Good players beat bad players in the long run, and you shouldn’t lose sight of that just because you lost a pot you figured to win. You’ll get it all back and more when you consider all the times a poor player will stick around with those long shots and not get lucky. It’s never as dramatic, but in the long run, you’ll come out far the better of it when you are the favorite and your opponents are the underdogs. Because poker has a large element of short-term luck associated with it, it doesn’t matter whether any one effort is successful. What does matter is knowing when a positive expectation
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