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Message: [QUOTE="Wrathchild, post: 5807899, member: 441671"] As much as I am very aware that there is no point in getting angry at anything in poker (other than arguably your own mistakes/misplays) as "if it happened, it's possible" I do find myself becoming unreasonably upset when I get it all in with the most equity and the underdog hits a miracle. Even if I'm only favored to win 4/5 times in that spot, I should be delighted at being able to get all the money in every time, and that just wouldn't happen if people didn't outdraw/suck-out, cooler or bad-beat other players. It's easy for me to be pretty mad at the fact that variance didn't favor me in a spot, even though in hindsight if it weren't for that than the risks far outweigh the rewards and no recs would play. It'd be a bunch of nitty regs nut-pedaling (it already feels that way on some sites as it is, getting all the money in often requires a lot of probability to be profitable to the underdog or else they'll fold every time). Lately I notice myself becoming more irritated at myself for calling or trying to bluff in a bad spot when I [I]know [/I]I'm beat. From a logical, pragmatic viewpoint, I should just fold (or check/fold) and move on, but I still get very emotionally invested in the outcome of hands where the pot is above-average, thus am more prone to snap-calling or snap-shoving when everything from my mind to my gut tells me it's the wrong play but I do it anyway. THEN I beat myself up pretty hard about it. The fact that I'm aware of this being an issue for me gives me hope, it's just been the most difficult thing for me to overcome so far. [/QUOTE]

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