Bad beats... how do you collect yourself?

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Train yourself not to get except at what the results of the hand are, but on your play. If you get beat, ask yourself, am I happy with the way I played the hand? Could I have played it differently? The key thing to focus on is how you played the hand, which is the only thing you can control.

A trick that Stuart Reuben uses is to remember a big pot that he played badly bad got lucky on. He "basks in the glow" of the lucky pot to tide him through the bad beat.