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[QUOTE="xOneCoolHandx, post: 6468931, member: 143461"]
I don't look at losing a hand as a defeat. You cannot win every hand just like a professional baseball player does not have a perfect batting average or a NBA super star make every shot. Yes, you can make bad plays and you can make bad decisions, but they are learning and growing experiences. You can also play a hand perfectly and still lose -- but there are usually positives that you can take away from it. Such as, I was playing a love $2/5 game. 3 limpers and I am on the button with KQs. I raise to $20 and get 1 caller. Flop comes Q66 with two diamonds. Caller (HJ) checks, I bet and he calls. I think he has a worse Q, a flush draw and maybe he has a 6 or an underpair to the board. Turn is 9s, he checks, I check behind. River is Th. He bets a little under half pot. I really feel like he has a 6 here and is value betting me to get a call but I call anyway. He turns over J6s. So, I made a "bad decision" calling the river but it was also a positive because I now know that he is calling big raises OOP preflop with a lot of suited garbage. So, while I suffered a defeat in that hand, I gained valuable information to use in the future against that opponent.
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