Nice post, Ex. I've been having the same sort of luck lately. After going about a month and a half with the cards coming my way (in home games, MTTs, and SNGs), the cards, skill, and luck has run dry for me. I've done the same thing, losing focus after folding 10-20 hands in a row....and then sure enough, I get a semi-good hand and think it's absolutely GREAT. No matter what the flop tells me I am practically "married" to the hand. Instead of jumping off, I usually go down the with ship in these situations...

My play hasn't been terrible...I've busted out of a few SNGs early playing like an idiot, but I learned from them. I've bubbled twice in a row now and know it's just a matter of time before things start happening for me again.

(On a side note...The same thing happened in my house tournament on Tuesday, except my luck changed. I think A8s and KQo were my only two hands in the first two hours of play that I didn't play from the blinds during my first buy-in. I got trip-kings busted by trip-aces to finish that buy-in....I go ahead and rebuy, and still don't get any cards...$11 left in my stack, six players left, my stack is the smallest by at least 4 X's.....Long story short, I start throwing out AI's with crap, don't get any callers because of my tight play all night....Then I finally get some GREAT cards, throw some AI's out there and end up going from $11 to $180 in about five minutes. Un-freaking-real.)

Online, though, the cards just aren't flowing. And every time I seem to put a big 2/3 pot or full pot bet after the flop (even if I haven't flopped anything), I usually get raised and have to fold. Just hasn't been my week either....Good luck, bro.