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Originally Posted by LordRiverRat
Grunch. If you need to post a thread about losing 100 bbs in a game like that, you have entitlement tilt. You clearly seem to think that because you're in a game with bad players you deserve to win. Get it fixed cause it'll hold you back. I've played 1/2 on and off for four years. I'm pretty sure entitlement tilt was a big reason why it took me four years to move out of 1/2.
Also why would you "try to stay out of the fray" against four wild players? Depending on how deep your game is it sounds like the perfect time to play some pots in position and go for thin thin value, not just nut peddle and hope to triple up.
Entitlement tilt, that's a good phrase and I think it has merit with a lot of poker players. I know I've been guilty of it too, and sometimes it takes a 1-2 week downswing before I realize that I'm suffering from entitlement tilt and that my view of the game during that time period has played a big role in the downswing that I was on.
As for "bad beats", it's all part of the game. Instead of getting aggravated because you lost when you were a huge favorite and you "should" have won the hand, remember that it's not necessarily true.
We all can be guilty from time to time of looking at an individual hand in a vacuum instead of looking at the bigger picture. We have to remember that any time our V has more than 0% equity in the hand, it means that they are supposed to win the hand sometimes. Getting your money in as a 90% favorite and losing isn't a bad beat , it's the game of poker playing out exactly as it should. In the long run we're going to win in that spot much more than we lose, but the math says that we should expect to lose sometimes. I understand very well that it's frustrating when we're losing hands at a much higher frequency than the percentages say we should be, but we just have to keep in mind that hand distribution can't be predicted, and neither can the sample size that we need in order for our actual equity to match our expected equity. The next time you take a beat, if you remind yourself that you were supposed to lose that particular hand sometimes it may put your mind to ease a bit.