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Message: [QUOTE="Propane Goat, post: 7128797, member: 96298"] To piggyback on earlier comments: there is an element of chance in each hand and this means that weaker hands do have a chance of winning the pot. Having the mindset that you deserve to win the pot every time you're in a hand with a player that you perceive as weaker or less skilled than you is probably one of the most destructive things you can do to your game, it's no different than thinking you're entitled to win the pot every single time you're dealt AA. Poker is at its core a game of probability and statistics, this is why we have odds calculators. However, one of the core principles in probability and statistics is having a sufficiently large sample size to analyze, because sample sizes that are too small are more likely to show a greater deviation from expected results. Again - mindset: see how many bad beat threads get posted where people state absolutes such as "I never win with AA" or "I always lose to donkey idiots mashing buttons." No, over a very long period of time you will win and lose in specific situations according to the probabilities that are already known. Short term variations such as getting AA cracked four times in a row are just meaningless noise - no different than flipping a coin ten times and having heads come up nine times. The difference between winning players and losing players is that winning players have a greater ability to place themselves in situations where they are more likely to win, and remove themselves from situations where they are more likely to lose. The more often you get it in with a better hand, the more likely it is that you will come out ahead in the long run. [/QUOTE]

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