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Message: [QUOTE="IntenseHeat, post: 5954815, member: 92488"] Between playing good and catching a bad beat and playing bad and making bad decisions, I think in the past I would have consistently said playing bad bothers me more. But the truth is that I may just be kidding myself about that. In the moment they both suck pretty equally. For most players, the prevalent logic goes that you can't do anything about luck, but how you play is within your own control. So most players would probably say they hate it more when they play bad. But the truth is I don't think that I play bad all that often. I'm not saying that I play perfect and never make mistakes. But I'm not the type of player that jams my entire stack in or calls it off on a draw. I'm not going to bluff off 70x to try to win a pot with 18x in it. So if I put someone on a bluff, but turn out to be wrong, I can live with it. I don't really have to hard of a time shaking it off and moving on. On the other hand, when I take a bad beat after getting sucked out on, I can often recall exactly how the hand played out for days afterwards. And I know I harp on this a lot, but with long late entry periods and unlimited re-entries, players tend to play differently. They are willing to take more chances knowing that they can re-enter a tourney. So those bad beats and suck outs seem to happen with greater frequency. In fact what might bother me as much as being sucked out on, or even more, is to get sucked out on by some with a high variance style of play and see them catapulted way up the leaderboard. And then, twenty minutes later, they've already blown off all of their chips and bought back in two more times. [/QUOTE]

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