I am wondering how others deal with these when they happen. I don't mean in a single hand. Everyone on this board has taken their share of beats. I can handle a single beat, no sweat. When there are a few back to back, this seems to be much more difficult for me and I find myself tilting, so I usually try to take a break for a while.

But then I run into something that really just makes me wonder if poker is really about playing a game to make money, or if it is strictly to test the players mental capacity to accept things that in a mathmatical sense you should see so rarely that it shouldn't even be considered.

To give my example of what brought this question on. I played only a little bit of a session last night. I ran QQ into AA 3 times over ~750 hands, twice on one table. I am just greatful that all 3 times I was against a 20BB stack.

So how do you guys get your minds wrapped around stuff like this?