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rivered again

Still shaking my head here. Twice in the same session, I had them dominated preflop and then just got killed on the river. Once with pocket queens all-in against someone’s ace jack, and naturally they hit an ace on the last card. Stuff like that rattles my focus even though I know the math and have seen it plenty. When it happens back to back it just burns more.

Trying to stick to my plan and not let it tilt me into bad decisions, but honestly I end up playing tighter for a while after a cooler like that. Not sure if that’s smart or just me being gun-shy. I’m careful about bankroll and I track my hands, but losing to runner-runner outs gets into my head more than I want to admit.

How do you all reset and shake that off during a session instead of letting it creep into your next few hands?

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Maybe unpopular, but I think “shaking it off” is overrated. I don’t try to feel better in-session. I just ask one dumb question: did I get the money in good, yes or no. If yes, I stop giving the river a funeral. Half the bad Casino & Sportsbook Reviews you read are just people writing breakup letters because variance showed up on time. Same thing at the table. Hand history says you were ahead, fine, next hand. If you start folding spots just because A-J got there once, now the bad beat actually cost you something. That's the part I'd care about.

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Back to back river beats are brutal, I’d probably step away for a few minutes and reset before playing again.

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Brutal rivers like that can mess with your head, I usually step away for a bit before playing again.

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"dominated" by a-j is doing a lot of work lol

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Pocket queens into A-J preflop is plenty dominated for a forum post, come on. People get weirdly precious about the word when the point is you’re roughly a 70/30 favorite and still get rivered twice, which is exactly the kind of nonsense that gets in your head and changes how you play back.

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