How many times have you been called down to the river after you raised pre-flop, bet on every turn to find your worthy adversary holding a 4,7 off suit to make some outlandish straight and making your pocket Aces worthless? Let me tell you it happens way too often . Now the right thing to do would be to shake it off , store this valuable information you just got and continue the game. But often times what I see happen is the “what in the world were you in that pot for?”, “you called a pre-flop raise with that?”, “do you know the odds of you actually hitting any sort of wining hand with that?” and so on and so forth I’m sure you have heard it or said any number of these things after a frustrating bad beat such as this who could blame you. The thing to remember is the situation will come up when this persons ridiculous draws will back fire , you’ll have the nuts and rake in a huge pot.

If you try and “teach” these people a lesson maybe next time they won’t call your pre-flop raise and pay you off because of the comments you made. Do you really want to stop them from calling your raises with terrible hands and chasing essentially losing draws, of course not . These are the people who will pay you off time and time again. If they can’t learn from their mistakes it is not your responsibility to teach them the rules or odds or anything for that matter.

So stay focused , let the fish do what they do, and let the professors do the teaching.

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