its been scientifically proven that traumatic/bad experiences have more of an emotional effect on us that great experiences. how to counter........shut off emotion. by the time anyone has played 20k hands, i dont know how you can still be affected by suckouts. after the first 5-7k hands, it finally sunk in that this is just a part of the game. and if anything it should make you happy knowing the person made a bad call and won because the math says that most of the time you will stack him.