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[QUOTE="Dobbler1, post: 6372094, member: 488187"]
I don't always know what the optimal decision in a hand is, but if I look at my biggest losses, they fall into 3 categories:[LIST=1]
[*]Making the right decision and getting unlucky (getting all in with AA and having them cracked)
[*]Making the right decision and running into a bigger hand (loosing a big pot with a set to a higher set).
[*]Making the clearly wrong decision.
[/LIST]3 is the one I want to talk about. Far too often I find myself saying to myself "Well that was dumb" the moment after I make a call on a big bet with a marginal hand (or a total garbage hand). The problem isn't knowledge about the difference between what decision is the right one, it's getting myself to actually use the knowledge. It's not really tilt either. It's not as a reaction to a prior hand.

I have identified one situation that puts me in danger. If I am playing against someone, and strongly suspect that they are playing garbage aggressively, I sometimes try to push them off their hand with worse garbage, and end up loosing big pots against A high with Q high. The fact that they'll call huge bets with garbage should be an advantage for me, but I make it into a liability. Since I've recognized  specific tendency, I've managed to control it, but it doesn't come close to covering the times I make obviously bad decisions.

I can't be the only person who experiences this. How have you managed this?
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