Does This Count?

Listen up son. When I was a young gun and wanted to become great at poker an old regular told me: "don't play the cards. It's never about the cards: cards mean nothing, what you need to do is to develop "a sense of what's to come". After so many evenings drinking whiskey together he challenged me, he said "deal the cards son", and it went like this:

First hand I look down on 88, raise to 2.5BB from the SB and he calls with JJ.
Flop: J9T he insta folds and shows his hand to my disbelief. I said wtf Henry you were the absolute favorite to win the hand, to which he replies, "it's never about the cards son. You need to listen more and think less otherwise you're gonna go broke" I thought "this guys crazy he ain't got a clue" he must have read my face because he said "deal the turn" I did it and a Q completed my draw.
"See? You don't listen kid... kids never listen thinking about their GTO and all that nonsense. He repeated the trick several times in a row and got me convinced: poker ain't about cards kid, you failed to understand that. Any reputable poker coach would've given you the tools to understand that 100% that T was coming.

I know this sounds crazy but you have to think outside the box or else you're gonna get rekt by good regs, let alone regs who became one with the gamble like my mentor.

I know you want to believe in poker theory but GTO means nothing against people predicting the cards to come. My advice is pretty clear, poker is not for you. Ignoring the fact that it was a clear fold on the turn you seem clueless playing the second best hand preflop, no need to wonder how you'd play JJ or TT.

Sometimes I make the silly mistake of reading poker strategy and can't help but think "Henry would crush these kids with all their GTO lines".

I hope my advice won't be ignored; you don't stand a chance in the poker world if you didn't see the fold on the turn. Ask any winning player what the right move was, exactly, fold. It was completely obvious the T would come.

For obvious reasons I won't go into details regarding how to develop the skills Henry had. I wish you luck, hell, you'll need a lot after seeing how you played the hand. May God bless y'all and don't play the cards; anticipate them.

should've ran it twice

Cashout or RIT.