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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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Yeah, tightening up a lap isn't crazy, just don't turn one bad river into folding every late position hand. Variance cuts both ways, sooo it goes

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"one lap" is right lol i need exactly one bathroom walk and i'm back

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

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QQ into AJ all-in isn't some rare robbery, that's just poker from bad position.

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70 30 is still bad enough tbh

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