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[QUOTE="spectralwave, post: 5990836, member: 421600"]
If you take poker seriously, you should know that there are many ways to lose a no-limit hold'em tournament that must be considered unacceptable. Here are just a few examples:  1. You call a big raise all-in preflop with Q ♠ J ♠ because you can't fold such a beautiful hand. 2. The tightest player at your table goes all-in on the river, and you only call with a top pair because you think this is the only time in his life that he is bluffing. 3. You go all-in on the button with 5,000 and a trash hand, trying to steal 150 in blinds, and the big blind shows a pair of aces.  In all of these cases and in many similar ones, you can blame bad luck or say that the odds were in your favor, when in fact they were not. If you find yourself thinking like that, you need to be more objective. To improve your chances in the next tournaments, you need to realize that you took unnecessary risks, and basically got what you deserved.  On the other hand, you can lose in what I usually call "acceptable". When I refer to acceptable ways of losing, I'm not just talking about going all-in with the best hand and seeing your opponent hitting a draw to beat you, although this is generally both acceptable and inevitable. I am also referring to voluntarily putting your money in the pot with the worst hand. Strange as it sounds, this can be the correct move, even when you are eliminated.
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