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Message: [QUOTE="starfall, post: 400729, member: 7551"] The other thing to do if you're playing online is to use something like PokerTracker to analyse your hand histories... that way you'll have more opportunity to spot avoidable losses. If in a tournament you only play premium hands, and always push all-in with them, then you'll generally be a short-stack compared to the looser, more aggressive players who have stolen a lot of pots and/or got lucky. When you end up against them, it will be your tournament on the line, and while you may win some, in the end the odds are that eventually you'll lose one of those hands no matter how far ahead you were, and then you're out. There's nothing unusual or unlucky about that. In a cash game, it's rather different, as you can just rebuy and you want to see those great odds when you're playing. Long runs of bad luck happen, though, and the main antidote to it is to use a stats package to make sure your play isn't bad, just unlucky. [/QUOTE]