Hi all, first post here but always enjoy reading the different views. Basic gist is that I've been playing nearly 2 years now and always been profitable on a monthly basis (roi>200% last year playing $3-$11 mtts), but I'm on a run of bad beats and lost coin flips at key times in tournaments this year.

Bad beats don't bother me generally, but these sustained bad beats are new territory and starting to get me down, not to mention they are now making my plays a bit ragged sometimes. I've just taken a few days off to read up and think about my game, only to get annoyed when I continued with the beats tonight (including getting my deep stack in twice on the flop when 92% near the bubble).

My question is: how do other players mentally deal with periods of sustained negative variance where they can't get a deep cash and manage to keep playing their a-game?