Sometimes, despite playing extremely well, you’re still going to lose. Why?
Because try as we might, the game still involves an element of luck.
By playing our cards well, reading our opponents, and learning the odds we can drastically reduce the amount of influence luck has on our game, but it can never be eliminated completely.
Even if you get a player drawing to a single out, they’ll still hit from time to time.
And, if the time they hit happens to be when you’ve got all your money in the middle, you wind up a loser.