What’s the First Poker Lesson You Ever Learned?

[Houbi37]

Everyone remembers that first moment when poker “clicked.”
What was the very first lesson you learned — good or bad — that shaped your game?

 

[nabmom]

I honestly don’t remember the very first, but I do know that I was lucky, early on, to learn that good hands don’t always win. Bad beats happen, it is part of the variance of poker. I learned to say, “So be it” and move on to the next hand.
If losing hands really stresses you out, this game will eat away at you!