Staggered bet sizing, which mean raising much larger with strong hands against players, that we presume are inelastic, is an old school microstakes exploit, which Blackrain79 used to promote a lot. And if that was, what you were doing, then you got exactly, what you wanted, so well done. However looking at all the hands, you have shared over a long period of time, I suspect, that you more likely made some kind of emotional decision. In your last AA hand you 3-bet very small, presumably because you were scared to not get action. This time you did the exact opposite and raised very large, presumably because you were scared to
GET action and suffer (yet another) bad beat.
The first step in becoming a long term winning player is to develop some default strategies including open sizings and 3-bet sizings, and then have the discipline to stick to those, no matter how you "feel" in the moment, or how the last hand, session or week has been going. Profit come from making solid good decision over and over again, and in a sense play almost like a robot, except in those spots, which are rare and complicated enough, that we need to stop and think about them.
The next step is to remove yourself completely from the short term results. You are extremely results oriented, but the distribution of good/bad luck is not something, we can control, and if you play enough, you will eventually overcome it. The correct way to think about a hand, where all the chips go in before the river, is, that once you have pressed the all-in button, the hand is over. What happens after this
DOES NOT MATTER.
A good way to force yourself to be less results oriented is to play at least 4 tables at a time and have them stacked, so you only see one of them. In that way a new table will usually pop up, as soon as you have made your decision, and this force you to focus on the next decision, you are about to make, rather than what is going on in a hand, where you already made your decision.
Stacked tables are not an ideal way to play, because you will miss out on information, like even knowing who called you preflop or called your C-bet. So I dont recommend this as a permanent solution. But its an excellent way of training yourself to focus on decisions and nothing else. So maybe move down to $0,25 "on demands" and play at least 100 of those using stacked tables simply as a kind of mental training.
And yes we all get our aces cracked from time to time. This hand is the way, I exited todays 11$ "Big". But I am not bothered by such a hand at all. The hand played itself, and I wanted action with my AA. So I am very happy, someone behind made a long term losing call with KQo. This time they sucked out on me, but I am not bothered by that, because I know, its all just cold math, and in the long run I will win my fair share of hands like this one. And this is why, you dont see me post them here or in the "bad beat" section.
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