Re: What I do not respect in Poker
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That's different because AT doesn't deserve to win the hand in the first place. Imagine it the other way around where he makes the one card flush (and imagine the your AK is suited).
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No hand "deserves" to win. A hand is just a either a statistical favorite or dog vs. another hand. When you start feeling you "deserve" to win a hand because you had the better starting hand, it only leads to misplaying hands.
Look at it this way. If the hand given as an example was not all-in preflop would the player with AK be correct in calling an all-in bet post flop? If you called an all-in bet with no pair and only a back door flush draw you "deserve" to lose b/c you made a bad call for all your chips with what was the best starting hand but should now be obvious is no longer best, and that is definately a -EV decision.
All you can do in poker is make the best possible decision with the information available to you AT THE PRESENT MOMEMENT. If you make more correct decisions you will make money in the long run, but making the correct decision does not always entitle you to the pot.
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