs) and instead of getting burned, this time you happen to find gold (JTs hit a flush, busting AA).

Now your learning system will think that calling an all in with JTs is a good move.

I just used that as an example, and that’s a very easy to avoid mistake, but others become much harder to see and avoid. For example...

K6s, 54s, ect..

Take my last 5k hands.. KK is my biggest losing hand.
I know I’m playing it right because I have reviewed the hands I see that in the 19 times I’ve had KK in the last 5k hands, 6 time I’ve been up against an AA. Because of things like that, what should be one of my best hands has been one of the worse hands. That tells me that even 5,000 hands are not even close to enough to call learn from. So how can I judge 54s and hands like that?


Any tips on handling this problem?