Of course, the jack sometimes hits right away, and sometimes you would have won the pot because your opponents have Q-10 and (Obviously the jackal has this hand!) But
regardless of the outcome, you made the right move by folding. Sometimes people drive themselves crazy by second-guessing their plays. The next thing you know they're staying in pots trying to hit the shots that are 22 to 1 against them, and virtually giving their money away! Sometimes poker will drive you batty or, in poker terms, put you on "tilt."
If you can keep your emotions in check when bad luck smacks you hard—if you can avoid letting a bad break in one hand affect the way you play your next hand—you will have an excellent chance to become a winning poker player. But if you find that you can't get the last hand out of your mind, and you're vulnerable to tilt, you will probably find it impossible to win over the long haul. In the long run, I'd rather invest my money in a "good" player who never goes on tilt than in a "very good" player who is vulnerable to going on tilt.

Jerry checks, and Jim bets out $5. A lot of us would be tempted to think, "OK, I'm probably beaten in this hand because I cannot beat someone who has a K or a Q in his hand and I'm facing three opponents in this pot. But I'm not convinced yet that I'm beat, so I'll just call the $5." In fact, a "mouse" might even fold his hand at this point! But this is the wrong way to look at it. Yes, you probably are beaten, but for an extra $5 (raising instead of calling) you can gain a lot of information, and because of your raise you might even win this pot. Assuming that you do make the correct raise, making it $10 to go, you might:

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