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Legend
Platinum Level
It’s only frustrating in marginal spots. Like if you fold 8-3 offsuit and the flop comes 888, there’s no reason to fret. You should never be playing that hand. But if you fold J10 offsuit from UTG and then the flop comes AKQ rainbow, it can be frustrating because you could just have easily played that hand.
The most frustrating instance for me might have been yesterday. I was playing a $5 sit and go and had 9c6c in good position, a hand I like. I was going to raise if it got folded to me, but the player to my right raised 3x, so I thought for a second and elected to fold, thinking this was the right and less biased move. Flop had the 5 and 7 of clubs. River was the 8 of clubs. I folded a straight flush in a spot where i just as easily could have called. Had this been at the final table in a big tournament it would have been brutal and I probably would fret it for weeks. But it’s no sweat, every time you fold a hand you have the potential of missing something. Thus is poker, thus is life.