Oh, theres no complaint in those hands. I'm comfortable with them, just using them as an illustration of how a whole session can be affected by a small sample of hands, and trying to make a point that you cant do anything about hands like that, but there are other hands you can have some control over.

We're at different points, and so are most beginners to you. Theres value in playing small/medium pots better for sure, I just want folks to bare in mind that playing great poker for 50 minutes can be ruined by 10 minutes (hell, 10 seconds) of bad play.

I think a common flaw in a lot of beginners games is losing big pots and winning small ones. Not losing (i.e., folding when beat) a few of those big pot hands can have as much or more value to their bottom line as extracting some more value from small pots.