[blankoblanco]

Originally posted on 06/14/2017:

It's easier to complain and play the victim card than be honest with yourself. It turns out that he got lucky on the flop and unlucky on the turn and river and it was a rough way to lose but when the chips went in he was in terrible shape.

Along these same lines, a healthy way of thinking about it is that once you're all-in preflop, the order of the cards doesn't matter. You could just as easily have been flopped dead, then hit your meaningless 9 on the river. You could close your eyes until the last card comes out and nothing's any different. It's just that it psychologically affects us when we see each street come out individually, see the suckout, and then the resuckout on the river. But it ultimately means nothing until all 5 cards are on the board.