Try looking at it from this angle: Every single person in the history of poker who has played anywhere in the whole world has experienced this. If you say you've never seen that happen, you either have never actually played poker or you are fibbing!
it's happened to me several times, I've lost a lot more times than I won in the last letter. It seems like a setup from the online game, I get to the last card with the villain needing him to hit just one card for her to win. I have 95% and he has 5%, so I should win 95 out of 100, but what happens is exactly the opposite, I lose more than 50% of the time.
unless against the absolute nuts, a hand will always have some equity to improve. even against your strong top 2 pair, your opponent has 35% equity to win by the river. if they hit a non queen spade on the turn, they have 36% equity to win. if they hit a 10 or ace on the turn, you are behind and only have ~9 - 13% equity to improve.Antonioadv said:
so, you can see how much equity in a hand can influence how often a hand wins or loses. in this case, your opponent wins ~20% of the time or 1/5 times, after the turn.
the only reason why losing on the river is so impactful is because the hand is over. you have no more equity to improve, unlike you would if you were behind on the flop or turn.
with all that said, it happens to everyone. but the goal of poker isn't to not lose on the river, its to make profitable decisions. you're very rarely ever going to be getting your money in with 100% equity, so you aim to get it in as an equity favorite more often than not as that's where your profit comes from, assuming you're aiming for max value. in this hand, you win 4/5 times after the turn, which puts you as a huge equity favorite. so, focus more on making good, +ev decisions and less on the negative results as, in the end, those negative results don't matter in the long run.
You are exaggerating. This cannot happen to you all the time. The human mind is so arranged, we don't remember cases when luck was on our side, because we take such situations for granted. And at the same time, we remember very well the situations when we were unlucky. Such is the nature of human psychology.Antonioadv said:
Antonioadv said:
It is normally called "The River" So called because it comes from "The River of Dreams" Quote, and believe me it can be a nightmare, I was involved in a hand with the Ace of diamonds in my hand and by the Turn I had the Nut flush, facing a bet from my opponent I shove all-in and they called, when He turned 2 pair, I felt sure I had him beat, only for him to spike a Full house on the River.
It is never over until that River card is dealt and I have lost count of how many times I have been crushed by that last card. But it also happens when I am in the opposite position holding a Draw and catching it on the River to beat 3 of a kind. So as they say "What comes around, goes around" So I cannot complain.
such situations will always be with every player, someone will not be lucky and you should not be sad about it so much just know that any opponent has a chance and sometimes it happens that on the river he gets to the map and wins, the main thing is to remember later that you also have a lot of such moments, you will just forget these moments
