'I still usually just buy the pot more than I actually hit something but thats ok. '

This is the key thing that finally got through my head after reading SS again and reading through aggresive players like Ripp's posts... I was really down on poker, the bad beats were killing me, etc... and then after getting all this aggresive info I looked at my stats after a random SnG win.... 7/9 pots won at showdown, 37 won without showdown.

37

7

So... I won 37 pots, most of them with a hand since I was very tight back then, and besides me no one knew it. I realized I could have been playing blanks for those 37 hands and it would have made no difference (OK, maybe a small difference since someone else would have had a better chance to have the hand I bet, but you get the point).

Someone posted it here months ago, but I never got it until that day:

Whoever bets the most wins - the cards just break the ties.