Sometimes when you lose a big poker pot, you can spend hours going over in your head how you played the hand.
You might spend so much time thinking about it you run the whole gamut: one second you think you played the poker hand beautifully but got horribly unlucky and the next you cures yourself for playing so badly.
I was involved in big poker hand recently, where I was dealt pocket jacks (long a bad luck hand for me). I made a decent raise, and had one caller.
Lo and and behold, a jack of spades came out on the river, along with two low diamonds. For once, I thought, jacks are going to be good to me.
My opponent bet out, and I smooth called. The turn brought an eight of hearts, nothing bad, my opponent bet out again. I pondered whether I should reraise or slowplay. I was wary of the two diamonds out there, but I just slowplayed it and called.
The river brought what I didn’t want to see: another diamond, the ten. My opponent bet out again and I called, hoping with didn’t have two diamonds. He did.
However, he had the ace and jack of diamonds, meaning he had top pair along with the flush draw on the flop, and likely would not have folded if I reraised and decided not to slowplay. So I was consoled by that. But not by losing all those chips.
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