This is driving me crazy this week - How do I handle it?

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So I keep getting called by donkeys that river me. Calling my bets on the flop and turn and river if I'm the first to act.

My attitude is fine, no worries, I know I can get it all back, I just need to wait for a decent hand to engage him.

While I'm waiting for a decent hand, this guy who's VPIP is 70% loses all his chips to some other player.

Happened just today with 4 different donk's. What do I do? just get into every hand the donk enters?

Thanks for your feedback - I'm new and learning.
 
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Quit thinking of the lost chips as yours anymore and continue to play a sound game .You are correct that somebody will get those chips , sometime you but other times not.

If you focus on chasing them down you will make bad choices and likely forget about position etc. and get felted by another observant player.
 
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There is nothing you can do, is there?

You say yourself you can get it all back because it's variance then well, simply put just ride out the variance. No bit of advice can reduce donkeys running good. Just play solid, get your money in good and count the $$. As difficult as it may seem at times, just try looking at the long term.
 
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Don't be results orientated keep making the right decisions and the chips will flow in your direction more than they flow in the other direction.
 
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Variance is a bitch. Just continue to make +EV decisions and you will be fine in the long run. Don't play every hand because every hand is not ahead of his range.
 
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xXShannonAXx

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gotta agree with iclick the amount of times ive flopped a set on fulltilt and had all in situations only to be called by some crap hand and have someone hit runner runner sucks but i know im getting it in with the best and variance can be a killer
 
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Frustrating for sure,
just keep a good supply of spare mice.
 
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