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I think this happens roughly every other time I play, with the exception being that I rarely bust my 50BB buy-in (which I set as my loss limit). More often, I'll play tight passive until I catch a few decent cards, win back up to about 75% of my buy-in, then quit.

Although, I don't know if I'd really attribute the initial big loss to bad beat. Yeah, quite often, it's someone making his hand on the river (and I usually know it as it happens, resulting in a crying call). It's more a matter of the odds doing what they said they would, and me taking it far too personally.

It's really hard to say what to do, but it sounds like your suggestion - take a break (and the loss) at the first sign of trouble will, in the long run, be cheaper than chasing cards while in a pall.