The Hands I Remember Aren't Always the Hands I Won

Lately I've noticed something funny about my poker sessions.

I remember the hands where I made a stupid call or folded something I probably shouldn't have much more than the big pots I won.

Maybe that's because those hands stay in my head longer.

Now, after a session, I try to look at those hands instead of only checking how much I won or lost. Sometimes I find a mistake, and sometimes I realize I actually made the right decision and just got unlucky.

Do you guys review the hands you won, or mostly the ones you messed up?

For me, the thing is to just move on without looking back. If I make a stupid call or play a hand badly, I try to learn from it and then forget about it. There’s no point in keeping it in my head for the next five hands. The same goes for a big pot that I win. I enjoy it, of course, but then I move on. Poker gives you a new hand every few seconds, so there’s always another chance to make the right decision. Sometimes we make a mistake, sometimes we get unlucky, and sometimes we get lucky. That’s just poker. I think the important thing is not to let what happened in the previous hand affect how you play the next one. So I don’t spend too much time looking at the past. I just try to keep playing, learn when I need to learn, and move forward.

I'm definitely more likely to remember the hands I messed up than the big pots I won One bad call can stay in your head for days, while a nice win is forgotten pretty quickly.

I think looking back at those hands is actually more useful though. Sometimes you find out you made a terrible decision, and other times you realize the decision was fine and the result just went against you. Those are two very different things.

I don't review every hand, but if something keeps bothering me after a session, I'll go back to it. Usually that's where I learn the most.aLthough It seems superstition because poker is all about for infinite sample size so real value should converge with expected value