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why do I only remember the bad poker hands never the good ones?

I seem to get some evil crazy bad hands recently - Ace high flush on flop beaten by small full house on river, etc...
THESE are the hands I remember - I don't remember when I got lucky with hands in my favour.
Is the same true for you too that you only remember the losses not the wins?
Maybe this is human nature? Maybe our brains are wired this way?

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Davidov 		Yes, it is human nature to remember the bad more so than the good. Especially when it comes to poker we tend to remember when are Aces get cracked by Kings but when are Aces hold up to the Kings well that is no big deal because that is what we expected anyways.
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Davidov 		Definitely normal, they even mention that in Rounders. I remember a lot more of my big lost pots than my big wins. My biggest wins in the last 4 weeks, I have no clue, but I can easily rattle off a few losing hands. The wins I remember are the funny or spectacular ones, like a few months ago I flopped the nut straight on a rainbow board, I made a small bet and literally 5 people shoved all-in before the action came back to me! Anything short of that and I'm likely to forget it. Whereas a loss can be a lot less significant and I'll still remember it.

I prefer it that way though, because it's more likely that you made a mistake in hand that you lost, than in a hand that you won. And remembering your mistakes is the first step to correcting them.

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