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[QUOTE="SavagePenguin, post: 1260554, member: 22087"]
Poker is a game of patience and self control.
The best person to tell you how to deal with your problem is you.

Maybe stand up and breathe?  Or force yourself to count to 10 in a slow and calm manner?

The more experience you have at the table, the less insulted you should feel by bad beats.  They're not insulting.  They're not malicious or attacking you.  They're just a part of the game.  I guess what I'm saying is that maturity in the game gives you, the greater your tolerance/acceptance of the bad that comes along with the good.

Another way to look at is is to compare it to all the times you won too much.  That is, when you get your $100 in as a 2:1 favorite, and win you collect $100 when equity-wise you should only get about $66.67 of that.  Win two of those 2:1's in a row and you're up $66.67 more than you [I]should[/I] be (not that there's any "should," as you are not entitled to a win).
So really, at that point it'd take a $100 loss in the same circumstance to even you out "should-have"-wise.
But again.  You're not entitled.  Sometimes you flip a coin and it's heads a dozen times in a row.  But over the long term it'll have tales a dozen times in a row, and when you look at a million coin flips, percentage-wise it'll be 50/50.  (Probably not a dead even split, but always rounded to 50%/50%, unless the coin is faulty).
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